jballs

@ jballs @sh.itjust.works

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1d ago

The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth
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jballs @sh.itjust.works 1d ago
I think the best system would be not to allow tariffs to be illegally implemented in the first place. But I realize that's asking a lot.

3d ago

An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it

Yeah, I was saying the cheating being AI usage is what couldn't be proven. They mentioned a few other possibilities like the tests being leaked or people working off camera with them.

But yeah, the cheating is obvious. And the likelihood of it being done by AI is damn near certain.

3d ago

An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it

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jballs @sh.itjust.works 3d ago

The headline kind of misses the main point, which is that the students have to retake the exam because cheating was so rampant, likely due to AI usage but that can't be proven.

Between 2021 and 2025, 3.5 percent of test takers scored 100 or more on the 120-question UNAM test. This year, 16.3 percent did so.

The story was even worse at the highest of the high end. Between 2021 and 2025, 0.9 percent of test takers scored 110 or more; this year, 5.5 percent did so.

3d ago

Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School.

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jballs @sh.itjust.works 3d ago

Keep in mind this teacher is in her early 20s. Most people that age don't really know much about how computers and files work.

3d ago

Just admit it: The Supreme Court is political

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jballs @sh.itjust.works 3d ago

Justice Kagan, for one

4d ago

Jackpot

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jballs @sh.itjust.works 4d ago

Yeah, that's the case with a lot of media. But I've had three different people tell me they were good and asked if I was watching. I'm gonna wait until they're over before committing.

4d ago

Jackpot

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jballs @sh.itjust.works 4d ago

House of the Dragon, I think?

4d ago

Jackpot

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jballs @sh.itjust.works 4d ago

I still can't bring myself to watch any of the spin offs. People keep telling me how good they are, but I was burned before and need time to learn to love again.

6d ago

Cube - Litterbox Comics

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jballs @sh.itjust.works 6d ago

I took the time to learn how to solve a rubix cube a few years ago. It's actually surprisingly easy. You can learn in less then an hour and then just a bit of repetition.

It's fun to show off to young nieces and nephews. I like to say "ok mix it up REALLY good this time" and "ooooh nooo, this is really mixed up, I don't know if I can do this one!"

6d ago

Obama’s Refreshingly Frank Verdict on Trump Revealed

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jballs @sh.itjust.works 6d ago

I don't think adjudicated is a weaselly adjective. If you say someone's a rapist, people might think "well that's just their wild conspiracy theory." But when you say Trump's an adjudicated rapist, that's stating that he was found to have committed rape in a court of law.

6d ago

Justice Department drops criminal case against ex-Olympian charged with damaging Reflecting Pool

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jballs @sh.itjust.works 6d ago

Kind of them to wait to drop the news at 5:00PM on a Friday.

1w ago

Google goes cash flow negative for the first time as AI data center buildout increases capex to a staggering $44.9 billion in a single quarter — CFO warns that capex will increase in 2027 as company…

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jballs @sh.itjust.works 1w ago

We were also pretty naive then. An editor for Wired magazine attended a party with Larry Page, Google's cofounder in 2002. He asked how Google was able to offer their services for free - and Page told him how their long term plan was to gather as much data as possible through their free services in order to build artificial intelligence.

So while we all thought a free GB of storage and searchable email was awesome in 2004, we were just blindly feeding what's happening today with the AI craze.

1w ago

When people tell me AI will eventually replace everyone

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jballs @sh.itjust.works 1w ago

Interesting take. I guess I just realized every video we've ever seen of humanoid robots had been them doing something for a few minutes. But you never hear of one doing anything for days, months or years outside of science fiction.

1w ago

Kentucky Gov Orders McConnell to Give a Real Update or Resign Already

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jballs @sh.itjust.works 1w ago

If there's a vacancy he can make an appointment, but it's hard to say what would happen. The Kentucky constitution allows the governor to fill the vacancy, but the Republican legislature passed a law 2 years ago (for this exact scenerio with Mitch) that said they would need a special election.

In a sane world, the law would be found unconstitutional and the governor would be able to ignore it and fill the vacancy with whoever he chooses. But who knows how that would play out in the world we live in.

1w ago

Witness in Reflecting Pool case conceded damage before canoeist touched water

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jballs @sh.itjust.works 1w ago

“Consequently, the grand jury’s indictment of Mr. Hearn is hard to explain. Mr. Hearn needs to learn whether the grand jury was properly instructed that the charge required him to have caused over $1,000 in damages, when the testimony failed to establish that he caused any damage at all. So does this Court.”

This would be so great of it ended up with the US attorney being disbarred for this.

They say a prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich - but usually the grand jury isn't hearing testimony saying there's no way the sandwich committed any crime.

1w ago

Kentucky Gov Orders McConnell to Give a Real Update or Resign Already

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jballs @sh.itjust.works 1w ago

Yeah exactly - and this letter shows that the governor isn't going to do anything about it.

He's "insisting" that Thune begins the process to consider the seat vacant if McConnell can't serve. "Pwetty pwease can you declare a vacancy? If not I'll be so sad."

Good luck with that...

1w ago

Trump's Michigan speech interrupted by "pedophile protector" chants

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jballs @sh.itjust.works 1w ago

There was also Trump's response of accusing the guy yelling of being a communist.

1w ago

Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI

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jballs @sh.itjust.works 1w ago

There's a video in the article that shows it. He put the prompt at the end of a bullet point, but still in the middle of the block of text. Very easy to miss if you're selecting all.