By saving nature, we are saving ourselves. The smallest of actions makes all the difference. Main blog @shire-spoonie. If you're looking for more animals, check out my bird blog, @smolfeatheredfriends.
I reblogged this yesterday, but I want to reblog it again. Diabetic ketoacidosis turns your blood acidic and will essentially burn you from the inside out.
The stories you hear of people dying from rationing, this is what happens to their body.
Affordable insulin isn’t just a right, it’s a necessity.
No one should have to die like that when it’s preventable with access to proper medication.
"Affordable" should be the lowest fucking bar. Pharmaceutical companies should be tripping over themselves to offer insulin at "affordable". That shit deserves to be fucking free
This brought tears to my conservationist heart today.
The continued existence of these species is the legacy of so many people whose names we will never know--some of who never lived to see the impacts of their work.
When you count up the flaws of our species, you have to count the good things too--out of the many species throughout Earth's history that have caused the demise or endangerment of other species, we are the only one that tries to fix it out of our fascination and love for other life forms.
(Big thank you to the anonymous asker who sent this in!)
After 17 years in captivity, Panama’s golden frogs are being reintroduced to the wild following devastating losses from chytrid fungus.
From the article:
For the first time in nearly two decades, Panama’s forest streams are once again home to flashes of bright yellow.
The Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus zeteki) is being reintroduced to the wild 17 years after a fungal epidemic wiped it out in its native habitat. The return follows years of captive breeding, disease research, and carefully staged release trials aimed at navigating one of the most destructive wildlife pathogens ever recorded.
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The golden frog is not the only species benefiting from these efforts. In the past year, PARC successfully reintroduced three additional species: the crowned tree frog (Tripion spinosus), Pratt’s rocket frog (Colostethus pratti), and the lemur leaf frog (Agalychnis lemur).
Each release contributes to a growing body of knowledge about amphibian conservation in the age of chytrid fungus.
I teared up hearing this news. As someone deeply enmeshed in reptile and amphibian conservation for my entire adult life, the terror of chytrid has always loomed large. I have a close friend who is currently researching it, we talk about its conservation impacts frequently.
Golden frogs have been the poster child for chytrid extinction for so long. I remember always looking out for them at conservation facilities and thinking "this species literally only exists because we refused to just let them go extinct". To know that some of them are back in the wild already is overwhelming. Though I know we have made huge leaps in our understanding of chytrid, it is such a vicious disease that I don't think I was even sure I would live to see golden frogs return to Panama.
This reintroduction effort has not been without setbacks, but that it is happening at all, that we are finding ways to put pockets of golden frogs back in places the fungus can't reach them, that we have stable enough populations in human care to even risk it, is amazing.
Bison Return to Illinois Prairie to the Sounds of Drumming After 200 Years of Absence
The 6 animals were released from a large trailer into a cattle enclosure to allow them to get used to the idea of the frozen prairie again.
A herd of 6 American bison—3 males and 3 females—have been released onto native Illinois prairie.
There, to the sound of drumming, songs, and cheers, they began to acclimate to their new surroundings—surroundings that had missed them for 200 years.
A large crowd of Santee Sioux, herded together in their woven blankets and synthetic down jackets, had arrived at sunrise on Burlington Prairie Forest Preserve in Kane County, 60 miles northwest of Chicago, to witness something of a homecoming.
“It’s different when you’re welcoming them back home. That’s their home, not mine,” tribal elder Robert Wapahi told CBS News Chicago.
The 6 animals were released from a large trailer into a cattle enclosure to allow them to get used to the idea of the frozen prairie again, and come the spring, they’ll be moved onto a larger area, still fenced, where it’s anticipated they will improve native grasslands.
“It’s really important and awesome to see another herd that is hitting the ground in a good way,” one man said at the event, where drummers sang a song as the trailer arrived.
The American Indian Center, the oldest urban Native American cultural establishment in the United States, will look after the animals in partnership with Kane County Forests Persevere staff, and a designated herd manager.
The reduction in bison from 35 million to several thousand had a profound effect on the North American prairie even without the conversion of so much of it to farmland. Bison engineer grassland ecosystems with much the same impact as beavers on a stream.
The millions of hooves stamped the grasslands flat, preventing any one species from over colonizing an area. Their wooly coats acted as an excellent seed dispersal vehicle. Their dung helped fertilized the plains and their digging of wallowing pits increased the landscape’s ability to resist drought and retain water.
