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Last week, Gloria Caulfield, an executive at real estate firm Tavistock Development Company, gave a speech at the University of Central Florida and delivered this memorable line: “The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution.” We’ve all been there before, offering a piece of “profound” wisdom or advice that we’re sure will draw awe and applause — but just falls flat. Parents know what we’re talking about. And now, so does Gloria. @Techcrunch has more on the commencement speech's sideways turn, including the audience’s collective “this sucks” reaction:
Oh, and hang in there, Gloria.
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Last week, Gloria Caulfield, an executive at real estate firm Tavistock Development Company, gave a speech at the University of Central Florida and delivered this memorable line: “The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution.” We’ve all been there before, offering a piece of “profound” wisdom or advice that we’re sure will draw awe and applause — but just falls flat. Parents know what we’re talking about. And now, so does Gloria. @Techcrunch has more on the commencement speech's sideways turn, including the audience’s collective “this sucks” reaction:
Oh, and hang in there, Gloria.
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Last week, Gloria Caulfield, an executive at real estate firm Tavistock Development Company, gave a speech at the University of Central Florida and delivered this memorable line: “The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution.” We’ve all been there before, offering a piece of “profound” wisdom or advice that we’re sure will draw awe and applause — but just falls flat. Parents know what we’re talking about. And now, so does Gloria. @Techcrunch has more on the commencement speech's sideways turn, including the audience’s collective “this sucks” reaction:
Oh, and hang in there, Gloria.
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Last week, Gloria Caulfield, an executive at real estate firm Tavistock Development Company, gave a speech at the University of Central Florida and delivered this memorable line: “The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution.” We’ve all been there before, offering a piece of “profound” wisdom or advice that we’re sure will draw awe and applause — but just falls flat. Parents know what we’re talking about. And now, so does Gloria. @Techcrunch has more on the commencement speech's sideways turn, including the audience’s collective “this sucks” reaction:
Oh, and hang in there, Gloria.
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Last week, Gloria Caulfield, an executive at real estate firm Tavistock Development Company, gave a speech at the University of Central Florida and delivered this memorable line: “The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution.” We’ve all been there before, offering a piece of “profound” wisdom or advice that we’re sure will draw awe and applause — but just falls flat. Parents know what we’re talking about. And now, so does Gloria. @Techcrunch has more on the commencement speech's sideways turn, including the audience’s collective “this sucks” reaction:
Oh, and hang in there, Gloria.
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Oklahoma State Baseball Clinches Thursday Quarterfinal in Big 12 Tournament https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/701140/ #Baseball #Big12 #Big12Tournament #Cincinnati #ESPN #KansasCityRoyals #KansasState #OklahomaState #OklahomaStateCowboys #OSUCowboyBaseball #SurpriseStadium #Texas #TexasRangers #TheCowboys #UCF
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Oklahoma State Baseball Clinches Thursday Quarterfinal in Big 12 Tournament https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/701140/ #Baseball #Big12 #Big12Tournament #Cincinnati #ESPN #KansasCityRoyals #KansasState #OklahomaState #OklahomaStateCowboys #OSUCowboyBaseball #SurpriseStadium #Texas #TexasRangers #TheCowboys #UCF
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Headline: UCF graduates boo commencement speaker over AI remarks
Me: I'm a UCF graduate myself. I intentionally skipped my commencement. Even at the tender age of 22, I knew I didn't want to subject myself to the rantings of some blow hard ass hat as some sort of twisted reward for crossing an academic finish line.
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Headline: UCF graduates boo commencement speaker over AI remarks
Me: I'm a UCF graduate myself. I intentionally skipped my commencement. Even at the tender age of 22, I knew I didn't want to subject myself to the rantings of some blow hard ass hat as some sort of twisted reward for crossing an academic finish line.
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Headline: UCF graduates boo commencement speaker over AI remarks
Me: I'm a UCF graduate myself. I intentionally skipped my commencement. Even at the tender age of 22, I knew I didn't want to subject myself to the rantings of some blow hard ass hat as some sort of twisted reward for crossing an academic finish line.
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Headline: UCF graduates boo commencement speaker over AI remarks
Me: I'm a UCF graduate myself. I intentionally skipped my commencement. Even at the tender age of 22, I knew I didn't want to subject myself to the rantings of some blow hard ass hat as some sort of twisted reward for crossing an academic finish line.
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Headline: UCF graduates boo commencement speaker over AI remarks
Me: I'm a UCF graduate myself. I intentionally skipped my commencement. Even at the tender age of 22, I knew I didn't want to subject myself to the rantings of some blow hard ass hat as some sort of twisted reward for crossing an academic finish line.
