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There is No "Human-Centered 'AI'" Two recently-published reports use the same phrase – “human-centered AI” – urging schools to adopt automated and predictive technologies that, as The 74’s Greg Toppo reports, “serve human-centered lea...

Human-centered ”AI”. Which humans are we talking about here? Surely not the “ghost workers” tasked with labeling and training these systems… with low pay, no benefits, no job security… exposed daily to violent, harmful content 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/there-is-no-...

Idag var det ljust för första gången på väldigt länge när jag hämtade på förskolan och då upptäckte jag och en annan pappa att vi har tagit hem fel barn hela vintern.

The Null Hypothesis is Always Wrong No two populations are identical for any trait. No two communities have the same species composition. No detectable phenotype is ever compl...

The data ALWAYS violate the assumptions of the model: no data/residual distribution is normal, no two populations have the same variance, no X-Y relationship is perfectly linear… What matters is… the effect size and WHETHER THAT MATTERS FOR YOUR CONCLUSION ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

U.S. was only country in a worldwide survey to say most fellow citizens are bad people A new Pew survey shows that other countries’ citizens tend to look more favorably on their neighbors.

53% of American adults describe the morality and ethics of their fellow citizens as “bad” (somewhat bad or very bad). In the 24 other countries polled by Pew Research Center, most people said other residents there are somewhat good or good www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Biden: "We're in a tough spot, folks. We've got an administration that doesn't share any of the values we have. And I don't think I'm exaggerating."

Kennedy: "I was stunned when Noem answered categorically that the president approved every single bit of it. Later that day, I got a call from President Trump. He was mad as a mamma wasp ... she was dead as fried chicken."

Trump: "A lot of our people were walking around without legs"

DOOCY: It sounds like the Russians are helping Iran target and attack Americans--


TRUMP: That's an easy problem compared to what we're doing here. What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time. We're talking about something else.

Iran and the immorality of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Plus: ICE supports melts; America wins coveted title.

…a distortion tends to afflict the perception of adversaries: We read offensive intent into ambiguous actions, including actions that have largely defensive purposes… From Iran’s point of view, the purpose of menacing Israel may be to prevent war www.nonzero.org/p/iran-and-t...

Can snacks help you sleep? Chocolates, bars, gummies and drinks promise to help you sleep, but is the science behind them sound?

Sleep enhancing snack foods combine the wellness claims of health supplements with the format of a treat… a sleep aid in the form of a chocolate, gummy, bar or drink may cause some people to avoid looking at what's actually causing their sleep issues www.bbc.com/news/article...

As speech shrinks — thought starves. Cognitive effects of digital orality Digital orality: fewer words, more interaction, less abstraction

Everything is a media effect. To absorb the masses, the public sphere had to become less literate and more oral. The era of post-literacy had begun… The shortening of sentences and the growth of orality go hand in hand www.andreymir.com/p/as-speech-...

The current design trend of business and self-help style books is to use tons of subheadings and callout boxes and always, a list of the key points at the end of the chapter… it sucks the negative space out of the text — the places in which the reader might step back tracydurnell.com/2026/03/06/n...

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

Since the war began, Russia has passed Iran the locations of U.S. military assets, including warships and aircraft… high level of “sophistication” in the Iranian retaliatory strikes, both in what Tehran targeted and in the ability to overwhelm defenses www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

But hey, Vlad and his consiglieri say we’re gonna make $16 trillion with them in Russia

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

So Russia is giving Iran targeting and intel on American forces in the Gulf.

So let me get this straight: Trump supports Russia, which supports Iran.

So, in Trump logic, Ukraine is the enemy.

Got it.

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CNN's Dana Bash reports on a conversation she just had with Trump: "He quickly turned to Cuba. He said without being asked, 'Cuba is going to fall pretty soon.'"

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

Permeable: The Monetization of Human Fragility - 3 Quarks Daily by Muhammad Aurangzeb AhmadThere is a particular moment of weakness that most of us recognize without needing to name it. You are lying in your bed, it is

A study in JAMA Network Open examining nighttime smartphone use among adults at high suicide risk found that use between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. was associated with higher next-day suicidal ideation and planning, independent of total time spent on the phone 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

C’mon, people. Look at your Kremlin style guide. The phrase is “special military operation.” Not all of you are getting this right.

Trump Flat Out Declares Iran Is Already ‘Decimated for a 10-Year Period’ President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed that Iran has been decimated to the point that it will take a decade for the country to be rebuilt.

In a lenghty interview, Trump marveled at the success of the military operation against Iran and expressed no concern about what comes next. “I hope you are impressed… How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better” www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...

The US vs Canada in one graph

We had almost all the good birds in the feeder today. Here is Mrs Pizzabongo.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons

meta simply cannot stop finding more and more invasive parts of people's lives to ship oversees to unnamed contractors in distant countries

Vem är beredd att betala priset för att hamna i blåsväder? | Tidningen Curie När lögner paketeras som sunt förnuft är det särskilt viktigt att forskare syns och hörs också utanför akademin. Samtidigt är det inte riskfritt att delta i den offentliga debatten. Magnus Dahlstedt s...

Tiderna ställer oss forskare inför svåra prövningar. När kunskap devalveras och lögner paketeras som sunt förnuft är det särskilt viktigt att forskare syns och hörs också utanför akademin. Inte minst gäller det forskare inom humaniora och samhällsvetenskap www.tidningencurie.se/kronikor/vem...

Taler du med en chatbot? Nyt studie viser mulig risiko for psykisk sygdom Psykolog og forsker rejser »et lille rødt flag« ved brugen af AI-chatbotter som ChatGPT.

Forskere har screenet 54.000 journaler for patienter med psykisk sygdom… ved 38 tilfælde kobling mellem brugen af chatbotter og en forværring af symptomer… Den mulige risiko ikke begrænset til bestemte typer kommunikation… Chatbotter kan måske ‘mime’ vrangforestillinger videnskab.dk/krop-sundhed...

Fight against child abuse made more difficult by Epstein scandal Most perpetrators aren't jet-set millionaires. "Dad, cousin, uncle, boyfriend. That is the primary perpetrator. That is where we need to focus our energies," says one local expert.

”The thing that drives me crazy about the Epstein situation and others is decades and decades of overlooking that behavior… All those people witness those things, and the witnesses simply didn’t do anything. We as adults… it’s our job to notice those signs” chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

Trettonåringar ska inte använda tiktok de ska sitta i fängelse.

Broad claims about gender and behavior fall apart when studies include ethnically diverse samples Behavioral economics relies heavily on studies of Western, educated people. A recent analysis provides evidence that ignoring racial diversity within the United States has led to flawed generalization...

“Racial and ethnic differences in competitiveness and risk tolerance in the U.S. are substantial — similar in size to the well-known gender gaps… we do not observe the typical gender gap in competitiveness or risk tolerance among Black participants” www.psypost.org/broad-claims...

Your phone IS tracking what you say. But not how you think. The truth is creepier. You mention dog food, then see dog food ads. Coincidence? Nope. But your phone’s microphone isn’t the real culprit. What IS happening will make your skin crawl.

Companies embed ultrasonic cross-device tracking signals, beyond what human ears can pick up, into TV commercials, websites and store speakers. Your phone picks them up and links itself to your TV, laptop and tablet. Now advertisers know those devices belong to you www.komando.com/news/devices...