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A rare form of remand from Judge Jerry Smith on the 5th Circuit: vacating a lower court's order and directing that the case be assigned to a different district judge due to "fabrications" and probable AI use.
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NEW: The Supreme Court will decide whether a 160-year-old federal ban on distilling alcohol in homes exceeds Congress's authority to impose restrictions aimed at collecting alcohol taxes.
Happy Birthday @SteveBresnen !
Happy Birthday, baby.@SteveBresnen
Here is a video that has gone off the rails. TikTok is hard.
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Texas’ 2nd annual Free College Application Week is underway! From October 12–18, Texas residents can submit undergrad applications to Texas public colleges & universities through ApplyTexas without paying an application fee. Spread the word! Submit your applications by Oct 18: applytexas.org/ #txlege
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Things you learn in Texas:
1. The guy in the F-150 is worth a lot more than the dude in a Mercedes.
2. The small business owner from a state school is smarter than the majority of Ivy League grads.
3. There’s more racism in Connecticut country clubs than in rural honky-tonks.
4. Rednecks are more honorable than investment bankers.
5. The man who looks like he can’t afford the tab could buy the building.
6. They don’t ask for a deck before the meeting.
7. Prep school is where they send the problem kids.
8. If he’s wearing dusty boots, a 2XL Magellan shirt, a gold Rolex, and has a bulletproof case on his iPhone 12, you’ve already lost the negotiation.
9. “How’s business?” is a real question. “What do you do?” is a New York question.
10. Tips are bigger and egos are smaller.
11. A handshake still closes deals that a term sheet would kill.
12. The wealth is in real estate, oil, or a company nobody in Manhattan has ever heard of.
13. Your wife or daughter will never struggle finding help to change a tire.
14. Nobody asks where you went to college.
15. A weekend invitation to their ranch makes you part of the family.
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The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day: Texas Tech University is 101 years old today, on account of it was Sept. 30, 1925 that Texas Technological College opened in Lubbock, with 914 students in four schools: Agriculture, Engineering, Home Economics, and Liberal Arts. Naturally, this being Texas and all, a bit of chicanery was involved.
The push to establish a college in West Texas began before 1900, almost as soon as settlers began putting down roots on the plains. Their efforts appeared to pay off in 1917, when the Texas Legislature approved the creation of West Texas A&M College as a branch of Texas A&M. But the victory was short-lived. The law was repealed at the next legislative session after it was discovered that Governor James E. Ferguson had falsely reported Abilene as the choice of the committee charged with selecting the college site.
Naturally, Ferguson's deception got everybody's dander up and stiffened the resolve of West Texans. With the West Texas Chamber of Commerce helping lead the campaign, supporters continued pressing Austin for a college of their own. Their persistence finally paid off in 1923, when the Legislature approved a compromise bill written by State Senator William H. Bledsoe of Lubbock and State Representative Lewis Carpenter of Dallas.
Competition for the new school was fierce. Thirty-seven West Texas towns submitted proposals, and the locating board visited every one of them before choosing Lubbock. A local steering committee purchased 2,008 acres just west of town and sold the land to the state for the new campus.
So ....Guns up, Red Raiders!
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Recentemente, o bilionário Peter Thiel investiu em uma startup que coloca coleiras inteligentes em vacas.
Parece piada, mas a empresa já vale mais de US$ 2 bilhões.
Funciona assim: o pecuarista desenha uma cerca virtual pelo celular e o GPS da coleira mantém cada animal dentro da área definida. Quando a vaca se aproxima do limite, recebe um sinal sonoro e uma leve vibração indicando para onde deve voltar. Em poucos dias, ela aprende.
Na prática, o pecuarista consegue mover o rebanho inteiro arrastando uma linha na tela. Sem porteiras, quilômetros de arame ou a necessidade de percorrer o campo.
Mas a parte mais valiosa não é a cerca.
Enquanto o gado pasta, o sistema registra cinco leituras por segundo de cada animal, acompanhando movimento, comportamento e condição física.
Com esses dados, a IA consegue identificar sinais de doenças, período fértil e até prever partos antes que isso seja percebido por alguém no campo.
O nome da IA é Cowgorithm. Ela foi treinada com mais de 7 bilhões de horas de comportamento real de vacas.
Para um leigo, o modelo de negócios parece ser apenas as coleiras. Mas, na realidade, são os dados.
Hoje, mais de 1 milhão de animais usam a tecnologia, por um custo de cerca de US$ 5 a US$ 8 por vaca por mês.
O Brasil tem um dos maiores rebanhos bovinos do mundo, com mais de 200 milhões de cabeças, e boa parte do setor ainda opera com métodos tradicionais.
É uma tecnologia com espaço enorme para crescer por aqui!
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His trumpet gave out in front of 48,000 fans so he just started singing the National Anthem instead
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TBC would be excited and honored to build this massive infrastructure project.
Because Loop/Hyperloop is express (i.e. no intermediate stops), one could travel from an Austin parking lot to a favorite San Antonio restaurant in ~30 min. As long as they both have Loop stations!
Boring Company is working on a simple, precursor Hyperloop tunnel between Austin and San Antonio (>200 mph).
Due to traffic congestion, that journey can currently take up to 2.5 hours. @BoringCompany can reduce that to a consistent <30 mins.
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Boring Company is working on a simple, precursor Hyperloop tunnel between Austin and San Antonio (>200 mph).
Due to traffic congestion, that journey can currently take up to 2.5 hours. @BoringCompany can reduce that to a consistent <30 mins.
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🚨 Welcome to the $15 billion California High Speed Rail to nowhere:
Since 2008 California has spent $15 billion and has not connected a single city or laid a single track. It is now projected to cost more than $200 billion to finish despite being proved nearly impossible to complete.
In 2008 China also announced a high-speed rail and has now connected the entire country with over 30,000 miles while California has connected 0 miles.
Over $500 million has gone to contractors who could not work, homes are currently being built on the alignment, and farmers will lose their farms. In this video I go down the alignment of the high speed rail exposing the failures and confront the legislators in charge of this absolute disaster of a project.
A prime example of fraud, waste and abuse of the taxpayer dollar.
This.
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.
