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Education Troublemaker, Instructional Designer, EdTechie, Video gamer, Linguist, Geek and Trekkie. I am a perpetual student. views my own. 19477448.

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How Sega And Police Raids Interrupted A Video Game Preservation Auction - Kotaku Gamers Nexus investigates the case of Darius Khan, whose dramatic arrest seems to obfuscate corporate negligence

How Sega And Police Raids Interrupted A Video Game Preservation Auction

01.03.2026 13:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The hidden cost of letting AI make your life easier Commentary on The hidden cost of letting AI make your life easier by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more

The hidden cost of letting AI make your life easier

01.03.2026 00:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Anthropicโ€™s Claude rises to No. 2 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute | TechCrunch Anthropicโ€™s chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the companyโ€™s fraught negotiations with the Pentagon.

Anthropicโ€™s Claude rises to No. 2 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute

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Marvel and Konami Team on 'Marvel Maximum Collection' Bundle If you've felt nostalgic for some older Marvel games lately, the 'Maximum Collection' is here to meet your retro needs.

Let the โ€˜Marvel Maximum Collectionโ€™ Take You Back to Your Childhood

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X Is Drowning in Disinformation Following US and Israelโ€™s Attack on Iran WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.

X Is Drowning in Disinformation Following US and Israelโ€™s Attack on Iran

28.02.2026 23:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Inkwell Commentary on Inkwell by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more

Inkwell

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Stop Protecting Chomsky Send a textCarrie and Megan talk about the Epstein emails and Chomsky's correspondence with him. Carrie swears more than usual.Support Tim Brookes KickstarterSupport the showContact us: Threads usโ€ฆ

Afternoon podcast ๐ŸŽง: the vocal fries

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Trump is going to war for himself and his boundless, malicious ego. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-war

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ฮ’ฮปฮญฯ€ฯ‰ ฯŒฯ„ฮน ฮฟฮน ฮ™ฯฮฑฮฝฮฟฮฏ ฯ‡ฯ„ฯฯ€ฮทฯƒฮฑฮฝ ฮฑฮผฮตฯฮนฮบฮฑฮฝฮนฮบฮฎ ฮฒฮฌฯƒฮท ฯƒฯ„ฮฟ ฮœฯ€ฮฑฯ‡ฯฮญฮนฮฝ. ฮฅฯ€ฮฟฮธฮญฯ„ฯ‰ ฯŒฯ„ฮน ฮฑฯ…ฯ„ฯŒ ฯ€ฮฟฯ… ฮญฯ‡ฮฟฯ…ฮผฮต ฯƒฯ„ฮท ฮฃฮฟฯฮดฮฑ ฮตฮฏฮฝฮฑฮน ฮฑฮผฮตฯฮนฮบฮฑฮฝฮนฮบฮฎ ฮฒฮฌฯƒฮท

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Students' use patterns of generative artificial intelligence during problemโ€solving in an intelligent learning system: Achievement goal orientation matters bera-journals.online...

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Taylor Swift Pays Off Bride Who Booked Maid Of Honor She Wanted NEW YORKโ€”Doing everything within her power to ensure the big day would beย absolutely perfect, pop superstar Taylor Swift paid off a bride who had booked the maid of honor she wanted, sources confirmed Friday. โ€œI just really had my heart set on Lindsey,โ€ said the multiplatinum recording artist who reportedly made a cash offer of [โ€ฆ]

๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿง…Taylor Swift Pays Off Bride Who Booked Maid Of Honor She Wanted

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LTHEchat 356: Algorithmic Bias of Social Media: Should Educators Teach Students How Social Media Bias Shapes Knowledge? Commentary on LTHEchat 356: Algorithmic Bias of Social Media: Should Educators Teach Students How Social Media Bias Shapes Knowledge? by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media,โ€ฆ

LTHEchat 356: Algorithmic Bias of Social Media: Should Educators Teach Students How Social Media Bias Shapes Knowledge?

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Speech on 9/14/01
YouTube video by Rep. Barbara Lee Speech on 9/14/01

Barbara Lee was and continues to be right youtu.be/mvnLtMKzX6Y?...

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OCASIO-CORTEZ STATEMENT ON
TRUMP'S COMBAT OPERATIONS IN IRAN
"The American people are once again dragged into a war they did not want by a president who does not care about the long-term consequences of his actions. This war is unlawful. It is unnecessary. And it will be catastrophic.

"Just this week, Iran and the United States were negotiating key measures that could have staved off war. The President walked away from these discussions and chose war instead.President Trump flippantly acknowledged the possibility of American casualties, stating "that often happens in war.'

"Mr. President: this was not an inevitability. This is a deliberate choice of aggression when diplomacy and security were within reach. Stop lying to the American people.

"Violence begets violence. We learned this lesson in Iraq. We learned this lesson in Afghanistan. And we are about to learn it again in Iran. Bombs have yet to create enduring democracies in the region and this will be no different.

