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Is Trump sacrificing infrastructure to his anti-DEI obsession?
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/10/2337100/-Is-Trump-sacrificing-infrastructure-to-his-anti-DEI-obsession?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main

Exploring LLMs for Predicting Tutor Strategy and Student Outcomes in Dialogues
Fareya Ikram, Alexander Scarlatos, Andrew Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06910

Exploring LLMs for Predicting Tutor Strategy and Student Outcomes in Dialogues
Tutoring dialogues have gained significant attention in recent years, given the prominence of online learning and the emerging tutoring abilities of artificial intelligence (AI) agents powered by large language models (LLMs). Recent studies have shown that the strategies used by tutors can have significant effects on student outcomes, necessitating methods to predict how tutors will behave and how their actions impact students. However, few works have studied predicting tutor strategy in dialog…

Study: between August 2024 and June 2025, the number of women working as creators on US streaming originals hit 36%, a record and up from 27% the year prior (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…

Shows Created by Women Rise Sharply, but Only on Streaming TV
Far more shows on streaming services are being created by women, a new study found. That number on broadcast networks, though, remained stagnant.

I remember the old trope of "In the future you'll have a whole meal in pill form!" and thinking that would be a bleak future devoid of the art of cooking and the joy of a delicious meal, but it's okay because the future is terrible in ways we didn't even imagine.

Trump is gilding the White House
-- using his so-called "gold guy" to add gold touches to the Oval Office on the taxpayer dime
-- to make the historic building look like his tacky Mar-a-Lago club in Florida
https://www.dailykos.…

Trump is turning the White House into Mar-a-Lago—at taxpayers' expense
President Donald Trump is gilding the White House, using his so-called "gold guy" to add gold touches to the Oval Office on the taxpayer dime to make the historic building look like his tacky Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, The Wall Street Journal...

You won't believe how badly Kristi Noem bungled Texas flood response
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/10/2332656/-Kristi-Noem-s-pathetic-response-to-Texas-floods-proves-she-s-clueless

"Zeldin announced a new website dispelling the concerns over chemtrails and contrails, EPA chief clashes with MAGA over weather conspiracies"
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/10/2332740/-EPA-chief-clashes-with-MAGA-over-weather-conspiracies

KY Paper Writes Up The Impact Of SNAP Cuts For Kentucky, And It's Going To Be Extremely Bad.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/10/2332608/-KY-Paper-Writes-Up-The-Impact-Of-SNAP-Cuts-For-Kentucky-And-It-s-Going-To-Be-Extremely-Bad

Signal is back to haunt the Trump team—this time targeting Marco Rubio
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/8/2332318/-Signal-is-back-to-haunt-the-Trump-team-this-time-targeting-Marco-Rubio

People he pardoned keep crimin'
As Trump claims to clean up crime, his past pardons haunt him
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/8/2342382/-As-Trump-claims-to-clean-up-crime-his-past-pardons-haunt-him