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**'Dumpster fire': Retailers urge shoppers to buy now before tariffs raise prices**
_“Let's skip the corporate-speak: This tariff situation is a complete dumpster fire, and we're all getting burned. Here's the situation: Costs are up, and unfortunately, our prices will have to follow suit,”_
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If you want to understand the psychological harm LLMs can do to someone, you have to read conspiracy theory forums. This pattern of the LLM spiraling with you into a private universe of meaning is the overwhelming norm
If only those who instituted the changes realised that this was going to be the case.
💻 Duolingo replaces its contractors with AI, courses with slop
🔗 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/04/duolingo-replaces-its-contractors-with-ai-courses-with-slop/.
#Duolingo #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #Technology #Tech @ai
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"Repeat after me: tariffs are beautiful." BL Stowe 17; 'The Maastricht Hours'; 14th century; f.84r
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The United Nations opts for @CryptPad, an open source alternative to #GoogleForms.
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I'm not anti-AI. I'm just pro-thinking.
What do I mean? I mean that everyone I know who is REALLY into AI uses it for reading EVERYTHING longer than 1000 words.
This is the mental equivalent of eating only smoothies, because they go down easier.
I say this with love: reading is thinking.
Stop letting slop think for you.
**Robert D. Kaplan: ‘The search for critical minerals is a form of imperialism’**
“_The American geopolitical analyst points out in his latest book that the world is experiencing a situation similar to Germany during the Weimar Republic, characterized by constant crises_”
🏴 **Viking brooch 'only silver one found in England'**
“_A rare 9th Century silver brooch has been linked to the greatest Viking silver treasure trove found outside Russia._”
📖 🇯🇵 🎙️ **The Historical Writing of the Mongol Invasions in Japan**
“_Although Japan was never conquered by the Mongol empire, the 1274 and 1281 Mongol invasions were commemorated, remembered, and imagined in Japanese historical writings. How did history books, genealogies, gazetteers, local histories, and artworks represent the Mongol invasions? What role did the idea of the invasions play in the creation of cultural identity?_”
🔗 https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-historical-writing-of-the-mongol-invasions-in-japan.
#Audio #Podcast #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #History #Histodons #Japan #Asia #Culture #Identity @histodons @bookstodon
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#OTD John Hanning Speke was born in 1827.
He was an English explorer who was the first to record the source of the Nile and the first European to reach what came to be known as Lake Victoria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hanning_Speke
Books by John Hanning Speke at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1151
Egypt and Nubia, Volume II: Island of Philae, on the Nile, Nubia
by Louis Haghe
Good afternoon.
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The story is in the headline, but it is an interesting story nonetheless #4chan
https://www.wired.com/story/4chan-is-dead-its-toxic-legacy-is-everywhere/
🌍 🌡️ **Will climate change lead to more fungal infections?**
_“Fungi are adapting to rising temperatures. This could help them to survive at human body temperatures, increasing the threat of human fungal infections.”_
🔗 https://wellcome.org/news/will-climate-change-lead-more-fungal-infections#related-content-12ac.
#Climate #ClimateChange #Fungi #Disease #Health @climatechange
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“The AI jobs crisis is here, now - by Brian Merchant”
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-jobs-crisis-is-here-now
> The unemployment rate for recent college graduates is unusually high—and historically high in relation to the general unemployment rate
"AI" is killing entry-level jobs, which means that a few years down the line companies won't have senior labour to hire.
This also shows that talk about “AI literacy” and “AI skills” is a joke. You’re not gonna need any skills if employers aren’t employing in the first place
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Here is a clickable link to Danny Bate's article on the fascinating nasal infix:
https://dannybate.com/2021/05/16/latins-nasal-infix-a-how-to-guide/
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The words 'fiction' and 'dough' derive from the same root.
They stem from a Proto-Indo-European root that meant "to shape" and "to mould".
'Fiction' came to English through Latin and French. Its meaning now denotes something that's shaped by the mind.
'Dough', something that's kneaded, was inherited from Germanic.
Click the graphic to see the journeys these words took.
**Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility**
_“In its current version, in spite of the hype, bitcoin failed to satisfy the notion of “currency without government” (it proved to not even be a currency at all), can be neither a short nor long term store of value (its expected value is no higher than), cannot operate as a reliable inflation hedge, and, worst of all, does not constitute, not even remotely, a safe haven for one's investments, a shield against government tyranny, or a tail protection vehicle for catastrophic episodes.”_
Taleb, N.N. (2021) 'Bitcoin, currencies, and fragility,' arXiv (Cornell University) [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2106.14204.
#Bitcoin #Currency #Money #Wealth #Economics #Finance #Academia #Academic #Preprint #arXiv @economics
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