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🇺🇸 ⚖️ **Federal judge in Mississippi admits staff used AI to draft inaccurate order**

"_Wingate acknowledged that his law clerk used an AI program to compose an order that paused the enforcement of a state law that bans diversity, equity and inclusion programs in Mississippi public schools._"

🔗 https://apnews.com/article/robert-conrad-chuck-grassley-artificial-intelligence-henry-t-wingate-mississippi-b2dca153ae6521f5246b0d3170e1962a.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Legal #Mississippi

**A defense of philosophical intuitions**

🔗 https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/a-defense-of-philosophical-intuitions

#Philosophy

🇺🇸 🇿🇦 **Not in our name: Afrikaners respond to the misuse of their story in US politics**

🔗 https://www.news24.com/opinions/columnists/guestcolumn/not-in-our-name-afrikaners-respond-to-the-misuse-of-their-story-in-us-politics-20251025-0450.

#Opinion #Afrikaners #Refugees #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates #SouthAfrica

🖥️ **The Coming AI Cataclysm**

"_My experience when I have caught university students making unauthorized use of AI is that the cheaters are too ignorant and lazy to know what good output would look like. Sometimes these errors are very obvious, as when two of my students turned in memos that did not summarize the assigned reading but one with a similar title. Knowing what good output looks like requires skills and knowledge that can only be acquired the old-fashioned way, by doing one’s own work._"

🔗 https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-coming-ai-cataclysm/.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Education #Learning

🖥️ **Analyzing the Effects of TikTok on the Attention Span of Evolving High School Students**

"_After extensive examination, the findings of this study indicated that TikTok did have a greater negative influence on the attention spans of freshman students, affecting the way they absorb information during lecture lessons._"

🔗 https://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/intersect/article/view/3463

#SocialMedia #TikTok #AttentionSpan #Education #Learning #Technology #Tech #Research

🇦🇺 🎥 **Why people are falling in love with AI companions**

"_The rise of artificial intelligence companions and the dangers of falling in love with them._"

#Video length: twenty minutes and twenty-four seconds.

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d08BZmdZu8.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Love #Relationships #60Mins #Australia

🎥 **The $2 Million Lost Book of Archimedes**

"_A prayer book holding hidden text reveals long-buried secrets from the greatest mathematician of the ancient world._"

#Video length: forty minutes and forty-two seconds

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXNIgHov0Nk

#History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Archimedes #Book

🇨🇭 **844,000 Swiss have poor reading and maths skills**

"_Some 15% of the Swiss population between the ages of 16 and 65 have difficulty reading, calculating and solving problems without instructions._"

🔗 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/844000-people-in-switzerland-have-poor-reading-and-maths-skills/

#Reading #Maths #Mathematics #Switzerland

💊 🎥 **‘MAGA math’: Dr Oz jumps through hoops – and changes the laws of math – to explain Trump claims about lowering drug prices**

_“The president does the calculation by saying, ‘OK, if a drug was $100 and you reduce it to $50, it’s 100 percent cheaper because you’re taking $50 off and left with only $50, so the amount you took off the price is equal to the amount that’s left. They’re equal so it’s 100 percent.’”_

🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/dr-oz-trump-drug-prices-b2851095.html.

#DrOz #MehmetOz #MAGA #Maths #Mathematics

📖 **The Shape of a Life: One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry**

"_Beginning with an impoverished childhood in China and Hong Kong, Yau takes readers through his doctoral studies at Berkeley during the height of the Vietnam War protests, his Fields Medal–winning proof of the Calabi conjecture, his return to China, and his pioneering work in geometric analysis._"

🔗 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300235906/the-shape-of-a-life/.

#Nonfiction #Autobiography #Science #Maths #Mathematics #Books #Bookstodon

🇺🇸 **The Birth of Birthright Citizenship**

"_A Chinatown cook's fight to re-enter the U.S. in 1895 went up to the Supreme Court, which upheld his claim to birthright citizenship and guaranteed it for all through the 14th Amendment._"

🔗 https://www.americanheritage.com/birth-birthright-citizenship.

#History #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates

>>One trillion dollars in two months and counting is that sustainable?<<

🇺🇸 **$38 trillion and growing: The national debt interest costs are “harming the economy for every American”**

"_The growth of the US national debt is accelerating at its fastest clip according to data from the US Treasury, jumping $1 trillion in just two months._"

🔗 https://en.as.com/latest_news/38-trillion-and-growing-the-national-debt-interest-costs-are-harming-the-economy-for-every-american-f202510-n/

#Debt #Economy #Economics #USA #US #UnitedStates

**Who Pays for Tariffs Along the Supply Chain? Evidence from European Wine Tariffs**

"_By combining confidential transaction prices with foreign suppliers and U.S. distributors as well as retail prices, we trace price impacts along the supply chain, from foreign producers to U.S. consumers. Although pass-through at the border was incomplete, our estimates indicate that U.S. consumers paid more than the government received in tariff revenue, because domestic markups amplified downstream price effects._"

Aaron B. Flaaen, Ali Hortaçsu, Felix Tintelnot, Nicolás Urdaneta, and Daniel Xu, "Who Pays for Tariffs Along the Supply Chain? Evidence from European Wine Tariffs," NBER Working Paper 34392 (2025), https://doi.org/10.3386/w34392.

#Tariffs #Economy #Economics #Academia

🇺🇸 **Scope downgrades the United States of America’s credit ratings to AA- and revises Outlooks to Stable **

"_Scope Ratings GmbH (Scope) has today downgraded the United States of America’s local and foreign currency long-term issuer and senior unsecured debt ratings to AA-, from AA, and revised the Outlooks to Stable, from Negative._"

🔗 https://scoperatings.com/ratings-and-research/rating/EN/179482.

#Debt #Economy #Economics #USA #US #UnitedStates