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    1. paghetti-tree hoax. November 2023. Page Version ID: 1187320430. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spaghetti-tree_hoax&oldid=1187320430 (visited on 2023-12-05).

      This source discusses one of the earliest moments of trolling. The BBC broadcast an April Fool's video showing spaghetti growing on trees. This surprisingly worked because the people of Britain were not yet familiar with spaghetti, convincing many that spaghetti actually grew on trees. This is considered one of the most significant instances of trolling by an official broadcasting network. However, this being such a big event, it is still considered harmless, especially in comparison to the trolling that goes on today.

    2. Whitney Phillips. Internet Troll Sub-Culture's Savage Spoofing of Mainstream Media [Excerpt]. Scientific American, May 2015. URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/internet-troll-sub-culture-s-savage-spoofing-of-mainstream-media-excerpt/ (visited on 2023-12-05).

      I really appreciated the inclusion of Whitney Phillips’s “Internet Troll Sub-Culture’s Savage Spoofing of Mainstream Media” (Scientific American, 2015) — it gives a grounded, cultural perspective on trolling that complements the ethical discussions nicely. I wonder whether there are more recent studies that explore how trolling has shifted into coordinated “political influence” efforts that would update or extend Phillips’s observations.

    3. MMO Video Game News, Reviews & Games List. December 2023. URL: https://www.mmorpg.com/ (visited on 2023-12-05).

      Link leads to a website where people can disscuss, review, and rate video-games. They can also read about the lastest news, developments, and updates on current or future games they are interested in

    4. FBI–King suicide letter. November 2023. Page Version ID: 1184939326. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_letter&oldid=1184939326 (visited on 2023-12-05).

      Regarding the FBI–King suicide letter incident, I believe this is a classic case of government interference in citizens' rights. For every ordinary person, we should ensure our rights are not violated and courageously protect ourselves.

    5. Spaghetti-tree hoax. November 2023. Page Version ID: 1187320430. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spaghetti-tree_hoax&oldid=1187320430 (visited on 2023-12-05).

      This was a prank done in 1957 however, I have heard about it in recent years. Basically, the BBC pranked British people into believing that spaghetti grew from trees. They were able to fool so many people since not many people in Britain knew about the origins of pasta, but this form of trolling is rather light compared to what's going on nowadays.

    6. Is It Funny or Offensive? Comedian Impersonates FBI on Twitter, Makes MLK Assassination Joke. January 2020.

      This article talks about how Jaboukie Young-White, a comedian who impersonated the FBI account on twitter by changing his profile picture and user name handle. Whom then proceeded to post an insulting "joke" about Martin Luther King Jr. assassination on MLK day. In attempts of some morbid humor he posted the tweet which immediately had twitter take down the tweet and his account --- leading to his suspension. This controversial tweet had some people questioning the boundaries of jokes/comedy with inappropriate insulting behavior. As his attempts were intentionally supposed to be funny but truly just came off offensive and disrespectful.

    7. Nidhi Subbaraman. Meet Dr. Troll. Fast Company, May 2012. URL:

      I found this article very interesting. I wouldn't have thought that someone would dedicate their study to trolls, but I guess there is an expert on everything out there somewhere. I would like to hear more about the in person interactions with trolls because it said that she met and conversed with 30. I want to know how these conversations go, does she pretend that she is also really into trolling and then at the end tell them that she is investigating them and almost troll them herself. I would watch a show that was along the lines of that.

    8. Film Crit Hulk. Don’t feed the trolls, and other hideous lies. The Verge, July 2018. URL: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/12/17561768/dont-feed-the-trolls-online-harassment-abuse (visited on 2023-12-05).

      [g32] argues that ignoring rarely stops harassment; abusers escalate to force a reaction. The piece advocates platform-level moderation and removals, shifting responsibility from victims to systems. This directly reinforces §7.4’s critique of “don’t feed the trolls” and grounds the chapter’s recommendation in reported cases rather than abstract principle.

    1. The demand for suffrage became an instrumentfor challenging women’s dependent status but also for empowering thebroader reform movement, and suffrage opponents understood this dynamicall too well

      Knowing how the fight was already difficult to change the vote itself but it took overturning the entire system for female inequality. Suffrage being a direct challenge towards a woman's legal status as dependents and a way to improve the progressive Era Reform movement.

    1. Pero Sócrates tuvo razón en algo: la escritura sí atrofió nuestra memoria. No la de todos, por supuesto, pero sin duda relegó el acto de recordar a un segundo plano, tanto individual como colectivamente.

      Me parece significativa esta frase porque hace una clara referencia a cómo la IA, hasta cierto punto, nos vuelve esclavos y perezosos. Con esto no me refiero a que la IA sea mala (como se menciona en el texto), sino que me llama la atención la manera en que, tanto ahora como antes, las personas prefieren un método más sencillo que uno complicado para lograr el objetivo que tienen en mente. Antes se trataba de recordar, lo cual se facilitó con la escritura; ahora, en cambio, hablamos de tareas más cotidianas: escribir, buscar la solución a un problema, pedir consejos, tomar decisiones, etc.

      Como se menciona en la frase, no es una cuestión de bueno o malo, sino de que, como seres humanos, solemos buscar la facilidad en nuestras vidas. Inevitablemente, esto ha ocurrido, ocurre y seguirá ocurriendo a medida que sigamos evolucionando como sociedad.

    2. Pero, a cambio, la escritura nos abrió la posibilidad de conocer mucho más allá de lo que puede guardar una memoria humana individual.

      Esta frase es otra que me llamó mucho la atención debido a que refleja bien la realidad que tenemos en este momento con la IA. Si, es criticada por muchos, pero al mismo tiempo nos abrió puertas y caminos que antes no éramos capaces de visualizar.

      La IA es una herramienta que debe usarse con responsabilidad y cabeza para no volvernos dependientes, pero reitero, no es que sea algo malo, solo debe tomarse como lo que es: una herramienta en la que uno puede apoyarse.

    1. Si absolutamente todos adoptáramos su uso en todas las áreas de la vida, pronto nadie tendría habilidades.

      Pienso que esta frase en particular tiene un sentido crítico y muestra el riesgo de volvernos cómodos. Si dejamos que las inteligencias artificiales hagan todo, dejamos a un lado habilidades que teníamos y omitiendo hacer esas cosas por nuestra cuenta. Es como si por usar una calculadora dejáramos de saber hacer cuentas rápido. Lo que empezó como una ayuda, termina convirtiéndose en un contraste entre libertad y dependencia.

    2. A diferencia de la escritura, no es claro cuál es el beneficio concreto que pueda traernos la inteligencia artificial para que se justifique su eventual omnipresencia

      En esta parte del texto el autor dice algo que me parece muy interesante. Es verdad que la inteligencia artificial es una herramienta bastante útil, pero también ha hecho que muchas personas piensen menos o se reten menos a sí mismas. Aun así, no estoy del todo de acuerdo con la idea de que usarla todos los días nos haría perder nuestras habilidades. Para mí, saber usar bien la inteligencia artificial también es una habilidad importante. Si se utiliza como apoyo y no como sustituto, puede ayudarnos a trabajar con más eficiencia y a cometer menos errores, sobre todo en el ámbito laboral. Creo que, más que quitarnos capacidades, podría potenciarlas si aprendemos a usarla de la manera correcta

    3. Pero, a cambio, la escritura nos abrió la posibilidad de conocer mucho más allá de lo que puede guardar una memoria humana individual

      Esto lo interpreto como una reflexión del autor sobre el doble efecto que puede tener la inteligencia artificial en nuestra forma de pensar y aprender. Así como la escritura debilitó la memoria, la IA podría hacer que dependamos menos de nuestras propias habilidades cognitivas; sin embargo, también nos brinda la oportunidad de acceder a una cantidad de información y conocimiento mucho mayor de la que podríamos alcanzar por nosotros mismos. El autor parece querer mostrar que toda herramienta tecnológica implica una pérdida, pero también una ganancia, y que lo importante es encontrar un equilibrio entre aprovechar sus beneficios sin dejar de ejercitar nuestras capacidades humanas

    4. Si decides programar usando sólo un chatbot (una práctica llamada “vibe coding” en inglés), vas a delegar constantemente no sólo el trabajo, sino la capacidad de aprender cómo hacerlo

      Esto lo interpreto como una advertencia del autor, ya que al volvernos dependientes de la inteligencia artificial podríamos perder nuestra capacidad crítica y de aprendizaje, de la misma forma en que Sócrates pensaba que la escritura debilitaba la memoria.

