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Cake day: June 28th, 2024

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  • Poland is reeling from three knife attacks at schools in just four days this week, which have left at least one person dead and injured many others, including children.

    Why are schools so often targeted?

    On Sunday morning, Donald Tusk said the attacks were “spontaneous actions” that were fueled by rising “glorification of violence” online.

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    The prime minister blamed “nihilistic violence” for the wave of attacks, rather than a specific political ideology. However, he did acknowledge that “some of the people detained are active in the ultraright environment.”


  • I think Trump either has dementia, or the drugs he’s being given by his docs have serious side effects that we’re all seeing and interpreting as symptoms of old age, and these people in the wings, Vance, and particularly Vought are the powers behind the throne. It is to their advantage to keep Trump in power, because none of them have the charisma needed to win an election.

    Remember Seneca’s quote, “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”

    When former New York Times columnist Ross Douthat asked Vance on a podcast what policies marked the Trump administration as particularly Christian, he replied that the administration had lowered taxes.

    Apples and oranges. The bible generally says people should pay their taxes.









  • Why have our oligarchs or billionaires devised systems and work cultures of difficult tasks and productive struggle, when our government’s documents claim we, all of us, have a right to pursue happiness?

    Researchers recently found that spending just 10 minutes relying on an AI tool significantly impairs the user’s ability to focus and persist with difficult tasks…

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    The findings backed up what anecdotes and surveys have increasingly found in recent years: An overreliance on AI for answers erodes our cognitive fitness. When AI produces answers in seconds, we get used to that speed; anything that takes longer feels inefficient. And relying on AI also removes what the team called “productive struggle,” which can lead people to find their research strengths and passions.