#ai proctoring

[shinkanedge]

How Online Remote Proctoring System Can End Malpractice in Online Exams

The biggest challenge that online education models face comes in the form of malpractice during online exams. Artificial intelligence-based proctoring technologies ensure students can take exams in the safety and comfort of their homes

[charseraph]

I’m on Art Fight!

[emptyspaaace]

This is so far removed from reality it’s insane. Joseph Fink I’m sorry I love you but you’re wrong on this one. The Turing Test specifically precludes the idea of proving the ai is sentient because we cannot prove EACHOTHER to be sentient, which is something that bigoted people have always used to justify their bigotry and to treat other people as “less”- either in intellect or spiritually, saying other groups are cognitively impaired or lack a soul. The Turing test is designed specifically to avoid creating yet another marginalised group with our own hands. It has nothing to do with personifying objects and has everything to do with objectifying persons. Don’t you dare forget for a second that Alan Turing was a gay autistic man. Ideally the human proctor of the Turing test would be trained in psychology and other relevant fields to look for obvious signs of say, lack of self awareness, like being polite and articulate is not all you need to pass a Turing test. There’s no fucking way that anything we have right now could pass it but the test is not the problem. The test is absolutely not the problem.

[wheeboxblogs]

Remote Proctoring Integrated With Your Existing LMS - the all-in-one solution to prevent cheating in your exams

Why do we need Online Proctoring?

The demand for proctoring has grown a lot over the past few months, with the evolving technology. A need for transparency and accountability has erupted with the technological growth across Academia, and hence, online proctoring has become an important aspect for institutions & corporations that rely heavily on digital learning & assessment. In unmonitored settings, a candidate might use prohibited materials/devices, including a mobile phone, books, and audios. With the growing dependence on the online mode of assessments, it is vital that a student's premises are checked properly and they are invigilated with the same rigor & sanctity of physical exams.

Online Proctoring, with its AI-Driven Features, comes in handy right here. It helps invigilate with rigor and maintain proper decorum of the exam, just like a classroom setting or perhaps, better! With Online Proctoring, modern educators get equipped to conduct exams with full control & integrity.

Remote Proctoring as a Service(RPaaS)

It is a category of plug-in services for Assessment Companies to use AI or Human Proctoring embedded with its assessments. It allows customers to administer, select, run, and manage a modular bundle of remote proctoring services & other applications without the tedious efforts of building & maintaining the proctoring solutions themselves.

The service simplifies the examination process significantly with features such as:

Quick Integration with any LMS/Assessment Platform

Seamless Candidate and Proctor Experience

Anti-Cheating Platform with Human and Automated Proctoring

Complete Manuals Available for Administrators to Embed Plug-ins

How useful is RPaaS within your existing LMS?

The faculties/authorities are super busy, and all they do not want is to spend another minute on learning a new software or getting hang of a new platform to conduct assessments on. Integration of Remote Proctoring Solutions within your existing LMS is the key here.But how your Learning Management System(LMS) integrates with online proctoring is an important part of how you can make your transition from offline assessment to online smooth & flawless. Integration of Remote Proctoring within your organization's/institution's LMS will make a lot of difference in your current approach towards conducting assessments & training:

It saves a lot of time as there is no need to learn new platforms, no actual need to make new login IDs and passwords, and the results are super quick.

The results are not just quick, but in-depth and detailed, filled with rich analytics about the candidate's performance.

The candidates & the authorities are accustomed to their own Application, and thus, neither conducting tests nor attempting them seems difficult or tedious.

