Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

This is catastrophic.

Screenshot of a post from Donald Trump: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

The President of the United States is openly threatening to commit genocide against 90 million people.

Prime Minister Carney: if there was ever a moment to denounce this illegal war, withdraw your support, and call for accountability for war crimes—it’s now.

I keep thinking of Leonardo diCaprio's character's last line in Don't Look Up...

Wow that's bad. It's almost as if Trump wrote it.

When it comes to writing, the process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose.

AI will never fill that void.

www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

the schadenfreude is high tonight... I love being off socials all day and tuning in to this

Congo Miners Keep Dying for Minerals That Power U.S. Tech The mine feeding smartphones, data centers, and EVs became a mass grave, as a Trump‑era minerals accord moves ahead with little oversight.

"[M]ore than 200 Congolese miners were buried alive."

"[M]onths after the United States entered a 'peace for minerals' pact with Congo and Rwanda."

"[P]owering the evolution of technology within the U.S."
#DRC #USA #Rwanda #Technology #Mining #Courts

Premier Promotes Critical Minerals Opportunities to Developers, Investors

Tim Houston made hundreds of thousands in cuts to tourism and culture, but had $300,000 to gift to mining developers, citing that “mineral exploration brings $35 to $50 million per year to Nova Scotia communities”

Meanwhile tourism revenue in NS in 2025 was $3.7 billion, growing ~8% per year.

In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better? Coaching from artificial intelligence chatbots, personalized and accessible at any time, is now shaping how some students write.

No. Teachers aren't asking if AI can improve how students write. This is getting absurd. A language pattern machine that plagiarizes does not think or help people write. Or learn how to write. You have to actually write to get better at writing.

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there's no such thing as a "non-controversial" topic in a university... all knowledges, in any field, are the result of ongoing controversy and debate and disagreement... that university boards and admin aren't able or willing to make that argument really is appalling

Tweet from the US Department of State: "The United States and Europe belong to a civilization that stretches over continents, crossed over oceans, and persisted for thousands of years: from Athens to Rome to America. Western Civilization must embrace its noble legacy if it is to reverse its decline."

There is no coherent historical legacy that directly links Athens and Rome to Christian Europe and the United States while leaving out the Islamic world. This is such ahistorical nonsense.

reminding the IOF that neutrality is just advocacy for the status quo.. and the whole notion that sports isn't political has always been bogus... (cause if that were the case, then they and others wouldn't be all concerned with regulating gender as they always have...)

aware of fighting historical and ongoing colonialism and exploitation (of people, animals, resources), and yet still full of joy and optimism and hope that together, indeed, we can change the crap happening now and be better together 2/2

i am so late to saying anything about this.. but that halftime show was both the world i know and the world i want to live in -- one that is multicultural and multiracial, with many genders and sexualities, where i don't speak all the languages and that's just fine... 1/2

A Pedagogy of the Inevitable Over the last couple of years, two altogether incompatible discourses of “AI literacy” have emerged. One seeks just enough literacy to support a smooth, perhaps even joyful, integration with new techn...

Nothing I love more than a scathing, borderline-petty academic book review. Truly the best tradition in the genre.

Masked government thugs snuffed out Alex Pretti’s life in broad daylight | Moira Donegan If they’re trying to eliminate witnesses, they cannot eliminate us all

I write about Alex Pretti and the power of witness as ICE targets legal observers. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The structures that were demolished had been used to store aid for the West Bank and Gaza

ah well at least we restructured the entire contemporary university, the product of many centuries of slowly accumulating human ingenuity, to boost this

classic example of liking the food but not the people... ICE thugs wanting Mexican food

many Canadians have close connections to people in the U.S. - family, friends, work... I lived there for many years, love and miss many people there... but f the federal government and everything it is doing...

the thing with courage is that it really is contagious... and we seem to be seeing some of that today... and hope is being added to fear and outrage

This is a dangerous and irresponsible response.

Cheering the illegal abduction of a foreign head of state and celebrating U.S. control over another country is wrong.

Canada cannot pick & choose when international law applies. If the rules only matter when it’s convenient, they don’t protect anyone

a useful starter pack:

go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

true in Canada and elsewhere too

the whole thread

hey PEI folks... do you know there's an NDP PEI bluesky account? go and follow us! bsky.app/profile/ndpp...

the whole thread... we've had plenty of pandemics etc before that disrupted education 'as usual'... (to say nothing of kids who spend years in war zones and refugee camps). All of this is awful - but not everything about the current situation on PSE can be blamed on 'this is the Covid generation'

woot... congrats, Bren!!

also, every class talks about race and gender, they just don't call it that, thinking instead it's just 'the discipline' or 'common knowledge'

I think that every professor at Texas A&M should now plan a class on race and gender, and wouldn't it be too bad if there were 1000s of emails to the president suddenly looking for an ok... might be hard to get other presidential work done and all