https://www.ft.com/content/6da2e1fd-f606-4e82-ad74-acecfceeac4e
Close to a #trillion dollars are being spent on #genai which is fundamentally flawed as experts have been pointing out (e.g. #apple @garymarcus etc.)
That money could help the #global #poor put food on table and #adapt to #climatechange or provide #health #education etc.
Hate #wallstreet
The growing body of research we have been conducting on #TheGrackleProject is showing that #behavioral #flexibility enables birds to #adapt to #human #modified #habitats 
, but plays a smaller role in expanding into new #geographic areas 
Moving to new towns likely involves more #persistence because we previously found that grackles on the edge of their range in northern California had similar levels of average flexibility (though higher variance), but were more persistent than grackles nearer the center of their range in Arizona https://peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24072/pcjournal.320/
This is also supported by the fact that the preliminary data we were able to collect on persistence in boat-tailed grackles (who are not rapidly expanding their geographic range) showed that they are less persistent than great-tailed grackles, while having similar levels of flexibility
Articles: https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.573 and https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.582
Press release: https://www.mpg.de/25000634/0701-evan-when-the-city-comes-to-you-150495-x
#Ploopy #Adapt Trackball, @ploopy with AnyMod BTU upper housing and raised buttons, and palm rest from PurpleCatGirl. Replacement parts #3dprinted in PLA manufactured in the UK (~1km from the Hackspace) from 3DQF. Regal Purple and King Fisher Blue.
One week until the next installment in #LibreTexts Basics for Beginners webinar series brought to you by our #Academy for professional development. Hear success stories from one-time #LibreTexts beginners on how they use the #LibreVerse to create, curate, and remix #OER; use #ADAPT for their #open #homework and #assessment needs; and organize and run a successful #OER program on campus.
Registration is free: https://forms.gle/6bXnmgUymcxxjpFe7
See you June 20 @ 12 pm PST!
#US is a strange place. #Wealthy but #consumes like #poor country. #China is the opposite. Which model is #better for the #world ? #climate #climatechange #adaptation #climatecrisis #climateaction #consumption #adapt
Registration for #LibreTexts #LibreFest workshop is officially open!
Register: https://commons.libretexts.org/events/chh3LwwtKr
This year's #LibreFest will be held virtually the week of July 7-11, 2025.
LibreFest covers: creating #OER; editing/modifying #OER; using our Conductor project management platform; & using our #ADAPT open #homework platform. We will also hear Success Stories from LibreTexts users each day.
Fee waivers are available for current #LibreNet members. Please email jrogers@libretexts.org.
Looking forward to this from the Editorial Freelancers Association TODAY, May 28 (noon Eastern time): #panel #discussion, ‘Changes in the #Academic and #Government Realms and How to #Adapt,’ on #freelance #editorial #pros dealing with upheaval. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88495575153?pwd=bmFPdmVkOXBCU01zQVRjQ0JlZzM3QT09
Although the design was chosen to reflect the all-in-one #OER toolbox functionality of the #LibreTexts project, we knew our #ADAPT multi-tool pens would also be useful! #LibreTexts Director of Outreach, Engagement, and Development recently confirmed they really do come in handy when you've somehow misplaced your regulation size level.
Looking forward to this from the Editorial Freelancers Association: May 28 (noon Eastern time) #panel #discussion, ‘Changes in the #Academic and #Government Realms and How to #Adapt,’ on #freelance #editorial #pros dealing with upheaval. https://tinyurl.com/6najutd6
#LibreTexts was the focal point of two workshops hosted by the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges #OERI team this past weekend. Nearly 100 eager participants gathered to learn about using #LibreTexts' greater #LibreVerse of technologies for creating, editing, adapting, and curating #OER, as well as our open #homework and assessment platform, #ADAPT.
#ADAPT swarms Rayburn House Office Building over proposed #Medicaid cuts
On the 14th of May, disability group ADAPT swarmed into DC's Rayburn House Office Building in opposition to the Trump/GOP plans to cut off over $880 billion in Medicaid funds. During the protests 26 people were reportedly arrested.
