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**Captain Cook’s missing ship found after sinking 250 years ago**
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This year, social media displaced TV and online news websites/apps as the top way Americans get news, according to Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ). According to their latest Digital News Report, the change is happening all over the world, but "faster and with more impact" in the United States. Here's more detail and other findings from the research, courtesy of Nieman Lab.
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**History: Nova Albion**
On this day in 1579 English explorer Francis Drake landed in what is modern day California claiming the territory for England.
💻 **AI Perceived More Negatively than Climate Science or Science in General**
"_They found that people perceived AI scientists more negatively than climate scientists or scientists in general, and that this negativity is driven by concern about AI scientists’ prudence – specifically, the perception that AI science is causing unintended consequences._"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Science #Climate @ai @science
💻 **Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task**
"_Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning._"
Kosmyna, N. et al. (2025) Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task. https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872.
#Preprint #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMS #ComputerScience #Technology #Tech #Research #Learning #Education @ai
"_Discover how algorithm-driven profiling reshapes self-perception and what that means for the future of who we are online and beyond_"
The Algorithmic You: When Platforms Decide Who You Are https://medium.com/mental-gecko/the-algorithmic-you-when-platforms-decide-who-you-are-34908d...
**How Medieval Monks and Scribes Helped Preserve Classical Culture**
🔗 https://lithub.com/how-medieval-monks-and-scribes-helped-preserve-classical-culture/.
🌍 🌡️ **Global warming may increase the burden of obstructive sleep apnea**
"_High ambient temperatures (99th vs. 25th; 27.3 vs. 6.4 °C) are associated with a ~ 45% increase in the probability of having OSA on a given night, globally. The increase in OSA prevalence in 2023 due to global warming was associated with a loss of 788,198 (489,226 to 1,087,170) healthy life years, and a productivity loss of ~105 million days from impaired workplace attendance in the 29 studied countries._"
Lechat, B., Manners, J., Pinilla, L. et al. Global warming may increase the burden of obstructive sleep apnea. Nat Commun 16, 5100 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60218-1.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Sleep #Medicine #Heath #Epidemiology #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Academia #Research @climatechange
Evening all.
**Coin hoard spans Roman republic to first emperor**
"_The denarii date from the late 2nd Century BC, in the last tumultuous decades of the Roman republic, to the first Roman emperors and could have been a purse loss._"
💻 ⚖️ **AI hallucinations in court documents are a growing problem, and data shows lawyers are responsible for many of the errors**
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Law #Legal #Fake #Citations @ai
🇬🇧 💻 **Policymakers who think AI can help rescue flagging UK economy should take heed**
"_Healthy scepticism is needed because flaw is that large language models remain prone to casually making things up_"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #UK #UnitedKingdom #Politics #UKPol #Business #Economy #Economics @ai @economics
🇺🇸 **How Tariffs Are Breaking US Trade**
"_A Detailed Look at How US Trade Flows Are Unraveling Amidst Trump's Trade War_"
🔗 https://www.apricitas.io/p/how-tariffs-are-breaking-us-trade.
#Economy #Economics #Trade #Tariffs #TradeWar #USA #US #UnitedStates @economics
Afternoon all.
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A Gothic book of hours for the industrial age, the pages of this 1886 prayer book were not printed, but rather woven on the Jacquard loom — a proto-computer programmed with more than 100,000 punch cards: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/lyon-woven-prayer-book
**The Month In History**
"_Momentous historical events that occurred during the month of June._"
#Video length: twenty eight minutes and seven seconds.
💻 **Meta AI posts your personal chats to a public feed**
🔗 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/14/meta-ai-posts-your-personal-chats-to-a-public-feed/.
**Display Settings**
What are the best display settings in Linux Mint XFCE? I have been trying to find the optimal setting for the last few days and I cannot reach a comfortable compromise. Either too big or too small such that I cannot even read the writing in programs like OpenOffice or Mastodon.
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Here's the kind of thing you need to suffer through, to understand this "polarization flip" stuff. None of it gets close to the exciting physics - it's just preliminary junk.
People say the Earth's magnetic field points *up* in Antarctica. This is just an arbitrary convention. There's also an arbitrary right-hand rule we need to figure out how the magnetic field pushes on electrons and positrons as they shoot down through the air. But these two arbitrary conventions cancel out and give a non-arbitrary prediction about which way the electrons get pushed, and which way the positrons get pushed.
I'm used to that. But on top of that, people say stuff like this:
"A magnetic compass does not point to the geographic north pole. A magnetic compass points to the earth's magnetic poles, which are not the same as earth's geographic poles."
Okay, fine. But then:
"Furthermore, the magnetic pole near earth's geographic north pole is actually the south magnetic pole. When it comes to magnets, opposites attract. This fact means that the north end of a magnet in a compass is attracted to the south magnetic pole, which lies close to the geographic north pole."
Okay.... I was trying to learn about exciting new discoveries in particle physics, and I learned this. 🥴
Here's the new paper on the exciting stuff:
• Search for the anomalous events detected by ANITA using the Pierre Auger Observatory,
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04513
and here's the article I'm quoting about, explaining that the south magnetic poles is near the geographic north pole and vice versa:
• Christopher Baird, Why does a magnetic compass point to the Geographic North Pole?, https://www.wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2013/11/15/why-does-a-magnetic-compass-point-to-the-geographic-north-pole/
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