In bits and pieces, fits and starts, bison are being reintroduced to native prairie when it can be found, and though 6 is a far cry from 35 million, all good things have to start somewhere.
Judging by the smiles and the cheers of the Santee Sioux—when the shaggy beasts rumbled out of the trailer—this is a very, very good thing.
no one will ever convince me that the us carpet bombing a country is the solution to anything and its genuinely disturbing that it has become so thoroughly normalized in the minds of many let alone viewed as a desirable action and not something deeply fundamentally wrong
What if the children go to schools unafraid of tear gas and bullets?
What if the birds come back, and the bees are healed, and every species moves from endangered, to threatened, to thriving?
What if the rainforest ADVANCES?
What if every parking lot had solar panels? What if every structure had solar panels? What if we built climbing gyms and terraced gardens in the skeletons of old coal power plants?
What if you baked your neighbor bread, and they shared their home-grown blackberries?
What if every person who needed a home, had one? What if every person who needed healing was healed?
What if every body was treasured for what it was, not what it should be?
What if every trans child's parents attended their graduation, their wedding, their new-name-day?
What if every warehouse became a closed-circle repair station? Goods flowing out, and back, and out again? What if landfills started to SHRINK?
What if the water and air were clean? What if there was enough public transit that the cars dwindled, leaving the streets safe for kids on bikes, evening deer, midnight cats and foxes?
I think one of the goals of society should be that someone who requires expensive medicine and a lot of care can live an amazing life, the longest life they possibly can, with dignity, even if they have no friends or family or anyone who cares enough about them to help. the goals of a society should be to make life better than if we are alone, society should want life to be as good as possible for as many people as possible, and those goals should account for people not having social support networks.
social life aside, the most hated or ignored person in town should be able to live as good and fair and just of a life as the most loved person in town. survival needs to stop being a popularity contest.
I mean you meet these young people trapped in their classrooms or nuclear families in paved over neighborhoods, you are going to see them at the lowest points of forced routine, atomization, gutted autonomy, academic stress, you are going to see them at their worst. you’re going to see addictive behavior. bad social skills. lashing out. uncreativity. laziness and distraction. they do look totally cooked.
you need to take them into the woods
I do outdoor education work, and within minutes of any elementary to middle schooler getting free permission to mess around with their friends in a clearing, they’re curious and driven again. they’re asking each other questions and yeeting pinecones at trees (science) and using their bodies. sometimes for evil. as is developmentally right. they want to know the names of birds! they want to teach someone pokemon! they want to build stuff and kick stuff and tackle each other and you into the snow!
they’re basically fucking institutionalized for 90% of their lives but their spirits are alive. you need to take them into the woods you need to treat them like animals with powerful inner lives and they’ll show you they are.
and you, if you feel like you’re relating too much, remember that you can also take YOURSELF to the woods
the world heath organization announced that we will be out of clean drinking water in a few years…that mean I won’t be able to graduate and live a full life..that means we’re gonna die of thirst and so will the planet
Hi Anon,
Before I say anything else, I want to reassure you that the world is not going to run out of clean drinking water in a few years.
I’m so sorry that this has made you feel like you don’t have a future. That is a really heavy thing to be holding. I promise it isn’t true. Climate change may make the future harder and different compared to what we imagined, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t live a full, meaningful life in that future.
I tried to find the original source of this “running out of water” claim, and as far as I can tell it traces back to an unsourced tweet. I can’t find any reports, articles, etc. published by the World Health Organization making a claim anything like this.
The UN’s Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) did publish a report in partnership with WHO and UNICEF outlining how climate risks may exacerbate barriers to achieving global access to safe drinking water and sanitation systems. Which I think may be where this claim originated? But it does not say anything about running out of clean water.
The other source I think could be another report from UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, this one called Global Water Bankruptcy: Living Beyond Our Hydrological Means in the Post-Crisis Era, which declared that we are entering an “era of water bankruptcy”. Which is definitely not good, and I’ll get into what that actually means more in a little bit, but I do want to be clear that it absolutely did not say or even imply that we are going to run out of clean drinking water in just a few years (or at all).
