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"We want to make you aware of an incident that occurred at the home of #Jewish #students at #UCSD over the weekend.
We will not allow #antisemitism or hate to diminish our Jewish pride or deter our Jewish joy.
I want to pull back the curtain a little bit and be real with you. Over the past 24 hours, #Hillel has checked in multiple times with students, coordinated with #University police, SDPD, worked with our partners at #UC #SanDiego, #SCN, and all the other Jewish agencies, provided meals and will continue to provide dinners all week for students, communicated with our community, helped facilitate #rabbinic support, and purchased extra security devices for four different student homes– again all in a matter of hours. We also raised enough in the moment to make that happen, as these are not expenses normally worked into our budget.
While we all hope each incident is the last, the reality is that vandalism, harassment, and threats have not stopped."
https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2026/08/10/vandals-deface-private-residence-utilized-by-aepi/
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"[A]fter students emailed complaints and threatened to hold a public rally, student Aryan Dixit said the campus police chief, Lamine Secka, agreed to leave the grant program in a one-on-one meeting."
#California #SanDiego #UCSD #immigration #USpol #academia #education
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A way of reducing #eWaste from #UCSD and #Google #Research
"A low-carbon #computing platform from your retired #phones"
https://research.google/blog/a-low-carbon-computing-platform-from-your-retired-phones/
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This is horrific and a massive breach of ethics where it concerns consent.
The University of Southern California (#USC) and University of California, San Diego (#UCSD) have millions of dollars in contracts to sell bodies donated for scientific research to the #Navy who gave them to the #IDF. (Our tax dollars at work.)
Yes, the IDF. Easier to know how to kill #Palestinian kids if you take aim at some #American corpses first, I guess.
Both universities have said they plan on continuing the program. Maybe rethink your plans to donate your body to science, if that was on your agenda.
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I trained on and became among the earliest users of #WebCT in 2000, teaching fully online in 2001 and 2002. It is now called #Canvas, which is one of the largest and most notable hacks of all time, effected by #shinyhunters. #UCSD uses it, and I presume classes will resume, say by email and in person. In recent years I had dumped Canvas except for one huge lecture with TAs where the gradebook was really useful. Not using it this quarter at all, lucky me. Returning to a printed syllabus in future
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Families left in the dark: #UCSD, #USC quietly sell donors’ bodies to #Navy for #Israel military training
https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2026/04/06/families-left-in-the-dark-ucsd-usc-quietly-sell-donors-bodies-to-navy-for-israeli-military-training/The U.S. Navy has taken the first steps to extend the program that relies on anatomical donations from USC and the UC system until 2029.
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#BlueskyArtShow #Openings #Abstractia #Architecture UCSD Geisel Library in La Jolla, California. I love the brutalist architecture of this library and took this photo while I was a student there. #ECK #Architecture #UCSD #GeiselLibrary #LightAndShadow #ClassicMono
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The #Trump admin has opened investigations into #admissions policies at 3 major #MedicalSchools, expanding the #federal govt’s pressure campaign beyond campus #culture & taking aim at the heart of #ScientificAuthority in the #US.
The #DOJ on Wednesday informed #Stanford, #OhioState & #UCSD, about the investigations & demanded that the schools turn over extensive lists of #data by April 24 or risk interruptions to essential federal #funding….
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Great. Let’s impede #medical #education./s
#Trump Admin Begins Investigations Into Three #MedicalSchools
The #DOJ’s demands for #admissions-related data from #Stanford, #OhioState & the University of California, San Diego [#UCSD], represent a flex of #federal #power.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #privacy #InfoSec #dictatorship #authoritarianism #MafiaState #RevengePolitics #science #medicine #PublicHealth
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Chirality, magic, and quantum correlations in multipartite quantum states
Shreya Vardhan, Bowen Shi, Isaac H. Kim, Yijian Zou
SciPost Phys. 20, 066 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.20.3.066 -
A thing I am noticing at our humble State University in this time of #USA decline: The wireless, once fast, often shuts down requiring me to switch to my paid #CricketWireless for work. Cricket btw is a low cost carrier where customers get shuffled onto lower tier QOS packets on the regular! And it still often beats #UCSD wireless. #enshitification is a constant now.
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"wellness" advice guru #DeepakChopra mentioned 4,104 times in the #EpsteinFiles, documenting a close friendship, including exchanges that referenced Chopra, a onetime #UCSD faculty member, closing in on “prey".
In one February 2017 exchange, Chopra invited Epstein to join him in #Israel, offering to help the convicted sex offender travel under an assumed identity and explicitly requested him to "bring your girls," . Epstein asked Deepak to find him a “cute Israeli blonde.” Chopra responds he would, but warned they were “militant aggressive and v=sexy.”
Chopra accepts Epstein's offer to send “two girls” to one of Chopra’s events. In another, Chopra quipped that “only sinners are invited,” to an elite #Vatican event he was attending.