    5. La escritura fue revolucionaria, por todas las razones ya mencionadas; pero la inteligencia artificial parece cada vez más ser una “tecnología normal”

      La escritura debe seguir siendo una forma de arte, incluso en tiempos de inteligencia artificial. Aunque la IA pueda generar textos o ideas, carece de emociones, vivencias y conciencia, elementos esenciales para crear arte verdadero. Escribir no es solo comunicar, sino expresar lo que sentimos y pensamos, transformar nuestras experiencias en palabras con sentido humano. Por eso, debemos aprender a usar la tecnología como una herramienta de apoyo, sin dejar que sustituya nuestra voz ni nuestra creatividad. El equilibrio está en aprovechar lo que ofrece la IA, pero siempre aportando nuestro toque personal, crítico y sensible, porque solo así la escritura mantiene su esencia artística.

    6. Un discípulo de Platón, Aristóteles, a veces es descrito como una de las últimas personas que sabían todo lo que había por saber. No porque estuviera al tanto de todo el conocimiento en general, sino porque en su época la escritura aún no era tan popular y la cantidad de conocimiento a la que podía potencialmente tener acceso un individuo seguía siendo muy limitada. Quizás conociera todo lo que había que conocer en su mundo, pero ese mundo era bastante pequeño. Probablemente ignoraba conocimientos de China, o América, pero no podía saber que los ignoraba.

      Claro que si, decir que Aristóteles fue de los últimos en “saberlo todo” tiene sentido si entendemos que ese “todo” era el conocimiento accesible en su mundo: en Atenas y el entorno helénico podía reunir y ordenar mucha información, pero fuera de ese horizonte había saberes (por ejemplo de China o América) que ni siquiera se imaginaban. Eso no le quita mérito; más bien nos recuerda que la amplitud del conocimiento siempre está limitada por las herramientas y las redes de su época, y que conviene admirar su logro sin olvidar la modestia intelectual.

    7. Por supuesto, muchos de todas maneras la usan y la seguirán usando para realizar actividades que quizás no les son tan importantes. No podemos negar que la inteligencia artificial esté aquí para quedarse. El asunto es cómo va a quedarse.

      La inteligencia artificial representa una nueva revolución tecnológica que, al igual que las anteriores, exige de nosotros una capacidad de adaptación inteligente y crítica. A lo largo de la historia, cada avance (desde la máquina de vapor hasta la era digital) generó miedo y resistencia, pero también impulsó transformaciones positivas cuando aprendimos a integrarlo sin perder nuestras capacidades humanas. La IA no debería verse como un reemplazo del pensamiento, sino como una extensión de nuestras posibilidades. El verdadero reto está en mantener el equilibrio: usar la tecnología para potenciar la creatividad y quizás la productividad, sin caer en la pasividad ni en la dependencia absoluta. Adaptarnos no significa rendirnos ante la máquina, sino aprender a convivir con ella, usándola con conciencia y criterio para seguir siendo los protagonistas de nuestro propio desarrollo.

    8. la escritura sí atrofió nuestra memoria. No la de todos, por supuesto, pero sin duda relegó el acto de recordar a un segundo plano, tanto individualmente

      Esa parte donde dice que "la escritura nos abrió la posibilidad de conocer mucho más allá de lo que puede guardar una memoria humana" me parece clave. Es el mejor ejemplo de que toda tecnología tiene un trade-off. Perdimos algo de memoria, pero ganamos el conocimiento colectivo de la humanidad. Con la IA pasa igual: el reto no es evitarla, sino usarla para expandir nuestra inteligencia sin dejar de ejercitar nuestro pensamiento crítico. Es encontrar ese punto medio entre la herramienta y nuestra autonomía.

    9. las personas nos daremos cuenta de que obtener habilidades es mucho más valioso de delegárselas a una máquina.

      Este fragmento me llamó mucho la atención porque refleja una idea fundamental sobre el papel de la inteligencia artificial en nuestra vida: la importancia de seguir desarrollando nuestras propias habilidades humanas. En una época en la que cada vez más tareas pueden automatizarse, este pensamiento nos invita a no perder de vista el valor del aprendizaje, la creatividad y el pensamiento crítico.

      Me parece interesante que el texto no solo critique la dependencia tecnológica, sino que también resalte la necesidad de equilibrio. Aprender a usar la IA es importante, pero más importante aún es no dejar que reemplace nuestra capacidad de pensar y crear. Como estudiante, esto me hace reflexionar sobre cómo quiero usar la tecnología: no como una muleta, sino como una herramienta para potenciar mis propias habilidades.

    10. Una de las críticas que se le suele hacer a la inteligencia artificial generativa (que como conté en otro post, es una sección muy específica de la IA) y que yo mismo hago, es que va a atrofiar nuestra capacidad de hacer y pensar cosas críticamente. Si decides programar usando sólo un chatbot (una práctica llamada “vibe coding” en inglés), vas a delegar constantemente no sólo el trabajo, sino la capacidad de aprender cómo hacerlo.

      Esta parte me deja pensando mucho. Siento que tiene algo profundamente cierto: cuando dejamos que una máquina piense o cree por nosotros, no solo perdemos una tarea, sino una parte de nosotros mismos. Me pasa a veces, cuando algo me sale mal y quiero buscar la solución rápida en internet o pedirle a una IA que lo haga, que me doy cuenta de lo fácil que es rendirse ante la comodidad. Pero también, de lo vacía que puede sentirse esa “facilidad”. Aprender algo nuevo, equivocarse, incluso frustrarse, tiene un valor que una máquina no puede darnos. Esa lucha, esa torpeza inicial, es donde realmente se forma el pensamiento crítico, donde se despierta la curiosidad. Si dejamos que la inteligencia artificial piense todo por nosotros, ¿en qué se convierte nuestra mente? Tal vez terminemos sabiendo más cosas, pero sintiendo menos. Y me parece que eso sería una pérdida demasiado grande, porque lo que nos hace humanos no es solo lo que sabemos, sino cómo llegamos a saberlo.

    11. Así como las críticas de Sócrates no pudieron parar el éxito de la escritura, nosotros no podríamos parar el auge de las redes sociales.

      Este punto se me hace escencial para complementar mis comentarios anteriores, hemos pasado como sociedad tantos cambios que parecían difciles de superar o que pensabamos cambiarían nuestra manera de ver el mundo, y sí, el mundo ha cambiado radicalmente, pero hasta ahora esa exageración de pensar que cada cambio es el fin del mundo no nos ha llevado a nada, siempre nos terminamos acostumbrando o incluso encontramos la manera de usar estos cambios tan "extremos" a nuestro favor. Por supuesto hay muchos contras, es dificil adaptarse a algo tan nuevo y tan diferente como la inteligencia artifical, pero no va a ir a ningún lado y ya va siendo hora de buscar la manera de usarla a nuestro favor de manera sana y que no afecte nuestro progreso, no es buscar todas las respuestas sino apoyarse para ampliar nuestro conocimiento.

    12. Sino una tecnología más, que tendrá sus usos y aplicaciones, sus consecuencias y efectos, pero no cambiará a toda la sociedad de pies a cabeza.

      La inteligencia artificial es fascinante, hasta incluso ultimamente se ha vuelto indecifrable para el espectador, estoy de acuerdo con el autor, no es algo que cambiará completamente todo lo que conocemos como "sociedad", pero si se presta para muchos infortunios, no sé si considerarlo como solo una tecnologia más pero poco a poco siento que aprenderemos a vivir usando la inteligencia artifical en la cotidianidad.

    13. Si absolutamente todos adoptáramos su uso en todas las áreas de la vida, pronto nadie tendría habilidades

      Acá el autor hace una afirmación que siento podría ser muy interesante comentar, ya que claro, no podemos negar lo innegable, la inteligencia artificial es una herramienta muy útil pero que tambien ha contribuido en que la gente piense menos, o que al menos se rete menos. Lo que si me interesaría comentar de esta parte del texto es que el autor se refiere a que si la inteligencia artificial fuese usada todos los dias para todas las áreas nosotros nos quedaríamos sin habilidades, no concuerdo del todo, el uso correcto de la inteligencia artificial es una habilidad e incluso siento que si se llegara a usar en algunas áreas, no en todas, (como un apoyo) incrementaría la eficiencia y el porcentaje de error laboralmente.

    14. al hacerlo, se pierde la alternativa, que en este caso es poder hacer cosas nosotros mismos

      El autor dice algo muy cierto: usar la IA tiene su precio. A veces sin darnos cuenta dejamos que piense por nosotros, y eso hace que no usemos tanto nuestra propia cabeza. No está mal apoyarse en ella, pero tampoco deberíamos dejarle todo el trabajo. Hay cosas que uno mismo tiene que pensar y resolver.

    15. Esto, habría dicho Sócrates, nos daría una “simulación” del conocimiento, en vez de permitirnos acceder a un “verdadero” conocimiento de las cosas.

      Esta parte me hace pensar en cómo la inteligencia artificial también puede crear una ilusión de saber. Podemos tener toda la información, pero si no la comprendemos de verdad, solo estamos repitiendo cosas que parecen correctas. Tal vez, como dice el autor, estamos llenándonos de conocimiento superficial sin llegar a entender profundamente lo que aprendemos.

