TheOneWithTheHair

TheOneWithTheHair , 25 days ago

So this public school in the Bronx had Math State Exam Grades 3-4 today, May 7.

https://www.ps85bronx.org/apps/events/2024/5/7/16180508/?REC_ID=16180508&id=0

The website has Copy to Google Calendar • Download iCal Event for parents to download.
The footer lists

i-Ready (which is all online)
How to Use Google Classroom - Video
NYC DOE Student Account Access - Video
TeachHub

then if you explore further

"We showcased our learning with an Interactive Rainforest Experience where students shared their performances and recordings of their books with QR codes. Our scholars in the Saturday Academy engaged in animal research projects and published their books in Book Creator. Our teachers and students also worked in partnership with Digital Age Learning to show what they learned through movement."

https://www.ps85bronx.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=2191825&type=d&pREC_ID=2299098

Does she even know what her schools are doing?

They need to elect an informed official.

TheOneWithTheHair , 29 days ago

But is the Internet dying? The thing it doesn't say is if the human participation is dwindling.

To keep it simple, I'll work with small numbers. Imagine there are 10 humans online. Now imagine 1 bot on online. Bots are 9% (1 in 11) of this imaginary online community. A year later, those same 10 humans are still online, but there are now 10 bots online; the bots are 50% of the community. This statistic can lead you to think there is less human participation when nothing happened to the humans. The difference is the raw number of bots. This is what I believe is happening, about the same number of humans, just an increasing number of bots, scraping, posting, etc.

X/Twitter is dying because of mismanagement.

TheOneWithTheHair , 28 days ago

Bots are increasing. But the Internet is not dead/dying, just changing. Many of the "The 10 bots are posting a total of 1000 times a day." are repost bots merely parroting human generated content.

I wonder, though, if this will cause the scrapers to be impacted by the reposters or other AI generated content.

TheOneWithTheHair , 28 days ago

So change means "dying"? So every time a tadpole evolves into a frog, a tadpole dies? Should we have protest signs that read, "FROGS KILL TADPOLES! DOWN WITH FROGS"?

TheOneWithTheHair , 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago)

I suspect there will still be online interactions with humans, just more interactions with bots. Unfortunately, it's we humans behind the mess. Even if we pass laws to stop it (or even forced labels of "I'm a bot" on bot accounts), some people won't play by the rules. So the change is going to happen. We can try to persuade the public, but we know how well that works:

A parody of the piracy ad from the 1980s 'home taping is killing music and it's illegal' cassette tape with crossbones. The words read 'online bots are killing social media and it sucks'.

So what do you propose be done about it?

TheOneWithTheHair , 1 month ago

Do you know how to tell when a politician is lying? Their lips are moving.

TheOneWithTheHair , 2 months ago

"Hi! I'm Clippy! It looks like you're trying to play Halo. Let's take you to the Store so you can purchase more DLCs..."

But I just want to play Halo...

"Yes, but the DLCs will make it better!"

But I'm happy with what I already have.

"Oh, look, here's the store!"

TheOneWithTheHair , 2 months ago

Nice to meet ya, John. My name is Nunya Bidnez.

TheOneWithTheHair , 2 months ago

"Windows 7 appears to still be running on at least 100 million machines, despite Microsoft ending support for the operating system a year ago"

--Tom Warren. Jan 6, 2021.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/6/22217052/microsoft-windows-7-109-million-pcs-usage-stats-analytics

Maybe the landfill won't be overstuffed as quickly as expected.

See also

"Monthly market share held by Windows operating system for desktop PCs worldwide from January 2017 to November 2023, by version"
https://www.statista.com/statistics/993868/worldwide-windows-operating-system-market-share/

It's a dwindling effect, not just instant abandonment.

TheOneWithTheHair , 3 months ago

" As long as there is organic carbon in the soil for the microbes to break down, the fuel cell can potentially last forever.”

It's also a stationary battery

"Although the entire device is buried, the vertical design ensures that the top end is flush with the ground’s surface."