“The arctic rodents called Lemmings are well known for their periodic mass suicides by collectively swimming into the sea and drowning, or at least the Norway lemmings do. This is probably caused by environmental pressures usually from over population…”
—Mass SuicideHolology)
Actually, the cause of this behavior is more likely to be Disney employees hurling animals from cliffs in order to provide striking visuals for the 1958 movie White Wilderness. Another good Snopes find, which, among many other things, ruins an important metaphor in the classic IF game Trinity.
I first started teaching with this handout in 1999 and posted it on my blog…
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. @thepublicpgh
[A] popular type of generative AI model can provide turn-by-turn driving directions in New York City…