A more detailed breakdown of what the scary term "water bankruptcy" means is under the cut. Note that this is not my area of expertise, this is based on my own understanding of resource use/management and reading the report above:
It’s not really possible for the world to fully "run out" of clean drinking water—the hydrological cycle is just that, a cycle—so the water just moves through different reservoirs. We have many technological means to turn contaminated water into clean water, from crude water filters to reverse osmosis or distillation which can even turn fully salt water into drinkable freshwater. Water issues are more an issue of efficiency, infrastructure, and overuse than running out.
For a long time, it seems like we could withdraw exponentially increasing quantities of water from natural reservoirs (aquifers, snowpack, wetlands, rivers, etc.) pretty cheaply and with little to no consequence. Then eventually we started to run short or over expend natural water reservoirs in dryer years--see examples of rivers that no longer actually flow all the way to the ocean. This report points to us moving into a stage where we are “overspending” our water sources to the point that they can’t recover and will begin or are beginning to collapse.
The good news, is that there are a lot of ways we can “cut” our water budget. We can restrict the entirely unnecessary water uses like huge swathes of manicured grass and massive AI data centers. We can use gray water for things we were previously using freshwater for. We can make industry and agriculture more water efficient—there are a lot of very smart folks working on this right now. We can build better sanitation and water management infrastructure in regions that lack it. We can also prioritize restoring and protecting wetlands, forests, aquifers, etc. to safeguard our existing water supply from further damage.
Of course none of this is good, and it will impact the lives of many people in tangible ways. The communities bearing the brunt of the impact will be those in the Global South, where many climate change impacts are worse and there are fewer infrastructural resources to address these issues. That is both an unfathomable injustice and something the global community has a moral duty to do everything we can to mitigate.
Some parts of this crisis were probably always going to happen with the way many wealthy countries have been treating water as an infinite trivial resource—probably even without climate change making droughts worse. Our water use per person has significantly increased and the number of people has significantly increased.
I have lived my entire life in places where drought and water use have already been pain points for a long time. It's pretty normal at certain times a year to be asked to conserve household water, restrict watering lawns, and avoid anything that could cause a spark outside due to fire danger. How to make do with less water is something I've already spent a lot of time thinking about.
Stricter water restrictions are likely going to be a reality for more and more of the world. I think we are likely headed down a path where future generations will be horrified that many societies used to pee and poop into perfectly clean water. While this won't be pleasant for those of us used to water being so thoughtlessly available, there is no reason that we won't have enough water for everyone to meet their basic needs if we treat clean water like the precious resource it actually is.
I hope this helped ease your anxiety at least a little bit, Anon. Doomer tweets and headlines are understandably really scary, but I promise none of this is any reason why you shouldn't be able to graduate and live a full, meaningful life. <3
I don’t know about anyone else but these sorts of headlines frequently make me highly suspicious so I did some follow up research after reading the article. I am happy to say that Green Sea Turtles no longer being counted as endangered is not due to the IUCN or any government shifting the goalpost for what can be considered an endangered species. The only update is, as the article states, an update in surveyed population numbers. Notably the article itself states that the current Green Sea Turtle numbers are not currently at what they historically were when the species was thriving, but this change in status over a relatively short period should absolutely be considered a significant win for conservation efforts and indicates a larger more grounded hope in our ocean ecosystems ability to heal.
Fighting for a better world is worth it and it is not too late.
Hey, US folks--a large portion of the last of our old growth forests is about to be at increased risk of clearcutting. Long story short, the current administration is proposing that existing protections for old-growth forests and at-risk wildlife should be lifted on BLM lands in the Pacific Northwest so that these forests can be more quickly clearcut. Public comments are open through March 23 at the above link (click on the blue Participate Now button to leave your comment.) You don't have to say anything elaborate or technical. Simply saying that you disagree with the proposed changes and support continued protection of old growth forests is enough.
Among the forests that would be razed to the ground, leaving nothing but raw scars on the land and piles of burnt slash, would be the Valley of the Giants Outstanding Natural Area.
There is literally no reason to open these places to logging. We already have immense areas of younger-succession timber land available for harvest. Moreover, any claim that this would revitalize our sawmills is a lie--American sawmills are not equipped to handle such huge trees, which would have to be shipped overseas.
In fact, that brings up a sticking point that not enough people know about. In the 1980s, logging companies began increasing the amount of overseas milling and processing, which led to the shutdown of many domestic mills. This, of course, resulted in the loss of American jobs in the timber industry.
