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‘A Dark Sad Day’: Wash U Chancellor Condemns Pro-Palestine Protests

1 year 2 months ago
In a newly released statement, Washington University’s chancellor calls Saturday “a dark sad day.” And he isn’t referring to the dozens of arrests of community members and students. A total of 100 people were arrested on campus Saturday, including 23 Wash U students and at least four employees, according to Chancellor Andrew Martin. He says three police officers were injured during the arrests.
Kallie Cox

How I Use AI To Help With Techdirt (And, No, It’s Not Writing Articles)

1 year 2 months ago
Let’s start off this post by noting that I know that some people hate anything and everything having to do with generative AI and insist that there are no acceptable uses of it. If that describes you, just skip this article. It’s not for you. Ditto for those who insist (incorrectly) that AI is nothing […]
Mike Masnick

Colleges Have Never Cared About Free Speech

1 year 2 months ago
After hundreds of years of repeated attempts, colleges in the United States are once again trying to communicate that they are not particularly crazy about their students protesting on their campuses. They thought they had made this clear when the National Guard killed four students for protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State in 1970. Or when police officers killed two students for protesting racial inequality at Jackson State in Mississippi in the same year.
Collin Preciado