Weird History offers a good debunking of this persistent myth.

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My mother has taught me so much. I'm delighted I get to sit in her living room and teach her how to text.

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The AI revolution is powered by these contractors making $15 an hour

Students who cheat with ChatGPT can look forward to these $15/hr jobs training the AI that they relied upon to get them their degrees. The students who actually did the work themselves should be much be better prepared to demonstrate how their work differs from the mediocre stream of bot-produced content. Savreux is part of…

Spring 2023 Grades: Submitted! (I only had 3 last-minute submissions to mark today.)

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Headlines matter. Were they migrants, people who happened to be at a migrant center, pedestrians, or manslaughter victims?

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RIP Metaverse, we hardly knew ye

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Star Trek TOS Main Theme but it never gets to the Main Theme

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Today’s unexpected but welcome moments of grace

She waived a fee. He accepted a slightly expired coupon. Someone bent a rule in my favor. (I may or may not have deserved it.) I bent rules for five different people. (They may or may not have deserved it.) That 1/4 inch post that was too big popped off and under it was a…

They grew up in a mostly analog/paper world and squirmed with joy the first time they clicked a hyperlink that they created

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Requiem for the Newsroom

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AP Style tips on “neurodiversity”

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National Mall site approved for memorial to fallen journalists

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The Struggle to Save Ballet From Itself

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Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots, then develop friendships, Northeastern University researchers say

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Here’s to the grim-based photojournalist who saved my bacon ~35 years ago

Here’s to you, grim-faced photojournalist who waited just long enough to make sure 20-year-old me learned an important lesson, before saving me from the consequences of my own poor planning. Every day on the job, I’m trying to pay it forward. In 1989, I was an intern in a crowd of media professionals covering…

Look how the box leads your eye down to the car, then the two signs lead your eye up to the ba-boom setup, then your eye drops to the CRASH. Beautiful.

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Looking forward to what looks like an exciting evening of dance.

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