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🇺🇸 🖋️ **A generation of Americans never learned cursive. So Philly historians are teaching AI to transcribe it.**
_“Within a generation, we will be teaching handwriting and legibility the way we teach a foreign language,” said Bayard Miller, associate director of digital initiatives and technology at APS._
🔗 https://www.inquirer.com/arts/cursive-ai-american-philosophical-society-20250704.html.
#Handwriting #Writing #Cursive #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Philadephia #Pennsylvania #Arts #Culture
🖥️ _“We see a future of a zero-click internet where consumers only interact with interfaces like ChatGPT, and agents or bots will become the primary visitors to websites,” said co-founder James Cadwallader._
#Google #Internet #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech
The Companies Betting They Can Profit From Google Search’s Demise https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-optimization-startups-google-search-ee4c561a?st=o3...
🏠 **House prices up by 5.4% in the euro area**
"_....the highest increases were recorded in Portugal (+16.3%), Bulgaria (+15.1%) and Croatia (+13.1%)._"
🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-euro-indicators/w/2-04072025-bp.
#RealEstate #Housing #Property #Statistics #Eurozone #Europe
🏴 🏴 **Healthy life expectancy by national area deprivation, England and Wales: between 2013 to 2015 and 2020 to 2022**
"_In 2020 to 2022, at birth, males in the most deprived areas of England were expected to spend 70.4% of life in "good" health, compared with 84.5% in the least deprived areas; during the same period, for females, these figures were the lowest since our time series began (2013 to 2015), at 65.1% and 81.5%, respectively._"
Office for National Statistics (ONS), released 4 July 2025, ONS website, statistical bulletin, https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthinequalities/bulletins/healthylifeexpectancybynationalareadeprivationenglandandwales/between2013to2015and2020to2022.
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As the World Warms, Extreme Rain Is Becoming Even More Extreme
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/climate/texas-flood-climate-change.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UE8.d7Wa.54kAvNlzVUrB&smid=nytcore-android-share
🇺🇸 🖥️ **Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it**
🔗 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/04/only-3-of-us-ai-users-are-willing-to-pay-a-penny-for-it/.
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**Why my book isn't on Amazon**
🖥️ **Botshit Gone Wild**
"_The downsides of generative AI are spreading like wildfire_"
📖 **Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow.**
"_Namely, that even as journalists might claim a sense of professional detachment, something like objectivity can be weaponized and used to defend racial and regional identities, and by extension, any element of power differentials or the status quo._"
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #BookReview #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
**Thinking outside the box means thinking outside the search engine**
"_Nominal group analysis reveals that while individual creativity may be enhanced by internet access, groups articulate fewer novel solutions when provided internet access, suggesting that internet access may constrain collective creative fluency._"
Oppenheimer, D.M., Patterson, M.T. Thinking outside the box means thinking outside the search engine. Mem Cogn (2025). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-025-01732-x.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Creativity #Internet #Digital #Academia #Academics
**Author of William the Conqueror’s ‘Medieval Big Data’ project revealed**
🔗 https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07-02-author-william-conqueror-s-medieval-big-data-project-revealed.
#History #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons @histodons @medievodons
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“A.I. is a technology of averages: LLMs are trained to spot patterns across vast tracts of data; the answers they produce tend toward consensus, both in the quality of the writing, which is often riddled with clichés and banalities, and in…ideas. Other, older technologies have aided and perhaps enfeebled writers, of course—one could say the same about, say, SparkNotes. But with A.I. we’re so thoroughly able to outsource our thinking that it makes us more average, too”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/ai-is-homogenizing-our-thoughts
**Confederacy Group Sues Georgia Park for Planning an Exhibit on Slavery and Segregation**
**Who were the Galatians? How did they get where they were?**
"_Only much later did I learn that the Galatians were a type of Gauls, i.e., Celts, who had migrated from what is now France to what is now Türkiye._"
**Google’s electricity demand is skyrocketing**
"_Google also released its latest environmental report, which shows that its energy use from data centers has doubled since 2020._"
🔗 https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/03/1119627/google-electricity-fusion-ai/.
**Christiaan Huygens and the Scientific Secrets of Saturn**
"_Seventeenth-century science was so competitive that Christiaan Huygens used a cipher to conceal his Saturn observations when sharing them with interlocutors._"
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/christiaan-huygens-and-the-scientific-secrets-of-saturn/.
🇨🇦 📈 **Manipulated chart misleads on migration rate in Canada**
🔗 https://news.yahoo.com/manipulated-chart-misleads-migration-rate-155207901.html.
🇺🇸 **A Summer Reading List for America’s 250th Anniversary**
🔗 https://ash.harvard.edu/articles/a-summer-reading-list-for-americas-250th-anniversary/.
#Reading #ReadingList #Books #Bookstodon #USA #US #UnitedStates #History @bookstodon
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