Bearded Pip

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Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again! Worcester / SNHU ‘24 / History / Gen-X Nerd / Boston Sports / punk / boardgames / Pro-Gif https://linktr.ee/pjpowers

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD) in their 2025 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey found that, year-on-year, daily users of "generative AI" are doing substantively worse than intermittent or non-users. Other results are more strikingly mixed…

PISA 2025 Results (Volume I)

The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2025 evaluates what students know and can do in science, reading, mathematics and computational problem-solving, assessing how effectivel...

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3 things about Dem politicians who dabble in transphobia: 1. It's wrong, they're wrong, on a moral basis they're being evil 2. It's stupid, they're stupid, they'll never get any credit from the fascists for it 3. It's proof you're not capable of reading or rising to this, and therefore any, moment

I will say it is funny watching OpenAI boast about solving a complex math problem using millions of dollars of compute (and someone else’s work) all while remaining unable to solve the most obvious math problem (how to make their services profitable)

The AI stuff is just like Trump. I am losing respect for people as they fall into a death cult. There are so many dimensions to the AI tragedy. I feel bad for these people on a personal level. But they are destructive on both the personal level and in a large scale.

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 4w ago

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...