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Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
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Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
@markhurst yeah it's pretty grim out there
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Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
@markhurst there are so many problems with this article. The first being the researchers relied on standardized tests as an accurate measure.
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Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
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Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
@markhurst Sounds like success… for the owner class :(
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Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526/
https://plus.flux.community/p/the-science-behind-why-donald-trump
Koch Network and its tech allies have worked very hard at dropping the average literacy of the American electorate.
https://www.ft.com/content/fc508005-aefc-43a4-a40e-d5317f9c3c13
https://archive.ph/tdt8vIt has paid off handsomely. For the 1%
https://www.politico.com/video/2016/02/donald-trump-i-love-the-poorly-educated-044575
https://www.vox.com/2016/2/24/11107788/donald-trump-poorly-educated
https://jacobin.com/2021/04/take-me-to-your-leader-the-rot-of-the-american-ruling-class
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/30/kochs-public-schools-shakeup-244259
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/09/whats-driving-decline-in-u-s-literacy-rates/
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526/
https://plus.flux.community/p/the-science-behind-why-donald-trump
Koch Network and its tech allies have worked very hard at dropping the average literacy of the American electorate.
https://www.ft.com/content/fc508005-aefc-43a4-a40e-d5317f9c3c13
https://archive.ph/tdt8vIt has paid off handsomely. For the 1%
https://www.politico.com/video/2016/02/donald-trump-i-love-the-poorly-educated-044575
https://www.vox.com/2016/2/24/11107788/donald-trump-poorly-educated
https://jacobin.com/2021/04/take-me-to-your-leader-the-rot-of-the-american-ruling-class
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/30/kochs-public-schools-shakeup-244259
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/09/whats-driving-decline-in-u-s-literacy-rates/
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In an effort to resegregate public education, billionaires & their bigots have torched the engine of American innovation & progress.
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5484190-literacy-crisis-national-literacy-month/
https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2025/12/america-read-below-6th-grade-level/
https://www.mentalfloss.com/geography/maps/adult-literacy-rates-by-state
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/12th-grade-reading-skills-low-naep.html
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Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
@markhurst if that laptop is what they are using I'm sure they will have some kind of cognitive incapability 😭😭
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Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
@markhurst US have been degrading since at least 90s so no surprise here
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Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
Which is exactly what they wanted, more stupid gringos...
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Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
Alarming given that, as Horvath put it:
“We’re facing challenges more complex and far-reaching than any in human history—from overpopulation to evolving diseases to moral drift. Now, more than ever, we need a generation able to grapple with nuance, hold multiple truths in tension, and creatively tackle problems that are stumping the greatest adult minds of today.”
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undefined oblomov@sociale.network shared this topic
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526/
https://plus.flux.community/p/the-science-behind-why-donald-trump
Koch Network and its tech allies have worked very hard at dropping the average literacy of the American electorate.
https://www.ft.com/content/fc508005-aefc-43a4-a40e-d5317f9c3c13
https://archive.ph/tdt8vIt has paid off handsomely. For the 1%
https://www.politico.com/video/2016/02/donald-trump-i-love-the-poorly-educated-044575
https://www.vox.com/2016/2/24/11107788/donald-trump-poorly-educated
https://jacobin.com/2021/04/take-me-to-your-leader-the-rot-of-the-american-ruling-class
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/30/kochs-public-schools-shakeup-244259
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/09/whats-driving-decline-in-u-s-literacy-rates/
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Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
Writing by hand is critically important to cognitive development. Probably eating ants out of small holes with a honey covered stick serves the same purpose, but we don't do that anymore. We are tool users. Our brains are wired for it.
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Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
@markhurst Technosolutionism is a very bad habit.
Bill Gates has also implemented Ill conceived education schemes with bad outcomes for students https://apnews.com/article/bill-gates-670d3c2eb90c4a6db6cdb92ada3daa3b -
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
@markhurst Sure - It's the screens. Not at all anything to do with spending the last six years conducting the *stupidest experiment ever* of measuring the effects of repeatedly infecting children with a neuro-invasive virus noted for causing symptoms often described as brain fog.
