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Comment Who is Samuel Tunick? (Score 1) 167

If you use Google or other mainstream search engines you can't find out who Samuel Tunick is or what his activism is centered around. The cop city protests are way more important than most Americans realize as they constitute what is essentially a domestic military occupation. Unlike military bases, these are meant to suppress the general population in mass.

The Guardian reported in February that surveillance cameras hidden in utility boxes mounted on light poles had begun appearing outside the homes of âCop Cityâ(TM) activists. In other instances, activists have been pulled over after leaving an organizing event with Fire Ant Movement Defense. In March, Atlanta police officers âoeharassedâ attendees at a fundraiser for formerly-incarcerated Black Panther Dhoruba Bin-Wahad, who is battling lung cancer.

https://atlpresscollective.com/2025/12/05/samuel-tunick-atlanta-activist-arrest/

Comment Re: Biased news (Score 1) 118

>One could infer that the State of California thinks its citizens are dumber than the average American, and thus can't be allowed to see triangular arrows lest they draw the wrong conclusion

Or the plastics recycling was always an industry greenwashing campaign, and the vast majority of people actually do believe that sorting their plastics into a recycling bin leads to less plastic being manufactured, and this is just a move to educate the people that plastic recycling is actually a sham.

Comment Maybe written and timed tests aren't the answer? (Score 1) 109

The goal should be learning, not necessarily performance on a timed and written test. Grades really shouldn't be competitive either. We need to establish mechanisms of evaluation that determine a student's mastery of a topic without high pressure, high stakes tests. Class discussions, (hand) written essays, individual and group projects. Basically, AI is a reality now, just like we don't make calculus students do long division, autoregressive generative text is a tool you can't prevent. So, ask the student interesting questions the AI would be incapable of answering correctly. And, perhaps that's the real problem. If the AI is more knowledgeable, discerning and insightful than the instructor such that the instructor can't ask questions that challenge it, then why are they the instructor?

Comment Re:Unprecedented (Score 2, Insightful) 39

Leaded gasoline is estimated to have killed over 100,000,000 people, reduced the collective IQ of the entire planet and permanently polluted most waterways over the course of 50-60 years, all based on lies by General Motors and some others.

The demonization of cholesterol has lead to the sickest generation in human history with the highest rates of diabetes ever recorded and a massive increase of heart disease, cancer, stroke, despite claiming to reverse these conditions. We're then told its genetic to cover the lie, as if our genes somehow changed so significantly over the last 40 years that the rates of these diseases increased orders of magnitude. We now have the lowest levels of cholesterol in human history and the highest rates of disease, yet they continue to lie.

There are analogs to this. This is not new to humanity. It's just the tip of the iceberg.

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