Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in elections in the past two years, which experts say may violate state election law. ProPublica and @texastribune.org linked him to a home in suburban Dallas since February.

Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.

The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...

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Someone should remake the classic movie ...

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

The Rosette Nebula, which is to the left of Orion. This is a total of about 16 hours of imaging over 7 sessions spread over about 2 weeks. The second image uses different processing to enhance the oxygen (the blue). #astronomy

Experts gave AI 10 math problems to solve in a week. OpenAI, researchers and amateurs all gave it their best shot

First Proof is AI's toughest math test yet. The results are mixed

Experts gave AI 10 math problems to solve in a week. OpenAI, researchers and amateurs all gave it their best shot

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WIRED asked an active military officer to break down immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere. www.wired.com/story/ice-pr...

ICE Pretends It’s a Military Force. Its Tactics Would Get Real Soldiers Killed

WIRED asked an active military officer to break down immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere.

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Social media and teen mental health: There is no smoking gun In this week’s Torment Nexus, I wrote about the rush to blame social media use for teen mental-health problems despite the fact that the vast majority of research shows little or no correlation between those two things

Social media and teen mental health: There is no smoking gun

In this week’s Torment Nexus, I wrote about the rush to blame social media use for teen mental-health problems despite the fact that the vast majority of research shows little or no correlation between those two things

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Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure

The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.

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Two Major Studies, 125,000 Kids: The Social Media Panic Doesn’t Hold Up For years now, we've been repeatedly pointing out that the "social media is destroying kids" narrative, popularized by Jonathan Haidt and others, has been built on a foundation of shaky, often contradictory research. We've…

From @404media.co, “ICE has told lawmakers the app, called Mobile Fortify, provides a “definitive” determination of someone’s immigration status, and should be trusted over a birth certificate. “ www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice

In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said th...

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The stated reason for ICE agents being in Minnesota is because of the ongoing fraud claims around daycare and other services. The two prosecutors leading those investigations have now resigned in the wake of Renee Good’s shooting. Even the internal supposed logic of this deployment is falling apart

Jake Schwitzer@jakeschwitzer.bsky.social · 7mo ago

holy shit. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

In this clip from a longer interview, she says while she was in detention, agents called Renee Good a “lesbian b*tch.” This video belongs to @statuscoupnews.bsky.social and I’ll take it down if they want me to. 2/2

Deliberate errors - This isn't about learning through failure or productive failure or productive struggle or any of those failing approaches that let kids flail. It's more a possible extension of retrieval practice with hints of interleaving. paulkirschner173727.substack.com/p/learning-b...

Learning by getting it wrong (on purpose)

Deliberate errors

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A core source for the article that prompted Trump’s tirade against Somalis now calls the story “bullshit” and claims he was misquoted.

Key source says story that prompted Trump tirade against Somalis is erroneous

The writers of a City Journal story alleging a connection between Minnesota fraud and al-Shabab say they stand by their story.

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ICE raids appear to be 100% responsible for the current housing crunch in south Texas. Indeed, they have brought residential construction to an end.

South Texas homebuilders say ICE arrests have slowed work

More than 380 people attended an impromptu meeting that industry leaders in the Rio Grande Valley hosted to draw attention to the chilling effect ICE arrests have had on construction.

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At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals

Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

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We should help teens with social media not ban them from it Blaming social media for teen mental health issues obscures the real issues, and solutions like Australia's could make things worse

We should help teens with social media not ban them from it

Blaming social media for teen mental health issues obscures the real issues, and solutions like Australia's could make things worse

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School districts are rushing to adopt "one chatbot per child" models, but decades of research shows learning is fundamentally social. Here’s why isolating students with AI tutors may undermine the classroom interactions that actually support brain development. buff.ly/gv76wEl

The ‘one chatbot per child’ model for AI in classrooms conflicts with what research shows: Learning is a social process

AI tutors are often held up as an ideal, but prioritizing individualized teaching can detract from the benefits of learning in social environments.

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Girls typically stick to the classic math formulas while boys wing it with shortcuts — and researchers say that difference may help explain why men still dominate high-stakes tests and #STEM. buff.ly/Gu59lvr

Girls and boys solve math problems differently – with similar short-term results but different long-term outcomes

The reasons are not yet fully understood, but researchers consider societal influences that encourage greater compliance among girls as a potential cause.

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The Pacman Nebula. This is about 20 hours of imaging over 4 nights. It is about 9500 light years away from us and about 25 light years in diameter. #astronomy

If we want to talk affordability, you know what would really help? Re-jiggering how we pay for college. There's a lot to learn from my native Australia, which has an incredibly fair and efficient system of income-based repayment.

Northern lights at about 8:20 this evening. Things had just picked up with the reds starting to appear above the green that had just become more wavy and active.

A few photos from the amazing northern lights tonight. #aurora

Panorama of tonight's northern lights. Handheld with my iPhone. Stitched two photos together using Panorama Stitcher. #astronomy

SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps. www.wired.com/story/disinf...

No, SNAP Benefits Aren’t Mostly Used by Immigrants

SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps.

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The Triangulum Galaxy. This is the result of almost 24 hours of imaging over 5 nights. This galaxy is about 2.7 million light years away. It is about 60,000 light years in diameter, a bit more than half the size of our Milky Way galaxy. #astronomy

It's always DNS. Except when it's AWS. (In this case, it was both.)

Amazon DNS outage breaks much of the internet | TechCrunch

The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom and Amazon's own products, including Ring.

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