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Former CEO Eric Schmidt Tells Stanford Engineering Students To Steal Content And Data To Build New Companies And Let The Lawyers Deal With It Later

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The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) relies on technology known as large language models (LLM). In order to work, LLM’s need to have massive amounts of data fed into them so that they can create the appropriate algorithms that are used to simulate intelligence. Tools like ChatGPT, for example, have scraped the internet to gather … Read more

More than 20 high school students lift car to rescue mom and toddler after she was hit

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Some people are in the right place at the right time when tragedy strikes. A mother and her 2-year-old are both lucky to be alive after being struck by a car that was blinded by the sun. Bridgette Ponson was walking across the parking lot of Layton Christian Academy in Utah when the accident occurred. … Read more

Teacher's viral 'baggage activity' brought her students to tears

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Update from the author: I wrote a follow-up to this article sharing a trauma-informed perspective of the activity. You can read it here. Karen Loewe has been teaching for more than years. Clearly, all of that experience has given her a solid bead on what her students really need. The middle school English teacher from … Read more

Teacher Matches Students’ Energy, They Regret It in Minutes

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“I am sooo tired of kids not even trying.” Source: TikTok | @lazylearningland A teacher wanted to give her students a hard lesson about gratitude and appreciation, but mostly about how any kind of achievement with other people is a two-way street. The educator, who posts on TikTok under the handle @lazylearningland, recorded herself matching … Read more

Teachers Share Hilarious Burns from Students

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6. “I’m very boring, and a particularly mean student was triggered into empathy when he discovered my weekend plans (gardening). He suggested a few activities (the club, a casino) and was actually sort of gently encouraging me to ‘get out there.’” —u/Similar-Elephant-541 Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/meganeliscomb/students-roasting-teachers

College Student’s Germaphobe Brother Blames Her For A Clogged Shower Drain, So She Decides To Leave Her Hair Elsewhere To Gross Him Out

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When a clean freak meshes with a naturally messy person, it’s never a good combo. In this story, two siblings clash about the rules of sharing a bathroom, and the brother is always getting on the sister about her hair. When he makes a baseless claim about her clogging the drain, she turns to petty … Read more

Janitor has an incredible reaction to being gifted his dream Jeep by high school students

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It’s not uncommon for the most likable person at any school to be the janitor. They’re the person the students can rely on whenever they’ve kicked a ball onto the roof or left their jacket in a locked classroom. They’re also right on top of things whenever there’s a nasty spill in the cafeteria or … Read more

All Of The Students Loathed One Particular Teacher, So One Of Them Decided To Get Revenge Via Mouthwash

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Being a teacher can be hard, but being a student with a mean teacher might be even harder. In today’s story, one student gets revenge on a teacher and becomes the class “hero.” Let’s see how and why the student gets revenge… Just after the last ice age, when I was in the 7th grade, … Read more

The most compelling argument for students keeping their phones in class is also the worst one

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Should students be allowed to have cell phones with them in class? This question has been plaguing schools, teachers, parents and students for the past 15 years, with little consensus. It’s as if we’ve been conducting an experiment of sorts with kids and teens, as smartphones can be both powerful tools and problematic distractions. There … Read more