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I was the kind of teenager for whom social media was a portal to the world that I would never have gotten growing up in rural North Carolina. Source link
At a mid-April dinner at a D.C. think tank, I was asked to offer a few words on education and artificial intelligence. I observed that constantly improving AI platforms perform wonders – answering complex questions almost instantly, yielding remarkable efficiencies, and producing breathtaking innovations in industry, science, medicine, military affairs, and more. Yet like all technological advances, I said, AI brings curses as well as blessings. I emphasized the threats it poses to liberal education, starting with college students’ tendency to rely on AI to generate ideas, outline arguments, and even compose polished papers. One veteran educator at the long…
How a Warm World Cup Welcome Is Endearing U.S. to Fans Source link
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The Gavin Newsom Probe Is Serious, and He Knows It Source link
For years, American soccer has waited for this group to arrive. A convincing 2-0 win over Australia offered another sign that it finally might be happening. Source link
Vijay Prashad, The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. A profound contradiction confronts East Asia. The region drives global development, yet US imperialism seeks to transform it into a frontline of the New Cold War. The region’s future depends on ordinary people, not war planners. The Okinawan artist Kinjo Minoru is haunted by the tragedy of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa and the military occupation that has marked the island ever since. His art is informed by that sensibility. His sculptures seem to emerge from the earth itself. Human figures struggle outward through stone and concrete, their bodies marked by war, occupation, and…
Race Preferences Are Falling Nationwide Source link
The Risks of Borrowing From China's Economic Playbook Source link
Ira Daniels watches over his two granddaughters coloring at Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, California. Credit: Victoria Valenzuela A nonprofit-led “Get on the Bus” event brought together hundreds of families ahead of Father’s Day in a special moment that can be rare in prisons Victoria Valenzuela for Prism When Ira Daniels walked into the visiting room at the Correctional Training Facility (CTF) in California on June 13, his two granddaughters, ages 6 and 8, ran to jump on him. He caught them in a hug, their eyes already lit up with excitement. That feeling had been building up since earlier in…