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  1. Rugby League star Kane Evans cuts ties with ‘shame and guilt’ as he comes out as gay

    Former Hull FC prop Kane Evans has come out as gay, having battled his sexuality for 20 years…
    #NewsBeep #News #Rugby #IanRoberts #LGBTQ+ #Mentalhealth #rugby #Sexuality #Sports #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/632648/

  2. A Kind of Madness, family drama from South Africa

    A Kind of Madness is a family story from South Africa. It includes scenes from the past, the present, and from the broken mind of the family matriarch. Most of the past scenes come from the mother's mind and what she remembers is fractured and sometimes not real. […]

    oldaintdead.com/a-kind-of-madn

  3. Rob Sand's statement on DSM Superintendent Ian Roberts have aged remarkably well. It was disappointing to see his call for patience get flamed on Twitter. I hope those folks have the good sense and shame to retract their comments.

    reddit.com/r/Iowa/comments/1nt

  4. Rob Sand's statement on DSM Superintendent Ian Roberts have aged remarkably well. It was disappointing to see his call for patience get flamed on Twitter. I hope those folks have the good sense and shame to retract their comments.

    reddit.com/r/Iowa/comments/1nt

    #RobSand #IanRoberts

  5. Rob Sand's statement on DSM Superintendent Ian Roberts have aged remarkably well. It was disappointing to see his call for patience get flamed on Twitter. I hope those folks have the good sense and shame to retract their comments.

    reddit.com/r/Iowa/comments/1nt

    #RobSand #IanRoberts

  6. Rob Sand's statement on DSM Superintendent Ian Roberts have aged remarkably well. It was disappointing to see his call for patience get flamed on Twitter. I hope those folks have the good sense and shame to retract their comments.

    reddit.com/r/Iowa/comments/1nt

    #RobSand #IanRoberts

  7. Rob Sand's statement on DSM Superintendent Ian Roberts have aged remarkably well. It was disappointing to see his call for patience get flamed on Twitter. I hope those folks have the good sense and shame to retract their comments.

    reddit.com/r/Iowa/comments/1nt

    #RobSand #IanRoberts

  8. #ICE arrests #superintendent of #Iowa’s largest school district

    By Zoe Sottile, Priscilla Alvarez, September 27, 2025

    Excerpt: "The school district and #DHS presented starkly divergent portraits of [Superintendent #IanRoberts]. DHS described him as a 'criminal alien' and suggested he was a public safety threat. But at a news conference after his arrest, board president of #DesMoines #PublicSchools Jackie Norris said the superintendent was 'an integral part of our school community' who 'has shown up in ways big and small' for students and staff. And Roberts disclosed his weapon charge, related to a hunting rifle, when he was hired, a district spokesperson told CNN.

    "The arrest spurred a protest outside the federal courthouse in Des Moines. '#Education, not #deportation / Free Dr. Roberts,' read one sign carried by a demonstrator, according to footage from CNN affiliate KCCI. Local education and immigration advocacy groups have rallied behind the superintendent."

    Read more:
    cnn.com/2025/09/26/us/ian-robe

    #FreeDoctorRoberts #FreeDrRoberts #EducationNotDeportation #ICESucks #RacialProfiling #Targeting #authoritarianism
    #IPreferMyCountryNeatWithoutICE

  9. #ICE arrests #superintendent of #Iowa’s largest school district

    By Zoe Sottile, Priscilla Alvarez, September 27, 2025

    Excerpt: "The school district and #DHS presented starkly divergent portraits of [Superintendent #IanRoberts]. DHS described him as a 'criminal alien' and suggested he was a public safety threat. But at a news conference after his arrest, board president of #DesMoines #PublicSchools Jackie Norris said the superintendent was 'an integral part of our school community' who 'has shown up in ways big and small' for students and staff. And Roberts disclosed his weapon charge, related to a hunting rifle, when he was hired, a district spokesperson told CNN.

    "The arrest spurred a protest outside the federal courthouse in Des Moines. '#Education, not #deportation / Free Dr. Roberts,' read one sign carried by a demonstrator, according to footage from CNN affiliate KCCI. Local education and immigration advocacy groups have rallied behind the superintendent."

    Read more:
    cnn.com/2025/09/26/us/ian-robe

    #FreeDoctorRoberts #FreeDrRoberts #EducationNotDeportation #ICESucks #RacialProfiling #Targeting #authoritarianism
    #IPreferMyCountryNeatWithoutICE

  10. #ICE arrests #superintendent of #Iowa’s largest school district

    By Zoe Sottile, Priscilla Alvarez, September 27, 2025

    Excerpt: "The school district and #DHS presented starkly divergent portraits of [Superintendent #IanRoberts]. DHS described him as a 'criminal alien' and suggested he was a public safety threat. But at a news conference after his arrest, board president of #DesMoines #PublicSchools Jackie Norris said the superintendent was 'an integral part of our school community' who 'has shown up in ways big and small' for students and staff. And Roberts disclosed his weapon charge, related to a hunting rifle, when he was hired, a district spokesperson told CNN.

