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‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities – and society at large

It's a great big world and there's nothing out there but problems, woo hoo.

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

14.03.2026 19:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

10.03.2026 15:11 👍 848 🔁 329 💬 15 📌 27

Two versions, each cntyer than the other.

13.03.2026 23:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An LED readout of a keyboard set to play a “Cnty Ballad.”

An LED readout of a keyboard set to play a “Cnty Ballad.”

I think they abbreviated the wrong word on the new keyboard.

13.03.2026 23:50 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

With another councillor on the library board, I don’t see how he could have blocked anything significant, nor how a councillor could bring something to the council floor without the library triggering it. What would you have liked or expected to see move if the library wasn’t taking action?

13.03.2026 16:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m not trying to defend anything, I wasn’t in a position to know why that might be the case. But council approves the budget, not day to day work. Their information gathering and consultation wouldn’t be council business until they brought something substantial forward, right?

13.03.2026 16:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I've never seen one of these AI chuds argue in favour of this dipshit technology effectively. Everything they say works better as an argument against it. They're all so inarticulate! What does "humanity's train" mean? You know what happens when you disrupt a train? It derails and people die.

13.03.2026 06:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Central Library Renewal » Background and Research

Why would these other half-dozen assorted reports have been released from 2017 to 2022? central.reginalibrary.ca/background-a...

13.03.2026 05:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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From art to audiobooks: A look at the future of Regina Public Library Looking at the Regina Public Library's (RPL's) 110-year history, it's clear the library is far from where it started.

If talk of redevelopment was suppressed, by would Jeff Barber do an interview with the Leader Post in 2019 that talks explicitly about the central project? leaderpost.com/news/local-n...

Why would this incredibly thorough KPMG report have come out in 2020? central.reginalibrary.ca/assets/rpl-n...

13.03.2026 05:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

...what?

Fougere was only mayor for one of your terms, and a Councillor also sits on the library board; how would/could any Mayor prevent those or any other councillors from learning/discussing what the library was doing on the redevelopment file? Why would the library board allow "silencing"?

13.03.2026 05:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I'm ready to say I'm disappointed in Radons! Learn about a job before you get it - it wouldn't have been hard to know that the library discussion has been going for my entire adult life. Yeesh.

13.03.2026 05:21 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Also, that article suggests 2/3 of Moe's SARM speech was about how this government will jump through 100 hoops to "protect" SK residents that are cranky their assault rifles might get took. If only they thought this much about, I don't know, spending a billion dollars to restart coal power plants!

12.03.2026 15:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screen grab from CBC article reading: '"Gun grab, that's bad. Selling canola, that's good. Saving gophers, not so good. Selling uranium, that's good," Moe said.'

Screen grab from CBC article reading: '"Gun grab, that's bad. Selling canola, that's good. Saving gophers, not so good. Selling uranium, that's good," Moe said.'

The Saskatchewan government's policy positions seem to be roughly as nuanced as Donald Trump's "Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen."

I wonder how rural constituents, the bloc that keeps this party in power, feel about being so thoroughly condescended to.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

12.03.2026 15:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Incredible. Drain the swamp indeed.

10.03.2026 21:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gosh, I never get tired of hearing my government pat itself on the back for 'embracing innovation' at the same time they're fighting the federal government tooth and nail to keep running goddamn coal power plants.

10.03.2026 19:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I would agree with that, but what a price tag. If you have benefits coverage it's a must buy.

06.03.2026 16:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I don't know if he's a good boy or not, but goddamnit that movie is incredible.

06.03.2026 16:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And since AI hallucinates, we must diligently check and verifying everything. Surely someone ensured that happened?

"The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Anthropic spokesman Eduardo Maia Silva declined to comment. Palantir spokeswoman Lisa Gordon declined to comment."

05.03.2026 20:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah yes, the AI we are constantly told is inevitable and we should be embracing turns its eye towards the eradication of humans and is incredibly successful. Cool.

So which system suggested targeting a girls school and is responsible for killing dozens of children?

05.03.2026 20:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The legend of Doc Shadd: A Black folk hero who shaped Saskatchewan Dr. Alfred Schmitz Shadd was the very first documented Black settler in Saskatchewan. This Black History Month, explore the incredible life story of the Melfort pioneer whose legacy rivals any folk ta...

This is a wonderful, enormous story worth your time.

www.cjme.com/2026/02/26/t...

26.02.2026 16:03 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Tasmanian single malt! So good!

14.02.2026 03:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Canadians Continue One Year Of Declining Visits To U.S. Unlike most travel boycotts, which tend to fizzle over time, Canadians show no sign of relenting on a national movement that cost the U.S. $4.5 billion in 2025.

Thrilling to see Canadians continue avoiding the US, but the idea it's the result of the 51st state threat and tariffs feels overstated. To me, the prospect of potentially encountering insane state-sponsored violence or border issues is much more of a deterrent!

www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...

12.02.2026 18:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

He is simply not a serious man!

12.02.2026 01:11 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

…good?

12.02.2026 01:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’s simply will not happen!

12.02.2026 01:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yup, there’s no need to understand the job you have before you get the job. It’s just so hard to learn independently in this modern age where information is impossible to come by!!

12.02.2026 00:48 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

That’s right, most people wait until they have a job to learn what it’s about and how to be good at it. Very much normal behaviour.

12.02.2026 00:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“You’re going to cover my ass for me in case I decide to run again, right?”

(He won’t)

12.02.2026 00:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

gotta say AI has been great for one thing which is convincing me to finally unsubscribe from all those longstanding mailing lists as soon as they start spamming me about their brand new AI features

11.02.2026 22:02 👍 221 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0