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Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, it has been studied how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning.

● X-Axis: Homework scores
● Y-Axis: Exam scores

🔗 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618

#tech #BigTech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #AISlop

Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered AI adoption in a difference-in-differences design. AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of AI users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. AI users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-AI users experience small learning losses.

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@gruber

🇪🇺⚡🇺🇸 Fun fact for anyone who thinks US technology is superior to European:

- No ASML (NL) → no microchips, for ANYONE
- No Zeiss (DE) → no ASML machines
- No Nokia/Ericsson (FI/SE) → no 5G without Huawei
- No BioNTech (DE) → no Pfizer vaccines
- No Safran/Rolls-Royce engines (FR/UK) → US jets are grounded
- No Vestas (DK) → half of US wind farms stop spinning.
- No Siemens/Philips (DE/NL) → US hospitals lose MRI scanners.

#Tech #Europe #Semiconductors #Sovereignty #ASML

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Veronica Explains is a series of really fun and useful videos about computing, technology, self-hosting, FOSS, Linux, retro computing and assorted other stuff. You can follow at:

➡️ @vkc

(Don't worry if it looks blank to you, that just means no one from your server has followed it yet. Follow the account and its videos will start gradually showing up on your server too.)

You can also follow Veronica's non-video account at @veronica

#FeaturedPeerTube #Tech #FOSS #Linux #PeerTube

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32d

My new video is up!

This one is about the recent trend of e-bike fires in the UK and US and tips for how you can safely charge and manage your device batteries.

If you enjoy the video, please be sure to tap the like button. It helps us smaller creators out tremendously. Thank you!

https://youtu.be/K2xgeQKL-NE

#EBike #Escooter #Tech #Transportation #Safety #VIdeo #YouTube

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🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨

Last week, Meta reached a settlement with nearly every US state over claims that it knowingly harmed children with its addictive apps. But what does that mean for Meta users in Europe?

https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/will-metas-american-makeover-come-to-europe

#europe #us #meta #tech #socialmedia #kids

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¡ATENCIÓN! La Comisión Europea ha abierto una consulta para recabar información sobre la IA en los sectores de la Cultura y la Creación ⚠️

🔗 Link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/18592-Estrategia-sobre-la-inteligencia-artificial-en-los-sectores-cultural-y-creativo_es

📌 Tenemos hasta el 11 de septiembre para contarles qué opinamos de la IA generativa y su irrupción en nuestros sectores culturales y artísticos 👊 STOP GEN AI !

#AI #Europe #EuropeUnion #UE #eu #Tech #technology #art #culture #artist #creative #genAI #generativeAI #creativity #call #evidence #rights #humanrights

Published: 29 Jul 2026
European Commission publishes call for evidence on AI strategy for the Cultural and Creative Sectors
Help shape the future AI strategy for the Cultural and Creative Sectors with your views until 11 September 2026.

The consultation is open in all EU languages to anyone, including artists, creators, rights holders, professional associations, AI providers, developers, researchers and public authorities with cultural and AI policy expertise, as well as members of the public with an interest in the future of culture and creativity in the age of AI.

Contribute to the call for evidence until 11 September 2026
Link to the public consultation website of the European Commission.

https://culture.ec.europa.eu/whats-new/news/european-commission-publishes-call-for-evidence-on-ai-strategy-for-the-cultural-and-creative-sectors

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Acerca de esta iniciativa
Resumen
Esta estrategia, que nace de la Brújula de la Cultura, establecerá una visión estratégica para el uso de la inteligencia artificial (IA) en los sectores e industrias culturales y creativos. La estrategia beneficiará a la cultura en general, y al sector cultural europeo en particular, y también a los ciudadanos, puesto que contribuirá a la innovación, liberará el potencial de la IA en pro de la soberanía cultural europea y promoverá el desarrollo y el uso de la IA para defender una verdadera creación y la diversidad e inclusión cultural y lingüística.

