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Comment No (Score 1) 36

To the powers that be every chance to scare me is a chance to surveil me. I'm sure the car makers would love a subsidy and the police would love a new way to turn off my car or see when and where I start it. The government would like to pass a law making all of that happen and we all would be safer for only the cost of a little freedom.

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Submission + - Trickle-Down Economics: Giving Kids the Best AI Education $5 Gift Cards Can Buy

theodp writes: The past week saw AI-fueled quarterly earnings announcements from the likes of Amazon ($143.5B revenue, $1.86T market cap), Microsoft ($61.9B revenue, $2.93T market cap), and Google ($80.5B revenue, $1.11T market cap). All three are advisors to Code.org's TeachAI initiative, which aims to help teachers incorporate AI into K-12 CS education. Towards that end, TeachAI and the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) are now looking to give kids the best AI education 100 $5 gift cards can buy.

From the CSTA Ohio website: "Shape the future of CS Education in an age of AI! CSTA and TeachAI invite K-12 CS teachers to share their expertise and insights in a short survey. Your responses will be anonymous and contribute to a greater understanding of what’s happening in CS classrooms today. What works? What do we still need to know? What are the risks and benefits? How can we prepare our students to learn and thrive in an age of AI? We will use this information to help us develop guidance for educators that will be released at the CSTA Conference in July 2024. The first 100 respondents will receive a $5 gift card."

TeachAI also receives support from the Bill ($126.8B net worth) and Melinda ($11B net worth) Gates Foundation ($75B endowment). So, is trickle-down economics an effective K-12 AI education funding strategy?

Comment bravo, China! (Score 0) 61

There has been a lot of talk about Chinese science being stolen, derivative, and outright made up but you can't fake these kind of results. It takes expertise in many areas, innovation, and a whole lot of hard work. I, for one, would like to congratulate China and the people involved for this outstanding achievement.

Comment The moon will be owned by those who defend it (Score 2) 61

I've said it before. Whatever group or country puts a base on the moon and defends it as territory will own the moon. If they can maintain a monopoly on military force over the entire moon's surface they will own the entire moon. Whether it's for bragging rights, research. exotic isotopes, helium, or solar panel space. Treaties be damned. You own what you protect.

Comment Re:Really Don't Care (Score 1) 40

The anti-sex feminists don't like men fapping to women. The anti-sex conservatives don't like men fapping at all. So they get together to ban anything fappable. Replace fap with having sex with, staring at, trying to pick up, taking pictures of, etc etc. It's been happening for decades. It will keep happening until the conservatives lose their puritan roots.

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