    16. ya no haríamos un esfuerzo por recordar largos poemas épicos, o largas listas de hechos científicos. Pero tampoco haríamos un esfuerzo por recordar nuestros propios argumentos sobre disquisiciones varias.

      el sugiere que la dependencia que hemos generado hacia la tecnología reduce nuestro esfuerzo intelectual y en base a este podemos generar una pregunta interesante : ¿La inteligencia artificial nos está volviendo más perezosos mentalmente, quitándonos las ganas de pensar y cuestionar, o nos está ayudando de forma positiva a mejorar nuestro método de aprendizaje?

    17. A Sócrates no le convencía eso de escribir. Su argumento principal era que, al tener las ideas siempre a la mano en un dispositivo externo a la mente humana, esto atrofiaría nuestra memoria

      Esta crítica de Sócrates hacia la escritura es muy similar al miedo que hoy existe frente a la inteligencia artificial: que al delegar funciones cognitivas en máquinas, perdamos nuestras propias capacidades (como la memoria o el razonamiento).

    1. What are the potential harms of this example? And who would suffer the harms?

      When looking at the example of the person mispronouncing Hors d'oeuvres, it is an act of a harmless troll. If someone does mispronounce this, the worst thing that would happen is someone correcting them. I think this type of trolling is both amusing and harmless. However, that is not the case for a lot of trolls who have harmful intent behind their messages on the internet.

    1. I think the best way to stop trolling is to give punishments, so people who want to troll will realize their actions have a price. If people know they’ll face real consequences, they’ll think twice before posting rude or harmful comments. For example, if someone writes something mean or offensive, they could lose the right to comment for a few hours. The more serious the bad behavior is, the longer the comment ban should be. This kind of rule can make people behave better online. It gives them time to cool down and reflect on what they did wrong.

    1. Pero Sócrates tuvo razón en algo: la escritura sí atrofió nuestra memoria. No la de todos, por supuesto, pero sin duda relegó el acto de recordar a un segundo plano, tanto individualmente, como colectivamente

      Me parece significativa esta frase porque hace una clara referencia a cómo la IA, hasta cierto punto, nos vuelve esclavos y perezosos. Con esto no me refiero a que la IA sea mala (como se menciona en el texto), sino que me llama la atención la manera en que, tanto ahora como antes, las personas prefieren un método más sencillo que uno complicado para lograr el objetivo que tienen en mente. Antes se trataba de recordar, lo cual se facilitó con la escritura; ahora, en cambio, hablamos de tareas más cotidianas: escribir, buscar la solución a un problema, pedir consejos, tomar decisiones, etc.

      Como se menciona en la frase, no es una cuestión de bueno o malo, sino de que, como seres humanos, solemos buscar la facilidad en nuestras vidas. Inevitablemente, esto ha ocurrido, ocurre y seguirá ocurriendo a medida que sigamos evolucionando como sociedad.

  3. sk-sagepub-com.offcampus.lib.washington.edu sk-sagepub-com.offcampus.lib.washington.edu
    1. When we “read” people, either in real life or in mass-mediated texts such as advertisements, commercials, and films, we pay a great deal of attention to things like their hairstyles, the brands of sunglasses, clothing, accessories and shoes they wear, and their body ornaments.

      The key and the significance of all this is really in the subtlety

    2. Semiotics is of great interest to marketers, who use it in an effort to understand the way consumers think and what goes on in their minds when they contemplate purchasing a product or service. Branding has now become a major way in which companies get people to purchase their products. Rob Walker (2008) deals with the role of brands in his book Buying In: What We Buy and Who We Are. He attacks the notion that the new generations somehow “see through” advertising and are immune to it. He writes:Everybody sees right through traditional advertising. You’d have to be an idiot not to recognize that you’re being pitched to when watching a thirty-second commercial. (p. 110)

      Amazing how subconscious all this is and unconscious it is.

    3. The meanings in signs, and in texts (which can be viewed as collections of signs), are not always (or even often) evident; they have to be elicited.

      The signs are subtle, but they are there

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    1. Globally, the majority of mammals are nocturnal, an ancestral character of mammals stemming from the ‘nocturnal bottleneck’ in the early evolution of the clade

      That is actually really interesting to find out. Obviously, animals seeing in the dark is an adaptation for some animals to survive but I didn't know it became so common because of a bottleneck effect. What catastrophe occurred to drastically reduce the population leaving mainly nocturnal animals reproducing?

    2. tapetum lucidum

      Important to note: Tapetum lucidum is a reflective layer in the eyes of many vertebrates, enhancing night vision by reflecting the light back through the retina.

    3. Of the two hypotheses proposed to explain lunar activity patterns – the predation risk hypothesis and the visual acuity hypothesis – neither was completely supported by our results. The predation risk hypothesis predicts that, if predation is more successful under bright moonlight, prey species will become lunarphobic by reducing full moon activity. Although 50% of the prey species exhibited the reduction in full moon activity predicted by the predation risk model, the remaining species were either lunarphilic or exhibited no lunar activity pattern.

      Researchers tested two ideas about how moonlight affects animal behavior but didn’t find full support for either. Only half of the prey acted as expected others were more active or showed no pattern at all.

    4. But 60% of species displayed different lunar activity patterns in different populations, suggesting that many species exhibit behavioral plasticity in their lunar activity. We conclude that neither phylogenetic signal, tapetum lucidum as proxy for visual acuity, nor lunar illumination are able to reliably predict lunar activity patterns for all species, and natural selection may favor behavioral flexibility in nocturnal activity.

      It is fascinating that neither the Predation Risk nor the Visual Acuity Hypothesis completely explains the results. That suggests nocturnal behavior is influenced by more complex interactions than just moonlight intensity. I am curious about how human disturbance or artificial light at night might add another layer to these patterns, especially as ecosystems become more affected by human activity.

    5. Lunar activity patterns of coyote, ocelot, and puma were significantly non-random by Rao’s spacing test (coyote: U2136 = 231.0, P < 0.001; ocelot: U505 = 182.0, P < 0.001; puma: U633 = 189.1, P < 0.001), while the Rao’s P-values for the activity patterns of predators with smaller sample sizes were non-significant (tayra: U26 = 129.8, NS; oncilla: U157 = 142.5, NS; margay: U25 = 158.8, NS; jaguar: U46 = 15.0, NS; Table 4, Figure 5).

      Statistical tests showed that only coyote, ocelot, and puma had meaningful activity patterns. The others didn’t, likely due to small sample sizes.

    6. To that end and in order to effectively test the visual acuity hypothesis, we incorporated estimates of low-light visual acuity based on the tapetum lucidum as a proxy for the acuity of taxon-typical “night vision”. The goal of this novel approach is to fill the knowledge gap regarding the role of lunar illumination in driving nocturnal activity patterns among elusive predator and prey species. Because Prugh and Golden (2014) also found a strong phylogenetic signal in their results, and tapetum structure is the result of independent evolution in different mammalian clades (Schwab et al., 2002), our analysis incorporated phylogenetic relatedness among the factors that might influence nocturnal activity.

      Using the tapetum lucidum as a proxy for night vision is such a creative way to make the Visual Acuity Hypothesis measurable. Still, I wonder if this structure alone fully represents visual ability across species. Other factors like eye size, neural processing, or even habitat openness might also influence how animals perceive moonlight. It would be interesting if future studies incorporated those aspects to give a more complete understanding of nocturnal vision.

    7. . One explanation is that brighter moonlight is associated with increased risk of predation (Predation Risk hypothesis), but it has also been proposed that nocturnal activity may be influenced by the sensory ecology of a species, with species that rely on visual detection of food and danger predicted to increase their activity during bright moonlight, while species relying on non-visual senses should decrease activity (Visual Acuity hypothesis).

      This explains two different hypotheses about how moonlight affects nocturnal animal behavior. The Predation Risk hypothesis suggests that animals reduce activity during bright moonlight to avoid predators that can see them easily. The Visual Acuity hypothesis argues that species that depend on sight to find food or detect danger become more active when the moon is bright, while those relying on other senses become less active.

    1. Your paper must explain what you think, or it will read like a disconnected string of facts and quotations

      Writing should show your own ideas and opinions. If you only include facts and quotes without explaining what you think about them, your paper will lack a clear point

    2. A surprising fact A thought-provoking question An attention-getting quote A brief anecdote that illustrates a larger concept A connection between your topic and your readers experiences

      Within starts of an introduction these are ways to catch the reader’s interest and make them want to keep reading. It helps draw people in and gets them thinking about the topic right from the start.

    1. acetogenic and anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria as well as methanogenic archaea

      Crazy to me that people can be cool with acetogenic bacteria but somehow think that trans people are unnatural.