Defending his friendship, Chopra claims that any contact he had with #JeffreyEpstein was “limited and unrelated to abusive activity.”
https://voiceofsandiego.org/2026/02/05/deepak-chopra-new-age-guru-ucsd-prof-and-epstein-confidant/
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUXcq-kDkMn/
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/god-construct-cute-girls-real-230728032.html
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Opinion | UC San Diego report: Incoming students are not ready for college – The Washington Post
The signs of educational decline are now impossible to ignore
UC San Diego report shows students are not prepared for college, especially in math.
November 23, 2025, 5 min
Some years ago, during a dinner party, our smoke detector started beeping while we were broiling steaks. I dashed into the hallway and poked at the detector with a broom, which paused, as if surprised, then resumed wailing. My husband came out of the kitchen and had a go. His more muscular attention bought us perhaps 30 seconds of relief, but the machine recovered and more aggressively assaulted our ears. Eventually we pulled the cursed thing out of its frame and ripped the batteries out.
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That’s when one of our guests said, “Guys, that’s really a lot of smoke.” It sure was, because as it turned out, our bathroom was on fire (thanks to a candle).
Life is full of these messy signals. Prices are a signal. They tell us how much people want stuff, how much that stuff costs to produce and how much of it we have available. Standardized test scores are signs, telling us whether kids have mastered certain skills. Those warnings are, like my smoke alarm, highly imperfect. (We’ve had many alerts and exactly one fire.) But they contain vital information, and we ignore them at our peril.
Unfortunately, because these signals are messy, we are often tempted to ignore them, especially when the information they contain is bad news, like “your bathroom is on fire,” or “your schools are failing to close persistent racial and income gaps,” or “regulations have made it too hard to build new housing.” Ideally you’d extinguish the fire or fix your failing schools or amend the regulations before the problem worsens. But solving problems is hard, and in politics, it often involves taking on well-organized constituencies that will wave away the smoke and insist that everything is just fine. So institutions often choose to disregard the underlying issues and simply whack the alarm with a hammer until it stops beeping.
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There has been a lot of that going on recently, most notably in education. Instead of rectifying disparities in preparation and achievement, people decided it would be simpler to adjust the measurements. Parents opposed standardized testing, got their kids disability diagnoses that allowed them extra time on tests and lobbied teachers to change bad grades. Exhausted teachers responded with grade inflation, which also helped conceal that low-income and minority kids weren’t doing as well as their richer and White peers. Progressive educators watered down curriculums, gutted gifted and talented programs, and weakened admissions standards for honors classes and magnet schools. Colleges dropped standardized testing requirements, in part because that made it easier to diversify their student body. None of these things happened everywhere, but they happened in many places, and all of them made it harder to see — or rectify — pandemic-era learning loss.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Opinion | UC San Diego report: Incoming students are not ready for college – The Washington Post
Tags: Educational Decline, Incoming Students, Institutions, Mathematics, Megan McArdle, Messy Signals, Not Ready for College, Opinion, Pandemic-Era Learning Loss Math, Standardized Testing, The Washington Post, UC San Diego, UCSD#educationalDecline #incomingStudents #institutions #mathematics #meganMcardle #messySignals #notReadyForCollege #opinion #pandemicEraLearningLossMath #standardizedTesting #theWashingtonPost #ucSanDiego #ucsd
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Modula-2, UCSD P-System, and the birth of Scala
I stumbled across this tidbit from Hacker News.
I never liked that #Borland stuffs. And used to program in #Pascal in #UCSD P-system (my alma mater). When I got to the US Department of Defense they wanted me for my #C and #COBOL skills and then they sent me to an Air Force School where I studied Modula-2 and Ada.
I did a lot of work in Modula-2, which doesn't exist anymore. Modula-3 does, but in the meantime Scala was in the works. #Ada is still actually a thing. We didn't want clever, like those one liner #Perl challenges that folks use to put in their signature lines to demonstrate how clever they thought they were through obfuscation.
Clever is bad. Clever opens up a whole universe of unexpected behavior and potential vulnerabilities. Maybe that's why #Rust became so organically popular - because it's safe by design and nowadays it's included in the Linux kernel more and more.
When you're designing software for missle guidance systems you most certainly do not want clever. The job is simple and ambiguity is potentially catastrophic in warfare.
Anyway, I really enjoyed this interview, I can identify with the #Timex_Sinclair - my dad bought me one and that membrane keyboard was horrendous, but I was persistent and eventually I was writing code in cutting edge languages on mainframes and #Vaxen.
Many of the stories about how one thing or another came about were through frustrations; like the impetus for #Linus the #Linux kernel coz #MINIX just didn't cut it, and who wants to trodge through snow drifts in #Helsinki to the computer lab when you can be warm and cozy, drinking beers in your dorm room?
