Yeah this was all great information for the years leading up to about 2022. I refinanced several times in the decade leading up to that. But now, interest rates are steadily rising. Gonna be hard for anyone to take advantage of refinancing for a lower rate.

ROFL even

Yeah, I was saying the cheating being AI usage is what couldn’t be proven. They mentioned a few other possibilities like the tests being leaked or people working off camera with them.

But yeah, the cheating is obvious. And the likelihood of it being done by AI is damn near certain.

The headline kind of misses the main point, which is that the students have to retake the exam because cheating was so rampant, likely due to AI usage but that can’t be proven.

Between 2021 and 2025, 3.5 percent of test takers scored 100 or more on the 120-question UNAM test. This year, 16.3 percent did so.

The story was even worse at the highest of the high end. Between 2021 and 2025, 0.9 percent of test takers scored 110 or more; this year, 5.5 percent did so.

Ah shit that reminds me, is Mitch McConnell still alive?

Keep in mind this teacher is in her early 20s. Most people that age don’t really know much about how computers and files work.

Relevant timing: https://people.com/ariana-grande-taking-step-back-after-tour-amid-public-health-scrutiny-rep-exclusive-12032395

When we saw Wicked, I turned to my wife and said “someone needs to fix that girl a sandwich.”

Seriously though, it’s sad to see. No healthy person is that skinny.

I took the time to learn how to solve a rubix cube a few years ago. It’s actually surprisingly easy. You can learn in less then an hour and then just a bit of repetition.

It’s fun to show off to young nieces and nephews. I like to say “ok mix it up REALLY good this time” and “ooooh nooo, this is really mixed up, I don’t know if I can do this one!”

Nope, not clicking that. Too risky.

Reminds me of the old split depth gifs subreddit.

As in, they failed to take the ones that were prescribed to them.

We were also pretty naive then. An editor for Wired magazine attended a party with Larry Page, Google’s cofounder in 2002. He asked how Google was able to offer their services for free - and Page told him how their long term plan was to gather as much data as possible through their free services in order to build artificial intelligence.

So while we all thought a free GB of storage and searchable email was awesome in 2004, we were just blindly feeding what’s happening today with the AI craze.

I just watched Meet the Parents this weekend just for a nostalgia hit. That scene about him getting kicked off an airplane for saying “Bomb” cracked me up. He’s like “I said I DIDN’T have a bomb! Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb ba-babomb! What if I was a Bombardier?”

Yeah, if some brown dude gets up on an airplane and starts shouting out prayers to Allah, he’d be attacked immediately. I see no reason to respond differently just because it’s a white woman and Jesus.

“My casino will lose money if you ban gambling!”

No shit… That’s the whole point.

I had very similar experiences with my grandmother. It hurts to look at pictures of her from that time, because she has a smile on her face but it’s clear she wasn’t “there”.

It’s pretty telling that they’ll prop Mitch up on some pillows and have him loosely hold a newspaper in one hand, but won’t let a reporter anywhere near him.

There’s a video in the article that shows it. He put the prompt at the end of a bullet point, but still in the middle of the block of text. Very easy to miss if you’re selecting all.

Yeah back in my day, cheating meant getting a copy of last year’s test and memorizing the answers. At least you still learned something!

Also later in the article it mentions another professor who estimated that only 2 of their 86 students didn’t use AI to cheat.

Like, what are we even doing any more?