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Jezebel | Congratulations to UCF Grads for Booing Their AI-Obsessed Commencement Speaker by Claire Guinan
AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.
The University of Central Florida’s 2026 graduating class famously booed their commencement speaker, Gloria Caulfield, each time she praised artificial intelligence, turning the ceremony into a viral moment that highlighted a clash between AI‑enthusiastic corporate rhetoric and a cohort of arts‑focused graduates facing a tough job market. Caulfield, a VP at real‑estate developer Tavistock, repeatedly touted AI as the next industrial revolution, likening it to the internet’s transformative impact, prompting audible boos and occasional cheers as students reacted to clichés and felt she was out of touch with their concerns. The incident underscored the graduates’ skepticism toward AI’s promises and their readiness to challenge “AI supervillains,” earning them both applause and a tongue‑in‑cheek congratulations for “seizing the day” on their own terms.
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Headline: Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
Me: Thumbs up to UCF students for booing a capitalist bozo. Thumbs down to the UCF administration for inviting her to speak.
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Headline: Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
Me: Thumbs up to UCF students for booing a capitalist bozo. Thumbs down to the UCF administration for inviting her to speak.
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Headline: Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
Me: Thumbs up to UCF students for booing a capitalist bozo. Thumbs down to the UCF administration for inviting her to speak.
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Headline: Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
Me: Thumbs up to UCF students for booing a capitalist bozo. Thumbs down to the UCF administration for inviting her to speak.
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Headline: Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
Me: Thumbs up to UCF students for booing a capitalist bozo. Thumbs down to the UCF administration for inviting her to speak.
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Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.404media.co/ucf-ai-commencement-speaker-booed/
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Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.404media.co/ucf-ai-commencement-speaker-booed/
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Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.404media.co/ucf-ai-commencement-speaker-booed/
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Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.404media.co/ucf-ai-commencement-speaker-booed/
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Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.404media.co/ucf-ai-commencement-speaker-booed/
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An Alternative Grading of the Dallas Cowboys First Round Picks
In the days since the 2026 NFL Draft ended, we've seen some of the highest consensus praise for a Co...
#DallasCowboys #2026NFLDraft #CalebDowns #DraftGrade #FirstRoundPick #MalachiLawrence #OhioState #UCF
https://insidethestar.com/an-alternative-grading-of-the-dallas-cowboys-first-round-picks?fsp_sid=22378 -
An Alternative Grading of the Dallas Cowboys First Round Picks
In the days since the 2026 NFL Draft ended, we've seen some of the highest consensus praise for a Co...
#DallasCowboys #2026NFLDraft #CalebDowns #DraftGrade #FirstRoundPick #MalachiLawrence #OhioState #UCF
https://insidethestar.com/an-alternative-grading-of-the-dallas-cowboys-first-round-picks?fsp_sid=22378 -
An Alternative Grading of the Dallas Cowboys First Round Picks
In the days since the 2026 NFL Draft ended, we've seen some of the highest consensus praise for a Co...
#DallasCowboys #2026NFLDraft #CalebDowns #DraftGrade #FirstRoundPick #MalachiLawrence #OhioState #UCF
https://insidethestar.com/an-alternative-grading-of-the-dallas-cowboys-first-round-picks?fsp_sid=22378 -
UCF DE Malachi Lawrence selected 23rd overall by Dallas Cowboys at 2026 NFL Draft https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/873850/ #Cowboys #Dallas #DallasCowboys #DallasCowboys #Football #LegacyAAC #NFL #UCF
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UCF DE Malachi Lawrence selected 23rd overall by Dallas Cowboys at 2026 NFL Draft https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/873850/ #Cowboys #Dallas #DallasCowboys #DallasCowboys #Football #LegacyAAC #NFL #UCF
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UCF's very own CDDC team has just won 1st 🥇 at The National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition!! This marks UCF's 6th first place win!! Congrats!
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UCF's very own CDDC team has just won 1st 🥇 at The National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition!! This marks UCF's 6th first place win!! Congrats!
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UCF's very own CDDC team has just won 1st 🥇 at The National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition!! This marks UCF's 6th first place win!! Congrats!
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UCF's very own CDDC team has just won 1st 🥇 at The National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition!! This marks UCF's 6th first place win!! Congrats!
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UCF's very own CDDC team has just won 1st 🥇 at The National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition!! This marks UCF's 6th first place win!! Congrats!
