The power of the unaided mind is highly overrated..The real powers come from external aids that enhance cognitive abilities-DN.
🧵 As a former Republican consultant who left in 2015, I'm often asked why Trump and his minions are willingly destroying science, K12 education, universities, international organizations, public broadcasting, and social welfare institutions.
There are many reasons, but the main ones are psychological rather than ideological. They struggle with abstract thinking and are afraid of the world...
Historians will, I predict, regard the current situation as the American Civil War II. Certainly we are in a civil war, instigated by the federal government, when it began sending unnecessary and militarized forces into American cities. (See pinned post.) 1/
i just think we should all be passing little messages to each other on tiny serial eeproms
@pluralistic great post in the Guardian on AI. Here is a bit about AI music along the lines of the EFF
This kind of tale is part of what makes me delight in rural life.
@pluralistic
I see that Idyllwild sticker. They probably voted for the Golden Retriever for mayor. 🐶
My husband and I know this man. My husband taught his kids. He's an incredible sweet guy. He is in the country legally- he pays taxes, he's married to a US Citizen, he has no criminal record and now he's in ICE detention. For those who thought "it can't happen here" it is happening here. #FreeKarim https://www.instagram.com/p/DHzAZhxJHcF/?img_index=1
This is how you do it:
Step 1: More than 100,000 protesters flood the streets of Serbia’s capital Belgrade.
Step 2: Unpopular Serbian leader Vucevic resigns.
Next stop Washington D. C.
Update: As pointed out by others, it is the president who is very unpopular in Serbia, but it is only the prime minister who is resigning, so the Serbs have not completed their mission yet.
I don’t want AI to make me 10x more productive, I want it to give me Fridays off.
"International visitors spent $213.1 billion in the U.S. in 2023, a 29% increase from the previous year."
Now that we are siding with Putin against Europe, messing with the FAA, soft-pedaling measles, closing national parks, and harassing or detaining visitors, I do not think 2025 will be a banner year for tourism.
Another expensive own goal.
https://blog.learntourism.org/u.s.-travel-tourism-statistics-2023
It's bunya nut season. First of the crop (we've found). A tiddler at 3.3kg (can get up to 10kg) #bunya #bunyanut https://theconversation.com/bunya-pines-are-ancient-delicious-and-possibly-deadly-96003
Calling on the fediverse to help a friend. My great colleague @dogtrax is a generous and sharing teacher and artist. He penned a blog post yesterday:
https://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2025/02/01/toeholds-on-the-state-of-disconnections/
His entire post was stolen and published under a fake name at some gaming site
https://www.faberk.com/on-the-state-of-disconnections-kevins-meandering-thoughts/
it's likely this site has numerous stolen content published as their own
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As recommended by @thesiswhisperer via #OnTheReg podcast, I’m reading Ethan Mollick’s latest book about AI. Equal parts fascinating and scary as hell.
“…it took five minutes and less than a dollar to create a virtual me delivering a lecture that was entirely written and animated by AI.” - page 42.
Are you ready for this?
I’m looking at you, Higher Education. 👀