    1. The Huns reached their peak under Attila (c. 406-453), who ruled from 434 until his death. He crossed the Danube River twice and invaded Anatolia in 441 but failed to conquer Constantinople, although he did extract 6,000 pounds of gold in tribute from the city

      This man had a great adventure during his life and 6,000 pounds of gold! Wow!

    1. The history of early christianity taught within the religion often focuses on the sacrifices of martyrs who refused to renounce their faith even when threatened with torture and violent death.

      I think this is interesting and I never knew that this was a religious thing.

  4. docdrop.org docdrop.org
    1. stereotype threat is a kind of performance anxiety that can impact academic performance because "(stigmatized students] must contend with the threatening possibility that should their performance falter, it could substantiate the racial ste-reotype's allegation of limited ability."

      Even in environments free of overt discrimination, negative social stereotypes can induce anxiety and stress in Black students during exams or classroom performance, leading to declining grades. The interplay of “identity,” “academic disparities,” and “social prejudice” sheds light on how racial differences ultimately impact Black students' academic achievement.

    2. Not only are Black adolescents encountering racism and re-flecting on their identity, but their White peers, even when they are not the perpetrators (and sometimes they are), are unprepared to respond in supportive ways. The Black students turn to each other for rhe much-needed support they are not likely to find anywhere else.

      Black students “gathering together” is not an act of segregation, but rather a psychological necessity. After experiencing racial prejudice, they often find emotional resonance and a sense of security among Black peers, rather than understanding from white friends. This is because certain cultural experiences and traumas cannot be fully acknowledged by people of other races. It's similar to how only some Asian students can truly relate to my struggles with pressure in public education or trauma stemming from my family of origin. The appearance of “self-segregation” can be interpreted as a coping strategy.

    3. As children enter adolescence , they begin to explore the question of identity, asking "Who am I? Who can I be?" in ways they have not done before. For Black youth, asking "Who am I?" usually includes thinking about "Who am I ethnically and/or racially? What does it mean to be Black?"

      This passage reveals the author's central argument: Black adolescents' identity exploration differs from their white peers, as they must confront the “racial labels” imposed by society during adolescence. Black children are not only seeking personal identity but are also compelled to understand how society perceives their skin color. “Identity development” is not merely a matter of psychological growth but also the outcome of a socialization process. This reminds me of another somewhat similar topic. Some argue that gender is also a form of socialized symbol. Psychological gender and gender identity are actually shaped by an individual's social experiences and cognition—they are products of socialization. This perspective bears some resemblance to the author's view on racial cognition.

    4. Some of the environmental cues are institutionalized. Though many elementary schools have self-contained classrooms where children of varying performance levels learn together, many middle and secondary schools assign students to different subject levels based on their perceived ability, a practice known as cracking.

      This reminds of last class where we talked about the achievement gap and how it should be reframed as an opportunity gap. Oftentimes the lived experiences of race and racism intersect with issues of class and access to education, and these performance evaluations which decide the level of education a student should receive fail to take into account the lived experiences of students, often limiting access to black and brown students. My high school was framed as "academically rigorous" and even though it was public, there was an admission system which was made based on applications and grades from middle school. I always found it wrong that there was an admission system, because I thought that a student's grades and ability to put together an application should not decide whether or not they had access to this academically rigorous education. While my school prided itself on its diversity, this admission system limited access to many students of color who didn't attend a highly-funded middle school where there were opportunities to thrive. This exposes a form of institutionalized racism within the school district.

    5. What do these encounters have to do with the cafeteria? Do experiences with racism inevitably result in so-called self-segregation? While cer-tainly a desire to protect oneself from further offense is understandable, it is not the only factor at work.

      Through personal experiences, I think this can end one of several ways. Students are able to find a group of students who look lime them and grow a community where theyre comfortable. They change themselves to fit into other groups despite it not being something they identify with, and at times start hating their own. And, there are fortunately some who are able to find friends who don't all have to look like them, friends who make them feel welcomed. Everyone's situation is different, and as mentioned, the need to protect oneself is understandable.

    6. The all-too-familiar media image of a young Black man with his hands cuffed behind his back, arrested for presumed criminal activity, has primed many to view young Black men with suspicion and fear. In the context of predominantly White schools, however, Black boys may enjoy a degree of social success, particularly if they are athletically talented. The culture has embraced the Black athlete, and the young man who can fulfill that role is often pursued by Black girls and White girls alike. But even these young men will encounter experiences that may trigger an examination of their racial identity.

      The contrast pin attitudes towards two different individuals is astounding, especially given the unknown circumstances which led the individual to get there. This text highlights how many people have a subconscious racial animus which leads them to stereotype without noticing thats what theyre doing. By only praising young black men who are good at sports it sets a stereotype that that is all they can be good at. Everyone should be praised for their talents while acknowledging that is not their only potential.

    7. "It was really a very paradoxical ex-istence, here I am in a school that's thirty-five percent Black, you know, and I'm the only Black in my classes .... That always struck me as od~; I guess I felt that I was different from the other Blacks because of that.

      This students situation explains why many don't want to continue into higher education. Many feel isolated or as if they dont belong because they are the only person who looks like them in an advanced class. Even in higher education, I have personally felt like I dont belong because of the overwhelming population that does not look like me. Like the student mentioned, it does feel odd, but it is also something one has to be able to continue to work through to ensure the effort put into our education is worth it..

    8. Given the impact of dominant and subordinate status, it is not surprising thar researchers have found that adolescents of color are more likely co be actively engaged in an exploration of their racial or ethnic identity than are White adolescents.

      I think this stems from minor students e brain their race and identity. Why I personallyy do think I have explore my racial and ethnic identity, I was mainly due to the fact that I had to get comfortable being ethnically and racially different around other ethnic/racial groups. Many students who pursue a higher education and have to live in a place they are not used to are likely to experience a similar situation. Although I am sure there are other reasons for racial exploration, my personal experience make be think this could be true as well.

    9. WALK INTO ANY RACIALLY MIXED HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA AT LUNCH-tune 3:11d you will instantly notice that in the sea of adolescent faces, there is an identifiable group of Black students sitting together. Con-versely, it could be pointed out that there are many groups of White students sitting together as well, though people rarely comment about that.

      This is true for a lot of minority students who more away from home for the first time to pursue higher education. I think it is a subconscious actions, done to make one feel more welcome and at home. Minority students like myself are likely to gravitate towards others who remind us from home because it make up for the fact we miss our homes. Although this causes a divide, it also forms relationships between who otherwise would feel like imposters.

    1. private bathrooms, gender-specific health education, and access to feminine hygiene products

      taking steps to diminish the separation btwn female and male education including specific health-education and access to feminine hygeine products (to ^^^ girls education to level it with boys)

    2. must address disparities to ensure that every child, regardless of gender, has adequate access to quality education and the opportunities that will arise as the result of it.

      ^^

    3. This will increase deprivation for women more so than men due to the issue of gender inequality in education.

      declines in education that effect both genders are more drastic for women and girls due to gender inequality

    4. In low-income countries, particularly in remote regions, socio-economic factors play a significant role in perpetuating gender inequality in education. Issues such as poverty, socio-political instability, and lack of access to school disproportionately affect girls’ ability to receive an education. It’s common for families in regions facing hardship to prioritize boys’ education over girls’. While the primary school completion rate for girls worldwide is 90% compared to boys, that near-parity drops significantly after primary school. And in communities where people experience extreme poverty, not all boys have adequate access to education.
      • other factors that affect gender inequality in education. When certain families face hardship-- common to prioritize male education over female
    1. intention is to address specific challenges, such as familyhomelessness, that can interfere with consistent service access. Transitions procedures andpractices can also ensure effective transitions from Early Head Start to Head Start and to otherearly childhood education programs or schools.

      What are barriers that may impact the progress of the family and children what are the best ways to combat these barriers.

    2. se environments createopportunities for families to build relationships with other families and community organizations

      What would this look like building wise?

    3. rogram data to inform local and stateplanning and policy decision

      Its interesting that they are using their program data on an individual level to help with state planning and policy decisions.

    4. Families, other community members,and staff can co-design and co-lead training tostrengthen family and community partnerships.

      Professional Development days or in services days are important to me everything is always changing and in order to keep up with the new standards organizations should be offering their staff designated times where they can learn.

    5. eaders advocate for the inclusion of diverse family voices at all levels of theprogram, including in formal decision-making groups, such as parent committees and policycouncil

      Leaders are taking the time to consider the families voices at all levels of the program as well as including them in formal decision-making process on a macro level

    6. advocate for their child’s learning

      This is really important that parents are encouraged to advocate for their child's learning because often times parents might be intimidated to or don't know how to so its important that providers aid them in this however this is possible.

    7. full range of strengths, interests, and needs of each child andfamily. Staff then connect families with all the available services and resources they need toachieve their goals

      After a child's assessment or evaluation PFCE will then consider their full range of strengths, interests and needs of each child and family and relay them to the available services and resources they need to achieve these specific goals.

