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This new study underscores one of my biggest objections to the use of AI in the classroom. For me, those objections fall into 3 categories: 1) the environmental impact; 2) cognitive offloading and ... 1/2 www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...
AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking
The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has transformed numerous aspects of daily life, yet its impact on critical thinking remains underexplored. This study investigates the relations...
www.mdpi.com
It's important to need to keep in mind that AI is literally making us dumber.
Overreliance on these tools to make decisions undermines our future ability to think critically and make decisions for ourselves effectively. We *need* to continue to exercise our minds in order to retain our humanity.
Overreliance on these tools to make decisions undermines our future ability to think critically and make decisions for ourselves effectively. We *need* to continue to exercise our minds in order to retain our humanity.
Bailout Abundance.
hey guys isn't it weird how all of the abundance guys in DC started talking about the US government needing to back US AI tech companies at the same time and now government backed entities are now looking into doing this
What the fuck
November 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Bailout Abundance.
What kind of fresh hell is this?
“‘Audio updates are meant to be short and sweet (a few sentences here and there), tailored to your interests and your social graph, and designed to both inspire and inform you…The vibe we’re going for is more ‘Waze meets Gossip Girl,’ and less ‘Wikipedia in your ears.’”
Foursquare’s founder launches a new app that talks to you about your neighborhood
“The vibe we’re going for is more ‘Waze meets Gossip Girl’.“
www.theverge.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
What kind of fresh hell is this?
I'd suggest it's "misuse" of "misuse framing". Developers and vendors are the primary "misusers". Their products are the misuse.
what the “misuse” framing does is shift the onus on individual users when shit goes wrong leaving AI developers and vendors off the hook
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November 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I'd suggest it's "misuse" of "misuse framing". Developers and vendors are the primary "misusers". Their products are the misuse.
More hardwood, please.
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
More hardwood, please.
And a hot rotisserie chicken is often cheaper than a raw one!
You can’t even use SNAP to buy a hot rotisserie chicken unless you live in a state with a special waiver.
ROB SCHMITT: People are using SNAP benefits to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair. This is a really ugly program.
SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.
SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.
November 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
And a hot rotisserie chicken is often cheaper than a raw one!
I like cheap butts and I can not lie.
You other smokers can't deny.
You other smokers can't deny.
November 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I like cheap butts and I can not lie.
You other smokers can't deny.
You other smokers can't deny.
Who the fuck wants this?
Sure, it's vaguely technically impressive that it can mash all of these words together and maybe even occasionally get things right...but *even if it worked* what's the value proposition?
*Even if this were all true*...Who the hell wants to waste their time reading it?
Sure, it's vaguely technically impressive that it can mash all of these words together and maybe even occasionally get things right...but *even if it worked* what's the value proposition?
*Even if this were all true*...Who the hell wants to waste their time reading it?
October 31, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Who the fuck wants this?
Sure, it's vaguely technically impressive that it can mash all of these words together and maybe even occasionally get things right...but *even if it worked* what's the value proposition?
*Even if this were all true*...Who the hell wants to waste their time reading it?
Sure, it's vaguely technically impressive that it can mash all of these words together and maybe even occasionally get things right...but *even if it worked* what's the value proposition?
*Even if this were all true*...Who the hell wants to waste their time reading it?
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Russell Westbrook, Latrell Sprewell, early Dwyane Wade…
What are some good slashers to play in the background with the sound low/off for a Halloween party?
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Russell Westbrook, Latrell Sprewell, early Dwyane Wade…
This is why I've completely abandoned several pieces of software that I'd used for 25+ years within the past several months.
I've zero interest in using tools that have me swearing at them daily "Will you fuck off?"
I've zero interest in using tools that have me swearing at them daily "Will you fuck off?"
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is why I've completely abandoned several pieces of software that I'd used for 25+ years within the past several months.
I've zero interest in using tools that have me swearing at them daily "Will you fuck off?"
I've zero interest in using tools that have me swearing at them daily "Will you fuck off?"
None of this ends well.
October 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
None of this ends well.
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TEACHERS: Do you have *concerns* about AI in school?
