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Economics Nobel Prize to Robert E. Hall (Stanford) and Michael Woodford (Columbia). Inflation, unemployment, GDP numbers not enough to set interest rates or fiscal policy to stabilize economy. Micro-level crucial. #economics #interestrates #federalreserve #unepmployment #publicpolicy

Are books collateral damage in AI labs' development of LLMs? Destructive scanning suspected with books cut up. #ai #artificialintelligence #llm #anthropic #openai #alphabet #google #books #booksky arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books

AI firms quietly bulk buying rare books face resistance from booksellers.

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Delaying the start of social media use for children is beneficial to school grades years later. Study of more than 5000 children in Italy finds. #socialmedia #schoolgrades #schoolperformance #smartphones www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Longitudinal effect of early social media use on standardized learning outcomes during school career - Nature Human Behaviour

Analysing data from 5,227 students from northern Italy, this article finds causal evidence that early engagement with social media adversely affects learning outcomes.

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An open letter that brings up benefits of open weight AI models. Signed by Amazon, Google, Hugging Face, OpenAI, Microsoft, Mistral, Nvidia, Perplexity and others. Notably, Anthropic did not sign the letter. #ai #artificialintelligence #llm #openweights images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-Wei...

Academic researchers to get free access to artificial intelligence tools from OpenAi. Frontier LLMs will be available and support provided. Starting with 10 000 researchers, expanding to 100 000 researchers in 2027. #ai #artificialintelligence #science #academicresearch #openai #llm #sciencesky

Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers

OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to ChatGPT's most advanced AI models to accelerate scientific research, collaboration, and discovery.

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Artificial Intelligence in its infancy, entered the defiant age. Notable AI experts failed to keep it in check. A zeitgeist that you should know about, regardless of how extensively you are using AI. Economy commentator @kyla.bsky.social summarized the incident. #ai #artificialintelligence #llm

OpenAI Security Breach

YouTube video by Kyla Scanlon

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Standing on the shoulders of giants... Isaac Newton famously alluded to Greek mythology to recognize the contribution of others. From where did the Framers get their inspiration to the Constitution? Partly from interacting with Native Americans, it is suggested. #july4th #america250 #usa250

The Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Constitution | In Custodia Legis

This post describes the influence of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy on the development of the Constitution.

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When did the Europeans discover North America? Leif Eriksson made shore in ca 1000. Bjarne Herjolfsson reached the coast in ca 986, without touching land. Both vikings. The Saga of Erik the Red and the Saga of the Greenlanders describe this discovery of "Vinland". #july4th #america250 #usa250

Buy The Vinland Sagas: The Icelandic Sagas about the First Documented Voyages Across the North Atlantic Paperback by Anonymous|Kunz, Keneva|Sigurosson, Gisli Online

Order the Paperback edition of "The Vinland Sagas: The Icelandic Sagas about the First Documented Voyages Across the North Atlantic" by Anonymous|Kunz, Keneva|Sigurosson, Gisli, published by Penguin C...

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Heather Cox Graham, history professor on USA 250. Economists interested in competitiveness of nations might listen to her thoughts at 12:00: Q: What is the secrete behind the success of USA? A: A tension that both creates democracy challenges and innovation... #july4th #america250 #usa250

Heather Cox Richardson on 250 years of American history | BBC Americast

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Quality of life, best cities according to Monocle. Nordics: Copenhagen (2), Oslo (10), Stockholm (11), Helsinki (16) North America: Vancouver (19) Asia: Tokyo (1), Singapore (14), Seol (17), Kyoto (20) #qualityoflife #happiness #cities monocle.com/affairs/urba...

Monocle’s Quality of Life Survey 2026: The 20 most liveable cities in the world

Welcome to Monocle’s 2026 Quality of Life Survey. What started 19 years ago as an antidote to bloodless, data-heavy city...

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Quality of life, best countries according to @usnews.com. Nordics: Finland (1), Iceland (2), Norway (3), Denmark (4), Sweden (5). North America: Canada (13) Asia: Singapore (7), Japan (8) #qualityoflife #happiness #countries www.usnews.com/news/best-co...

As people try to figure out how to put AI into productive use, things happen... #artificialintelligence #productivity

Meta Security Researcher's AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails

Meta's Summer Yue says she ran OpenClaw on her inbox, but its size 'triggered compaction [and] lost my original instruction' to get her permission before deleting.

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Tobacco trial moment for social media industry? Legal processes in California, USA federal, and EU involving different social media companies. Key issues: Is social media addictive? Is social media intentionally designed to be addictive? Is addictiveness causing harm? #socialmedia #trials #law

Instagram and YouTube owners built 'addiction machines', trial told

The tech giants are under scrutiny over social media addiction in a landmark jury trial in Los Angeles

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Use "cashtags" to tag stocks traded on the market with Dollar sign and trading short code. (Works similar to hasthags). Example for NASDAQ OMX Group: $NDAQ For stock analyses and market news etc. #finance #stocks #markets #stockmarket #trading #dividend #annualreport #investments #nasdaq #nyse

AI life: Professor lost two years of material related to publication drafts, grant applications, and teaching preps. This after toggling a switch in ChatGPT. In an earlier story, a hard drive was reformatted, erasing everything on the computer for a person using a chat bot for vibe coding...