    8. withcommunity members and agencies at all levels

      I love this because I think it really relates to the idea that it takes a village to raise a child. I like that this program is involved with other agencies and resources which can improve a child's outcome such as educational advancement, economic mobility and others.

    9. hey know their children better thananyone—their temperaments, personalities, strengths, vulnerabilities, talents, andspecial needs. They know their own cultures and the cultures they want to transmit totheir children. When parents share their knowledge, they improve provider practicesand program quality.

      This is important to keep in mind that yes the provider has education and the degree but the parents know their children better than anyone they are the experts on their child.

    10. Family engagement means doing with—not doing to or for—families

      I sentence a lot I a lot of the times in child care services we often look at it as we are doing a service for the parents by watching their care but I think that the family engagement in a child's development and education is key.

    11. school readiness

      I like that they added school readiness as an outcome because to me working in childcare this is a section that is totally skipped over

    12. rganizational approachto systemic, integrated, comprehensive parent,family, community engagement.

      Organizational Approach: focusing within the organization itself.

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    1. when I spoke of the United States having pledged themselves not to permit any other Power than Spain to interfere with the independence or form of Government of the new American Republics, I meant only to allude to the above cited declaration of the President of the United States in his message of 1823, and to nothing more

      Observation: Poinsett clarifies that this "pledge" does not represent a formal or binding commitment. Interpretation: This says to me that while the U.S. said before that it promotes strong opinions about protecting Latin American independence, its policy itself was limited and cautious. This gap shows how the U.S. wanted to be a defender and protector, but avoided making concrete promises in in foreign conflict. Connection: This relates back to our theme this week of commerce driven involvement, but America's real priority was maintaining its trade routes and stability, not more moral crusades. The Monroe Doctrine's key points say that we were off limits to European colonization, we reject monarchy, and we should not get involved in European wars. Context: This reflects the post War of 1812 period when the U.S. was trying to expand its influence in the Americas without provoking conflict with Europe. The Monroe Doctrine was more or less a diplomatic tool, showing how the U.S. wanted to be a global power, but not over involved in conflicts.

    2. I have always considered that declaration as a pledge, so far forth as the language of the President can pledge the nation, to defend the new American Republics from the attacks of any of the powers of Europe other than Spain.

      Observation:Poinsett is saying he interprets the President's message to be a promise to protect the newly independent Latin American nations from Europe. Interpretation: This shows that the early leaders of the U.S. thought themselves as leaders and guardians of republicanism in the Americas. The tertiary sources this week speak to that, because the U.S. was involving themselves way outside our country, they just lacked the resources to do it. Connection: This connects to the tertiary sources in the talks about commerce and ideology and how that drove their transatlantic politics. Defending republics meant protecting trade and commerce, and above that, our very own trade and commerce. Change Over Time: This shows change over time- how the U.S. went from winning independence, to trying to assert themselves as a global power, despite having limited military, especially navy, under the Jefferson Presidency.

    3. I told the Secretary that the declaration of the President and the known friendly disposition of the Government and of the people of the United States towards these countries did not confer upon this Government the privilege of demanding our interference as a right.

      Observation: Even though the U.S. supports Latin American nations, this support does not give them the right to demand U.S. intervention Interpretation: This shows that Poinsett viewed American involvement as a strategic, not moral obligation. His beliefs seem to indicate that the U.S. should choose how and when it engages in all things abroad because U.S. power is growing. Connection: This relates to the Monroe Doctrine from 1823 specifically because there is a wish to protect the U.S. from European influence, but yet, they are also asserting their authority on the global stage. Causality: This statement by Poinsett shows how the caution of the U.S. to intervene formally was caused by fears of being involved in foreign conflicts. However, the U.S. still wanted to show their influence and power while also protecting their interest.

    4. “The President, therefore, instructs me to inform your excellency of these important occurrences, so that, by bringing them to the notice of your Government, it may demand of his Most Catholic Majesty such explanations as the case requires.”

      Observation: The President demands explanations through diplomatic channels. Interpretation: This tells us that despite the U.S. being a young nation, they are already stepping into the transatlantic politics which are driven by commerce. This supports the assertion that the U.S. wants to be a major international player. Commerce and political influence were the major influences behind U.S. interest and engagement across the seas. Connection: The tertiary sources tell us about the U.S. wanting to become a major power, but our resources (especially our resources in military and naval protection) was lacking. This source supports this pattern, showing how America was trying to shape global affairs with our republication virtue. Change Over Time: The U.S. was trying to evolve from a small, isolated republic to an aggressive, international, diplomatic power.

    1. specially women: [trolls

      I think this is an interesting distinction. I believe that women, particularly famous women or women in the public eye, probably experience trolling on social media more often than their male counterparts. There are clear similarities in behavior between trolls and abusers or stalkers, as this segment states, which makes me believe women are more directly affected by trolls.

    2. What do you think is the best way to deal with trolling?

      I believe the best way to deal with trolling is to not acknowledge them. Trolls thrice off of others reaction and hostility you may give them. To combat this the best way is to act like it doesn't bother you at all. From there in silence report them, block them, or do anything in your will power to restrict them from your own life. If it get's even more serious in terms of personal attacks or death threats that's when I would suggest reaching out for help and talking to an adult for further action.

    3. What do you think is the best way to deal with trolling?

      I think the best way to deal with trolls is to ignore them. I know it says in the text that ignoring doesn't work because they just come back stronger and more hostile. Even if they do continue I think it is still the best option because it doesn't satisfy them, when they get no reaction at all to their trolling they are left unsatisfied. From here you can block them, report them, or restrict them in some way so that you don't have to keep hearing from them.

    4. Film Crit Hulk goes on to say that the “don’t feed the trolls” advice puts the burden on victims of abuse to stop being abused, giving all the power to trolls.

      In §7.4, I argue that the "don't feed the trolls" rule shifts responsibility to the targets. On Discord, I help keep a balance, not focusing solely on doxing threats that have escalated; what finally worked was friction and compliance: maIembe mode during spikes, cooldowns for new members, removal of prohibitive thresholds, and robust reporting. I also interpret §7.3 as the ethical distinction between the “increase” of protest trolling (e.g., flooding K-pop apps) and the “reduction” of cruelty (RIP). It would be helpful if the chapter explicitly identified conformity and power dynamics as key dividing lines between ridicule, resistance, and contempt.

    1. If the trolls claim to be nihilists about ethics, or indeed if they are egoists, then they would argue that this doesn’t matter and that there’s no normative basis for objecting to the disruption and harm caused by their trolling. But on just about any other ethical approach, there are one or more reasons available for objecting to the disruptions and harm caused by these trolls! If the only way to get a moral pass on this type of trolling is to choose an ethical framework that tells you harming others doesn’t matter, then it looks like this nihilist viewpoint isn’t deployed in good faith[1]. Rather, with any serious (i.e., non-avoidant) moral framework, this type of trolling is ethically wrong for one or more reasons (though how we explain it is wrong depends on the specific framework).

      I think the section on Trolling and Nihilism raises an important point that some trolling communities don’t just push boundaries playfully but actually seem to treat ethics as irrelevant. What struck me is how this can lead to a kind of moral vacuum where the harm to people or groups is dismissed as part of the “game” of disruption.

    1. If the immediate goal of the action of trolling is to cause disruption or provoke emotional reactions, what is it that makes people want to do this disruption or provoking of emotional reactions? Some reasons people engage in trolling behavior include:

      I consider trolling to be an extremely unhealthy online behavior. I strongly oppose any posts engaging in malicious discussions, regardless of the reasons or emotions behind them. Looking back at past news, I recall numerous instances where innocent individuals suffered negative consequences like depression or withdrawal due to public opinion, while those participating in malicious discussions never felt remorse.

    1. Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.

      "The Fire Sermon" opens with "The river’s tent is broken" (line 173), a cut-throat declaration of decay in the scenery. The lush, protective canopy of nature is gone, leaving only the "last fingers of leaf" clutching at the "wet bank" (line 173-174). This establishes a scene of post-coital, post-festival exhaustion. The most telling line is the departure of the "nymphs."This is a direct and ironic invocation of Spenser's Prothalamion. In Spenser's poem, the "Sweet Thames" is a sacred, celebratory space, a "silver streaming" river where nymphs gather flowers for a noble wedding, and the poet's refrain, "Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song" (line 176), is a charm of harmony and blessing. Eliot steals this refrain but hollows it out. His Thames is a polluted dump, bearing the "testimony of summer nights": "empty bottles, sandwich papers, / Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends" (line 178). The nymphs are not gathering flowers; they are the modern, fleeting sexual partners of "the loitering heirs of City directors," who have "left no addresses" (line 180-181). Anonymous, meaningless liaisons have replaced the sacred marriage rite of Spenser. The beautiful refrain becomes a whispered, desperate plea, "for I speak not loud or long," as if the poet knows the charm no longer works.

