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The only way to get this hydrophobic dog to wash its dirty paws is to throw a stick into water.

Calendar shadow: n. The block of free time immediately preceding a scheduled calendar item, which is nonetheless completely useless for any form of productivity whatsoever.

"Liver damage due to herbal dietary supplements" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/361839
cf Patients' guide to magic medicine which defines "Herbal medicine: giving patients an unknown dose of an ill-defined drug, of unknown effectiveness and unknown safety."
dcscience.net/magic-medicine-t

The most mindblowing but mundane and minuscule tech-based tip I've come across in the last year: Shift+Scroll Wheel to scroll sideways

I...I'm a bit slow

Update. This fear is coming true.

We tested a new ChatGPT-detector for teachers. It flagged an innocent student.
washingtonpost.com/technology/

"Five high school students helped our tech columnist test a #ChatGPT detector coming from #Turnitin to 2.1 million teachers. It missed enough to get someone in trouble."

#AI #NotHypothetical #Plagiarism

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In 2019, trains in the US traveled 777 million train-kilometers and experienced 1,338 derailments.

The same year trains in the EU traveled 4.5 billion train-kilometers and experienced 73 derailments.

Japan: 2 billion train-kilometers and 9 derailments.

cnn.com/2023/03/30/us/raymond-

Doing some research on artificial intelligence and inadvertently found this outstanding example of object detection.

If I had a penny for every time a Republican tweeted ‘thoughts and prayers’ I’d have enough money to bribe Congress to pass common sense gun control.

Jest całkiem dobrze, więc bardzo ostrożnie musimy się obchodzić z poprawianeim.

New Jersey State Police are investigating after reports that a 20-year veteran officer has a large Nazi "Blood & Honor" tattoo on his neck. For those unfamiliar, I present to you the New Jersey State Police uniform.

A young elk with budding antlers watching the photographer. Water is dripping from his lips since he was interrupted drinking from a stream.
#PhotoMonday #Wildlife #Photography

In the Appalachian region, #Internet connectivity lags well behind the national average. In 26 Appalachian counties, fewer than 65% of households have a broadband subscription

A new partnership between Connect Humanity and the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) is looking to drastically change that as the new coalition looks to help deliver affordable, next-gen #broadband networks to over 50 communities across 12 Appalachian states

Our story here

communitynets.org/content/conn

April 3, 1853, died on this day, Dexter Marsh, day laborer & amateur fossilist in Greenfield, Massachusetts.
In March 1835 he discovered "turkey tracks" in a rock slab he was laying into the sidewalk - later to become the first American dinosaur tracks scientifically described 🦖

dinotracksdiscovery.org/storie

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