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Jason2357

@ Jason2357 @lemmy.ca

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  • A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom

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  • Are you familiar with a social media site where it's common to post well-researched and cited position papers? A rant is about what I expect in a place like this. The goal, I think, is to start a discussion -which is where your commentors injecting nuance or level headed opinions comes in. I personally don't know what the solution is, but students using AI is an incredible experiment being conducted on the next generation. No one has anything but an opinion, because there's no outcome data yet. My opinion is that it is scary as hell.

  • A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom

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  • Offloading onto technology always atrophies the skill it replaces. Calculators offloaded, very specifically, basic arithmetic. However, Math =/= arithmetic. I used calculators, and cannot do mental multiplication and division as fast or well as older generations, but I spent that time learning to apply math to problems, understand number theory, and gaining a mastery of more complex operations, including writing computer sourcecode to do math-related things. It was always a trade-off.

    In Aristotle's time, people spent their entire education memorizing literature, and the written world off-loaded that skill. This isn't a new problem, but there needs to be something of value to be educated in that replaces what was off-loaded. I think scholars are much better trained today, now that they don't have to spend years memorizing passages word for word.

    AI replaces thinking. That's a bomb between the ears for students.

  • A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom

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  • Comparing with phones is odd, as we shouldn't have allowed them in schools in the first place, and are starting to ban them in schools all over the world.

  • Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First

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  • They are not actually encrypted (anything like that on the box is basically a lie). Just pre-arrange code words for emergencies and use a "handle" instead of a name. Old school works.

  • ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants

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  • Aside from the snark, I hope you are right.

  • A cool guide to move away from big tech and discover new and better tools!

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  • I would love to find a low-effort meme and “fun” pics stream like Imgur. Pixelfed is too serious photographer, and while lemmy has plenty of meme pictures, the UI makes it awkward to just scroll at breakfast and send something funny to fam. Just a wall of images and short videos, and no comments unless you click them.

  • ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants

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  • Not only that, imploding could further inflame the world. If a collapsing us goes into Greenland, and the EU splits in half over whether to side with Denmark or the US (remember, Poland is totally dependant on US nuclear deterrent, they are not likely to abandon that). That will empower Putin to move in. That China will be unrestrained is not even questionable. Things will get hotter everywhere.

  • Self-hosting in 2026 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure

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  • Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods

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  • Don't trust “flight mode”, use a Faraday bag for that purpose.

  • The White House updated its website to describe the January 6th attack

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  • If he was thrown in jail after Jan 6 like a common criminal along with the rest of the mob, the Nazis would be all back in hiding now.

  • "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession

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  • When will America realize that this is not a joke. They'll be laughing right up to the goosestepping.

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  • NATO doesnt have any articles about one member attacking another.

  • Why Prefer Textfiles? (2010)

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  • I do prefer text files, but Ill critique any way -that site looks horrible because of phone browser wrapping the hard wrapped lines. Wrapping and newline shenanigans are a big downside of plain text. Marked up plain text like html or even markdown help here, buy there are always trade offs.

    Secondly the “font of text files” is just wrong. A text file doesn't even suggest a font. You view it in whatever font your terminal or text editor is using at that time. Fixed width fonts are used for those so that things can be made to line up (e.g., indented code or tables).

  • Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution

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  • It took decades of propaganda. Paying off cooking shows and influencers to have big, obvious gas stoves. They even popularized the phrase “cooking with gas” as a euphemism for anything fast. If it was so much better, it would have sold its self.

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  • Ignore Facebook but install Signal on her phone and start sharing your life via pictures to a group or use the “stories” feature? It takes effort but parents want to see whats going on.

  • Russia plans nuclear power plant on moon within decade

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  • Also, nuclear power plants are steam powered. Good luck. They /might/ drop a nuclear battery, like the kind in some old satellites or apace probes, on the moon, generating a couple hundred watts with 1970s technology.

  • DIY E-Reader Folds Open Like A Book (Diptyx)

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  • The small kobo kinda fits in a jean pocket, easily in cargo shorts or inside jacket pocket. Only comfortable for reading novels though. I prefer a little bigger even if it isnt pocket size.

  • DIY E-Reader Folds Open Like A Book (Diptyx)

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  • EInk gets expensive fast as the size gets bigger. At 10” its hard not to just use an lcd and bigger battery.

  • Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices

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  • Not sure I agree. Centralizing storage, and especially memory, creates incredible round trip costs.