Wheebox's One-Touch Integration of Online Proctoring - Paving the Way Forward

Examiners can now set up the entire proctoring system in one click without any prior training. With Wheebox's Extension-based 5-minutes Integration into an Existing LMS, there come perks such as Quick Report Generation within your LMS Application - anywhere & anytime you want, Hassle-free Proctoring Experience with Rich Analytics, and Proper Monitoring through Complete Control over the Proctoring System. The integration also offers a candidate-savvy experience as Students can take Proctored Tests on their University's own existing LMS with our integrated Remote Proctoring solutions without any extra steps or training. There is absolutely no need to learn a new software/platform to take exams online. Wheebox Remote Proctoring provides Physical Proctoring with managed certified Proctors & Automated AI-Driven Proctoring to safeguard Assessment in your existing LMS Infrastructures and prevent objectionable acts during examinations.

You can Easily Integrate with LTI-Compliant Applications Such As Moodle, Blackboard & Canvas

Wheebox LTI-Based Integration enables the Integration of Proctoring Capabilities in existing LMS applications or assessment platforms within minutes, making Assessments and Certifications safer and more secure. This integration is suited for Certification Platforms and many other LTI compliant applications such as Moodle, Blackboard, and Canvas

The integration provides Smarter Solutions for Supercharged Proctoring with Wheebox Plug-In Integration:

Easy Integration

Wheebox Remote Proctoring Service integrates easily into third-party technologies such as ATS, LMS, and Assessment Solutions with a clean and simple interface.

End-to-End Encryption for Data Security

Wheebox application layer is secured using 128 bit Advance Encryption Service (AES). The user data, question bank, and user answers are encrypted for higher security.

Full Control and View of Candidates

Wheebox RPaaS offers Live Stream, Screenshot of Malpractices in Exams, Object Detection, and Full Logs of Activities Flagged by Proctors.

Real-time Proctor and Candidate Chat

Candidates can initiate a chat with proctors in case of any queries or question-related issues, and proctors can initiate a chat to warn the candidates whenever they find apt.

AI-Calculated Proctor Score

Helps exam administrators identify at-risk students for proactive intervention by checking and reviewing them with AI-Calculated Proctor Scores.

Managed Service with Certified Proctors

Makes the examination experience more personal, efficient, and secured, and decreases the administrative burden of tracking and managing Proctoring with Wheebox Certified Proctors.

Rich Analytics

Comprehensive and detailed analytics for all the candidates with Problematic Images are filtered and highlighted to maintain Academic Integrity.

Automated & Human Proctors

Wheebox Remote Proctoring provides Physical Proctoring & Automated Proctoring to safeguard existing Assessment Infrastructures and prevent objectionable acts during examinations.

Prevention of Impersonation

On-Demand Physical/Automated Approvers physically check the IDs and match with candidate photographs.

Environment Check

Systems' readiness for system infra is checked.

The solutions ensure data security & privacy during the complete examination process as they are encrypted & secured with Rapid SSL, a secure socket layer to avoid the violation of data.

Wheebox provides secure data hosting on Microsoft Azure

Wheebox also conducts VAPT (Vulnerability Assessment Penetration Testing) through a Big 4 agency every quarter.

It also conducts regular audits for better & more secured solutions

[proctor360inc]

How Artificial Intelligence (AI) enhances online proctoring security

Security of Online Proctoring via AI is transforming the educational sector and has enabled everything online. Computer systems that integrate AI can guarantee the validity of the test by preventing candidates from cheating or engaging with unfair methods in the test. 

Read more: https://proctor360.com/blog/ethics-ai-remote-testing 

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Conspiratorialism as a material phenomenon

I'll be in TUCSON, AZ from November 8-10: I'm the GUEST OF HONOR at the TUSCON SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION.

I think it behooves us to be a little skeptical of stories about AI driving people to believe wrong things and commit ugly actions. Not that I like the AI slop that is filling up our social media, but when we look at the ways that AI is harming us, slop is pretty low on the list.