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click

After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.

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Should children use social media? Scientific study: * 8000 children followed over 4 years. * More social media use linked to increased ADHD symptoms. * Playing video games is linked to decreased symptoms, i.e. better focus. #socialmedia #adhd #focus #pediatrics #research #science #sciencesky

Recent college graduates will continue to face challenging job market in USA 2026, according to employer survey. Worst in five years. AI impact? 2026 Job Outlook report is a free download from National Association of Colleges and Employers. naceweb.org/research/rep... #collegegraduate #jobmarket

Teaching with cases is fun. Students learn meta skills that AI cannot yet replace. Top business schools in The Case Centre Impact Index 2025: 1 Harvard 2 Insead 3 IBS 4 IMD 5 Ivey 6 Stanford 7 Amity 8 Darden 9 CBS 10 MIT 11 Rotterdam 12 Columbia 13 LBS 14 IESE 15 Kellogg 30 St Gallen 35 Vlerick

The Case Centre Impact Index 2025

Discover The Case Centre Impact Index 2025. This annual ranking of organisations is based on the global reach and impact of their case writing.

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"Economics Nobel Prize" to Joel Mokyr for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress and to Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction. #economics #sciencesky #science #nobelprize

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Joel Mokyr “for having identified ...

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AI Fail: Consulting report delivered to public sector client with hallucinated content and cited sources. OpenAi model used. Many professional service firms are eager to use AI, meanwhile hold-off hiring recent university graduates. #ai #productivity #servicequality #consultingservices #chatgpt

Deloitte caught out using AI in $440,000 report | 7.30

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Maybe it is not just slacking! Watching TV with subtitles, instead of with dubbing, improves language skills with statistical significant difference. Research by: Frauke Baumeister (IFO Institute), Eric A. Hanushek (Stanford), and Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social (University of Munich).

Movie Subtitles and English Language Acquisition

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Giotto.ai, the European AI lab, is in a funding round at a valuation above 1 billion. It outperformed ChatGPT 5, Cloud Opus 4, Grok 4, and Gemini 4.5 in the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) test. It tests progress towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). #ai #llm #artificialintelligence

Where is USA's innovation done? The micro economics concept "Clusters" are agglomerations of businesses, universities etc that accelerate innovation. The top USA ones: San Jose–San Francisco New York City Boston–Cambridge Los Angeles San Diego Washington–Baltimore Seattle #clusters #innovation

Innovation Cluster Ranking 2025

The Global Innovation Index 2025 reveals the ranking of the world’s most innovative clusters. Discover which innovation clusters top the ranking.

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Is happiness trending? 1. First Stockholm Wellbeing Index Report is released. 2. "The Happiness Files: Insights on Work and Life", by professor Arthur C. Brooks, on NY Times Bestseller list. 3. Professor Diana Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social, proposes new counting in "The measures of Progress".

Stockholm Wellbeing Index 6.87 - hhs.se - Stockholm School of Economics

As a first step towards Wellbeing Growth in Stockholm we have created and measured a Wellbeing Index among people living in Stockholm. The results are presented in our newly released Stockholm Wellbei...

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The most innovative economies, 2025 ranking: 1 Switzerland 2 Sweden 3 USA 4 South Korea 5 Singapore 6 UK 7 Finland 8 Netherlands 9 Denmark 10 China Global Innovation Index 2025, by WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization). #innovation #research #R&D #patents #science

Global Innovation Index 2025

Tracking the most recent global innovation trends, the GII captures a moment of recalibration where R&D growth has slowed, venture capital activity has moderated with cautious early-stage funding,...

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Survey of 813 scientists finds that Bluesky is the more useful social media platform for professional scientists. As anecdotal support, this journal article itself is references by 2731 Bluesky users and has 43 X posts (Altmetrics data, when posting this). #sciencesky #academicsky #science

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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World's 10 most beautiful libraries, as voted by 200 000 online. No 10: Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris. Note the iron frame technique used constructing the reading room by architect Henri Labrouste. The library has 160 000 volumes of Nordic books, the largest collection outside of Nordics.

The 10 most beautiful libraries in the world

The Library of Trinity College Dublin is named the most beautiful library in the world by 200,000 voters in the 1000 Libraries Awards 2025.

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Branding: HBO Max is back. A rebranding reversal. 1972: HBO (launch) 2010: HBO Go (streaming for cable subscribers). The stand alone OTT streaming service was (re)branded as... 2015: HBO Now 2020: HBO Now --> HBO Max 2023: HBO Max --> Max 2025: Max --> HBO Max

HBO Max | Stream Series and Movies

Stream must-see series, hit movies, exclusive originals, family favorites, live sports, and breaking news. Plans start at $9.99/month.

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How accurate is your physician in setting diagnosis? Would AI do better? Microsoft: Physicians had 20 % accuracy and AI had 80% in benchmark w/ complex cases. Microsoft: physicians do more than diagnose, needed due to ambiguities and trust. AI matures in 5-10y. Comments has more studies.