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On a remote Australian island, the birds are so full of plastic they crunch
https://wapo.st/4mmNgSw
💻 **‘I can just copy-paste things, so do I really need to learn?’**
_Students use AI to prepare for class, answer questions, and build their own companies. “People are very positive about these tools, but it made it so easy for them to cheat. A lot of students came to me and said, ‘I can just copy-paste things, so do I really need to learn these things?’ This is something we’re thinking really hard about.”_
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Education #Learning @ai
🇺🇸 **The U.S. just lost its last pristine credit rating. What that means for markets.**
_“On Friday, Moody’s said successive U.S. administrations and Congress have failed to agree on measures to reverse a trend of large annual fiscal deficits and growing interest costs, adding that it doesn’t believe that current fiscal proposals under consideration will result in significant multiyear reductions in mandatory spending and deficits.”_
#USA #US #UnitedStates #Credit #Debt #Markets #Economics @economics
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Capsicum annuum or sweet pepper comes from the Greek peperi, from the Sanskrit pippalī, which originally referred to black pepper. After chili peppers were introduced to Europe, the name was extended to include them.
Paprika comes from Serbian papar, meaning “pepper,” from the Latin piper.
The Spanish word pimiento traces to Latin pigmentum, meaning “coloring,” reflecting the vibrant hues of the peppers.
**The Nazi past that parents never wanted to talk to their children about**
Almudena de Cabo
_“I learned then that he had been a member of the Nazi Party,” he says, referring to what he found in one of his father’s desk drawers. “I knew he was in Riga [Latvia]. Also that he was a judge at the Regional Court. But my father didn’t tell me what he did in Riga during World War II. That’s what they always say; that fathers didn’t talk to their children.”_
📖 **The algebra of Jackson Pollock**
“_If you thought that maths and art don’t mix, Marcus du Sautoy’s invigorating study will convince you otherwise_”
🔗 https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/the-algebra-of-jackson-pollock.
#Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Arts #Culture @bookstodon
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Famous tomb said to hold Alexander the Great's father actually contains younger man, a woman and 6 babies, study finds
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/famous-tomb-said-to-hold-alexander-the-greats-father-actually-contains-younger-man-a-woman-and-6-babies-study-finds
💵 **Why Do We Call a Dollar a “Buck”?**
“_Perhaps the oldest use is its role in Old English, where it was then (and now) used to describe a male goat or deer, among other male animals. It was co-opted circa the 14th century to describe a libidinal young man, and later was used to describe an ambitious person (whom we might now call a “young buck”). In the 1800s, it was also used as a slur against Black or indigenous men._”
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⚛ **Editorial: Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us**
“_Even a fraction of the current arsenal could decimate the biosphere in a severe mass extinction event. The global climate disruption caused by the smoke pouring from cities ignited by just 2% of the current arsenal could result in over two billion people starving._”
Abbasi K, Ali P, Barbour V, Birch M, Blum I, Doherty P et al. Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us BMJ 2025; 389 :r881 doi: https://www.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r881
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #BMJ #Editorial #Nuclear #Armageddon #Extinction
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Widely covered MIT paper saying AI boosts worker productivity is, in fact, complete bullshit it turns out.
Afternoon all.
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**How To Fix Your Brain After the Internet Broke It**
Productive Peter
#Video length: fourteen minutes and twenty-six seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTVJie0OQeI.
#Digital #Attention #Detox #Mindfulness #Internet #Brain #BrainRot
**First Evidence of Roman Pig-Jaw Funerary Ritual Uncovered in Israel**
“_The discovery offers a rare glimpse into how Roman soldiers honored their dead through symbolic animal sacrifice and structured ceremonial acts._”
🔗 https://greekreporter.com/2025/05/14/roman-funerary-pig-ritual-israel/.
#Ancient #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodons #Romans #RomanEmpire @histodons @archaeodons
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Mark Zuckerberg wants you to use AI as friends.
When you invest your time with AI instead of creating genuine bonds with real people, you become completely isolated without even noticing it.
This all serves capitalism and authoritarian regimes.
When you are isolated, you can't find humans to help you financially (AI won't).
When you are isolated, you can't find humans to rise up with you against abuse (AI won't).
You become completely alone (with AI friends), and completely vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation by the system implemented by those who control your AI "friends".
It seems obvious, I know. But how is Mark Zuckerberg able to market this insane idea at all then?
🧠 **The Cambridge view on memory**
"_By tying together more than a century of memory research at Cambridge, the Memory Lab gives us tangible ways to improve, preserve and understand our memory._"
🔗 https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-cambridge-view-on-memory.
#Cambridge #Memory #Brain #Research #Neuroscience #Psychology
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The bizarre 10th-century Exeter Book contains a whole bunch of cool Saxon riddles. Eleven of them are a good fit for your RPG campaign! Some are jokes, some are dirty, and some are very clever indeed. #ttrpg #history
https://moltensulfur.com/post/eleven-riddles-from-the-old-english-exeter-book/
**Hidden Nazi past: Ole Ivar Lovaas during the German occupation of Norway**
“_According to previous accounts, Lovaas and his family were forced farm workers during the German occupation of Norway between 1940 and 1945, when Lovaas was 13–18 years old. This article shows that the Løvaas family were in fact members of the collaborationist fascist party Nasjonal Samling._”
Gjerde, Å. B. (2025). Hidden Nazi past: Ole Ivar Lovaas during the German occupation of Norway. History of the Human Sciences, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951251324102.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Histodons #Nazism #Fascism #Norway #Scandinavia #Academia #Academic @histodons
🇺🇸 📖 **Not White Enough: The Long, Shameful Road to Japanese American Internment**
“_This book is the first to trace the full arc of prejudice against Asian Americans that made internment inevitable and serves as a legal and political history of anti-Asian racism, beginning with the California gold rush and ending with Korematsu._”
🔗 https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700634255/.
#Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #History #Histodons #Racism #Prejudice #USA #US #UnitedStates #Japanese #Asian #Internment @histodons
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The World Record for the Shortest Math Article: 2 Words
https://www.openculture.com/2025/05/the-world-record-for-the-shortest-math-article.html
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