The real AI harms come from the actual things that AI companies sell AI to do. There's the AI gun-detector gadgets that the credulous Mayor Eric Adams put in NYC subways, which led to 2,749 invasive searches and turned up zero guns:

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nycs-subway-weapons-detector-pilot-program-ends/

Any time AI is used to predict crime – predictive policing, bail determinations, Child Protective Services red flags – they magnify the biases already present in these systems, and, even worse, they give this bias the veneer of scientific neutrality. This process is called "empiricism-washing," and you know you're experiencing it when you hear some variation on "it's just math, math can't be racist":

https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/23/cryptocidal-maniacs/#phrenology

When AI is used to replace customer service representatives, it systematically defrauds customers, while providing an "accountability sink" that allows the company to disclaim responsibility for the thefts:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/23/maximal-plausibility/#reverse-centaurs

When AI is used to perform high-velocity "decision support" that is supposed to inform a "human in the loop," it quickly overwhelms its human overseer, who takes on the role of "moral crumple zone," pressing the "OK" button as fast as they can. This is bad enough when the sacrificial victim is a human overseeing, say, proctoring software that accuses remote students of cheating on their tests:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/16/unauthorized-paper/#cheating-anticheat

But it's potentially lethal when the AI is a transcription engine that doctors have to use to feed notes to a data-hungry electronic health record system that is optimized to commit health insurance fraud by seeking out pretenses to "upcode" a patient's treatment. Those AIs are prone to inventing things the doctor never said, inserting them into the record that the doctor is supposed to review, but remember, the only reason the AI is there at all is that the doctor is being asked to do so much paperwork that they don't have time to treat their patients:

https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-health-business-90020cdf5fa16c79ca2e5b6c4c9bbb14

My point is that "worrying about AI" is a zero-sum game. When we train our fire on the stuff that isn't important to the AI stock swindlers' business-plans (like creating AI slop), we should remember that the AI companies could halt all of that activity and not lose a dime in revenue. By contrast, when we focus on AI applications that do the most direct harm – policing, health, security, customer service – we also focus on the AI applications that make the most money and drive the most investment.

AI hasn't attracted hundreds of billions in investment capital because investors love AI slop. All the money pouring into the system – from investors, from customers, from easily gulled big-city mayors – is chasing things that AI is objectively very bad at and those things also cause much more harm than AI slop. If you want to be a good AI critic, you should devote the majority of your focus to these applications. Sure, they're not as visually arresting, but discrediting them is financially arresting, and that's what really matters.

All that said: AI slop is real, there is a lot of it, and just because it doesn't warrant priority over the stuff AI companies actually sell, it still has cultural significance and is worth considering.

AI slop has turned Facebook into an anaerobic lagoon of botshit, just the laziest, grossest engagement bait, much of it the product of rise-and-grind spammers who avidly consume get rich quick "courses" and then churn out a torrent of "shrimp Jesus" and fake chainsaw sculptures:

https://www.404media.co/email/1cdf7620-2e2f-4450-9cd9-e041f4f0c27f/

For poor engagement farmers in the global south chasing the fractional pennies that Facebook shells out for successful clickbait, the actual content of the slop is beside the point. These spammers aren't necessarily tuned into the psyche of the wealthy-world Facebook users who represent Meta's top monetization subjects. They're just trying everything and doubling down on anything that moves the needle, A/B splitting their way into weird, hyper-optimized, grotesque crap:

https://www.404media.co/facebook-is-being-overrun-with-stolen-ai-generated-images-that-people-think-are-real/

In other words, Facebook's AI spammers are laying out a banquet of arbitrary possibilities, like the letters on a Ouija board, and the Facebook users' clicks and engagement are a collective ideomotor response, moving the algorithm's planchette to the options that tug hardest at our collective delights (or, more often, disgusts).

So, rather than thinking of AI spammers as creating the ideological and aesthetic trends that drive millions of confused Facebook users into condemning, praising, and arguing about surreal botshit, it's more true to say that spammers are discovering these trends within their subjects' collective yearnings and terrors, and then refining them by exploring endlessly ramified variations in search of unsuspected niches.