    "The arrest spurred a protest outside the federal courthouse in Des Moines. '#Education, not #deportation / Free Dr. Roberts,' read one sign carried by a demonstrator, according to footage from CNN affiliate KCCI. Local education and immigration advocacy groups have rallied behind the superintendent."

    Read more:
    cnn.com/2025/09/26/us/ian-robe

    #FreeDoctorRoberts #FreeDrRoberts #EducationNotDeportation #ICESucks #RacialProfiling #Targeting #authoritarianism
    #IPreferMyCountryNeatWithoutICE

  11. #ICE arrests #superintendent of #Iowa’s largest school district

    By Zoe Sottile, Priscilla Alvarez, September 27, 2025

    Excerpt: "The school district and #DHS presented starkly divergent portraits of [Superintendent #IanRoberts]. DHS described him as a 'criminal alien' and suggested he was a public safety threat. But at a news conference after his arrest, board president of #DesMoines #PublicSchools Jackie Norris said the superintendent was 'an integral part of our school community' who 'has shown up in ways big and small' for students and staff. And Roberts disclosed his weapon charge, related to a hunting rifle, when he was hired, a district spokesperson told CNN.

    "The arrest spurred a protest outside the federal courthouse in Des Moines. '#Education, not #deportation / Free Dr. Roberts,' read one sign carried by a demonstrator, according to footage from CNN affiliate KCCI. Local education and immigration advocacy groups have rallied behind the superintendent."

    Read more:
    cnn.com/2025/09/26/us/ian-robe

    #FreeDoctorRoberts #FreeDrRoberts #EducationNotDeportation #ICESucks #RacialProfiling #Targeting #authoritarianism
    #IPreferMyCountryNeatWithoutICE

  12. #ICE arrests #superintendent of #Iowa’s largest school district

    By Zoe Sottile, Priscilla Alvarez, September 27, 2025

    Excerpt: "The school district and #DHS presented starkly divergent portraits of [Superintendent #IanRoberts]. DHS described him as a 'criminal alien' and suggested he was a public safety threat. But at a news conference after his arrest, board president of #DesMoines #PublicSchools Jackie Norris said the superintendent was 'an integral part of our school community' who 'has shown up in ways big and small' for students and staff. And Roberts disclosed his weapon charge, related to a hunting rifle, when he was hired, a district spokesperson told CNN.

    "The arrest spurred a protest outside the federal courthouse in Des Moines. '#Education, not #deportation / Free Dr. Roberts,' read one sign carried by a demonstrator, according to footage from CNN affiliate KCCI. Local education and immigration advocacy groups have rallied behind the superintendent."

    Read more:
    cnn.com/2025/09/26/us/ian-robe

    #FreeDoctorRoberts #FreeDrRoberts #EducationNotDeportation #ICESucks #RacialProfiling #Targeting #authoritarianism
    #IPreferMyCountryNeatWithoutICE

  13. .> ... as the philosopher Karl Popper noted, “we do not seek highly probable theories but explanations; that is to say, powerful and highly improbable theories.”
    .> The theory that apples fall to earth because that is their natural place (Aristotle’s view) is possible, but it only invites further questions. (Why is earth their natural place?) The theory that apples fall to earth because mass bends space-time (Einstein’s view) is highly improbable, but it actually tells you why they fall. True intelligence is demonstrated in the ability to think and express improbable but insightful things.
    .> True intelligence is also capable of moral thinking. This means constraining the otherwise limitless creativity of our minds with a set of ethical principles that determines what ought and ought not to be (and of course subjecting those principles themselves to creative criticism). To be useful, ChatGPT must be empowered to generate novel-looking output; to be acceptable to most of its users, it must steer clear of morally objectionable content. But the programmers of ChatGPT and other machine learning marvels have struggled — and will continue to struggle — to achieve this kind of balance.
    .> ... In the absence of a capacity to reason from moral principles, ChatGPT was crudely restricted by its programmers from contributing anything novel to controversial — that is, important — discussions. It sacrificed creativity for a kind of amorality.
    ...
    .> Note, for all the seemingly sophisticated thought and language, the moral indifference born of unintelligence. Here, ChatGPT exhibits something like the banality of evil: plagiarism and apathy and obviation. It summarizes the standard arguments in the literature by a kind of super-autocomplete, refuses to take a stand on anything, pleads not merely ignorance but lack of intelligence and ultimately offers a “just following orders” defense, shifting responsibility to its creators.
    .> In short, ChatGPT and its brethren are constitutionally unable to balance creativity with constraint. They either overgenerate (producing both truths and falsehoods, endorsing ethical and unethical decisions alike) or undergenerate (exhibiting noncommitment to any decisions and indifference to consequences). Given the amorality, faux science and linguistic incompetence of these systems, we can only laugh or cry at their popularity.
    #Chomsky, #NoamChomksy #IanRoberts and #JeffreyWatumull on #ChatGPT #AISalami as #Eichmann, #AdolfEichmann #Bureaucrat #BanalityOfEvil in
    #NYT, #NewYorkTimes March 8, 2023