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Trump’s executive order targets ACPS’ anti-racism policy | News | cbs19news.com
A fact sheet accompanying the order, reported by the website The Hill, claims that Albemarle County Schools taught a student that “her achievement was based on her race.” The document also references Harrisonburg City Public Schools’ policy on teachers using students’ preferred pronouns.
Rate of Return Equals Cost of Capital: A Simple, Fair Formula to Stop Investor-Owned Utilities From Overcharging the Public – American Economic Liberties Project
As investor-owned businesses, IOUs seek to maximize their profits, which often runs headlong into regulators’ goal of achieving just and reasonable rates. Moreover, IOUs too often have the upper hand in their interactions with regulators, to the detriment of their customers. Over the last three years, IOU residential electricity rates have increased 49% more than inflation. In contrast, their publicly owned counterparts have increased 44% less than inflation.
TechTonic Justice
A multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements and build long-term power among the people and communities that AI is leaving behind.
inTouch.family: Connecting Seniors and Families
ElliQ: Your AI sidekick for happier, healthier aging
Repository – Generative AI in Education Hub
A comprehensive collection of academic research on generative AI in preK12 education organized into three categories:
“Why Does ChatGPT ‘Delve’ So Much?”: FSU researchers begin to uncover why ChatGPT overuses certain words – Florida State University News
“It was significant that so many people had noticed this overuse. It’s normal for one or a couple of words to shift in usage over the years, but dozens of words drastically increasing in frequency is odd. Our work, which is at the nexus of linguistics, computational linguistics, computer science, data science, philosophy and ethics, has wide implications and analyzes the interplay between technology and human language and how technology affects our languages.”
They See Your Photos
In this experiment, we use the Google Vision API to see how much can be inferred about you from a single photo.