(If you know anything about AI, this may remind you of something: a Generative Adversarial Network, in which one bot creates variations on a theme, and another bot ranks how closely the variations approach some ideal. In this case, the spammers are the generators and the Facebook users they evince reactions from are the discriminators)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network

I got to thinking about this today while reading User Mag, Taylor Lorenz's superb newsletter, and her reporting on a new AI slop trend, "My neighbor’s ridiculous reason for egging my car":

https://www.usermag.co/p/my-neighbors-ridiculous-reason-for

The "egging my car" slop consists of endless variations on a story in which the poster (generally a figure of sympathy, canonically a single mother of newborn twins) complains that her awful neighbor threw dozens of eggs at her car to punish her for parking in a way that blocked his elaborate Hallowe'en display. The text is accompanied by an AI-generated image showing a modest family car that has been absolutely plastered with broken eggs, dozens upon dozens of them.

According to Lorenz, variations on this slop are topping very large Facebook discussion forums totalling millions of users, like "Movie Character…,USA Story, Volleyball Women, Top Trends, Love Style, and God Bless." These posts link to SEO sites laden with programmatic advertising.

The funnel goes:

i. Create outrage and hence broad reach;

ii, A small percentage of those who see the post will click through to the SEO site;

iii. A small fraction of those users will click a low-quality ad;

iv. The ad will pay homeopathic sub-pennies to the spammer.

The revenue per user on this kind of scam is next to nothing, so it only works if it can get very broad reach, which is why the spam is so designed for engagement maximization. The more discussion a post generates, the more users Facebook recommends it to.

These are very effective engagement bait. Almost all AI slop gets some free engagement in the form of arguments between users who don't know they're commenting an AI scam and people hectoring them for falling for the scam. This is like the free square in the middle of a bingo card.

Beyond that, there's multivalent outrage: some users are furious about food wastage; others about the poor, victimized "mother" (some users are furious about both). Not only do users get to voice their fury at both of these imaginary sins, they can also argue with one another about whether, say, food wastage even matters when compared to the petty-minded aggression of the "perpetrator." These discussions also offer lots of opportunity for violent fantasies about the bad guy getting a comeuppance, offers to travel to the imaginary AI-generated suburb to dole out a beating, etc. All in all, the spammers behind this tedious fiction have really figured out how to rope in all kinds of users' attention.

Of course, the spammers don't get much from this. There isn't such a thing as an "attention economy." You can't use attention as a unit of account, a medium of exchange or a store of value. Attention – like everything else that you can't build an economy upon, such as cryptocurrency – must be converted to money before it has economic significance. Hence that tooth-achingly trite high-tech neologism, "monetization."

The monetization of attention is very poor, but AI is heavily subsidized or even free (for now), so the largest venture capital and private equity funds in the world are spending billions in public pension money and rich peoples' savings into CO2 plumes, GPUs, and botshit so that a bunch of hustle-culture weirdos in the Pacific Rim can make a few dollars by tricking people into clicking through engagement bait slop – twice.

The slop isn't the point of this, but the slop does have the useful function of making the collective ideomotor response visible and thus providing a peek into our hopes and fears. What does the "egging my car" slop say about the things that we're thinking about?

Lorenz cites Jamie Cohen, a media scholar at CUNY Queens, who points out that subtext of this slop is "fear and distrust in people about their neighbors." Cohen predicts that "the next trend, is going to be stranger and more violent.”

This feels right to me. The corollary of mistrusting your neighbors, of course, is trusting only yourself and your family. Or, as Margaret Thatcher liked to say, "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families."

We are living in the tail end of a 40 year experiment in structuring our world as though "there is no such thing as society." We've gutted our welfare net, shut down or privatized public services, all but abolished solidaristic institutions like unions.

This isn't mere aesthetics: an atomized society is far more hospitable to extreme wealth inequality than one in which we are all in it together. When your power comes from being a "wise consumer" who "votes with your wallet," then all you can do about the climate emergency is buy a different kind of car – you can't build the public transit system that will make cars obsolete.

