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An Open Letter on #AI #Education

“The collective #knowledge of humanity is a thread in the universe, essential to human progress. Throughout our #history, new #technology has propelled us out of the dark ages and into the light, past famine and plague to #scientific breakthroughs that improve life and fulfill individual purpose and agency. And what we teach our children matters. Education matters! [...]”

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openletter.earthAn Open Letter on AI Education

Every single one of them is an activated digital terrorist cell deliberately corrupting the human knowledge base. People are being made more stupid by techbro enemies with too damn much money and twisted fascist dreams.

Knowledge is power. They've been draining us of our wealth. Now they are draining us of our knowledge, and with that, our abilities.

mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/1

Mastodon 🐘Sue Stone (@knittingknots2@mstdn.social)Massive study detects AI fingerprints in millions of scientific papers https://phys.org/news/2025-07-massive-ai-fingerprints-millions-scientific.html

Relax in the #knowledge that Congress is busy working to make people's lives better, for example Paul Rudnick reported that "Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced a bill to make #weather modification a felony. By weather modification she means:
- People using umbrellas.
- Fake snow under Christmas trees.
- Jewish space lasers causing money to fall from the skies. And
- Lightning bolts constantly striking her when she lies."

Interesting piece on #women's role in organising and sharing #knowledge in #PapuaNewGuinea #seafaring trade, which has been assumed to be a masculine domain (by largely male anthros)

'Tattooing was an important women’s cultural practice in these regions, and tattoos signified major life stages such as marriage.

'Interestingly, the marriage tattoos used in Port Moresby and Hood Bay were identical in the 19th century, but no one that anthropologists spoke to remembered why. The tattoo designs suggest that Motu and Keapara women were once in very close contact.'

#archaeology #PNG #pottery #tattooing #anthropology

theconversation.com/men-traded

The ConversationMen traded wares – but women traded knowledge: what a new archaeological study tells us about PNG sea tradeArchaeologists once assumed that men were responsible for seafaring trade in Papua New Guinea. New research shows how women played a fundamental role.