Remember how the 1990s saw huge conflicts over protecting old growth forests and the northern spotted owl? The owl, as it turns out, was the scapegoat blamed for the loss of jobs. It made for the perfect distraction while timber execs continued to save money by outsourcing more and more work overseas. While we argued over jobs vs. owls, the execs were getting away with making things worse for everyone.
The current situation seems to be more a case of sheer greed masquerading as "America First" and supposed reliance on domestic resources. One of the things that makes our country so incredible is that we have so much public land, including those places that are set aside simply for the enjoyment of the people, whether for hiking, hunting, camping, etc. More importantly, we recognize through decades of solid science that old-growth forests and other intact ecosystems are not only ecological treasures, but sources of significant tourism revenue as well.
It would be exceptionally short-sighted to allow these protections to be removed. It takes only a few moments to leave a brief comment at the link above; I'm asking you to do so, and then reblog this so others can do the same.
To increase biodiversity in urban communities, i think that there should be a social rule that the only places that can have cut lawns are places specifically for children or pets to play.
A few common examples are playgrounds and dog parks.
This way they can run around and have a good time without trampling the wildflowers or worrying about ticks.
There also would be a minimum size limit to these spaces because kids and animals cannot play in a space that is super small.
So backyards that are tiny would be expected to have wildflowers and tall grass instead.
Or full on gardens with flowers and/or veggies.
"But what if I'm not good at gardening?!"
You don't have to be.
Most lawn care stores sell big bags of seeds that are native to your local ecosystem.
All you have to do is sprinkle em all over the yard, wait for some rain, and in no time you will have a mini meadow! Perfect for bees and other pollinators!
Lawns as big monocultures for walking around were never meant to be the norm in urban centers or anywhere.
They were created by European nobility and other rich people as a way to say "Hey look at me! I have all this land but don't have to grow anything useful on it!"
Hello Prairie Restoration Ecologist here! For best results for a pocket prairie you should try and kill the turf grass first. This can be done by laying cardboard down over it for a few months, or sheets of black plastic (such as cut flat black garbage bags)
Best times to plant are spring to early summer or fall! And remember to mow the pocket prairie in early spring too (since, uh, you shouldn't be burning things especially in an urban or residential area).
Every little bit helps! Every square foot of grass killed and replaced with flowers (even non-native ones, as long as you don't plant invasives) is SUPER important.
if you're doing wildflower seeds, especially random commercial mixes that aren't specific to your region, look up your keystone pollinator plants and pick a few of those to add in!
If you want recommendations on what to plant in an area, you can look up resources on your local university extension - like this list of native and pollinator friendly flowers in Oregon - or call/email your local master gardener!
There's also orgs that will provide free trees or plants, like Friends of Trees in Oregon, and mutual aid networks where you can get free seed or fruit tree scions like the Agrictultural Sharing Network. Check your local library or gardening group!
Be careful with generic seed mixes, they can range from "native here" to "native somewhere in the US but invasive here" to "the reason a new noxious weed is in the state." Finding local or trusted mixes are a good call, or just researching and picking a handful of native flowers and starting there.
If youre wondering what would work in a part of your yard, try checking out native flowers groundcover or shrubs that enjoy that habitat - for example, for a shady wet part of the yard check out shady habitats near rivers or deep under canopies. You can even go on a hike and take pictures of what's thriving in similar conditions, there's plenty of plant ID apps you can use to identify them but always confirm it elsewhere & keep in mind that things growing along a disturbed trail may not be native.
Yards are monocultures of death. Turf grass roots are shallow and unable to bring up deeper nutrients or hold in soil. They live on the edge of death and provide very little cover for insects or food. They hold very little water and dont allow it to absorb properly. They are useful for specific things, and outside of that should be seen as the space wasting luxury that they are.
If you’re in the US, another good place to look is your local Soil and Water Conservation District (it might be called something a bit different). Lots of them have cheaper seed and plant sales every year, and many have a variety of programs such as free equipment rental for invasive plant removal, help building rain gardens, and discounted rain barrels.
