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Evening all.
@JustTooOdd@lor.sh I am surprised to read that it is not widely known amongst teachers.
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Ford says its Q1 profit fell by two-thirds and it expects a $1.5 billion hit from tariffs this year
https://apnews.com/article/ford-tariffs-net-income-gm-trump-549d908f4dc0e4c2383a7ccd7a326d67?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business and Finance @business-and-finance-AssociatedPress
🖋 **Why Cursive Writing and Penmanship Is Important**
Jennifer A. Freeman
“_While penmanship is still rigorously taught in many European schools, current American schoolchildren spend more time mastering typing and computer skills than practicing neat handwriting. But traditional handwriting offers unique cognitive benefits that typing simply can’t replicate._”
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📺 Just released by the BBC: a powerful video on the mission of the @internetarchive & the @waybackmachine.
“A time machine for the web,” preserving everything from lost government websites to books & records—before they vanish.
🔗 Explore: https://web.archive.org
🎥 Watch ➡️
https://youtu.be/jh98N46DM5k
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People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into All News @all-news-RollingStone
💻 **Why DO large language models hallucinate?**
🔗 https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/why-do-large-language-models-hallucinate.
@DetersHenning O dear another hallucinatory episode.
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A Racist Book’s Malign and Lingering Influence (Gift Article)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/books/stephen-miller-camp-saints.html?unlocked_article_code=1.E08.d7_g.fR61dVrD-v9N&smid=bs-share
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Of chatbots & self delusions
“What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful, delusional thinking in quite normal people.”
H/t Spencer LaVere Smith @sls for sharing
https://labrigger.com/blog/2025/04/15/eliza-exe/
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New review published -- Perry on Fleetwood, 'Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya' https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=61218 Reviewer: Amanda PerryTitle: Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the HimalayaAuthor: Lachlan Fleetwood
self harm
@skua I think the negatives far outstrip the positives.
🇫🇮 📵 **Finland Just Banned Smartphones in Schools**
“_Do you agree with this approach?_”
>Yes, I do.
🔗 https://www.zmescience.com/science/psychology-science/finland-just-banned-smartphones-in-schools/.
#News #Finland #Scandinavia #Smartphones #Technology #Tech #Education #Schools #Psychology @psychology
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The LLMentalist effect: Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms used by (fake) psychics to gull their victims: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
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General call out
If you're a writer/author of any stripe who's been negatively tangibly affected by AI content in some way, and are willing to share this information, please do reach out and let me know. It's for an important thing.
Email me via my site
www.deanburnett.com/contact/
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How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output
Peter Conrad Explores the English Novelist’s Cyclical Vision of Life and Art
https://lithub.com/how-charles-dickenss-troubled-childhood-influenced-his-literary-output/
Charles Dickens at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37
🇺🇸 📖 **Unmasking the Klansman: The Double Life of Asa and Forrest Carter**
#Review #BookReview #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #History #Histodons #KKK #USA #US #UnitedStates @histodons @bookstodon
🇺🇸 📚 **A Fifth of American Adults Can’t Read. Here’s How to Teach Them.**
🔗 https://www.thefp.com/p/a-fifth-of-american-adults-cant-read-i-teach-them.
**Vikings on the Silk Roads**
Neil Price
“_The viking presence in Europe is well known, extending east to Constantinople and the rivers of western Russia and Ukraine, alongside the settlement of the North Atlantic islands and ultimately a landfall on the coast of Newfoundland. But a key question remains: how far did that diaspora extend, especially to the south and east? How far did the vikings really travel?_”
🔗 https://aeon.co/essays/the-viking-age-is-undergoing-a-revisionist-transformation.
#Vikings #Essay #History #Archaeology #Archaeodons @histodons @archaeodons
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The impact of a rise in #tariff rates has had a substantial shift in both
#growth and #inflation expectations, chart @GoldmanSachs
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