Fantastic photo from UT Austin. I was not able to find the original photographer to give credit, despite them deserving it.
Pretty crazy time to be on a college campus right now, Umich's "liberation zone" on the diag has grown in size, as has the police presence. The movement will not be stopped.
Seeing the latest images out of Gaza, thinking about how Israel is the quintessential latest-high-tech-fueled nightmare & having a cognitive dissonance seeing the discourse in AI ethics, responsible AI & such 🤔
E.g. "Responsible AI" at Google should be synonymous with joining the #NoTechApartheid movement. If not that, I'm not sure what you're doing.
I'm glad students at MILA organized a reading group against Military AI. But it was not thanks to anything "responsible AI" happening there.
After 30 years, #UMich is finally kicking me off the system.
"Access to the Andrew File System (AFS) is being retired for alumni and retirees. All of your data stored in AFS has been exported for you to save. You will receive a second email by 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Friday, March 1, 2024, with instructions for how to download and save your data. The subject line will be, 'Action Needed: Download Your U-M AFS Data'."
Remember the University of Michigan data breach in August 2023, just before classes started?
The data breach that led to the university shutting down campus Internet services?
"Students, applicants, alumni, donors, employees and contractors may have had their Social Security numbers, government-issued ID numbers, financial account, and health information compromised."
Woah, #UMich had a rough week. A 4-day outage during the first week of semester! #infosec
"On Sunday, the difficult decision was made to separate the U-M network from the internet to help mitigate technical issues. It was not made lightly, particularly given the timing with the first day of classes."
"As noted in Monday’s message to the community, our U-M Division of Public Safety and Security and federal law enforcement partners are involved in this investigation."
You know that common nightmare (or at least one that I have often) where you arrive on a university campus on the first day and you have no idea where your classes are? That's happening live right now at the University of Michigan where all their campuses are suffering an internet outage. It's ongoing during their first week of class.
(I whistle past the graveyard, "There but by the grace of God go I...")
Appeals court upholds UM's campus gun ban (www.detroitnews.com)
The ruling marks the second time a Court of Appeals panel has ruled in the lawsuit filed by Ann Arbor resident Joshua Wade.