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Education

‘You just have to laugh’: five teachers on dealing with ‘six-seven’ in the classroom

Yesterday at 10:39 AM, via The Guardian

Children across the UK have been shouting out ‘six-seven’ during lessons, so how are teachers reacting?

Across the UK, school pupils have been shouting out the words “sixseven” during lessons in the latest meme-based craze to sweep across classrooms.

While some teachers have chosen to stoically ignore the trend, others have embraced it. Five teachers explain how they’re coping.

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Education

Liberia: Building a Great University Begins With Burning the Old Habits

Friday at 19:46 PM, via AllAfrica

[Liberian Observer] There is a Mandé proverb that goes: “You cannot sharpen a knife on butter.” The University of Liberia will not become one of Africa’s top 300 universities by 2029 if it continues to dull itself on the soft comforts of old habits — endless politics, weak research culture, and administrative complacency masquerading as progress. True transformation demands more than strategic...

Science/Tech

AI Models May Be Developing Their Own ‘Survival Drive’, Researchers Say

Yesterday at 22:44 PM, via Slashdot

“OpenAI’s o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off,” warned Palisade Research, a nonprofit investigating cyber offensive AI capabilities. “It did this even when explicitly instructed: allow yourself to be shut down.” In September they released a paper adding that “several state-of-the-art large language models (including Grok 4, GPT-5, and Gemini 2.5 Pro)...

Science/Tech

‘Meet The People Who Dare to Say No to AI’

Yesterday at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

Thursday the Washington Post profiled “the people who dare to say no to AI,” including a 16-year-old high school student in Virginia says “she doesn’t want to off-load her thinking to a machine and worries about the bias and inaccuracies AI tools can produce…” “As the tech industry and corporate America go all in on artificial intelligence, some people are holding back.”Some tech workers told...

Science/Tech

Student Handcuffed After School’s AI System Mistakes a Bag of Chips for a Gun

Yesterday at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

An AI system “apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm,” reports the Guardian, “and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.”Taki Allen was sitting with friends on Monday night outside Kenwood high school in Baltimore and eating a snack when police officers with guns approached him. “At first, I didn’t know where they were going until they started...

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Shiba Inu On-Chain Holder Numbers Soar Past 1.5 Million, Is Remittix Set To Be The Next SHIB? 

Yesterday at 20:30 PM, via Tech Financials

The ecosystem of an OG meme coin has hit two major milestones, reflecting the continued interest in the token that could inspire a bullish result. Analysts have noted that Shiba Inu recently surpassed 1.5 million holders, while its Shibarium has recorded 10 million blocks. These are signs that the SHIB ecosystem continues to attract new […]