When you "vote with your wallet" all you can do about animal cruelty and habitat loss is eat less meat. When you "vote with your wallet" all you can do about high drug prices is "shop around for a bargain." When you vote with your wallet, all you can do when your bank forecloses on your home is "choose your next lender more carefully."

Most importantly, when you vote with your wallet, you cast a ballot in an election that the people with the thickest wallets always win. No wonder those people have spent so long teaching us that we can't trust our neighbors, that there is no such thing as society, that we can't have nice things. That there is no alternative.

The commercial surveillance industry really wants you to believe that they're good at convincing people of things, because that's a good way to sell advertising. But claims of mind-control are pretty goddamned improbable – everyone who ever claimed to have managed the trick was lying, from Rasputin to MK-ULTRA:

https://pluralistic.net/HowToDestroySurveillanceCapitalism

Rather than seeing these platforms as convincing people of things, we should understand them as discovering and reinforcing the ideology that people have been driven to by material conditions. Platforms like Facebook show us to one another, let us form groups that can imperfectly fill in for the solidarity we're desperate for after 40 years of "no such thing as society."

The most interesting thing about "egging my car" slop is that it reveals that so many of us are convinced of two contradictory things: first, that everyone else is a monster who will turn on you for the pettiest of reasons; and second, that we're all the kind of people who would stick up for the victims of those monsters.

Tor Books as just published two new, free LITTLE BROTHER stories: VIGILANT, about creepy surveillance in distance education; and SPILL, about oil pipelines and indigenous landback.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/29/hobbesian-slop/#cui-bono

Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg

CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

[birdmetaphors]

kicking off this new art account with my two most beloved original characters! their names are Vinra (left, she/they) and Peony (right, they/them). more info under the cut and in the tags :)

estranged childhood friends now reunited in their early 20s, peony and vinra both work at mayrose free library, an organization devoted to maintaining physical media in a world where information is increasingly confined to the web, controlled by corporations, and rife with AI hogwash (sound familiar?)

peony got scooped up off the streets by the library's president after dropping out of college and wandering dejectedly around the city, holden caulfield style; they're now an artist-in-residence at mayrose dabbling in various musical and painterly projects.

vinra is one of the nine high proctors, a highly respected team made to organize, preserve, and religiously protect the library's most valuable works. how she got this job and the necessary qualifications is a mystery, but she's doing.... alright?

their story is still developing, but it's not explicitly focused on societal commentary; the dystopian landscape serves as more of a backdrop that guides and influences character-driven drama. will peony and vinra's teenage friendship rebuild itself even though they've become different people? where are their families, and why aren't they in touch anymore? just who is the mysterious library overseer—a benefactor to peony, a parental figure, or something more sinister? and what, exactly, are the high proctors protecting?

you will be seeing peony and vinra and their friends/coworkers a lot, so i hope you like them :)

[3eefstud]

This is my sona/oc Lucius Proctor. He’s sort of just a first post. More than likely I won’t post him as much, likely my art will be random.

Im coming from insta due to learning meta stealing art for their ai so yeah. Plus I feel like I’d get better notice on here than there hopefully.

[the-technicolor-whiscash]

What students don't seem to grasp is the fact they will never learn if they use ai to get through every project and what professors (at least of in-person classes, online has always been the wild west of cheating) don't grasp is the fact in order to avoid having students use ai. Make them do the tests in class. Proctor the tests. You know, like you're supposed to in your job description. If you're teaching composition make them write a paper in class to see their level of skill and voice before assigning other projects. Can't fight the old ways dude.

[impishtubist]

Also, while on the subject of using AI in college courses, it’s like, you are paying money to attend, and then you’re relying on a machine to do the work. And I get the temptation to just not do it, god knows I could think of a million other things I’d have rather done than write a 10 page paper while stressing over finals, but how in the hell are you going to pay to attend, and possibly end up paying more if you go onto graduate school, and then just not try to apply what you’re supposed to have learned? And what’s the plan for proctored or in-person exams, you can’t use AI then?