Tema
Cultura y medios de comunicación
Tipo de texto legislativo
Comunicación
Convocatoria de datos
Comentarios: Abierta
Plazo para enviar comentarios
27 julio 2026 - 11 septiembre 2026 (medianoche, hora de Bruselas)
La Comisión quiere saber lo que piensa
Esta convocatoria de datos está abierta a comentarios. Las contribuciones recibidas se tendrán en cuenta en el desarrollo y perfeccionamiento de la iniciativa. Los comentarios recibidos se publicarán en esta web y, por lo tanto, deben ajustarse a las normas para comentarios.
Más sobre la convocatoria de datos
Para poder contribuir, tendrá que registrarse o iniciar sesión a través de su cuenta de redes sociales.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/18592-Estrategia-sobre-la-inteligencia-artificial-en-los-sectores-cultural-y-creativo_es

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📰 Little Bits: Issue #40 For August 2026

Little Bits is far more than sharing. Discover what this blog series is truly about and afterwards enjoy a fresh supply of shiny new bits to explore.

👉️ https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/little-bits-issue-40/

#blog #OpenSource #tech #LinkDump

A perspective view between two walls of white binary text with a blue background that has an explosion in the middle coming towards the viewer sits large bold text that reads, 'Little Bits Issue #40'.

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Just finished “The Nerd Reich” by @gilduran.com . The closing chapter literally kept me awake half the night, so clear and urgent is it. This is the statement, with all the receipts, that every single person needs to hear yesterday: this world belongs to us, the 8 billion. It is not the playground of the 3,400 deluded billionaires who think that they alone are worth saving.

#thenerdreich #tech #siliconvalley #humansfirst #AI

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I really enjoy reading the newsletter from the software synth developer Cherry Audio. The latest one talks about the famous and incredibly rare Yamaha GX-1.

"In his latest video, producer Noir Et Blanc Vie recounts the story of Keith Emerson's Yamaha GX-1"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmQZSYhbr9w

It served as a sort of working prototype and development platform that eventually led to the Yamaha CS-80.

@electronicmusic

#music #software #tech #synth #synthetizer #cherryaudio #yamaha #gx1 #cs80 #history

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24d

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ecologistas/117252102062002552

Otro Real Decreto para centros de datos hecho a medida de las corporaciones. Por eso nos sumamos a respaldar las alegaciones presentadas por diversos colectivos vecinales, ecologistas y en defensa del territorio, como @tunubesecamirio @nocentrosdedatosaragon @ecologistas ✊🔥

«La eficiencia no basta si el consumo total de agua y energía sigue creciendo sin límites»

#IA #centrosdedatos #AI #datacenter #tech #technology #energy #environment #water #Spain

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23d

RE: https://apobangpo.space/@dnkboston/117215947260678984

I guess I have to start this list. (Did I mention how underqualified I am? But sure, why not?)

My list of #tech that *doesn't* suck is very short, and I'm assuming it will get shorter:

- LibreOffice
- NewsBlur
- IronFox
- LibreWolf
- Mastodon!
- Signal
- Element
- Audiomack*

Please add; this does not have to be exclusively in the US or Europe.

Can't wait to hear about how even this list is too long.

*Edited to add. Only music streaming I could find that Len Blavatnik wasn't part of.

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New video is up!

In this one I talk about Gamers Nexus' investigation into LG TV's illegal spying on customers, give an overview of ACR, touch on pending privacy lawsuits, and steps you can take in order to protect yourself against these privacy violations from your TV.

If you enjoy the video, please give it a like as this helps us tiny creators immensely. Thank you!

https://youtu.be/JLHTPI_Z4Ps

#Privacy #LGTV #MassSurveillance #Tech #Technology #YouTube

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RE: https://mastodon.online/@limneticvillains/117274314015204081

I recommend the Dr Mad Villains Synth Software! 🎶 ❤️

I've bought some of them and they are really very creative ones! This last one push the creativity one step far.

