WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]

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Cake day: December 31st, 2023
  • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@reddthat.comtoLeopards Ate My Face@lemmy.world•ICE agents fired just before probation ends and forced to repay signing bonus.English
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    13 days ago

    Not surprising given what we’ve seen reported: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html

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    Somehow, despite never submitting any of the paperwork they sent me—not the background check or identification info, not the domestic violence affidavit, none of it—ICE had apparently offered me a job.

    According to the application portal, my pre-employment activities remained pending. And yet, it also showed that I had accepted a final job offer and that my onboarding status was “EOD”—Entered On Duty, the start of an enlistment period. I moused over the exclamation mark next to “Onboarding” and a helpful pop-up appeared. “Your EOD has occurred. Welcome to ICE!”

    I clicked through to my application tracking page. They’d sent my final offer on Sept. 30, it said, and I had allegedly accepted. “Welcome to Ice. … Your duty location is New York, New York. Your EOD was on Tuesday, September 30th, 2025.”

    By all appearances, I was a deportation officer. Without a single signature on agency paperwork, ICE had officially hired me.

    Perhaps, if I’d accepted, they would have demanded my pre-employment paperwork, done a basic screening, realized their mistake, and fired me immediately. And yet, the pending and upcoming tasks list suggested a very different outcome. My physical fitness test had been initiated on Oct. 6, it said: three days in the future. My medical check had apparently been completed on Oct. 6.

  • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@reddthat.comtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) just published a report on what AI is doing to educationEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I had one class in undergrad where the teacher was like “we’re gonna cover far more than you could possibly learn in a semester. I don’t expect you to memorize it all, but you should be familiar enough with it that you could look it up if needed.” But it was a senior-level class that basically was taught with the expectation that you were gonna go into grad school and the tests questions overwhelmingly were about research methods/analyzing results, not the specific details covered in class. It works really well for that class imo, but only because it was niche enough that the next step if you wanted to learn more was either go into research within that field or read primary research papers, so it focused on teaching what you needed for those.

    For most other classes, the basic facts are necessary to know to be able to do more advanced thinking. Unless you just want people who just have to blindly access whatever computers tell them is correct because they’ve lost any sense of what a reasonable answer or process is.