Wooden helmet, the Philippines, 19th century AD

How interesting that most senior managers say using AI makes them way more efficient, while those who do the intellectual work say using AI to generate drafts generates reams of fatuous slop that needs to be extensively rewritten & saves no labour time at all.

Is this because senior managers are using AI mostly to draw on quality information produced by workers?

Or because for senior managers (& politicians!), AI works because talking in verbose, content-less management speak - that can never be factually or analytically challenged bc it is invariably ambiguous, always plausibly deniable & often makes no sense at all - is what they are paid to do. It is actually THE JOB.

Iโ€™ll love to see an empirical study that tests this ๐Ÿ˜Ž.

If you know of one, please tell!!

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/14/ai-productivity-workplace-errors?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Bosses say AI boosts productivity โ€“ workers say theyโ€™re drowning in โ€˜workslopโ€™

Workslop refers to AI-generated work that seems polished but is flawed and in need of heavy corrections

The Guardian

OnlineFirst - "Speculative sovereignty and militarized ecologies: Flower bombs and political trees in Kashmir" by Omer Aijazi:

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486261435819

Introduction to Ethnographic Research: A Guide for Anthropology โ€” 1st Edition
by Kimberly Kirner

๐ŸŒ Study culture from the inside.
Ethnographic Research โ€” 1st Ed.
DM for info.

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Ice Age dice show early Native Americans may have understood probability

Ice Age hunter-gatherer "were intentionally relying on random outcomes in repeatable, rule-based ways."

Ars Technica