You can also check out your state’s native plant society and similar organizations — they can often point you to helpful information, programs, and sources near you
you know the obsession with keeping cats indoors is a purely American view of the world? Most Europeans let their cats outdoors without any problems. Many Europeans even think it's cruel to keep them indoors all the time
No, it’s not. European cats aren’t magically smarter and less environmentally impactful than American cats, it’s just more socially acceptable to let them roam. Do you not have cars in Europe? Foxes? Raptors? Stray dogs? Rat poison? Parasites? Diseases? What about the Croydon Cat Killer in England, where the dismemberment of over 400 cats was being investigated, and it turned out that foxes were mutilating the bodies of cats that were killed by cars? Suddenly it’s all ok because it was only horrific death via automobile, instead of decapitation like they suspected? Totally acceptable to outdoor cat owners, who cares if your cat gets hit by a car and dies on the side of the road? There is real concern for the hybridization of wildcats in Europe, Asia, and Africa, but sure, it’s just a US problem. How about how outdoor cats are effectively reducing the protective area of a national park in Poland? How about the increased incidence of lungworms and GI parasites in European free roaming cats? How about this small study from Denmark where 90% of free roaming cats tested positive for GI parasites on necropsy (and the risk was higher in rural areas). Not Europe, but for the sake of completeness, free roaming cats kill ~377 MILLION birds per year in Australia, and 61 million of those kills are thought to be from owned cats. You can also talk to @drferox about how problematic outdoor cats are in Australia. Free roaming cats are bad for the environment, and are put in unnecessary danger. Why don’t you provide enrichment for your cat instead of letting them run around unsupervised where they will kill native wildlife and get sick or injured or die (or all of the above). Other resources from @catsindoors about the impact of domestic cats around the world. Snagged a lot of these links from their blog.
Humans would also be safer and the environment protected if we all just stayed indoors. No passing of parasites, bacteria, or viruses. No harm to other species. No cross breeding either (if that bothers you). Do you want to stay indoors?
I generally try to ignore responses like this, but I want to address this because I see this ridiculous argument a lot.
The reason that this comparison is inaccurate is because humans have the ability to use reason and make logical choices, but cats don’t. Humans see a car coming and wait until the street is clear to cross. Cats don’t. Humans know not to eat strange food on the ground. Cats don’t. Humans can look up which plants are toxic and avoid them. Cats can’t. Humans don’t eat raw rabbits and rodents that may carry disease. Cats do. Humans who hunt follow laws that prevent them from killing endangered species (besides shitty poachers). Cats don’t.
A far more accurate comparison would be a cat and a toddler. They lack the ability to recognize danger and don’t have the ability to reason that an adult does. I’m sure a toddler would have a great time roaming around the neighborhood, but no one is going to argue in favor of that. People can understand that doing that is irresponsible and dangerous. But no sane person is going to lock their toddler inside and provide them with nothing to do; no one is saying we should do that for cats either. Play with them. Provide cat trees. Rotate their toys. Give them puzzle feeders. And if you want them to go outside you can leash train them. Or build a catio. The options aren’t let them roam vs. never provide them with entertainment. If it is unbearable to entertain and care for a cat that is kept indoors, you probably shouldn’t own a cat.
Would you let your dog roam? Or your bird? How about your rabbit? I’m sure all of these animals would have a great time running (or flying) around the neighborhood, but we generally recognize that this is a bad idea. It’s no different for cats. We are caretakers for our animals, so it is up to us to use our big brains to make logical choices about what they should or shouldn’t do. We have the ability to understand the risks associated with free roaming. Cats don’t. We can weigh risks and benefits before making a decision. Cats can’t.
tldr: Humans have the ability to make logical decisions to keep themselves safe but cats do not.
Outdoor cats are also more or less an invasive species. They are such good hunters, they are capable of permanently changing an ecosystem by killing native prey animals.
Protect your kitty and local biodiversity–keep them inside!
I just wanted to tack on that, there is no “more or less”, cats are an invasive species. Domesticated animals are invasive species and allowing them to interact with the local environment without monitoring will harm the local biodiversity. Cats especially. Domestic cats have a very high success rate for hunting. Historically, they have lead to multiple extinctions of animals because people brought cats along as pest control and pets.
update on some of what’s been happening in Kansas wrt the state id law
A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansa
Folks who’ve simply gotten their names changed in the system were getting flagged to have their IDs invalidated
They are tracking trans residents of Kansas. They have already established that they can and will forcibly undocument trans kansans.
