I’ve never heard of someone sharing university course material on a tracker or similar for people to download. But have you checked whether there are any MOOCs from reputable universities that are similar to the one you linked? They are often free.

I’d say we’ve reached the point of AI art becoming mundane as of this moment. Most people don’t really care anymore about AI art, and many actively avoid it. It doesn’t have that same “Wow!”-factor it had the first couple of months when it was becoming “good”.

I try to not get swept up in “correlation equals causation” and conspiracies, but many of these timings seem really really sus

I got a tip about “Delayed Gratification”, slow journalism magazine: https://www.slow-journalism.com/ Might be something for you too! They write in-depth articles and release a new magazine every 3 months, reflecting on those past 3 months.

I had the exact same question some months ago: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/30340942 before I decided to swear off news completely haha.