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Learning and InnovationLearning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow....
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10 AI Writing Tools Everyone Should Know AboutFrom Intuit Mailchimp: What are AI writing tools? AI writing software includes various tools that can create content for you. AI writing...
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Qualcomm flexes generative AI muscles in Snapdragon X Elite vs Intel Core Ultra testFrom Windows Central: Your next smartphone or PC with a Qualcomm chip may be able to run AI locally, no cloud required. Qualcomm AI...
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Supreme Court Questions State Efforts to Regulate Social-Media ContentFrom The Wall Street Journal: The Supreme Court sounded dubious Monday of state laws requiring online platforms such as Facebook and...
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Don’t give AI free access to work denied to humans, argues a legal scholarFrom The Economist: More than six years ago I published an analysis arguing that training generative ai on copyrighted works could break...
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Is There Any Remedy When You’re Censored?From The Wall Street Journal: It’s said that for every right there’s a remedy. Three cases before the Supreme Court will test whether that’s...
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ArchivingPG decided to see if recent performance issues on TPV could be improved by archiving a lot of old posts. The archiving process has affected...
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A Spanner in the Works?PG acknowledges the messages he has received from several visitors about strange behavior on TPV. He’s going to dig around the dusty...
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There ain’t no answerThere ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer. Gertrude Stein
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Where to start with: Gertrude SteinFrom The Guardian: From the art collection that she amassed with her brother Leo, to the salons that brought together everyone from Picasso...
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What are (some of) the best comic novels?From The Economist: I t’s a fraught business picking the funniest novels ever written, so we’re not going to. Instead, we’ve picked eight of...
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The 32 Most Iconic Poems in the English LanguageFrom The Literary Hub: Today is the anniversary of the publication of Robert Frost’s iconic poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” a...
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Big Tech Censorship Goes to the Supreme CourtFrom The Wall Street Journal: Can government tell Big Tech companies how to edit content and police their platforms? That’s the question...
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There’s many a bestsellerThere’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Flannery O’Connor
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Is Sarah J Maas the next JK Rowling?From The Independent: The end of January, just before midnight. At a Barnes & Noble bookshop in New York, a woman with perfect hair slips...
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Character Type & Trope Thesaurus: NewcomerFrom Writers Helping Writers: DESCRIPTION : This character is new (in town, at work, to school, etc.) and has to learn the rules for...
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True ReadersThose of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realise the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors. We realise...
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Georgia college student used Grammarly, now she is on academic probationFrom Yahoo News: A University of North Georgia (UNG) student is on academic probation after she says she used Grammarly to proofread a paper....
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Guidance on AI Detection and Why We’re Disabling Turnitin’s AI DetectorFrom Vanderbilt University: In April of this year, Turnitin released an update to their product that reviewed submitted papers and presented...
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Elon Musk Goes on Offense to Defend Offensive SpeechFrom The Wall Street Journal: Elon Musk wants you offended. His fight to protect free speech didn’t end with buying Twitter and simply...
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The Dictator’s Best FriendFrom The New Statesman: “Writers under despots,” says Simon Ings, “may have to take instruction, but they’re rarely out of a job.”...
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A Memoirist Who Told Everything and Repented NothingFrom The New Yorker: When she died at a hundred and one in January of 2019, Diana Athill had publicly chronicled both ends of her long life...
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Is everything you assumed about the Middle Ages wrong?From The Economist: “In public, your bottom should emit no secret winds past your thighs. It disgraces you if other people notice any of your...
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Google to pause Gemini image generation after AI refuses to show images of White PeopleFrom Fox Business: Google will pause the image generation feature of its artificial intelligence (AI) tool, Gemini, after the model refused...
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Late Middle EnglishIt was during the 14th century that a different dialect (known as the East-Midlands) began to develop around the London area. Geoffrey...