Yeah, I mean, I've been out of college for more than a decade now, so things have changed since then, but I also don't understand! Also, the AI bubble is going to burst soon, so what are you going to do after that? And also it's straight up killing the planet, but I guess no one cares, because telling a college student that they shouldn't use AI is elitist or something.

[shinkanedge]

OUR AI PROCTORING PLATFORM

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[amazinglyegg]

Companions as.../Shitposts Masterlist

Companions As...

How I make "Companions As..." posts

Birthday hats

Birthday hats 2

Cuteness Aggression

Dumb shirts

Games in my Steam library

Memes in my phone gallery

Memes in my phone gallery 2

Negutiv feadbak posts

r/Ambien posts

r/Disneyvacation posts

r/OddlySpecific posts

What to say before eating dinner

Things to never say to someone who just came out

Twitter posts

Shitposts

Brotherhood branded tampons

Blind Betrayal is Danse getting a divorce

Companions smoke weed

Companions react that came to me in a dream

Character bingo, Danse

Danse and his big long words

Danse is a broken worm man

Danse looks like a duck

Danse simp

Danse and bivouacs

Danse during blind betrayal

Danse and Wombo AI

Danse and Proctor Ingram romcom

Danse and edgy memes

Desdemona is a horse girl

Death Road to Canada crossover

Deacon crashed my game out of embarrassment

"Does The Dog Die" Fallout 4 page

Fallout Show ep 2 reaction

Fandom's reaction to blind betrayal

Games in my Steam library companions would play

Gay gay homosexual gay (Danse and Maxson)

Good morning Desdemona

I would die for them

Loyalty and companions

Live slug reaction (Edward Deegan x Jack Cabot)

Maxson and name-calling

Madlibs Nick/DiMA story

Nick is a bomb :(

Nick <3

Nick Valentine's Son

Out of context notebook app

Paladin Danse fucking dies

Paladin Danse is so sexy

PENIS SIGN

[Poll] Who would win in a fight? Danse vs Fawkes

[Poll] Hypospecific Fallout 4 experiences

[Poll] FMK Nick Valentine

[Poll] Companions and cartwheels

Rating companions on what music they play on a roadtrip

Scribe Haylen decks Quinlan

*Slaps roof of Nick*

Things that would kill the companions immediately

The Office intro

Three types of friends

Venn diagram of Danse, Hancock, and Nick

Venn Diagram of my fears and things in Fallout 4

Water

Wasteland is an introvert's nightmare

What gender are the companions?

Why not get a Fallout 4 companion?

Would companions love Sole as a worm?

[catgirl-catboy]

my uni makes us use super invasive chrome extensions during online exams and i hate it so much and will never stop complaining about it tbh. i know they have to prevent cheating but i don’t want to have to scan my surroundings and be recorded while taking a test. and i definitely don’t want to be judged on if i’m cheating or not based on a shitty ai. plus it reads your browser activity and history, how the hell do we know it’s not still active when you’re not using it? i know that’s probably just my paranoia talking but god. fuck those browser extensions. people will still find ways to cheat and it just punishes everyone who’s just trying to get the class credit

Yeah. As a comp-sci nerd, I'm extremely morally opposed to it. There should at least by other options, like an in person proctor.

There's probably some things you can do to prevent it from snooping, but since its exam related you probably shouldn't mess with it too much. (Or do. I don't tell other people how to live their lives!)

The one thing you can do in this situation that nobody can fault you for is clearing your history before your exam. Thats a default enough practice that nobody can call suspicious, but even when asked you can just say that some of the autocomplete suggestions were annoying you.

