Articles by obscurette
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The Cost of Safetyism (stevemagness.substack.com)

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Adults Have Lost the Ability to Smile, Why? (livingkindfully.bearblog.dev)

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Doctors and education experts call for a 5-year AI moratorium in schools (fortune.com)

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I'm Leaving Germany – Brutally Honest Review [video] (youtube.com)

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The Long Chain of Wi-Fi Dysfunction Gets Longer (wirednot.wordpress.com)

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Artificial intelligence, cognitive offloading and implications for education [pdf] (uts.edu.au)

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30 Facts About Childhood Today That Will Terrify You (afterbabel.com)

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Money isn't going to solve the burnout problem (gentoo.org)

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Is AI Making Us Dumb? (profgmedia.substack.com)

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What I learned when I started assigning the hard reading again (theatlantic.com)

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How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender (ssrn.com)

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History teaches us to deal with societal collapse – TEDxTallinn [video] (youtube.com)

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Estonian volunteers struggling to protect Wikipedia from Russian propaganda (err.ee)

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The 'decolonised' essay alternatives dumbing down Britain's universities (telegraph.co.uk)

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I was sold a fake calculator [video] (youtube.com)

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Our next generation is so cooked [video] (youtube.com)

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German teachers: Pupils do not know how to listen, hold pens, or use bathroom (brusselssignal.eu)

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Norway campaigns to cut energy links to Europe as power prices soar (ft.com)

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The plague of fake components: Small-signal Transistors (hjf.com.ar)

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Americans are socialising less – here's why that's worrying [video] (bbc.com)

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Birthgap – Childless World (2021) [video] (youtube.com)

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The more I think about this, the more disturbing it becomes [video] (youtube.com)

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The Perverse Consequences of the Easy A (theatlantic.com)

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A Nation of Lawyers Confronts China's Engineering State (theatlantic.com)

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Percentage of 15 years olds not reaching minimum reading skills in Germany (twitter.com/michaelaarouet)

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Scientific research has big problems, and it's getting worse [video] (youtube.com)

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Can a Country Be Too Rich? Norway Is Finding Out (bloomberg.com)

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We're not innovating, we're just forgetting slower (elektormagazine.com)

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'It's cheap but it's not disposable': why fast tech is a growing waste problem (theguardian.com)

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The Most Compelling Argument Against Tech in Schools – Sophie Winkleman [video] (youtube.com)

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The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI (ssrn.com)

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Nearly 50k emails leaked from org linked to Russian intelligence (occrp.org)

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Supply Chain at War and Critical Materials (xxtomcooperxx.substack.com)

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Foreign influencer's disruptive stunts on Tokyo public transport cause outrage (essential-japan.com)

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Understanding ground-up community development from a practice perspective (wiley.com)

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Shortfall in Young Engineers Threatens Nuclear Renaissance (wsj.com)

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Connection between violent TV and increase in aggression (mdpi.com)

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Young people are abandoning democracy for dictators (theguardian.com)

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We Are Losing SMB Manufacturing Shops (twitter.com/zanehengsperger)

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Secret to AI Profitability Is Hiring a Lot More Doctorates (yahoo.com)

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The EdTech Revolution Has Failed (afterbabel.com)

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Partial Automation Doesn't Make Vehicles Safer (ieee.org)

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User interfaces are too complex for many – and it's widening the digital divide (aalto.fi)

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Homes in Zeeland are receiving money for temporally shutting off solar panels (nltimes.nl)

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Full Stops Can Annoy Gen Z, Warn Linguists (thelanguagenerds.com)

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Pharma firms stash profits in Europe's tax havens (investigate-europe.eu)

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Cystic fibrosis 'miracle' drugs priced higher for poorer EU countries (investigate-europe.eu)

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BIMI and DMARC Can't Save You: The Overlooked DKIM Exploit (zone.eu)

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The Overlooked DKIM Expolit (zone.eu)

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Smartphone Bans, Student Outcomes and Mental Health (ssrn.com)

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Cybersecurity Is Broken (crankysec.com)

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How Matthias Wandel YouTube channel got hacked [video] (youtube.com)

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CEOs say generative AI will result in job cuts in 2024 (arstechnica.com)

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Scratched EV battery? Your insurer may have to junk the whole car (reuters.com)

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Health data belonging to ~10k people was stolen from genetic testing company (err.ee)

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Report claims to reveal identity of Russian hacktivist leader (therecord.media)

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Javelin Missile guidance computer teardown [video] (youtube.com)

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What drives the Russian men continuing to enlist to fight in Ukraine? (novayagazeta.eu)

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Culture Change at the United States Air Force Academy (realcleardefense.com)

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Abused, traumatised and powerless: South Korea’s teachers are protesting (theguardian.com)

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IMAP is broken in Android Gmail app since a week ago (support.google.com)

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On Climate Change and (Active) Climate Management (berthub.eu)

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Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools (theguardian.com)

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Crypto Miner Hive Drops ‘Blockchain’ from Name in Pivot to AI (bloomberg.com)

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Over 100 artists are boycotting concert venues using facial recognition (rollingstone.com)

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NASA opposes lithium mining at Nevada desert site used to calibrate satellites (apnews.com)

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Thomas Sanladerer – open-source isn't sustainable anymore [video] (youtube.com)

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In practice, Grafana has not been great at backward compatibility (utoronto.ca)

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A former pilot on why autonomous vehicles are so risky (ieee.org)

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It's not just doctors and nurses. Veterinarians are burning out, too. (2022) (npr.org)

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Parliamentary elections in Estonia – majority casted their ballots online (valimised.ee)

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One of history’s most famous psychological experiments was probably fake (inews.co.uk)

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When Washington Realized Russia Was Invading Ukraine (politico.com)

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Source code of the Estonian online voting system (github.com/vvk-ehk)

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The Growth of Russia’s Wagner Group (politico.com)

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You’re killing your PS5 by using it vertically (wololo.net)

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Meraki disconnects all network devices located in Russia and Belarus from cloud (sundries.com.ua)

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The Price of Weapons Assistance: Ukraine Pays in Blood (delfi.ee)

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Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine (youtube.com)

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Estonian police, FBI arrest suspects over $575M cryptocurrency fraud (err.ee)

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Baltic Counterintelligence Officers Speak Candidly About Russian Cruelty (delfi.ee)