I spent the last few weeks reading the emerging literature on LLM use in higher education and reviewing AI policies from universities across the world. Based on that exercise, I outline six principles that could help universities develop more effective and educationally meaningful AI policies. #ArtificialIntelligence #HigherEducation #AIPolicy #GenerativeAI #Universities

Iranian side releases the Iran, US MoU. Sanctions on Iran oil to be removed.

White phosphorus. Cluster bombs. Cancer-causing toxic chemicals. Israel is not only bombing and killing civilians in South Lebanon and Gaza — it is deliberately poisoning the land itself, making it unsafe for generations to come.

breaking: the university of chicago to start executing graduate students in the humanities

There’s also nothing about Israel or the US’s ballistic missiles, support for proxy forces or nuclear energy programs. Why do nominal liberals insist upon scandalizing routine things western countries have when it’s Iran that has them? Why is everyone a strategist for empire?

RT @mayamikdashi: Every time Trump states that Israel is killing too many people & destroying too much in Lebanon I can't help but think ho…

These photos truly capture Maharashtra's current development model. Unprecedented heat levels forcing citizens to sleep on beaches. No State intervention. But in the backdrop, you can see a coastal road being constructed for 20,000 crores, after chopping off 45,000 mangroves.

Unfortunately, much of the Indian media treated the joke as a solemn U.S. pledge to defend India. No wonder American leaders have become skilled at stroking India’s collective ego — or that of its prime minister.

The most common critique to my view that Beijing played a fundamental role in stabilizing the oil market says China’s oil imports simply fell along with imports by every other country in Asia because Hormuz was closed. I disagree. The critique appears to be based on import data up to April, which misses the huge recovery in Asia ex-China oil imports in May (and accelerating in June-to-date data). One example: after a large drop in March and April, India's crude imports in May 2026 were HIGHER than in May 2025. Yes, initially oil imports everywhere in Asia – including China - fell, but most countries actively sought to replace SoH barrels, reversing the trend (May, June-to-date). China, for whatever reason, decided not to bid up the market to replace the barrels it lost at all. Actually, Beijing did the opposite: it re-sold large amounts of West Africa and Latam barrels it had procured in Mar and early Apr, rather than importing them itself in May and Jun. Below is my chart/analysis based on Vortexa data. I’m not saying that China was benevolent; we don’t know the reasons why Beijing did what it did, and many of the potential explanations are far from benevolent. But the data clearly shows that from mid-April onward, China played a big role in stabilizing the global oil market. (Note that if rather than using actual June 1-15 arrivals, I had used the estimate for the full month, based on tanker arrivals expectations, Chinese import volume would be even lower, and Asia ex-China would be higher at >14m b/d. I preferred to use the most conservative -- and negative to my own view -- data available).

Water stocks in lakes supplying to Mumbai have dropped below 10%.

LOP @RahulGandhi asks the right questions at the Kota Rally: why do the competitive exams set us up for failure? Why has public education declined so sharply and why is private education so expensive?

Journalist @AnantGuptaAG spoke to the lawyers behind a campaign to get IDF soldiers, accused of war crimes in Gaza, arrested, in other countries. The complaint is legally sound, they do not expect GoI to act on it, given the warm ties b/w Delhi & Tel Aviv| scroll.in/article/1093627/ho…

New Interview: newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/t…

Portugal are playing Armenia and Hungary in World Cup qualifiers Meanwhile DR Congo had to play Senegal and Nigeria to get here, please have some respect for the continent.

The World Cup’s previous memory of DR Congo/Zaire is Mwepu Ilunga booting the ball away in 1974. The real reason he did it depends on when you asked him. It was a protest, or frustration, or trying to get sent off, or an attempt to avoid getting killed. nytimes.com/athletic/7345338…