Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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21.11.2025 11:48 โ ๐ 2040 ๐ 834 ๐ฌ 60 ๐ 309
Just finished reading The Change by Kirsten Miller, after @tressiemcphd.bsky.social recommended it a while back, and whew, it's too real with all this Epstein stuff coming out
13.11.2025 05:26 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
BREAKING: Supreme Court REJECTS challenge to marriage equality. IMAGE: Pride flag waving in front of Supreme Court building.
๐GREAT NEWS๐
The Supreme Court just REJECTED a challenge to the landmark decision in #Obergefell that legalized same-sex marriage across the U.S., meaning marriage equality will continue to be the law of the land! #LoveIsLove
10.11.2025 15:16 โ ๐ 140 ๐ 33 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 3
Thatโs before I reckon with the ethics of using a thing for ghost efficiency that is pretty societally devastating.
And on a final personal note, I donโt want to become stupid before my time. I really donโt. I will keep mucking about so that I can keep mucking about, for as long as possible.
08.11.2025 12:37 โ ๐ 844 ๐ 65 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 7
I wonder how many airlines have offered to pay air traffic controller's salaries during the shutdown, which has to be cheaper than canceling flights or refunding tickets.
06.11.2025 05:50 โ ๐ 96 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 0
Live reports from CBP staging area at Coast Guard Island
Yesterday, the Coast Guard confirmed an โoperationโ was underway and said guards' facilities in Alameda would provide support. Live reports from the scene.
Yesterday, the Coast Guard confirmed to The Oaklandside that an โoperationโ was underway and that the guards' facilities in Alameda would be providing support. Live reports from the scene.
23.10.2025 13:07 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 3
What We Can Do About ICE
ICE is in the Bay Area. And yes, we can all do something about it.
While this federal administration has been busy empowering ICE to become, essentially, an extrajudicial militia allowed to disappear people from our streets, the Bay has been organizing. We will not be beaten down.
22.10.2025 22:12 โ ๐ 350 ๐ 181 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 8
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
22.10.2025 11:53 โ ๐ 17508 ๐ 5775 ๐ฌ 367 ๐ 242
after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet
09.10.2025 19:30 โ ๐ 4177 ๐ 543 ๐ฌ 303 ๐ 131
"Mainstream media has become so terrified of appearing biased that theyโve abandoned their basic responsibility to clearly communicate truth to the public. Theyโd rather hide behind the false comfort of 'some say' and 'experts disagree' than plainly state obvious facts."
08.10.2025 15:28 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
It me
30.09.2025 15:51 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Proud to see my representative, @replsimon.bsky.social, among the members who signed
30.09.2025 01:19 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
"The website features photos of beautiful women-laughing-alone-with-hormbles-chormbles like theyโre totally unbothered by the eldritch curse written on their snack" ๐ www.eater.com/24408067/hor...
29.09.2025 01:05 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in itโremoves them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
23.09.2025 17:09 โ ๐ 6673 ๐ 1930 ๐ฌ 200 ๐ 296
โShake it offโ: Taylor Swiftโs changing voice shows how our accents evolve
An analysis of Swiftโs interviews suggests her speech pattern has changed over her career.
โWe cannot typically follow someone around with a microphone,โ says audiologist Matthew Winn.
Enter Tay Tay.
@mohanabasu.bsky.social reports on the linguistics of #TaylorSwift for @nature.com ๐งช
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
24.09.2025 00:23 โ ๐ 218 ๐ 50 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 3
California is putting a stop to secret police. Weโre making them take off the damn ski masks.
20.09.2025 20:45 โ ๐ 475 ๐ 109 ๐ฌ 12 ๐ 4
16.09.2025 15:58 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
"theirs is the stale orthodoxy of those blinkered devotees of human aristocracy, who reject the faith of the founders โ and the work of those who made it real โ to worship at the altar of hierarchy and repression."
11.09.2025 05:12 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
California, Oregon, and Washington to launch new West Coast Health Alliance to uphold scientific integrity in public health as Trump destroys CDCโs credibility | Governor of California
"Through this partnership, California, Oregon, and Washington will start coordinating health guidelines by aligning immunization recommendations informed by respected national medical organizations โ regardless of shifting federal actions."
03.09.2025 18:25 โ ๐ 381 ๐ 74 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 6
"magical hallway conversations"
22.08.2025 15:33 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The Political Economy of "AI"
Before straying to the theory dark side, I spent some time in college as an Economics major; Iโve always been strangely charmed by a silly joke I first heard back then.
โThe current political economy of AI rests on positing future value returns that will only be possible after a technological breakthrough of such unprecedented extent it would entail a transformation of society so radical as to undermine the very conditions of capitalist profit.โ - Samuel Chambers
21.08.2025 10:53 โ ๐ 77 ๐ 22 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 6
Tokyo -- guilty as charged ๐
18.08.2025 22:01 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I lived in Silicon Valley for a decade and in Tokyo for half of one. I want Tokyo!
18.08.2025 21:57 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Crowds stream along a street at night
Over 2.5 million Israelis joined todayโs anti-Netanyahu protests, organisers estimate. 300,000 are now in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. (Haaretz)
17.08.2025 19:19 โ ๐ 4067 ๐ 1350 ๐ฌ 106 ๐ 175
I do miss Japan sometimes. Please enjoy this footage of Japanese police doing a Bear drill. I swear future archaeologists will struggle to explain our era
17.08.2025 12:56 โ ๐ 35 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 4
Water Heater Upgrade Program โ CleanPowerSF
End your toxic relationship with that old gas water heater. Move on with an electric heat pump water heater.
Forget about AI, where San Francisco is really innovating is heat pump deployment!
โ๏ธ $50/mo bill credit for 2-3 years for replacing gas water heater with heat pump
โ๏ธ free HPWHs for disadvantaged communities
โ๏ธ expanding all-electric requirements to major remodels
www.cleanpowersf.org/waterheater
12.08.2025 23:54 โ ๐ 28 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
12.08.2025 19:19 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Ten authors by whom I've read more than five books:
Anne McCaffrey
Robin Hobb
Katherine Kerr
Susan Cooper
Elizabeth Haydon
Martha Wells
Natasha Pulley
Ursula K. Leguin
Madeleine L'Engle
Naomi Novik
13.07.2025 16:01 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
E-bike are so great on so many levels
13.07.2025 15:44 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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