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"It’s not that Max is a slow learner: it’s that he has so much more to learn. Where other kids seek a driving licence, he is tasked with the invention of the internal combustion engine." —Archie Bland for The Guardian

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The Guardian · The boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son MaxBy Archie Bland
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The Information Animal by Alicia Wanless
Humans, Technology and the Competition for Reality

Depending on the news you read, new tools like AI will either save or destroy us. But our response to emerging technology's 'unprecedented' threats actually follows a pattern as old as civilisation. From ancient Athens to COVID-19, social media to spam, Alicia Wanless shows how humans have always consumed information, whether accurate or not.

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First a new technology changes how information is shared, broadening its availability and accelerating how fast it travels. Then, as more people engage with this new content, fresh ideas arise, often challenging prevailing beliefs. Some use the new tools to promote their views, win power or simply profit, adding to the mounting information pollution. Competition and conflict follow. We scramble—in vain—to control information flows and use of the new technology. With democracies worldwide lurching from crisis to crisis, knee-jerk reactions to information conflict won't suffice. What's needed is an understanding of...
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Cory Dransfeldt :demi:

📖 Stories Are Weapons (⭐⭐⭐⭐) #Politics #History #Nonfiction

A sharp and timely book about the dark art of manipulation through weaponized storytelling.
Best-selling author Annalee Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats—the essential tool kit for psychological warfare — have evolved from military weapons used against foreign adversaries into tools used in domestic culture wars. Newitz delves into...

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Cory DransfeldtStories Are WeaponsBy Cory Dransfeldt
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I read Give Her Credit by Grace L Williams yesterday and it was a good read. About the start of a women's bank in Denver in the 70s. It was pretty short, about 200 pages, but it provided a lot of background information and historical context. Did you know the first women's bank opened in 1919? It was short lived, but it existed.

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Cover of Giver Her Credit by Grace L Williams on a Kindle ColorSoft. The cover is light pink with black writing underlined with green. There is a picture of a bank and stacks of change.
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The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology by Anne Trumbore, 2025

The surprising history of education technology and its political, financial, and social impact on higher education and our world.

Her account offers a critical lens on the history of technology in education just as universities and students seek a stronger hand in shaping the future of their institutions.

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From AI tutors who ensure individualized instruction but cannot do math to free online courses from elite universities that were supposed to democratize higher education, claims that technological innovations will transform education often fall short. Yet, as Anne Trumbore shows in The Teacher in the Machine, the promises of today’s cutting-edge technologies aren’t new. Long before the excitement about the disruptive potential of generative AI–powered tutors and massive open online courses, scholars at Stanford, MIT, and the University of Illinois in the 1960s and 1970s were encouraged by the US government to experiment with computers and artificial intelligence in education. Trumbore argues that the contrast between these two eras of educational technology reveals the changing role of higher education in the United States as it shifted from a public good to a private investment. Writing from a unique insider’s perspective and drawing on interviews with key figures, historical research, and case studies, Trumbore traces today’s disparate discussions about generative AI, student loan debt, and declining social trust in higher education back to their common origins at a handful of elite universities fifty years ago. Arguing that those early educational experiments have resonance today, Trumbore points the way to a more equitable and collaborative pedagogical future.
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📖 AI Snake Oil (⭐⭐⭐) #Ai #Tech #Nonfiction

Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You're not alone. AI is everywhere—and few things are surrounded by so much hype, misinformation, and misunderstanding. In AI Snake Oil, computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor cut through the confusion to give you an essential understanding of how AI works, why it often doesn't,...

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Cory DransfeldtAI Snake OilBy Cory Dransfeldt
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