    2. Who is the third who walks always beside you?

      "Who is the third who walks always beside you?" correlates with Ernest Shackleton's account during his last expedition. After his trek across South Georgia, he wrote, "it seemed to me often that we were four, not three" (pg. 211). His companions confirmed this eeriness of some type of mysterious presence. Eliot uses Shackleton's testimony to inject a brief moment of the uncanny and the potentially divine into the poem's landscape. The setting described by Eliot in this scene is more vague and ambiguous than Shackleton's certainty. The poem counts only two figures, yet, sees a "gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded" (line 364). This figure is unrecognisable, evident from line 365: "I do not know whether a man or a woman." It could be: Christ, appearing to the disciples on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24), where they do not recognize him; a hallucination born of exhaustion and spiritual despair; or the holy spirit, present but unrecognized. Later, Eliot reiterates the question, this time in a more intensified manner. He writes, "But who is that on the other side of you?" (line 366). Eliot is suggesting not one, but multiple mysterious presences. This resonates with the Indian legend from Marudanayagam, where three seers become aware of a fourth, the Lord Vishnu himself. The passage enacts a similar spiritual arithmetic: the human count is wrong; the divine is present but unseen, or unacknowledged, in the waste land. It is a moment where the material world seems to be haunted by a spiritual reality that the inhabitants can sense but not comprehend.

    3. Here is no water but only rock

      Eliot constantly mentions tarot cards and myths with themes of fertility and sterility. There is also a big contrast between water and fire. In a poem filled with so many symbols and elements indicating destruction and//or a form of darkness, water has served as a palette cleanser and a symbol of life, spirit, and purification. And so, it is interesting how here, there is "no water but only rock." Eliot later writes on lines 338-339, "If there were only water amongst the rock / Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit." This image perfectly encapsulates the sterility in this section and the true "waste land." It's also interesting how the title of this section is literally "What the Thunder Said," and yet, there is only "dry sterile thunder without rain" (line 342). In Themis, Harrison explains that thunder was not just a sound, but a manifestation of divine power, or mana, a force that brought a life-giving rain. In contrast, the thunder in this section is empty and a form of revelation without its substance. It promises meaning but delivers none. In this way, it mirrors a modern world where ancient symbols have lost their power. Finally, from Hermit Thrush, Eliot states that the hermit thrush was "the sweetest singer of all American birds." Its song is not one of mere prettiness, but of "tranquil clearness of tone and exalted serenity." By introducing it here, Eliot holds up an ideal of pure, natural, spiritual music, a stark contrast to the "dry grass singing" and the "cicada." The thrush's song is inseparable from the "sound of water over a rock." The "Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop" is both the sound of water and the rhythm of the bird's song. This fusion creates a single, transcendent symbol for grace, creativity, and spiritual renewal.

    1. for example, digital cameras, total stations, laser scanners, proton magnetometers, X-ray fluorescence machines, and their ilk – all encapsulate in various ways a mixture of techniques, calculations, and interventions that they employ on our behalf to explore, reveal, capture, and characterise archaeological objects.

      The workflow records each tool's inbedded computation (e.g., DEM creation, geocoding, centrality). I’ll document versions, default settings, and procedural steps so readers may reconstruct how algorithms affected mapped "secondary" routes.

    1. сами производительные силы с возрастающеймощью стремятся к уничтожению этого противоречия, к освобождению себя от всего того, что свойственно им в качествекапитала, ". фаi'Отичесi'Оому пр изпап ию их хара�'>тера I'Oa�'> общ ествеппых произв одите.льп ых с и.л

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    1. the tools we create, adopt, refine and employ have the effect of augmenting and scaffolding our thought and analysis,

      This makes it approprite to treat GIS as theory-laden rather than "just a map." My route-finding and clustering decision (e.g., cost-distance versus DBSCAN) will determine which of the secondary Silk Road routes look significant, so method decision must be registered as interpretive rather than neutral.

    1. Рассматривая же историюбогатства на его первых ступенях, мы находим совершеннуюзависимость его от почвы и климата;

      непонятно что такое первые ступени, возможно это влияние постоянное?

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    1. In the early Internet message boards that were centered around different subjects, experienced users would “troll for newbies” by posting naive questions that all the experienced users were already familiar with. The “newbies” who didn’t realize this was a troll would try to engage and answer, and experienced users would feel superior and more part of the group knowing they didn’t fall for the troll like the “newbies” did. These message boards are where the word “troll” with this meaning comes from.

      I think this concept of internet trolling newbies has essentially become easier on X now with the whole payment system for verification. Prior, you can probably tell who's real and who's fake based on profile picture, profile info, etc, but now it's a whole new ball game. Everyone can pay $10 for a verification check, so there's no real distinction between what's real or fake.

    1. To examine the author’s credibility or ethos—that is, how much you can believe of what the author has to say

      make sure the points you make are valid

    1. Supplementary Figure 3

      I would make this a main figure — it seems almost like a graphical abstract of the entire paper and shows readers at a glance how different programs they might be familiar with can all work harmoniously. It might also be good to show this high-level view of the system before showing the more nitty-gritty views in Figure 2

    2. custom automations

      You might want to mention to readers that Airtable also enables no-code automations (and you can use Zapier for some more complicated but still no-code automation) since some labs lack even basic scripting ability. You describe "no-code implementation" early in the manuscript, so it seems important to clarify exactly what can be done without code and what strictly requires it.

      Separately, you could also mention that Airtable can communicate with Slack (I see Telegram in Supp Fig 3, but I believe Slack is probably more common among scientists), Google Drive, etc.

    3. survey of 233 life science labs we performed for this study

      How did you do this survey? This seems like a useful dataset that others might want to cite if you provide some more methodological info (e.g., Who are the respondents? Did you post this on social media? Do you know that each respondent is from a different lab or might this not really represent 233 distinct labs?)

    4. This is a really cool preprint! We use Airtable to run the internal aspects of our publishing system at Arcadia Science and would love to see more scientists taking advantage. Your example base is perfect for helping readers understand and adapt what you've built.

      I've added some thoughts that I had while reading, hopefully they're helpful.

    1. The challenge here is to conduct your search efficiently, so writers use strategies to help them find the sources that are most relevant and reliable while steering clear of sources that will not be useful.

      make sure your sources are relevant to the topic and main idea

    1. God whom our fathers in days of stress and trial confidently trusted,

      Our fathers who believed in God, even their ancestors trusted God, which makes it a tradition that continues and originates from morality and religion, and this is what characterizes the foundations of unionist Protestantism in Ulster where precisely the Christian faith is intimately linked to the defense of British identity and civil liberties. To summarize, this sentence gives them a feeling of carrying a legacy and defending a cause much bigger than themselves.

    1. ue to resource constraints andweak governance structures, many small- and medium-sizedAfrican cities find it difficult to create and enforce environmentallaws in areas with strong religious and cultural beliefs

      The paper concludes that the problem isn't just the noise itself, but a failure of governance and lack of resources to enforce laws. This suggests that technical solutions alone won't work without addressing the underlying political and economic issues.

    2. nearly three-quarters (72.3%) of Osogbo residents frequently experience lossof sleep (insomnia) during the night due to high levels ofnocturnal noise pollution from sources, such as nightclubs,generating sets, parties, traffic, and noise from religiousactivities.

      This is a shocking statistic. It directly links high nighttime noise levels to a major health problem (insomnia) for a huge majority of residents. This clearly shows the convergence between the measured high noise levels and the perceived negative health impacts. This would be a great quote for Project 2 or 3.

    3. hat themean daylight sound levels of industrial land use (72.85 dB),residential land use (55.42 dB), commercial land use (76.61 dB),and transportation use (80.67 dB) are higher than the WHOmaximum standards sound levels of 50, 60, and 55 dB for variousland uses. Similarly, the nocturnal sound levels for the three landuses were 48, 72, and 61.7 dB for residential, commercial, andmixed land uses, respectively. These figures also exceeded theWHO standards of 35, 50, and 45 dB for residential, commercial,and mixed land uses, respectively.

      Even in residential areas, the average daytime noise level (55.42 dB) is higher than the WHO's recommended maximum (50 dB). This is a specific piece of evidence showing the problem isn't just in commercial or transport areas; it's affecting people where they live.

    4. The data for this study were obtained through a field survey,questionnaire administration, and group discussion/interview.

      The authors used a mix of quantitative like sound-level meter in the field survey and qualitative like questionnaires, interviews methods. This is called a mixed-methods approach and makes their findings more robust because it combines objective data with subjective human experience.

    5. hese effects are divided into four categories:physical effects (e.g., hearing defects), physiological effects(e.g., increased blood pressure, irregular heart rhythms, andpeptic ulcers), psychological effects (e.g., disorders, sleeplessnessand late sleeping, irritability, and stress), and effects on workperformance (e.g., decreased productivity and misinterpretationof what is heard (Oyedepo 2013).

