statue of Queen Tuya, found in the Valley of the Queens, Thebes, Egypt, c.1240 BC

#art #arts #archaeology #history #arthistory #egypt #artist #artists #artifacts #spirituality #spiritual #artnet #museum #museums #artmuseum #artmuseums #sculpture #sculpting

This poll has never been more relevant.

BBC: Copilot Recall: Microsoft rolls out AI screenshot tool
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3xjrj7v78o
#Microsoft #MicrosoftRecall #Windows11 #AI #BBC #Privacy #surveillance

Tired: Teachers using tools to find students cheating with AI.

Wired: Teachers using tools to figure out how many of their new students are bots who are just there to submit enough AI-completed assignments that they can claim financial aid in someone else's name.

This story from the Voice of San Diego is worth a read:

"When the spring semester began, Southwestern College professor Elizabeth Smith felt good. Two of her online classes were completely full, boasting 32 students each. Even the classes’ waitlists, which fit 20 students, were maxed out. That had never happened before. "

"By the end of the first two weeks of the semester, Smith had whittled down the 104 students enrolled in her classes, including those on the waitlist, to just 15. The rest, she’d concluded, were fake students, often referred to as bots."

"The bots’ goal is to bilk state and federal financial aid money by enrolling in classes, and remaining enrolled in them, long enough for aid disbursements to go out. They often accomplish this by submitting AI-generated work. And because community colleges accept all applicants, they’ve been almost exclusively impacted by the fraud."

"That has put teachers on the front lines of an ever-evolving war on fraud, muddied the teaching experience and thrown up significant barriers to students’ ability to access courses. What has made the situation at Southwestern all the more difficult, some teachers say, is the feeling that administrators haven’t done enough to curb the crisis."

https://voiceofsandiego.org/2025/04/14/as-bot-students-continue-to-flood-in-community-colleges-struggle-to-respond/

Sketchbook spread from the recent holiday — no system, no structure, but a lot of red to celebrate Alex’s swimming trunks 😂

#dailysketching #urbansketching #sketchbook #watercoloursketch #mastoart

Protest this Saturday in London at Parliament Square: https://www.gscene.com/news/transgender-news/protest-in-support-of-trans-rights-to-take-place-in-parliament-square-this-saturday/

If you can, please be there and fight for trans rights.

#ukpol #trans #transrights #transgender

Greetings! Can I interest you in a heartwarming donation and/or signal boost of this small Welsh town volunteer-organised Pride festival?

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/sara-archer-1

Pride is deeply needed in rural Wales, where being queer can be so isolating. And since it's only small, you get a lot of bang for your buck - 16% of the £750 goal has been raised already. :)

Last year was our first Pride (Balchder in Welsh), and thanks to signal boosts on Mastodon and Tumblr it was fully funded within 24 hours, it was EPIC and the organisers were so chuffed that they COULD NOT EVEN.

#pride #balchder #Wales #cymru #Powys #Machynlleth #crowdfunding #LGBT #LGBTQ #queer #trans