This past legislative session it’s “only” been reversion of legal ID and banning of gender affirming care for minors. What will it be next legislative session?
Scotland will require swift bricks in all new buildings to help endangered birds, setting a UK precedent for protecting swifts and boosting
From the article:
In a landmark win for wildlife lovers and conservationists, Scotland will now require swift bricks to be installed in all new buildings, a move aimed at reversing the steep decline of swifts and other endangered cavity-nesting birds.
Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) voted to support an amendment by Scottish Green MSP Mark Ruskell, making the bird-friendly bricks mandatory in all new dwellings where “reasonably practical and appropriate.” The law positions Scotland at the forefront of UK efforts to support threatened urban bird species.
“Swifts join our communities every summer, but they are becoming rarer everywhere,” Ruskell said. “I’m looking forward to seeing every new building in Scotland host a family of swifts in the future.”
The real impact of AI at university level that I've watched in real time is how so many students come onto courses now - including Masters level - who straight up don't know how to analyse/evaluate things anymore. They just accept whatever they first read/hear completely uncritically. Every time you point it out you have to coax them into Actually Thinking.
I've spotted a huge decline over the last two years. What's upsetting is how so many of our current third years have declined since their first year. I did a seminar with them the other day, on the topic of the environmental impacts of different diets. One guy told me confidently that there would be no additional agricultural lands if we all went vegetarian.
"Cool," I said. "What's your source for that?"
"I'm sure I read it," he said.
"Fair," said I, "go and look it up. Find an academic source, let's assess it to see if it's robust."
The first thing he did was go to Google, and then read the AI summary.
"That's not a source," I said. "Find me a source."
Five minutes later, he happily tells me that a Guardian article says so, and mentions the World Economic Forum.
"Okay," I said. "Neither of those are academic sources, and the WEF is secondary anyway. Go to Google Scholar, and find a journal article."
Ten minutes later, he tells me he can only find articles that say it's a very complex issue in spite of pop cultural received wisdom, and we don't actually know.
A THIRD YEAR. This man has a dissertation due in THREE MONTHS. This is a skill we taught him in first year, and it's all dribbled out of his ears in the quest for easy summaries from an autocomplete algorithm. And I dearly wish I could say he's an exception, but Jesus Christ, that would be a lie.
I'm currently writing a lecture for the second years for their research methods module, and I normally wouldn't need to do this. But I'm having to re-introduce them to the basic concepts of how to actually analyse findings rather than lazily take whatever they seem to say at face value. I'm trying to find a good paper that had Surprising findings, because I want to show them a research question and a set of results and then get them to speculate and research on why they found something so different, but that's a difficult thing to search for.
Ngh. Yelling at the choir here, I know, but NNNNGH
I can't be the only one who thinks this isn't a problem with AI, it's a problem with a for-profit college system that pushes inadequate students through in order to extract debt from them while failing to stop the progress of the illiterate. Back in the day you'd be laughing out of 7th grade English if you delivered something like that, let alone a master's degree. These people should have flunked out way before AI was invented, and forced to repeat half the curriculum in order to graduate, and only then be allowed to move on to the next stage. AI has become a scapegoat for all the growing problems the education system had long before its invention; it's the same as blaming phones or Wikipedia. The reason these students shouldn't have a master's isn't because they became stupid overnight in November 15th, 2022; it's because they were already stupid and no one educated it out of them, so the moment they found a shortcut to avoid using their brains they forgot what little they already contained. But just like with phones and Wikipedia, everyone will just blame the new tech and those damn kids on their internet, and absolutely nothing will be done to prevent dangerously ignorant people from eroding the meaning of a university degree because extraction tuition money is more profitable than giving a shit.
This, as I said in the post, is a noticeable and significant problem in the last two years. It is affecting students who were fine three years ago, and now aren't. It is a very specific issue that is affecting very specific skills, including previously very intelligent people
This is already attested in the literature. Meanwhile, the for-profit education system has not changed in the last two years
Additionally, prior to the last 2-3 years, I had failed one student ever, and flagged one student ever for plagiarism. This year we've had to deal with five separate plagiarism cases on the Masters course alone, all of whom admitted to LLM use. Not one of them can analyse information worth a damn; all of them had excellent prior undergrad scores.
This is an LLM problem
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