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"History is relevant." --Tony Gilroy

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  1. @crockett.house.gov: "They pledge their fealty to some idiot who's obviously struggling mentally. Whether it's mental decline or whether he's ever had the capacity, they decided they're going to do whatever he wants them to do.. I never thought I'd see the day that a Texan would bow down to a NYer."

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  2. Lots of people — even credentialed political experts! — don’t understand that literally nothing is ever settled, because the opponents of progress never go away & never stop fighting, especially after they’ve recently lost. It’s 1 of many reasons I think much of the field gets US politics all wrong.

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  3. "WHAT PEOPLE NEED IS RESOURCES TO DO THE WORK THAT THEY ALREADY DO"

    Yes I'm shouting because this is exactly it

    But to Martha Lincoln, an anthropology professor at San Francisco State University who watched the announcement, the enthusiasm for speeding AI into higher education fell flat.

“This is all really familiar AI industry rhetoric,” Lincoln said. “The fact is we just don’t have research to support the efficacy of AI use in classrooms. I really have met so few educators at Cal State and elsewhere who see a need for these kinds of initiatives — what people need is resources to do the work that they already do.”

    Gavin, you massive disappointment, what are you doing??

    (I mean, I know what you're doing, but I need you to stop)

    How many educators did you talk to when you made this decision? Oh, none, you say? Ohhhh this is for presidential donations, you say?

    www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/07/n...

    The announcement comes amid massive hype and significant concerns over the “generative AI” technology that can produce text, video, sound and computer code in response to prompts from u…

    Newsom announces agreements to embed AI products from Big Tech into state colleges, high schools

    The announcement comes amid massive hype and significant concerns over the “generative AI” technology that can produce text, video, sound and computer code in response to prompts from u…

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