This story is kinda like that too, which I can really appreciate, even though I've never played with #Scala.
I hope you enjoy it too.
https://www.artima.com/articles/the-origins-of-scala
#tallship #FOSS #Modula_2 #Modula_3
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I said this when #Windows Subsystem for #Linux (WSL) first came out. It is inevitable. It is in fact a Linux world, obvs in the data center but also for end users (where Android is # 1.) Steve Job's greatest move was going #BSD, which too, is just another *nix distro.
The new divide? The only thing clear about that is that it is #AI related. Because I see it in students already.
Where do #LLM or neural nets fit into the OS? One controversy locally at #UCSD is #Trellix.
https://www.xda-developers.com/windows-being-considered-a-linux-distro/
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Higgs production via vector-boson fusion at the LHC
Gaetano Barone et al.
SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 13 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCommRep.13# #SFU #UCSD #CERN #NEU #Fermilab @unituebingen #RWTH #FreiburgUniversity #GAU #UNIMI #INFNMilano
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🚨 Breaking news: Training humans to not be human doesn’t work! 🎓😱 A groundbreaking "study" at UC San Diego reveals that no amount of PowerPoint slides can stop people from clicking shiny, dangerous links. 🤦♂️💻
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/cybersecurity-training-programs-dont-prevent-employees-from-falling-for-phishing-scams #BreakingNews #CyberSecurity #HumanBehavior #Study #UCSD #OnlineSafety #HackerNews #ngated -
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I remember watching this in the hospital in the early 90s. The children’s floor at #UCSD had 3 tv carts with a VCR (and Nintendo!) us kids could borrow. There was a library of donated movies they kept in a cabinet in the nurses station. Some of the nurses thought it would be funny to sneak in some “real movies”.
Anyway, that’s how I watched #Bloodsport in the ICU. -
#AbstractAug #Architecture Geisel Library (Central Library) at UCSD (University of Calif. at San Diego). #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #UCSD #GeiselLibrary
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In #ICAM at #UCSD CS our teaching angle has been "teach art" for over 30 years. I have been teaching #AI in art for 25. Also happened when engineering discovered engaged learning and we had to explain we have been doing studio teaching since at least the #Renaissance. #art #ai #genAi #teaching
"Some educators now believe the discipline could broaden to become more like a liberal arts degree, with a greater emphasis on critical thinking and communication skills."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/technology/computer-science-education-ai.html
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Hospitals and health care providers keep getting away with disgusting and unethical behavior like the #UCSD "Do no harm"? What a joke. Plague rats. #healthcare #medsky #usa #covid #news #politics #California
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:g7xd2fa6n7e7yqyvh6c3iexy/post/3lsmkls6r2c2r -
@DrPen all I can add is we are using more oral exams and as an #art major (#ucsd #icam) we are (I mean art in general) among the inventors of projects based, experiential learning in a studio environment. Can #AI hang out and make with you? Oh one more thing, Ada Lovelace's objection (see Turing 1950) is prescient once again. There are of course AIs that train in real time, but there is something very valuable here from Plato, thanks for sharing.
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Sorry folks, either #Futurism is not the strongest pub, or the study by UNC is self-outing. At #UCSD #ICAM (enumeration warning): blue books are back big, we teach our students AI literacy and encourage the safe, productive use of #AI, we use more viva voce evaluation (AI is not so helpful for oral exams), and as you might expect in an #art major, we make stuff. Professors are with students making things, programming, etc. Personally, I do very long office hours now. #education #academicchatter
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Here is a short article from a fairly discredited publication about how the federal cuts are hitting #UCSD.
If it looks like generational theft, I have to say, yes, and this has been going on in California for a long time. By #Democrats. The University of California was once essentially free to #boomers, just for one example.
"If we cannot find a way to bridge current students to their degree we will lose an entire generation of scientists.” - Terry Gaasterland
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Union Pickets (The BIG Ones)
8AM — Health care workers picket at #Hillcrest #UCSD Medical Center
10AM — March to #BalboaPark (6th & Laurel)
11:30AM — Rally in Balboa Park with union members, allies, and community supporters as workers on the frontlines of the labor movement share their stories
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🚨 BREAKING: #AI is now a #medical genius! 🤖💊 It "unravels" Alzheimer's like it's untangling headphones, while humans are still debating if we need more coffee or sleep. 😂 But don't worry, #UCSD assures us they're on it with a nice stock photo and a sprinkle of hope. 🧠✨
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/ai-helps-unravel-a-cause-of-alzheimers-disease-and-identify-a-therapeutic-candidate #Genius #Research #Hopeful #Tech #HackerNews #ngated -
Remembering UCSD p-System, the Pascal Virtual Machine https://hackaday.com/2025/04/21/remembering-ucsd-p-system-the-pascal-virtual-machine/ #Retrocomputing #Pascal #ucsd