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Beth In France
@bethinfrance.bsky.social
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Misanthropic empath in France.
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@lisaazbirder.bsky.social @jagsaysstupid.bsky.social @propcazhpm.bsky.social @katgranz.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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gaius.bsky.social
There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI
carnage4life.bsky.social Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1d
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.

I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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parisnoire.bsky.social
I’m not sure why AI is so prominent in this article since a historian did the lion’s share of the archival digging and AI simply verified what experts already confirmed.

At Last, a Name for the Murderous Face in a Holocaust Photo www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/s...
At Last, a Name for the Murderous Face in a Holocaust Photo
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Last month, @theguardian.com framed this historical event project the same way; minimizing the years of archival work, the interviews etc it took to be able to do this.

Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’
Second world war This article is more than 1 month old Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image This article is more than 1 month old Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery Deborah Cole Deborah Cole Berlin correspondent Thu 2 Oct 2025 08.23 BST Last modified on Thu 2 Oct 2025 13.22 BST
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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uglygame.bsky.social
Just catching up with the budget coverage in the papers.
Headline from The Onion: Opinion Here's Why It Would Be A Mistake To Do Anything That Inconveniences Rich Assholes by Some Rich Asshole
November 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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lizgloyn.bsky.social
Facing up to the unrelenting reality that the way to get things off the to do list is... to do them.

Rude.
November 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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duncanweldon.bsky.social
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
“An infant in Kentucky who was unvaccinated against pertussis, or whooping cough, has died, marking the third death from the deadly bacteria in the state this year. Before 2025, Kentucky had last recorded an infant whooping cough death in 2018.”
Third infant in Kentucky dies of whooping cough as national cases stay high for second year in a row
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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zoegrunewald.bsky.social
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone celebrating! @lisaazbirder.bsky.social @propcazhpm.bsky.social @jagsaysstupid.bsky.social @katgranz.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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jdportes.bsky.social
One big risk to the OBR forecasts has already materialised -migration is falling more quickly than their projections and that will hit growth and tax revenue.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
UK net migration drops sharply to 204,000 in year to June - live updates
Net migration fell by around two-thirds - from 649,000 in the year to June 2024 to 204,000 in the year to June 2025.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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heathercherone.bsky.social
A reminder
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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hergametoocricket.bsky.social
👀 Spotted in Mumbai.

The impact of the CWC25 is undeniable.
Champions now, legends forever. 🌟

📸 : Uma Bagalkote
#HerGameToo
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
“You know what sucks? Having customers. Surely we can put an end to that.”
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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ernie.tedium.co
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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rincewind.run
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Tweet from @PPathole Tech enthusiasts: my entire house is smart Tech workers: the only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize
November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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@lisaazbirder.bsky.social @propcazhpm.bsky.social @jagsaysstupid.bsky.social @katgranz.bsky.social Hope everyone is having or will have a good Saturday.
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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bibliowingate.bsky.social
It's wild to me how on point Pope Leo seems to be with AI use. A quote from today:
"Be careful that your use of AI does not limit your true human growth...Use it in such a way that, if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, create, and act on your own."
November 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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astrokatie.com
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
us.theconversation.com The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 8d
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM