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Most people do not realize just how easy the AP exams have gotten. They are not college level. Why/how have they become so easy? What's going on? This might shock you... A brutal new piece in Education Next just dropped, saying the decline in rigor of the AP in the last two decades is, in large part, because the content has been GUTTED. For example: — AP Biology cut 40% of its material — Required lines from the Aeneid in AP Latin halved — Spanish Lit reading list cut from 56 works to 38 Then the questions themselves have become absurdly easier. Readability measures show English passages have fallen multiple grade levels, and some now include footnotes defining basic words... A 2025 AP English prompt included footnote definitions for words like "optimism" and "pessimism." At the same time, scoring was recalibrated so that more students pass: guessing penalties disappeared, rubrics grew more generous, readers were told to give students the benefit of the doubt, etc. — "no one at College Board had any incentive to maintain rigor." College professors are now seeing students arrive with AP credit who lack basic content knowledge and writing ability. The College Board insists the exams have not become easier, but everybody familiar with them knows they've become an absolute joke. Advanced Placement is no longer advanced. This is not college level. It must be replaced.

Last night's datacenter moratorium/restrictions appear to have gone 43 - 1, with a massive swell of public support averaging 77% to shut it all down. Public sentiment on on AI in America has been going steadily downhill for three years. It is once again at a new low.

After having Codex check 120 different generated videos, models do NOT generate low-frequency airplane Dopplers

A dash cam, a rural road, and a figure that doesn’t look like a costume. Late night, May 16, 2009, Lumpkin County, Georgia. A sheriff’s deputy is driving about 55 mph on a curvy rural road in the Frogtown area near the Chattahoochee National Forest. A civilian passenger is with him. Something large and dark bursts from the right and crosses directly in front of the patrol car. The deputy hits the brakes. The audio is raw: “What the crap? What was that? Did you see that?” “Yes.” “Holy crap. What the heck was that?” “That was on 2 feet, wasn’t it?” “Yeah.” “Oh my goodness.” They stop and search. The passenger reports the figure still moving back and forth off the road as the deputy scans with his light. The grainy video shows a tall upright walker crossing past the guardrail in long, fluid strides. Enhancements make the arm swing and gait clearer — the kind of movement that does not match a typical costume or a bear. The sheriff later called it a hoax — two college kids in a gorilla suit. On a night that wasn’t Halloween, and with no photos or confessions to back it up, that explanation still has to carry the whole clip. North Georgia has a long history of reports. This one is fleeting, but the dash cam and the unscripted audio make it harder to dismiss than most. What holds for me is the combination of those genuine reactions and the morphology. Two people who weren’t looking for Bigfoot that night sound genuinely alarmed. The figure is clearly bipedal, furry, and covering serious ground in a couple of seconds. Where do you land — hoax, misidentified animal, or real Bigfoot in the headlights? 👇 #Bigfoot #Sasquatch

‼️ French lawmakers voted for an internet traffic tax that the makers of VLC say would cost them more than €1M a year. Content providers would pay €0.055 for every gigabyte sent to French users, as counted by ISPs. Its Socialist authors expect €10B a year. The government opposed it, warning that about half the bill would fall on smaller providers, many of them French. It passed 11 votes to 10, with 35 of 577 deputies present.