Here's a quote from one of the protesters as published by TV7 (TV7's words removed):
“Cuts to Medicaid will mean I lose services, or have them cut" "If I lose services, my attendants, I who have families to support, don’t get paid. If my services get cut, it will mean I can’t work because there is no one to help me bathe and dress for work. If I can’t work, I won’t be able to support my son or pay my rent and I will be evicted and forced into a nursing home where I will lose my freedom and the control over my life. I am here fighting for my life!"
Of all the groups that protest inside the Capitol or its related buildings, the cops regard ADAPT as the hardest of all the peaceful groups to remove. Powered wheelchairs with people in them are so heavy that cops can't simply pick them up. Dumping people out of them looks incredibly nasty on video. No easy options for the cops.
Trump's "Big Ugly Bill" with itd proposals to carve the gut out of Medicaid has pushed folks fighting disabilities to the brink. Few would be able to continue medical treatment for long term issues if this passes. The billionaires and corporations whose tax cuts this is to fund do NOT care. Even if they get their legs smashed by a drunk driver (which can and does happen!) they have their own docs whose services they can easily afford.
A note on the video: it is enemy-published footage, but they were too stupid to realize its publication benefits us not them. This is ADAPT not the Democrats of course
Join the Academic Senate for CA Community Colleges #OERI team, in collaboration with De Anza College, and East Los Angeles College, for two in-person events covering an Introduction to Remixing and Open Homework Systems using #LibreTexts one-of-a-kind #OER #remixer, and open #homework and #assessment platform, #ADAPT.
Register for May 16, 8:30 – 3:30, at De Anza College:
Register for May 17, 8:30- 3:30, at East Los Angeles College:
#NewRelease #OEGVoices #OEAwardwinners
Bryan Mathers is in the OEGlobal Voices studio talking talking to @cogdog Levine about the Fabulous Remixer Machine from a “shed” outside London, located on “an island off the east coast of Ireland.”
The Fabulous Remixer Machine is a #RemixReuseAdapt #OEAward24 winner
Listen 
https://bit.ly/OEGVoices80
#weekendlistening #creativity #remix #reuse #adapt #impact stories #oeawardsimpact
#NewRelease #OEGVoices #OEAwardwinners
Bryan Mathers is in the OEGlobal Voices studio talking talking to @cogdog Levine about the Fabulous Remixer Machine from a “shed” outside London, located on “an island off the east coast of Ireland.”
The Fabulous Remixer Machine is a #RemixReuseAdapt #OEAward24 winner
Listen https://bit.ly/OEGVoices80
#weekendlistening #creativity #remix #reuse #adapt #impact stories #oeawardsimpact
Shoutout to #LibreTexts advocate, Lisa Sharpe Elles, from The University of Kansas who has been named KU Libraries Textbook Hero of 2025. Lisa began using #LibreTexts in her #Chemistry courses in 2019, and officially ditched her expensive online commercial homework platform for our #ADAPT open homework and assessment platform in 2021.
Read more about Lisa's journey with #OpenEducation on the KU Libraries website:
We’re teetering on the brink of ecosystem and cultural collapse. So how do we #adapt and transform to the changing realities? I joined Manda Scott and Morgan Philips to discuss our new book, Transformative Adaptation - Another world is still just possible.
"If you want to help save the world, which is now very hard to save, don't bank on the financialisation of climate and nature. Bank on organisations that are actually reality based and actually have a plan to #adapt to what is coming."
I appeared at the Building Bridges Summit in Geneva recently. Watch now.
Catch Delmar Larsen @LibreTexts
working through this week's Demo Wednesdays Live: Delmar Larson and the Open-Source ADAPT Homework System
https://youtube.com/live/IADAdnb1KI4?si=PWi3LyKGiz32w8rj via @YouTube
Join us for another #oeglive #Demo #Wednesdays:
Delmar Larsen from LibreText demonstrates the Open-Source ADAPT Homework System
October 30 @ 11:00 pm – October 31 @ 12:00 am UTC
Tune in: https://bit.ly/4f62Lu0
Just a reminder that #LibreTexts founder, @delmarlarsen will be a guest on Open Education Global (OEGlobal)'s #DemoWednesday today with an inside look at our #ADAPT open homework and assessment platform. You can join live this afternoon from 4-5 pm PST:
