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🖥️ **News Integrity in AI Assistants**
"• Almost half of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
• A third of responses showed serious sourcing problems.
•A fifth contained major accuracy issues, such as hallucinated and/or outdated information."
🔗 https://www.ebu.ch/research/open/report/news-integrity-in-ai-assistants
#News #Research #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech
🎙️ 🖋️ **‘Harvard Thinking’: Is there a right way to write?**
"_In podcast, pros share tips on technique, process — and tapping ‘deepest part of yourself, even if you’re writing something that is set on a spaceship’_"
🔗 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/10/is-there-a-right-way-to-write/.
**Sumerian civilization may have been jump-started by the rise and fall of tides**
"_Millennia before the first cities, early Mesopotamians probably harnessed tides to irrigate crops_"
**Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?**
"_From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …_"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Computing #Technology #Tech #BrainRot
🖥️ **Five signs that Generative AI is losing traction**
🔗 https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/five-signs-that-generative-ai-is.
🖥️ **Five signs that Generative AI is losing traction**
🔗 https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/five-signs-that-generative-ai-is.
**Human Trials Bring Us Closer to Breathing Through Our Butts**
🔗 https://www.sciencealert.com/human-trials-bring-us-closer-to-breathing-through-our-butts.
**The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices**
"_Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive._"
🔗 https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-game-theory-of-how-algorithms-can-drive-up-prices-20251022/.
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Mariehamn, Åland Islands
October 2025
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October 2025
#åland #aland #alandislands #ahvenanmaa #mariehamn #maarianhamina #finland #suomi #sunrise #morning #dawn #reflection #water #waterscape #sea #seascape #ship #clouds #sky #autumn #october #smartphonephotography
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JUST IN: U.S. national debt hits $38 trillion for the first time
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Key findings:
45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.
Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content
**Possible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763–1829**
_This article uses four overlapping maps to tell four overlapping stories: James Cook’s circumnavigation of the island in 1763–8; Lt David Buchan’s trek into the interior to contact the Beothuk in 1811 and 1820; William Eppes Cormack and Joseph Sylvester’s trek across the island in 1822; and finally, a series of story-maps created by Shanawdithit, who is apocryphally known as ‘the last of the Beothuk’._
Laite, J. (2025) ‘Possible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763–1829’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, pp. 1–32. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0080440125100479.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Maps #Cartography #Academia
🖥️ **Is AI sandbagging us?**
_As the researchers point out, this means that in a real-world, post-deployment use case, “an unsuspecting user would be very unlikely to uncover the model’s deception unless they specifically looked for the scheming action in the model’s tool call history and the tool call itself was incriminating”._
🔗 https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=ea67e225-9bff-4628-91dc-e3b9139949bf.
🖥️ **Judge finds barrister relied on ‘entirely fictitious’ AI-generated cases**
"_However, Rahman’s inability to sufficiently explain his citations led the judge to conclude that he had not only used generative AI to prepare the grounds of appeal, but had also “attempted to hide that fact from me during the hearing”._
**Pharaohs in Dixieland – how 19th-century America reimagined Egypt to justify racism and slavery**
"_To them, Egypt represented the archetype of a great hierarchical civilization. Older than Athens or Rome, Egypt conferred a special legitimacy. And just like the pharaohs, the white elites of the South saw themselves as the stewards of a prosperous society sustained by enslaved labor._"
#History #Histodons #Dixie #USA #US #UnitedStates #Racism #Slavery
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Trump's Argentina beef import plan will 'harm' U.S. ranchers, industry warns
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-argentina-beef-milei-rcna238756?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business @business-thenewsdesk
🌊 📖 **The Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History**
"_The Gulf of Mexico presents a compelling, salt-streaked narrative of the earth's tenth largest body of water. In this beautifully written and illustrated volume, John S. Sledge explores the people, ships, and cities that have made the Gulf's human history and culture so rich._"
🇺🇸 📖 **The Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New Right**
"_How West Texas business and culture molded the rise of conservatism in the United States_"
🔗 https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477332641/.
#Academia #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #History #Histodons #Texas #USA #US #UnitedStates #USPol #Politics
**Harbours and Beaches Alongside a Forgotten Sea: Terra Nova’s Legacy**
"_The legacy of Terra Nova is all around us. You can go to the store to buy bacalao,dry-salted cod,that is nearly identical to what was being made and eaten in 1542. To this day, salt cod is a beloved food in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian, and Caribbean cookery. Fishing is still big business in Canada and New England, heirs to the colonial legacy that began at Terra Nova five centuries ago._"
🏴 **Excavations reveal town's 1,400-year history**
"_Decades-worth of excavations have confirmed Ipswich as England's oldest town with continuous occupation on the same site, according to an archaeologist._"
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