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I am begging everyone to understand how fcking insane it is that we have children selling wrapping paper, running laps and begging relatives for donations to fund public education while private companies get public money to build enormous computers.
We have failed.
“A 7-year-old agreed to voluntarily leave the country without a lawyer present to explain the legal consequences of the decision. In Arizona, an immigration judge ordered a 1-year-old baby appearing without a lawyer to file an asylum application.”
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“Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” The judge asked.
“I don’t know,” Angel, 13, replied before bursting into tears. He stared ahead stoically and continued to cry, eventually saying: “I have no one. I have nothing.”
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“Keep on looking forward to each and every day of this trip!”
Excerpt from Aix Travel Blog by Zariyah Soto, TOCA France Fellow Summer 2026 secure.givelively.org/event/…
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Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by private equity
Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list theankler.com/private-equity…
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🌎✈️Meet Norman Betty, our Global Citizen Award honoree! In 2019, TOCA gave Norman his first passport. Today, he’s a flight attendant, an aspiring pilot, and a true global citizen. Join the celebration at TOCA’s First Annual Benefit on October 8!
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MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.
A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.
Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle.
The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable.
The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust.
Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates.
The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.
The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.
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A new report out of South Carolina reveals that 3 out of 4 confined youth in the state are Black, despite Black children making up just 28% of its youth population.
This jarring disparity exists across the country and is the result of racist policies that fail Black children.
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Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high! 🦋🌈
Reading Rainbow takes over PBS Retro for a full weekend marathon this Friday, August 29, through Saturday, August 30, streaming free, non-stop, for readers of all ages. 📚
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Are you an autistic adult? Do you identify as BIPOC? A neurodiverse team of researchers wants to learn how to make research better for you. Must be based in U.S.A., identify as autistic, and be 18+ years old. tinyurl.com/Toolkit5
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Marian Croak é a inventora da tecnologia por trás do Zoom, FaceTime e WhatsApp e possui mais de 200 patentes.
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Legendary reader @LeVarBurton helped us open the Obama Presidential Center branch of the Chicago Public Library during opening weekend by sharing a favorite book with some of our very first library visitors.
While he was here, he reflected on this moment in America—during this summer of the 250th anniversary of our founding—and what the next 250 years might look like.
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Authorities say 13‑year‑old Daryl Martinez Lowry, a Black foster child, was involved in a physical altercation with two older foster teens at a private dock on Clarks Hill Lake in Modoc, South Carolina. According to the affidavit, Daryl suffered knife wounds before both teens allegedly held him underwater until he died.
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has charged 17‑year‑old white foster teen housemate Landen Austin Moore with murder, and a 16‑year‑old co‑resident is being held in juvenile custody as the investigation continues.
This case raises urgent questions about how Black children in foster care are placed, supervised, and protected when the state assumes responsibility for their safety.
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“…rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.”
🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."
My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."
I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.
Hedgie🤗
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Saturday’s #MandelaDay is an opportunity to honour Madiba's lifelong commitment to freedom, justice and equality.
Each of us can learn from and be inspired by Nelson Mandela’s legacy, and take action to achieve a better future for all.
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Calling all #NYC BIPOC students!! @TOCAworld Online Applications
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All unaccompanied immigrant children in the United States who are pregnant, many by rape, are being moved by the Trump administration to a single facility in Texas in order to avoid providing abortion services -- a significant human rights violation. trib.al/P3m8adv
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"Sure, Lee Oldham told me, he had spread radioactive fracking waste on Texas farmland. But in his defense, he never in a million years thought anyone would put a school there."
20-60 million tons of fracking waste were dumped in and around DFW
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