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That time I caught the Moon spying on me from behind some trees :D #moon #nature #astrophotpgraphy
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It's a new semester, which means it's time to shill for the handwriting industrial complex.

In study after study, students who set aside devices learn better. The evidence has mounted even further since @dynarski's 2017 article

brookings.edu/articles/for-bet…




Not so secret and the INEVITABLE result of zero accountability or regulation on the tech industry, even as the regular media has its economics hollowed out while also having to follow laws: nytimes.com/2024/09/07/busines…


#CounterClippers of the world unite.... omg, those are not counters. They are octogons. What monster did this?

#hexesforever



Bingo — come on in, the water’s Nazi.

RE: threads.net/@oliverdarcy/post/…


Important points from @michelleinbklyn: "The weakening of the intellectual quarantine around Nazism — and the MAGA right’s fetish for ideas their enemies see as dangerous — makes it easier for influential conservatives to surrender to fascist impulses. When they do, they pay no penalty in political relevance, because there’s no conservative establishment capable of disciplining its ideologues." nytimes.com/2024/09/06/opinion…



When applying Founder Mode to marketing instead of hiring actual marketers goes wrong.

techcrunch.com/2024/09/07/payr…

in reply to Dare Obasanjo

I'm still laughing over how they're managing this ongoing debacle this morning! 😂 They've definitely removed themselves from many people's job lists. What a bunch of racist quacks.


‘Families Like Ours’ Teaser: Thomas Vinterberg’s Venice Series Imagines A Denmark On The Cusp Of Disappearing Due To #ClimateChange

"The director and co-writer Bo Hr. Hansen have imagined a near future scenario in which the Danish government sets in motion a plan to evacuate #Denmark’s entire population due to rising water levels."

deadline.com/video/families-li…

in reply to CelloMom On Cars

"Vinterberg chose not to go big on scenes of submerged streets and homes.
Instead, he focused on the months leading up to the climate disaster and their toll on people.

"What you don't see is more scary than what you see," he said, adding that his team consulted climate scientists and reached out to the Danish ministry of foreign affairs for advice on how to convincingly portray the mass evacuation."

reuters.com/lifestyle/danish-c…
#FamiliesLikeOurs

in reply to CelloMom On Cars

This reminds me of the set up of "The Day After", a 1983 film about what happens to people in a small town in Kansas before and after a nuclear attack.

I was in college. The university opened a help line you could call if you needed help coping with the emotional impact of the movie.

imdb.com/title/tt0085404/



I mean, why not? Those systems already run a custom Linux distro anyway.

Michael MJD: Installing Desktop Linux on a Game Boy Advance SP Lookalike!

youtube.com/watch?v=ES3s-WT6Fz…

#Anbernic #Linux



Important points from @michelleinbklyn: "The weakening of the intellectual quarantine around Nazism — and the MAGA right’s fetish for ideas their enemies see as dangerous — makes it easier for influential conservatives to surrender to fascist impulses. When they do, they pay no penalty in political relevance, because there’s no conservative establishment capable of disciplining its ideologues." nytimes.com/2024/09/06/opinion…



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Nachrichten AUF1 vom 06. September 2024


Mutmaßlicher Islamist in Frankfurt verhaftet - Nun gibt es eine mysteriöse Spur zum Swift-Attentäter in Wien. Und ein Politiker schweigt… + Klartext-Ansage vom Vida-Boss - Bei AUF1 fordert Roman Hebenstreit: Österreich braucht gar keine Arbeitskräfte-Einwanderung + Und:
ARD gegen AUF1 - Jetzt wird es eng für die Zwangsgebührensender
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So, that thing with Amazon being full of AI-generated books containing tips to eat poisonous mushrooms?

Google Scholar now appears to be increasingly full of GPT-fabricated academic papers too - undermining human society’s hard-amassed evidence base.

Good work, everyone.

misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/…

#science #academia #generativeai
#misinformation

in reply to Matt Potter

I wonder if there'll be some kind of inverse carbon dating in the future. Where people would determine the age of a text corpus just by counting the fraction of AI bullshit contained in it.

"Ah interesting, these texts contain 34% AI bullshit. This is a strong indicator for it stemming from around 2029. There's probably still much true information in there as the 50% AI bullshit mark was only hit 4 years later...."

in reply to Matt Potter

Crypto's main use case is paying for crimes.
Generative algo's main use case is spam.



I went to the fifth-grade graduation once at the school where I taught and a child, a fifth grader about 10 years old, said in her graduation speech:

"Another way our teachers show that they care about us is they don't let us go to the bathrooms or in the hall when there's shooting."

tigerthegecko.blogspot.com/201…

in reply to Bronwyn Harris

The first time a third-grader confidently told another student that they didn't have to worry because "Ms. Harris wouldn't ever let a bad guy come in and get you," I understood that I would actually die for my students and that it was actually a real possibility.

Do you know what it's like to be underpaid, often disrespected by other adults (just look around threads for examples), exhausted, and know that you might have to die for the kids you're responsible for??