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Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
Illustrates the utter stupidity of the Trump administration, pure evil…
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@markhurst Sure - It's the screens. Not at all anything to do with spending the last six years conducting the *stupidest experiment ever* of measuring the effects of repeatedly infecting children with a neuro-invasive virus noted for causing symptoms often described as brain fog.
@Infoseepage @markhurst
"Fortune reported in 2017 that Maine’s public school test scores had not improved in the 15 years the state had implemented its technology initiative."Test scores not improving in Maine for 15 years prior to 2017 is hard to attribute to the neuro-disruptive effects of COVID-19.
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Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
@markhurst Brainrot is real.
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@Infoseepage @markhurst
"Fortune reported in 2017 that Maine’s public school test scores had not improved in the 15 years the state had implemented its technology initiative."Test scores not improving in Maine for 15 years prior to 2017 is hard to attribute to the neuro-disruptive effects of COVID-19.
@skua @markhurst Show me graphs of Maine's classroom teacher to student ratios for the last fifteen years. Show me teacher pay and average educational achievement. Show me child poverty rates. Show me data on kids needing food assistance and whether they are getting it. Show me vaccination rates.
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Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
@markhurst Tablets were supposed to complement textbooks, not replace them entirely!
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@danjones000 @Matt_Noyes It does not hurt to try to reduce those emissions; reducing any emissions is good.
But shaming people for using AI as if they are solely responsible for climate change is intellectually dishonest.
There are plenty of other problems with AI; "burning up the planet" is not a convincing one.
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Quieting Noisy Resistors
[Hans Rosenberg] has a new video talking about a nasty side effect of using resistors: noise. If you watch the video below, you’ll learn that there are two sources of resistor noise: Johnson noise, which doesn’t depend on the construction of the resistor, and 1/f noise, which does vary depending on the material and construction of the resistor.
In simple terms, some resistors use materials that cause electron flow to take different paths through the resistor. That means that different parts of the signal experience slightly different resistance values. In simple applications, it won’t matter much, but in places where noise is an important factor, the 1/f or excess noise contributes more to errors than the Johnson noise at low frequencies.
[Hans] doesn’t just talk the math. He also built a simple test rig that lets him measure the 1/f noise with some limitations. While you might pretend that all resistors are the same, the test shows that thick film resistors produce much more noise than other types.
The video shows some rule-of-thumb lists indicating which resistors have better noise figures than others. Of course, resistors are only one source of noise in circuits. But they are so common that it is easy to forget they aren’t as perfect as we pretend in our schematics.
Want to learn more about noise? We can help. On the other hand, noise isn’t always a bad thing.
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@sako this looks so beautiful!
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@danjones000 @Matt_Noyes electricity is only about 1/3 of global emissions. All data centers, including AI datacenters, are only 1% of electricity usage. That makes 0.3% of total emissions.
Much more emissions are due to cars, meat, cement production and rice cultivation.
I recognize that AI has a lot of electricity use; it is nothing compared to the other things you do with your time.
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Energy from training
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Oh no, Deep Space Nine auto-played after Starfleet Academy. Now I have to watch the whole thing for the third or fourth time. No other option, I guess.
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Another application for AI. Have an AI bot go to a conference for me and listen to everything. Only tell me about the things that I would be interested in.
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@evan@cosocial.ca The article that @Matt_Noyes@social.coop posted in the thread pretty clearly laid out the massive amount of electricity that AI data centers are using. That article isn't the only one saying the same thing. AI is using massive amounts of power.
Traditional server racks consume 5-15 kW, while AI-optimized racks with high-performance GPUs require 40-60+ kW. Some cutting-edge AI training facilities are pushing individual racks to 100+ kW, fundamentally changing data center design and cooling requirements. (ref)
It doesn't really matter if the power is coming from requests to the API, running the models, training the models, or making ritual sacrifices to Baphomet in hopes of making the models sentient.
If someone is using AI, they are indirectly contributing to that power usage. If you can acknowledge that and make peace with it, fine. But, saying that the energy cost is minimal in light of this is ignoring reality.