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BYU vs Houston Big 12 Tournament Game Preview
It’s just three games, but BYU is playing its best post-Richie Saunders injury. Just 12 days after losing…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #AJDybantsa #america #Arkansas #BYUCougars #DominiqueDiomande #EmanuelSharp #Entertainment #health #HoustonCougars #JosephTugler #KansasState #KingstonFlemings #OklahomaState #RichieSaunders #sports #Tennessee #UCF #unitedstatesofamerica #WestVirginia
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No. 3 Florida bounces back from season-opening loss and dominates North Florida https://www.rawchili.com/nba/396075/ #AlexCondon #arizona #Basketball #CollegeBasketball #CollegiateDebut #DaeshunRuffin #DominickNelson #ErnestShelton #Florida #Gators #Iowa #JaymeMitchellJr. #KeyshawnHall #KoaPeat #MicahHandlogten #MikelBrownJr. #MilanMomcilovic #ncaa #NCAABasketball #ncaab #NorthFlorida #Oklahoma #OlivierRioux #RyanConwell #SanandaFru #TaminLipsey #TheTigers #ThomasHaugh #UCF
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The Area Code Comes Home
When Scott Frost took over at Nebraska in 2018, he brought with him from UCF a small equipment decision that ran directly against what the phone system had been doing for fifteen years. Frost let Husker players wear their three-digit home area code on the helmet bumper above the face mask. A Peyton Newell on the defensive line, a Mike Williams at wide receiver, an Andre Hunt lining up outside, each wore the digits of where they came from in black on red. The helmet bumper is a small piece of real estate, two inches by four, just large enough to carry three numbers. Frost had started the practice at UCF in late 2016 before the USF rivalry game, and he said at Nebraska that the guys took a lot of pride in it. Where you come from, he said, still counts.
The helmet bumper was a reversal of what every other part of American life had been doing to the area code. Local Number Portability for wireless went into effect in 2003, and from that point forward the area code on your phone no longer reliably told anyone where you lived. A 402 in 2018 could be a Lincoln native living in Lincoln, or a Lincoln native living in Denver, or a Denver native who bought the number because they thought the digits looked nice. The phone number had become geographic fiction. The helmet bumper made the area code geographically honest again. A 402 on a Nebraska player’s helmet meant that player was from somewhere the 402 had originally covered. The area code on the helmet was a birth certificate, not a billing address.
Frost’s quote on it was clean. “You play first and foremost for the name on the front of your jersey, your team, and guys take pride in playing for the name on the back of their jersey, their family. But a lot of young men have a lot of pride in where they come from too.” Jersey front: institutional belonging. Jersey back: family belonging. Helmet bumper: geographic belonging. Three layers of identity stacked on a single uniform, each pointing to a different kind of home. The area code on the bumper sat at the top of the face mask, above the eyes, the first thing a television camera caught on a tackle.
The timing was the interesting part. Nebraska football had been built for most of a century on the walk-on program, which was a Tom Osborne invention as much as anything else, and which asked Nebraska kids from small towns to pay their own way to Lincoln and earn their scholarships on the field. By 2018 that program had weakened under the realities of modern recruiting, which had become a national and now international process, and Nebraska was competing for talent from Florida and California and Texas alongside everyone else. A roster that had once been mostly Nebraska kids was now mostly out-of-state kids with a Nebraska kid sprinkled here and there. The helmet bumper said: the roster looks different now, but where you come from still matters. The 402 stayed on the field through a proxy worn by someone from the 904 in Jacksonville or the 713 in Houston or the 602 in Phoenix.
The experiment did not save Frost’s tenure. He went 16-31 over four and a half seasons and was fired three games into the 2022 season after a home loss to Georgia Southern, and the reasons were not uniform-related. Husker fans watched a long streak of one-score losses, a statistical improbability that became routine. An offense that had worked at UCF did not work against Big Ten defenses, and the defensive staff turned over repeatedly, and the roster Frost inherited and the roster he built were both inadequate to the league he was coaching in. The helmet bumper survived the firing as a small curio. Nebraska moved on.
The Frost era left Nebraska with one small cultural artifact: the idea that where a player comes from is a piece of information worth displaying. Other programs picked up variations. Oregon had its uniform combinations, Oklahoma added state shapes, Michigan and Ohio State leaned into historical patches. The helmet bumper area code at Nebraska was a specific version of a broader insistence, which is that the player on the field is also a person from a place, and that the place deserves a line of text on the equipment.
The irony is that this insistence arrived at the moment the phone system had finished denying it. A 402 on a helmet bumper in 2018 was a claim on geography that the 402 on a phone could no longer make. Helmets were doing archival work the phones had refused to do. A 402 from central Nebraska or eastern Nebraska pointed at a specific state, a specific set of towns, a specific high school culture. 713 pointed at Houston. 904 pointed at Jacksonville. The bumper enforced the old rules the FCC had dismantled, with the geography now sitting on the body of the athlete.