Check it out! 🖖 😎

@ExperimentalMusic
@electronicmusic

#music #software #tech #creativity #synth #synthetizer #electronic #indiedev

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Aaron Swartz vs Mark Zuckerberg/Meta

(stole this from a youtube video)
Source: The Subtle Art of Normalising Dystopia by struthless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLPrNSFLb2U

#ai #noai #tech #technology #consumerrights

Side-by-side comparison chart comparing the actions and consequences of Aaron Swartz and Mark Zuckerberg. It highlights that Swartz downloaded 70 gigabytes of articles from data barons to democratize information, resulting in federal prosecution and leading to his death by suicide. In contrast, Zuckerberg downloaded 80 terabytes of books from the commons to train for-profit AI models, resulting in no punishment and increased net worth.

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American electronic music pioneer Don Buchla posing alongside his early modular synthesizers.

https://imgur.com/gallery/american-electronic-music-pioneer-don-buchla-posing-alongside-his-early-modular-synthesizers-Y1uATZL

@electronicmusic
@ExperimentalMusic

#photography #photo #blackandwhite #retro #vintage #history #legends #music #electronicmusic #experimentalmusic #modular #modularsynth #analog #analosynth #synth #synthesizer #electronic #tech #pioneer #donbuchla #buchla

American electronic music pioneer Don Buchla posing alongside his early modular synthesizers.

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19d

I just failed the bot protection check on a support web page for reporting domain abuse, for a domain from which I receive an excessive amount of presumably automated spam.

#TheSingularityIsHere #spam #email #dev #tech #email

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Adamsdesk Bans Font Squirrel Over Privacy Concerns?

Find out what lead to the discovery of privacy concerns, complications whether to ban linking to certain websites and what decision was made.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/font-squirrel-privacy-concern/

#blog #privacy #security #tech #technology

A squirrel sitting in an opening covered in grass with a row of tall trees stand in the background around bushes. Above is bold title that reads, 'Adamsdesk Bans Font Squirrel?' with a red no symbol over top of the squirrel.

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Review of GNOME Core App Document Viewer (Papers)

A detailed review of the GNOME Document Viewer (Papers) application with overview, advantages, criticisms, formats, keyboard shortcuts, and install.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/review-gnome-document-viewer-papers/

#blog #GNOME #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #linux #tech #technology

On top of a dark purple background with light purple grid lines displays the colourful GNOME Document Viewer application icon of a stack of books with reading glasses sitting on top. Below the application icon is a bold title of 'Document Viewer Papers Review'.

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Reading BYTE
The Small Systems Journal. June 1986 Issue (Vol.11 N°6).

Computers and Music.

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1986-06

Cover art by Robert Tinney
@electronicmusic
@ExperimentalMusic
#music #fedimusic #magazine #journal #reading #readers #read #mustread #computers #synthesis #DAW #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #retro #vintage #byte #press #tech #computing

BYTE
The Small Systems Journal. June 1986 Issue (Vol.11 N°6).

Computers and Music

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Considering the trillions of dollars of investment gains that have been built on the assumption that bets on AI will pay off, what happens to Wall Street if they don't? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/09/21/ai-markets-us-economy-risk/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #ai #elonmusk #darioamodei #samaltman #openai #anthropic #us #economy #tech #china #nvidia

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ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You

https://www.wired.me/story/meta-smart-glasses-detector-app-zuckoff

#meta #tech #BigTech #enshittification

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Good morning, folks.

My new video is up! It's about Enrico Pucci, a disgraced Australian businessman who used remote functionality in his estranged partner's Tesla to terrorize her. (But don't worry, he got convicted.)

If you enjoy the video, please give it a 'like' since that helps us tiny creators a whole bunch. Thank you.

Video URL: https://youtu.be/JRFsqsCRFZ4

#YouTube #Stalking #Abuse #Tech #Technology #Tesla #Video

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