Why are so many world-famous music stars performing in Essex?
Justin Timberlake, Smashing Pumpkins and Bryan Adams are among those coming to the county.Jodie Halford (BBC News)
#seventh : next in order after the sixth
- French: Septième
- German: siebte
- Italian: settimo
- Portuguese: sétimo
- Spanish: séptimo
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Lo Utha vieta le bandiere lgbt nelle scuole, esulta Pillon
Nello Utha continuano ad emergere casi di pedofilia ad opera di sacerdoti, ma il leghista Simone Pillon si dice entusiasta perché cercheranno di corrompere i bambini all'omofobia.Gayburg
South, southwest suburban libraries to receive $1.3 million in state funding
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"The success of Reform, I lay squarely at the feet of the neoliberal consensus, which has let down working people for the last 40 years. They’re fed up. It doesn’t matter who they vote for, nothing changes for them.
Keir Starmer and the Labour government have leant into supporting a broken system"
Steve Coogan, who now supports the Green Party
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Steve Coogan accuses Labour of paving way for Reform UK
Exclusive: Actor says Keir Starmer’s party has caused a ‘derogation of all the principles they were supposed to represent’Josh Halliday (The Guardian)
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After the Polish Border Guard refused to accept an Afghan migrant, the German police sent him to Poland, 60 km away, at an uncontrolled border crossing.
A Polish vigilante group is apparently obstructing deportations at the German border. According to a media report, the group forced an Afghan man to walk backBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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Finally got my own physical box of the @oblique_strategies set. It's from 1975, and it feels like that, too. In the best possible way.
As serendipity wants it, I came across a study today that compared LLMs with Oblique Strategies set as creativity support tools (CSTs)
"The use of an LLM as a CST [makes] the LLM’s users feel more creative, and even broaden the range of ideas suggested by each individual user, but also homogenize the ideas suggested by different users."
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3635636…
In other words, while LLMs might help individual users to become more creative, it does so for everyone in the same way. Thus, collectively, creativity is diminished.
This finding at the group level has been repeated a few times now in different studies.
This is not the case with the Oblique Strategies. Perhaps because applying these strategies is hard and requires the examination of one's own position and process.
Thanks to @remixtures for the pointer to the New Yorker article which contained the pointer to the cited study.
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got a physical set a year or two ago. They’re great for sure.
Interesting on the study results!
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Google’s DMCA Transparency Report ‘Freezes’ After Recent Volume Surge
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After more than a decade of timely updates, Google Search's takedown transparency report has been stalled since mid-April.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
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Texas Officials Blame Agency Gutted by Trump for Results of Deadly Storm
Experts warned for months about cuts to NWS and NOAARon Filipkowski (Meidas+)
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes Herself Heard, Prompting a Rebuke (Adam Liptak/New York Times)
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes Herself Heard, Prompting a Rebuke
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