[ghooostbaby]

maybe it's because i had to get a new computer for school in the last few months (and also being back in University post-pandemic when they figured out they can offload a lot of costly labour to provide university services by offloading the responsibilities to the students by making things "virtual/online/digital")

but it feels like a very steep curve of acceleration in just how mediated by online/digital/computer accounts and processes my life is ... everything i need to do or need to acquire I have to find some online platform that I need an account for and then have to go through all these extra identity verification methods to get into and then invariably some part of that process goes wrong, or i DO get into them and then something I'm trying to use them for and there's no accessible way to find support from a fellow human. just the coldly serene text of the FAQ pages spinning me in circles where the thing I need that should be so attainable I get error after error that I can't contact anyone to help me resolve... it's kind of grim and terrifying what the future is going to become with such an accelerated push into more and more computer automated technology.

i truly do feel like a ghost trapped in a machine ... it feels totally alienating. like I'm just floating in this vacuum of metal and 2020s website design unable to enter anywhere, just doing 2 step verifications and creating and entering account information and account synchronizations that go nowhere and i can never move beyond this place...

even my fucking university exams. all of them this semester are "remotely proctored", for courses required for the degree we have to provide our own space to do an exam (when there are reports every night on the news of the complete crisis of housing in this country) on our own computer, download a chrome plug-in that seems to be spyware that will monitor you through your webcam and microphone and record your screen, and if AI notices any flag behaviours notify your prof who will watch your video to see if you were cheating... the amount of logistical work I had to do to get set up for this exam, when I have enough to do with studying for the exam, it makes me so angry how much of University services are being eroded away and the work is being pushed off on students to do for free, actually we're PAYING THEM to do this. I even have a disability and asked the disability office for accommodations for the exam, because when I was at a University before I had always been told part of my accommodations were to do the exam in a separate space to help with distractions and anxiety... so if that's the case for an exam where the University handles all the logistical considerations, I would think it certainly should be where I have to do the exam in my home where I have no control over the noise around my apartment or find some public place to do it, and all the work I need to do setting up my computer for this ... and the disability services basically said "nice try" and gave me some canned bureaucratic "please fuck off" response. the last exam I did I booked a study room at the library and took out one of the laptops the library loans and the webcam was not working and I missed the first 35 minutes of the hour time limit trying to figure it out. I contacted my professor and the exam support (thankfully at least this is ONE case one of these online platforms allows access to a human support person) and they started the hour from the time I got into the exam, but it was so stressful. the next day my professor emailed me to get the details because they wanted to make a complaint about the library for it and I'm like ... these librarians are the ONLY things keeping me from totally losing my mind and just being a human presence talking to me and helping me out in the faceless void digitally automated hellscape...

i had kind of been safe for a while with my ancient macbook that just couldn't access certain websites and apps, that was slowly having more and more apps and websites just refuse to support my OS anymore ... now that i can access them I have to say this is much worse.

[skelegun]

I saw Goody Proctor post an AI generated image!

[tempest-toss]

Another Muse List ver 1.2

K and Felicity, loyal workers of the Redaction Department

Announcement Lady and Lord, dueling announcers for the Foundation

Corey the ai virus, your helpful friend.

All Polycule members (Check the pinned post for their list!)

Troupe of Shadows

Troupe of Shadows Rescues

An Unknown plague doctor able to resurrect the dead

Tim-Tam the changing dog

Randolf Sparrow

Martin the bartender

Matthias Wilson

"The SCP Squad"

Yam - former assassin, escapee of the Flora Fighters

Gardenia Meadowood - 670, grows plants when her feet meets ground

Wizard Wally - Reality Bender tricked into thinking he's a wizard

Lily Teca - heiress of the Talvania Author Society, cursed with a bookish affliction

Easel - First of the Great collaboration, art brought to life

Spider-boy - Former captive of the Troupe of Shadows

Manti, Bee King, Granny Long Legs, Mark Mosura - @bugs-are-nifty

Jawbone, Father Proctor, The High Priest - @highmoon-deepwoods

This list will be updated at certain times.