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“It's not just that students aren't attempting to write their own work, what we're also starting to find is that students aren't even attempting to read the work."
There are students only interested in the credentials. Others care about learning. Looks like soon the two types will stop sharing educational paths. Their present entanglement serves the current university financing system via common fees. The disruption of this arrangement will reshape universities.
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Mexico sues Google over 'Gulf of America' name change
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yk5nj7p7ko?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-BBCNews
**European and British soils seriously degraded by intensive farming**
"_Experts found 60% of the EU’s agricultural soils had been degraded, with about 40% similarly damaged in the UK_"
**Narcissism and Affective Polarization**
“_We argue that the personality trait of narcissism (entitled self-importance) is an important correlate of affective polarization. We test this claim in Britain using nationally representative survey data, examining both long-standing party identities and new Brexit identities. Our findings reveal that narcissism, and particularly the ‘rivalry’ aspect of narcissism, is associated with both positive and negative partisanship._”
Tilley, J., Hobolt, S. Narcissism and Affective Polarization. Polit Behav 47, 599–618 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-024-09963-5.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Polarization #Partisanship #Identity #Narcissism #Politics #Academia #Academics
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**Why don’t they teach this anymore??**
#Video length: thirty-seven seconds.
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**Linguists Find Proof of Sweeping Language Pattern Once Deemed a ‘Hoax’**
💻 **Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI**
“_Through four experiments with over 4,400 participants, we reveal a social penalty for AI use: Individuals who use AI tools face negative judgments about their competence and motivation from others._”
J.A. Reif, R.P. Larrick, & J.B. Soll, Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (19) e2426766122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2426766122 (2025).
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #SocialSciences #Management #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @ai
💻 **Hallucinations are not the same as errors**
“_An AI can’t lie, because it doesn’t know it’s lying. In that sense, it’s sort of pathological, careening forward without a conscience._”
🔗 https://seths.blog/2025/05/hallucinations-are-not-the-same-as-errors/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Hallucinations #Errors #Lying #Lies @ai
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English 'wood', Dutch 'woud', and German 'Wald' can all mean "forest".
However, despite their similar forms, 'wood' is not in any way etymologically related to 'woud' or 'Wald'.
'Woud' and 'Wald', which do have a common ancestor, are related to English 'wold' instead.
Click my graphic for more.
On my Patreon, I explain how Old English 'widu' could become 'wudu' (400 words):
https://www.patreon.com/posts/128532757
📖 **An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope**
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2428.
#AlexanderPope #ProjectGutenberg #Read #Ebook #Bookstodon @bookstodon
**Bronze Age leprosy hitched rides along ancient copper and pottery trade route**
“_4000-year-old scarred jaws in Oman hub mark oldest cases outside South Asia_”
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How to do without the Donald
Face-eating leopard or tantrum-prone toddler? It would be nice to know the answer, because it would tell us how much attention we need to pay to Donald Trump’s latest outburst. (I don’t know what that outburst is, of course. Something new is likely to happen in the time it takes you to finish this page.) If he is just a toddler having a full-blown meltdown, then the best
https://timharford.com/2025/05/how-to-do-without-the-donald/
@freemo Hi, is the follow feature working in #QOTO? I am trying to follow accounts such as @wikipedia; however, all I obtain is a 'cancel follow request'. It has been like this for a number of months. Furthermore, there are other accounts that I have successfully followed which are still showing 'cancel follow request' whilst being followed.
Thank you for your assistance.
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The rise and fall of the US empire, as written in the US share of world energy consumption.
The empire's 'half life' lasted from 1889 to 2008.
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/05/04/the-half-life-of-empire/
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In the wake of tariffs, cargo at the Port of LA is down 35% https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/nx-s1-5389955/los-angeles-port-tariffs
**Why humans evolved blue eyes**
“_And here comes the mystery: for no evident reason, and in an evolutionary time span as short as a few thousand years, the number of people with blue eyes proceeded to expand from one to millions._”
Bressan P (2025) Why humans evolved blue eyes. Front. Psychol. 16:1442500. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1442500.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Psychology #Academia #Academic @psychology
**High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide**
“_Here we show how GHG emissions from consumption and investments attributable to the wealthiest population groups have disproportionately influenced present-day climate change._”
Schöngart, S., Nicholls, Z., Hoffmann, R. et al. High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02325-x.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Science #Academia #Academic @climatechange @science
💻 **Surveillance And Data**
_“All your data belong to us”_
🔗 https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/all-your-data-belong-to-us.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Data #Surveillance @ai
Not a bot, just a fifty-year-old male who reads occasionally.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts, and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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