Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’ (www.404media.co)

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[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

Nice to hear there are some smart people in Florida. We generally only hear the worst of them in the media, but I'm sure they're not all bad.

[-] blarghly@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Florida actually has quite a good university system, reasonably low tuition, and pays for most of students tuition fees if they show academic competence in high school.

And then a lot of those intelligent university students go on to do great things in their lives.... like leave Florida

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 8 points 2 days ago

It did. There are increasingly more laws restricting what they can teach.

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 5 points 2 days ago

Many years ago I was strongly considering studying there, but the last decade shows that would have been a mistake what with all the fascism.

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