Archive for November 2025

Dr. Leonard Bright, president of the Texas A&M Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said faculty were not consulted on the proposed changes, which he called “a direct violation” of their expertise and freedom to teach. “And if that’s the case, there’s just going to be a further black eye on higher education here in Texas,” he said. Above: Texas A&M University students gather around the statue of former university President Lawrence Sullivan Ross for a protest in defense of academic freedom

Megan Garcia had no idea her teenage son Sewell, a “bright and beautiful boy”, had started spending hours and hours obsessively talking to an online character on the Character.ai app in late spring 2023…. Families around the world have been impacted. Earlier this week the BBC reported on a young Ukrainian woman with poor mental health who received suicide advice from ChatGPT, as well as another American teenager who killed herself after an AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with her.

Globally, at least a third of GPs report burnout – exceeding 60% in some specialties. Burned-out doctors struggle to maintain empathy. It’s not a moral failing; it’s a physiological reality. Chronic stress depletes the emotional reserves required for genuine empathy. The wonder isn’t that AI appears more empathic; it’s that human healthcare professionals manage any empathy at all.

Over the past two decades, Indonesia’s poverty alleviation and social welfare programs have undergone major transformations, marked by a stronger government commitment to evidence-based policymaking. This approach has had significant implications for program effectiveness, social impact, and the accuracy of budget allocation. However, there has been a growing tendency to move away from such evidence-based practices.

Most of the government editorial staff at Preventing Chronic Disease, an academic journal published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for more than 2 decades, have been told they’re being terminated, leaving the publication’s future uncertain, Science has learned. Reduction-in-force notices were sent to six of the journal’s federal staffers earlier this month, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees CDC, confirmed to Science.

But this case—and Flock’s involvement, in particular—illustrates an expansion of the horrifying capacity to meld personal obsessions and the state’s interest at a systemic level. In big and small towns across the country (upward of 6,000), police departments are adopting Flock’s growing arsenal and, more importantly, buying into Flock’s stated ambition: “Our mission is to eliminate crime. Full stop.”

Scapegoating newcomers has become a convenient distraction from policy failure