Share w/ us & @404media.co's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social, David Cutler & @lutzfernandez.bsky.social
RSVP: https://bit.ly/PBS-AI-Zoom10-30
Share w/ us & @404media.co's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social, David Cutler & @lutzfernandez.bsky.social
RSVP: https://bit.ly/PBS-AI-Zoom10-30
October 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
TEACHERS: Do you have *concerns* about AI in school?
Share w/ us & @404media.co's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social, David Cutler & @lutzfernandez.bsky.social
RSVP: https://bit.ly/PBS-AI-Zoom10-30
Share w/ us & @404media.co's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social, David Cutler & @lutzfernandez.bsky.social
RSVP: https://bit.ly/PBS-AI-Zoom10-30
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Hoping we can get a second Wolves win and a J.J. Redick arrest tomorrow night.
October 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Hoping we can get a second Wolves win and a J.J. Redick arrest tomorrow night.
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Let's take a moment to recognize Jontay Porter as the real trail blazer here
Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups has been arrested by the FBI for alleged illegal gambling, sources tell ESPN.
October 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Let's take a moment to recognize Jontay Porter as the real trail blazer here
Why would anyone want this?
It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...
October 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Why would anyone want this?
This is a great article that puts structure around why and how AI generated slop is slop.
This one in particular just grinds my gears - asking me to waste time reading *nothing* because you can't be bothered to communicate is a direct assault.
This one in particular just grinds my gears - asking me to waste time reading *nothing* because you can't be bothered to communicate is a direct assault.
October 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This is a great article that puts structure around why and how AI generated slop is slop.
This one in particular just grinds my gears - asking me to waste time reading *nothing* because you can't be bothered to communicate is a direct assault.
This one in particular just grinds my gears - asking me to waste time reading *nothing* because you can't be bothered to communicate is a direct assault.
In general, you can't reasonably cite things you don't read.
People who say "you can't possibly read everything you cite" are saying a lot about themselves, IMO.
It doesn't have to be a heavy lift. I spend about half an hour a day processing new-to-me papers by organizing them in my reference managers & adding topical tags so I can create bibliographies.
It doesn't have to be a heavy lift. I spend about half an hour a day processing new-to-me papers by organizing them in my reference managers & adding topical tags so I can create bibliographies.
October 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
In general, you can't reasonably cite things you don't read.
Truly some spectacularly disingenuous doublespeak from "Best Beer" here.
Absolute dystopic AI assault on quality beverages.
Insisting that evaluators select sloppified funhouse-mirror perversions of their tasting notes in place of their honest and nuanced feedback.
www.404media.co/what-happene...
Absolute dystopic AI assault on quality beverages.
Insisting that evaluators select sloppified funhouse-mirror perversions of their tasting notes in place of their honest and nuanced feedback.
www.404media.co/what-happene...
What Happened When AI Came for Craft Beer
A prominent beer competition introduced an AI-judging tool without warning. The judges and some members of the wider brewing industry were pissed.
www.404media.co
October 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Truly some spectacularly disingenuous doublespeak from "Best Beer" here.
Absolute dystopic AI assault on quality beverages.
Insisting that evaluators select sloppified funhouse-mirror perversions of their tasting notes in place of their honest and nuanced feedback.
www.404media.co/what-happene...
Absolute dystopic AI assault on quality beverages.
Insisting that evaluators select sloppified funhouse-mirror perversions of their tasting notes in place of their honest and nuanced feedback.
www.404media.co/what-happene...
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look at this absolute robber baron
October 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
look at this absolute robber baron
Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes.
October 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes.
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OMFG from a chat fisher: "I want to start a conversation that feels meaningful from the beginning so I can hook the other person in – but also I don’t want to spend too much time on it"
These modern day takes on Cyrano really suck.
‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder
Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
OMFG from a chat fisher: "I want to start a conversation that feels meaningful from the beginning so I can hook the other person in – but also I don’t want to spend too much time on it"
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I’m skeptical of AI as a quality content generation machine, but if you’re going to write the same article with the same charts every year, GameHasChangedGPT might actually work for you.
October 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I’m skeptical of AI as a quality content generation machine, but if you’re going to write the same article with the same charts every year, GameHasChangedGPT might actually work for you.