      Noise isn't just annoying; it has four distinct categories of negative health impacts. This is a great, concise list of the specific health risks I can reference later. The physiological effects like increased blood pressure are especially surprising.

    6. dies relating actual noise levels to perceived noise pollution in the context of rapidly urbanizingmedium-sized cities of the Global South are scarce. Th

      This sentence identifies the main research gap the study is trying to fill. It's not just about noise, but about comparing measured noise with what people feel in medium-sized cities in the Global South. This is the core purpose of the article.

    1. __________________________________________________________________

      Set aside a physical space dedicated to career development and job hunt work, get and keep 2 notebooks to use during career exploration (one for calls and messages and another for general notes), and understand your financial picture.

    1. Because a student’s self-worth is a critical part of this identity, particular attention needs to be paid to those who are challenged, and how the student and the rest of the class perceive those challenges.

      This is such an important topic because of how impactful it is on students and their mental health. I wonder how music teachers can correct without isolating or giving a negative impression?

    2. “As humans we want to care and be cared for”

      I like how caring and ethics is being combined here because they should be when dealing with humans. Inclusion shouldn't be just policy but a moral responsibility. I do wonder what the "feminine" significance is in this title.

    3. Be alert to the sensory limits of students (see the special education team) and provide a quiet place in the classroom for students who need a break.

      I wonder if you could use music as a way to help regulate emotions and calm anxiety so the student is still participating? Either through listening to a calming song or making a beat.

    4. It is important for students to have access to teachers and for students to know they can communicate with the adults at school in a manner that is comfortable and appropriate for them.

      This changes how I think about how important communication is for students with disabilities. Instead of looking at these behaviours as "good" or "bad" we should instead be looking at the causes and what this could be potentially communicating.

    5. Carson and I work out simple agreements during class and outside of class.

      One connection I see is from the “Amy and Drew” story from class, where flexibility and understanding made inclusion work.

    6. A small caveat to this strategy is to not use the same students for each class meeting. “Buddy burnout” can be a negative factor among students who are consistently asked to partner with students with differences and disabilities. Also, consider only using a student helper for the portion of class when a student with differences and disabilities will need assistance. Another successful strategy is to ask a student with differences and disabilities to assist someone else. This has been a powerful reminder to all students that those with differences and disabilities have areas of strengths as well.

      I am happy to be learning about this because this is something that I have not considered before. Allowing students to help each other is very important but how you frame it is just as or more so important. "Buddy burnout" is also a new concept I am interested in learning more about.

    7. It is very effective to follow the same strategies used by other teachers and staff members. Consistency is important in that it lessens the number of transitions required during the school day. Music educators will find it very helpful to talk with other team members and colleagues to define a set of expectations and possible consequences prior to the first day of school.

      Paraprofessionals are also such a huge resource when it comes to having students with disabilities in your class. They know the students very well because they spend so much time one on one with the students and usually have very effective strategies on managing behaviors.

    8. Give students many opportunities to demonstrate their knowledge (academic and social) and allow them to respond in the method that is most comfortable for them (visual, kinesthetic, or oral).

      I see this in action when I am student teaching this semester with my co-op in beginning band. We try to ask lots of questions to the students to demonstrate their knowledge, have them demonstrate their skills, and have them interact with technology when being assessed for learning.

    9. Students often are keenly aware of their own limitations and of what strategies will assist them to be more successful during instruction.

      I never considered this idea before this reading. Students are much more aware than we realize as adults and as educators. I think including them to the extent that is appropriate is a great tool and helps them understand their role and value.

    10. Some teachers create class rules that are too vague, ask too much or too little of students, or compile a lengthy list of rules that are difficult to remember, comply with, and enforce. Begin with a few rules that are general enough to be adapted to many situations and are easy to remember.

      I know some classroom teachers in the beginning of the school year have the students come up with class rules to follow as a group. This is a great way to get students involved in the expectations of behavior. It also gives them a voice for how they would like to build their classroom community.

  5. social-media-ethics-automation.github.io social-media-ethics-automation.github.io
    1. Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. November 2023. Page Version ID: 1186577416. URL:

      This was a letter sent by the FBI to Martin Luther King Jr. It was sent to him in 1964 and detailed alleged sexual indiscretions that were committed by King. The letter implied that King should kill himself because his shame about his crimes should be too great for him to live with.

    1. I've seen startups killed because of one or two "influential" programmers deciding they need to start architecturing the project for 1000TPS and 10K daily users, as "that's the proper way to build scalable software", while the project itself hasn't even found product-market fit yet and barely has users. Inevitably, the project needs to make a drastic change which now is so painful to do because it no longer fits the perfect vision the lead(s) had.Cue programmers blaming the product team for "always changing their mind" as they discover what users actually need, and the product team blaming developers for being hesitant to do changes, and when programmers agree, it takes a long time to undo the perfect architecture they've spent weeks fine-tuning against some imaginary future user-base.

      In the initial stages you want to be nimble. Scalable and complicated architecture makes that difficult.

      But you also need for burst patterns as explained in one of the sub-comments.

    1. What do you think is the best way to deal with trolling?

      I think that websites should just be very strict and ban people who do not follow the guidelines. If the moderation on a website is strict, it makes it much harder for a trolling culture to develop and thrive. As long as there is a zero tolerance policy for bullying, trolling on a website should be kept to a minimum.

    1. “Computers,” he writes, “created the technological possibility of the Cold War and shaped its political atmosphere.” And, in turn, “the Cold War shaped computer technology.” Cold War politics “became embedded in the machines,” including their “technical design,” and the “machines helped make possible its politics.”

      computers and cold war politics shaped eachother

    2. Edwards contends that the digital computer is both cause and effect of what he calls the Cold War’s “closed-world discourse, which he defines as “the language, technologies, and practices that together supported the visions of centrally controlled, automated global power at the heart of American Cold War politics.

      The belief in total control of the internet and having surveillance systems

    3. o one had really figured out what the network was good for; as late as the fall of 1971, network traffic was barely 2 percent of what it could potentially handle; it was, as Hafner and Lyon nicely put it, “like a highway system without cars.”13

      Early internet wasnt as utilized at the start as it is now

    4. By de-emphasizing the social and political contexts in which the Net was built, Hafner and Lyon tell a story that most engineers would like-a tale of adventurous young men motivated by technical curiosity and largely unaffected by larger ideological currents or even narrower motives of self-advancement or economic enrichment.

      ignores the problems during this time and focuses on the fun story

    5. The rise of the Net needs to be rooted in the 1960s–in both the “closed world” of the Cold War and the open and decentralized world of the antiwar movement and the counterculture.

      The internet grew from closed/private and public influences. (Military and countercultural)

    6. Few will share Wired publisher Louis Rossetto’s hyperbolic claim that the digital revolution presages “social changes so profound their only parallel is probably the discovery of fire.1”

      Hype vs reality, author is talking about the over exaggerating of the internets impact

    7. Take a look at the standard textbooks on post-World War II America. You will search in vain through the index for references to the Internet or its predecessor, the ARPANET; even mentions of “computers” are few and far between. The gap is hardly a unique fault of these authors; after all, before 1988, the New York Times mentioned the Internet only once– in a brief aside. Still, it is a fair guess that the textbooks of the next century will devote considerable attention to the Internet and the larger changes in information and communications technology that have emerged so dramatically in recent years.

      How recent and signifigant newfound technlogy has been

    1. God-speed on her mission of “testifyin’ agin concerning the wickedness of this’ere people.”

      This version is very different. I suppose the changes to the speech are for clarity as it is more or less the same. I wonder if her descriptions of the crowd are accurate though. Did Sojourner Truth really bring the house down?

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    1. What if, for example, commercial use of agentic AI was governed by a contract dynamically generated and negotiated by AI systems? The contract could specify different risk sharing terms based on the inherent risks of the activity under consideration, themselves modeled quantitatively by teams of AI actuaries and economists. It could consider the likelihood of third-party harms (harms caused by an AI system to a bystander uninvolved in the contract) and include provisions for compensating third parties.

      so depending on the industry the AI is being deployed, the company would assume contractual liability if the model operates outside of the intended purpose of the company. This would make AI companies assume more liability in low risk scenarios such as automation for routine tasks or cloud computing, and assume less liability in high risk scenarios such as automation in hospitals. But overall, the terms would be contractual and tort would be ad hoc. Oh and the contracts would be made by AI.

    1. AI conversations are tuned to sound real—responding like a human would, whether it’s writing, talking, drawing, or in completing other tasks.

      It's interesting how convincing Ai could be now with all of these AI models and keeps getting used frequently and smarter.