My own 402 is from the Nebraska where local dialing was seven digits and the area code was something you wrote but rarely spoke. The 402 I grew up with covered most of a state and a half-century of phone calls I cannot remember making. When I first moved east, my new 212 replaced the 402, and for decades I wore 212 proudly the way the Husker players wore 402 proudly. The difference was that my 212 told the truth about where I lived at the time. A player’s 402 told the truth about where they were from and nothing else. That player might have been from Hastings and living in a Lincoln dorm and training at the South Stadium complex, and the 402 still worked, because the question the bumper was answering had nothing to do with where the player was now.
The Frost helmet bumper is a small piece of cultural evidence that the area code still does useful work as a marker of origin even after it has stopped doing useful work as a marker of location. Phone numbers lost one job and the helmet bumper quietly assigned them a different one. The sign survived the referent. The 402 on the bumper was the same 402 I grew up dialing for seven digits inside the state line, routed through the same numerical grammar, just pointed at a different kind of truth. Geography moved. The digits followed.
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3 women’s college basketball teams that could go to their first Final Four in 2025-26 https://www.rawchili.com/nba/268940/ #Basketball #baylor #CollegeBasketball #CotieMcMahon #ElizabethKitley #GeorgiaAmoore #HaileyVanLith #KikiRice #LaurenBetts #LaurenJacobs #LSU #MississippiState #ncaa #NCAABasketball #ncaab #OklahomaState #OleMiss #OliviaMiles #ProgramHistory #SanDiegoState #SedonaPrince #SouthCarolina #tcu #Texas #TexasA&M #TheBruins #UCF #UCLA #UConn #VirginiaTech #WestVirginia #WNBAPlayers
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Campus tour #2 was yesterday at my alma mater UCF.
I've been on campus for pretty much every home football game since the Bounce House opened in 2007. But game-day visits only offer a small glimpse.
The tour was the first time I'd seen the campus in its entirety since I was a student. Enrollment has grown from about 18k (my freshman year) to well over 70k now. I'd say the campus has grown proportionally-at least in terms of buildings.
The place is huge.
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The Masons went to 'College Night' tonight, where we got to meet informally with representatives from all 12 of the Florida state schools.
There was plenty of time for Q&A and we got a lot of great information.
My little one wants to go to college. And it's always been 'UCF or bust'.
But tonight, he showed some interest in FGCU (Florida Gulf Coast University). 🙂
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It may be feasible to fabricate tiny reflective #nanorods from iron and aluminum found in the #Martian soil and launch them into the #atmosphere. “The interaction of those particles with the incoming sunlight ☀️ would then cause that solar energy to be preferentially forward scattered to the surface. That would then cause a very strong #greenhouse effect, and we can warm it up several tens of degrees.” 🌡️ https://www.ucf.edu/news/ucf-planetary-scientists-expertise-informs-new-method-for-terraforming-mars/
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Whew. UCF picks up a much-needed win, snapping a 3-game losing streak. 🏀
UCF 82
TCU 71https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/gametracker/boxscore/NCAAB_20260217_TCU@UCF/
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Headline: UCF outmuscles No. 11 Texas Tech 88-80 to score third straight Big 12 win
Me: I'm so glad I went to the game! (It was a bit of a last-minute decision between me and the kiddo.) It's the first time we've won 3 consecutive conference games. Pretty cool! 🙂
https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/gametracker/recap/NCAAB_20260131_TXTECH@UCF/
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Haaa! The game is pretty much sealed. But our fans prematurely rushed the court with 0.2 seconds left. 🤪
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The #UCF band is playing Paula Abdul/Cold Hearted Snake.
I wonder if I'm the only one in the building that recognized it. 🤔
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Woo hoo!
#UCF football schedule is out.That late November road game at Colorado looks like a great road trip opportunity. 🏉 ❄️
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Ну всё, пора закапывать UTF-8
Здравствуйте, меня зовут Дмитрий Карловский и я... серийный убийца устоявшихся стандартов. Сегодня я выследил и нанёс критический урон UTF-8. И сейчас я расскажу, как я его переиграл и уничтожил новым стандартом кодирования текста — Unicode Compact Format . No, God! Please, No, NO!
https://habr.com/ru/articles/983042/
#utf8 #utf16 #utf32 #ucs2 #ucs4 #scsu #bocu1 #utfc #ucf #$mol