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476,000-year-old ancient woodworking discovery rewrites early human history
  • That's probably the assumption they're working with, because historians do it all the time. Document survival for the pre-modern period is so poor that it doesn't take very many examples to demonstrate (for all intents and purposes) that something was widespread.

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    How Gen Z Is Becoming the Toolbelt Generation
  • As a higher-ed instructor, I applaud them. College isn't for everyone, these are needed and often well-paying jobs, and we need to shift the culture towards valuing and compensating all honest work, regardless of its "education level" or whatever.

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    Unbalanced labor market power is what makes technology—including AI—threatening to workers
  • Good writers (good anythings, really) focus on honing their craft and tackling new challenges, not trying to figure out how to use a specific technology to do things they already know how to do, for the sole purpose of using that technology.

    Let me address this to everyone. If the person you're hiring is asking themselves, "How can I use AI to . . ?" and not "Would AI even help me to . . . ?" then they're wasting your time and money.

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    Unbalanced labor market power is what makes technology—including AI—threatening to workers
  • If you're a good writer, don't let your skills atrophy while everyone's distracted by AI, and start now setting up a brand or platform to offer your services, whether they be writing, editing, research, etc.

    After the AI bubble bursts and there's still intellectual work to be done, you'll be well-positioned to charge up the ass.

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    Gunfire and blaze at Moscow concert hall, reports say
  • Not behind literally every bad thing -true. But he does control everything that does happen in Russia. Nothing like this happens in Russia without some official support, or at least knowledge.

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    Maritime corridor for aid to Gaza will take two months to build and 1,000 U.S. forces, Pentagon says
  • Americans used to look down on regular people overseas who felt they had no choice but to vote for one or another genocidal madman. They used to talk about how oppression rendered people so helpless that they'd give away their human decency just to hold on to what little power they held through the personality of their charlatan politicians.

    And now Americans are just as morally impoverished as the most abused Russian soldier, and they didn't even have to fight a war to get that way.

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