    1. for - youtube - neuroscience - How the brain remembers and imagines - Donna Rose Addis - memory and imagination have the same basis

      summary - Donna Rose Addis is a pioneer in a field that connects past memories to future imagination - Her research has demonstrated that the same brain region, the Default Mode Network is responsible for simulations of past memories as well as future imagination - It is theorirized that episodic memory is reactivated and reorganized for creating future simulations

    2. Studies have shown that the default mode network is engaged by all kinds of autobiographical simulations so this includes

      for - examples - autobiographical simulations invoking past episodic memories for future (goal-seeking) - counterfactuals - reimagining the past to see how we could have done better - anterior hippocampus supports imagination of - detailed, coherent and novel events and encoding the simulation so we can recognize when the opportunity arises in the future - creative cognition - populations with memory impairments also suffer difficulty with future imagination - depression results in loss of specificity of memories

    1. Switzerland is facing a biodiversity crisis. Since 1900, nearly half of the country's habitats and a third of its species have become endangered. The decline in biodiversity threatens not only ecosystems but also the services they provide. Ecosystem services are crucial for human survival as well as economic productivity (BAFU, 2023a). Despite the urgency to act, the expansion of protected areas in Switzerland has been slow and faced challenges due to the resistance of the public (Titz, 2022; von Burg, 2022).

      ბლოგი შეეხება შვეიცარიაში დაგეგმილ პარკ ადულას ეროვნული პარკის პროექტს და მის ჩავარდნას, რაც ნათლად ასახავს, როგორ შეიძლება ფედერალიზმმა ხელი შეუშალოს ბიომრავალფეროვნების დაცვას. ავტორი აანალიზებს, როგორ იქცა ბუნების დაცვის ინიციატივა ადგილობრივი მოსახლეობის მხრიდან წინააღმდეგობის ობიექტად. ძირითადი მიზეზებია მოსახლეობის შიში ტრადიციული თავისუფლებების დაკარგვის, უნდობლობა მმართველი სტრუქტურების მიმართ და განცდა, რომ ლანდშაფტი უკვე საკმარისად დაცულია.

      ბლოგი მკაფიოდ აჩვენებს, რომ მხოლოდ ეკოლოგიური მიზნების დასახვა არასაკმარისია — ბუნების დაცვის პოლიტიკამ წარმატებას მაშინ აღწევს, როცა ის თანხვედრაშია სოციალური, ეკონომიკური და კულტურული ინტერესებთან. ჩემი პოზიციაა, რომ აუცილებელია სახელმწიფო და ადგილობრივი ინტერესების დაბალანსება. ბიომრავალფეროვნების დაცვა უნდა ეფუძნებოდეს არა მხოლოდ მეცნიერებასა და გარემოსდაცვით მიზნებს, არამედ მოსახლეობის მონაწილეობასა და ნდობაზე დამყარებულ პროცესს. წინააღმდეგ შემთხვევაში, ყველაზე კეთილი განზრახვებიც კი წარუმატებელი დარჩება.

    1. temporally extended, multimodal representations must be integrated within a unified subjectivity for experience to be coherent

      for - Memory Theory of Consciousness - MToC - definition - Memory Theory of Consciousness - temporally extended, multimodal representations - must be integrated within a unified subjectivity for experience to be coherent - unapack - MToC - unpack - Memory Theory of Consciousness - temporally extended, multimodal representations - multiple sense inputs associated with an event - We could think about it from the perspective of Thousand Brain Theory and cortical columns integrating sense inputs - Do these create memory structures? - Those memory structures must be salient to goal-seeking activity, especially for fitness and survival of the organism

      question - memory - evolution - goal-seeking - Is it possible that consciousness emerged early on in our species evolutionary history in the context of memories of multimodal sensory structures that help us achieve goal-seeking activity? - Then extra affordances of memory and consciousness could have evolved and diversified into a wide variety of non-traditional goal-seeking behaviors.

    1. series of tubes,” in the immortal words of the Alaska senator Ted Stevens, went online in the late nineteen-sixties, though “tubes” exaggerates its concreteness. Technically, the internet is a protocol: a set of rules that let computers send and receive data over various networks by breaking it into “packets.”

      I totally agree computer are algorithms and there are rules that come along with it.

    2. In the beginning, the internet was without form, and void, and data trickled through the ports of the routers

      Technology is definitely different and make then it was not advanced as it is today but i lowkey wish technology didn’t get so advanced!!

    3. Young people don’t understand what it took to make the web,” he said. “It took companies giving up their patent rights, it took individuals giving up their time and energy, it took bright people giving up their ideas for the sake of a common idea.

      He took a risk to give up things to make web do make Technology better and so that we can have web browsers 😝

    4. Still, his creation keeps growing, absorbing our reality in the process. If you’re reading this online, Berners-Lee wrote the hypertext markup language (HTML) that your browser is interpreting.

      Love how is Creation expanded!!! 👏🏽👏🏽

    5. the World Wide Web, in 1989, but people informed of this often respond with a joke: Wasn’t that Al Gore?

      AI is taking over and honestly it makes me MADDD ! ![(https://share.google/PsjCvwOnCoRVISoeg)

    1. E-mail

      seria benéfico aprofundar alguns aspetos práticos ligados à gestão da comunicação por e-mail. Por exemplo, o guia poderia incluir orientações sobre frequência de envio, boas práticas de design e segmentação, ou sobre a importância de políticas de consentimento e proteção de dados (em conformidade com a legislação europeia, como o RGPD).

    1. Por que escolh

      Neste quadro inves de deixar como slider, deixar como 3 colunas (1 com o negativo e outras 2 com o positivo). No celular aparece um abaixo do outro (positivo por cima)

    2. Quem Somos

      Antes do quem somos, puxar DEPOIMENTOS (ocupando pouca altura)

      • Colocar esteira lateral estilo slider minimalista para os depoimentos. Título: Veja o que clientes falam da Voob

      • Logo depois colocar print de logos porem fazer slider de forma contínua e o titulo o escrito Credibilidade ficar colorido

    3. Tudo que você precisa para vender mais, sem dor de cabeça e com melhor custo beneficio do mercado. Seu site com hospedagem e CRM inclusos e já conectados.

      Com apenas 1 áudio de distância, você tem tudo que precisa na palma da sua mão para vender mais: seu site de alta conversão, conectado com CRM simples e funcional.

    4. Solução Inteligente: seu Site + CRM em um só lugar e pelo melhor preço.Seu site profissional a um áudio de distância.Tudo que você precisa para vender mais, sem dor de cabeça e com melhor custo beneficio do mercado. Seu site com hospedagem e CRM inclusos e já conectados.Falar com equipeVer os planos com desconto

      Separar em 2 colunas sendo a da direita um design que humanize

    5. Falar com equipeVer os planos com desconto

      Tirar os dois botões e deixar apenas um: Ver planos

      E colocar texto do lado direito:

      Ganhe a criação do seu site no plano ANUAL e BIENAL Parcele em até 12x no cartão de crédito 15 dias de garantia satisfação

    6. Solução Inteligente: seu Site + CRM em um só lugar e pelo melhor preço.

      Invés de ter a frase acima do headline colocar apenas BADGES de benefícios:

      • Desenvolvemos seu site de alta performance
      • CRM Integrado incluso
      • E-mails profissionais
      • IA Assistente integrada ao seu funil
      • Suporte 24h
      • Modificações sempre que necessário
      • Site Seguro

      (COLOCAR EMBAIXO DO SUBTITULO e alternando entre si para ocupar menos espaço)

  6. docdrop.org docdrop.org
    1. teachers expect students to cnre about school in a technical fashion before they care for them, while students expect teachers to care for them before they care

      While teachers often prioritize academic performance and compliance, students, especially those from marginalized communities, seek relational trust and care as a foundation for engagement. This disconnect isn’t just a communication issue; it reflects deeper cultural divides that shape how learning environments are experienced.

  7. docdrop.org docdrop.org
    1. teachers are to teach effectively, recognition of che impor-tance of student perception of teacher intent is critical.

      I think cultural differences in communication can easily create gaps between teacher intent and student interpretation, especially in racially diverse classrooms. When teachers don’t account for how their words are received, discipline or authority can be misread, reinforcing tension rather than trust. Recognizing perception as part of pedagogy is key to building equitable learning spaces.

    2. negative backlash in which the academic needs of the majority of Asian-American students are overlooked. I recall one five-year-old Asian-American girl in a Montessori kind

      By assuming Asian-American students will succeed without support, educators may unintentionally ignore their individual learning needs. This reflects a larger issue: stereotypes whether negative or flattering flatten complex identities into a single narrative, often silencing the very students they claim to praise.

    1. what comes to mind

      I like when lessons encourage students to activate prior knowledge. When they draw upon their existing learner schemas to help them make connections between new concepts and ones they already know (Julie Dirksen's "closet" analogy). This can be done by using visuals, stories, analogies/metaphors, etc.