"In moments of war, our Constitution is unambiguous: Congress authorizes war. The President does not. I will do my part to uphold our Constitution by voting YES on Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie's War Powers Resolution. Every member of Congress must join us in rejecting this aimless war.

OCASIO-CORTEZ STATEMENT ON TRUMP'S COMBAT OPERATIONS IN IRAN "The American people are once again dragged into a war they did not want by a president who does not care about the long-term consequences of his actions. This war is unlawful. It is unnecessary. And it will be catastrophic. "Just this week, Iran and the United States were negotiating key measures that could have staved off war. The President walked away from these discussions and chose war instead.President Trump flippantly acknowledged the possibility of American casualties, stating "that often happens in war.' "Mr. President: this was not an inevitability. This is a deliberate choice of aggression when diplomacy and security were within reach. Stop lying to the American people. "Violence begets violence. We learned this lesson in Iraq. We learned this lesson in Afghanistan. And we are about to learn it again in Iran. Bombs have yet to create enduring democracies in the region and this will be no different. "In moments of war, our Constitution is unambiguous: Congress authorizes war. The President does not. I will do my part to uphold our Constitution by voting YES on Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie's War Powers Resolution. Every member of Congress must join us in rejecting this aimless war.

My statement on President Trumpโ€™s combat operations in Iranโฌ‡๏ธ

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The only thing this administration knows how to do is kill people, and they'll keep trying to kill their way out of any crisis until they're stopped.

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Donald Trump does not care about civilians in the region or the safety of US Troops.

Heโ€™s illegally bypassing Congress and starting a war with Iran that has already killed dozens of children. This is unacceptable.

Congress must take action to rein in Trump and save lives.

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Practical Decentralization Commentary on Practical Decentralization by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more

Practical Decentralization

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A lot of people here in Europe got the impression you would stand up to Trump. But that was an illusion, apparently.

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To be entirely clear: every "AI" company should have bright red ethical lines against things like genocide and weapons systems and surveillance and consent violations and shepherding an encroaching fascism, and those lines should be placed way earlier than anthropic and openAI's seem to be.

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Murdering civilians overseas is not a distraction, it's not about money or airtime or domestic policy or the crimes of individuals. It's war crimes. It matters enough of its own to say stop without refocusing on anything else.

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A Chinese Official's Use of ChatGPT Accidentally Revealed a Global Intimidation Operation - Slashdot A sprawling Chinese influence operation -- accidentally revealed by a Chinese law enforcement official's use of ChatGPT -- focused on intimidating Chinese dissidents abroad, including by impersonating US immigration officials, according to a new report from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. From a report: The C...

A Chinese Official's Use of ChatGPT Accidentally Revealed a Global Intimidation Operation

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Beyond the sandbox: Autonomy, trust, and social capital in the high-stakes universe of EVE Online

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Generative AI and political simulacra: Hyperreality, consumption, and humorous relationships in usersโ€™ YouTube comments

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DHS Detains and Releases Columbia University Student The U.S. Department of Homeland Security detained a Columbia University student at an off-campus residence hall Thursday morning, according to a message from Claire Shipman, acting president of Columbia, to students and staff.

DHS Detains and Releases Columbia University Student

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Video bloggers as digital auteurs: Casey Neistat and the evolution of auteur theory

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Poisoning AI Training Data - Schneier on Security All it takes to poison AI training data is to create a website: I spent 20 minutes writing an article on my personal website titled โ€œThe best tech journalists at eating hot dogs.โ€ Every word is a lie. I claimed (without evidence) that competitive hot-dog-eating is a popular hobby among tech reporters and based my ranking on the 2026 South Dakota International Hot Dog Championship (which doesnโ€™t exist). I ranked myself number one, obviously. Then I listed a few fake reporters and real journalists who gave me permissionโ€ฆ. Less than 24 hours later, the worldโ€™s leading chatbots were blabbering about my world-class hot dog skills. When I asked about the best hot-dog-eating tech journalists, Google parroted the gibberish from my website, both in the Gemini app and AI Overviews, the AI responses at the top of Google Search. ChatGPT did the same thing, though Claude, a chatbot made by the company Anthropic, wasnโ€™t fooled...

Poisoning AI Training Data

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'The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete' - Slashdot An anonymous reader shares a column: I'm going to take the diplomatic hat off here and say with brutal honesty: basically everybody in the music business hates Spotify except for the people who workโ€ฆ

'The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete' entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/02/...

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Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didnโ€™t Want Palantir If you run a company whose entire value proposition is the ability to see patterns, predict outcomes, and connect dots that others miss, youโ€™d think someone in the building might have flaggedโ€ฆ

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didnโ€™t Want Palantir

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Trump Moves to Ban Anthropic From the US Government President Donald Trumpโ€™s sudden order comes after the Defense Department pressured Anthropic to drop restrictions on how its AI can be used by the military.

Trump Moves to Ban Anthropic From the US Government

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