San Diego woman rescues dog and is shocked when she hears Spanish for the first time

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/san-diego-woman-rescues-dog-and-is-shocked-when-she-hears-spanish-for-the-first-time/

Big Picture Science for June 01, 2026: Outside of Our Minds

Since humans first chiseled marks into stone, we have externalized our thoughts and ideas. Our tools may have evolved—now we clack away at computer keyboards—but written communication remains a bedrock of modern society. Now that the pace of information creation is exponentially increasing with the advent of artificial intelligence, many are asking what the next frontier of human communication may look like. We look at how we got here, where the latest tools are headed—including brain-machine-interface—and how our brains and culture may be altered in the process.

Guests:

* Alex Bentley – professor of anthropology, archeology, and computational social science at University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and co-author of “Collaborators Through Time: How Humans Partnered with Nature, Technology, and Each Other”
* Michael O’Brien – anthropologist at the Texas A&M University, San Antonio, and co-author of “Collaborators Through Time: How Humans Partnered with Nature, Technology, and Each Other”
* Tom Mullaney – professor of Chinese history at Stanford University, and author of “The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age”
* Betts Peters – Brain computer interface researcher at Oregon Health and Science University, treasurer of the Brain Computer Interface Society

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Gizmodo: Using Emojis at Work? You’re Not Going to Like This Study 😮. “So, crying-laughing emoji, you’re not going to believe this—but, spiral-eyes emoji, a psychological experiment has found that incorporating emojis into your workplace communiqués might be leading your peers to perceive you as incompetent. But not always: the mercurial purple devil emoji, as always, is in the details.”

Daily Free Press (Boston University): ‘Call A Boomer’ phonebooth fosters cross-country, multi-generational connections. “Outside Pavement Coffeehouse, a plaque on a phonebox installed during the first week of March invites people to ‘call a boomer’ as part of a social experiment. When someone makes a call, a similar phone labeled ‘Call a Zoomer’ located in a senior housing complex in Reno, […]

COUNTERPRODUCTIVE

LinkedIn wants me to start building my relationship with Erik by sending a message that essentially says I am so uninterested in him that I don’t even think it’s worth taking the time to formulate my own words.

As a behavioural scientist (a real one, not the “Surrounded by Idiots” variety), I can state with confidence that giving Erik the impression that I am uninterested in him is not the most effective strategy for building a relationship.

Don’t get me wrong; I love technology, automation, and clever, time-saving solutions. But it is nonetheless entirely counterproductive to use them in actual interpersonal communication.

At least if you want relationships with people, and not to treat them like trading cards.

You would think LinkedIn, of all places, would understand this.

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AI makes an ass out of you and me
Making the right assumptions is a big part of what we think intelligence is, but what do they mean without understanding?

https://www.ficklefutures.com/p/ai-makes-an-ass-out-of-you-and-me

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Understanding Human Communication by Ronald B. Adler, 2019

For more than three decades, Understanding Human Communication has been the best selling text for the Human Communication course. Solidly grounded in scholarship, it provides students with the insights and skills to succeed in today's changing world. This new edition includes updated coverage of culture, gender, social media, and technology to reflect today's scholarship and popular culture.

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Download the eBook Human Communication in Society, 6th Edition in the original PDF format. Free from any restrictions!

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University of Oslo: Emojis bring facial expressions and hand gestures back into our conversations. “‘The vast majority of people use emojis, individuals of all genders and in all age groups,’ says Professor Patrick Georg Grosz from the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo. Research on people’s emoji use shows that faces and hearts are at the top of the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/18/university-of-oslo-emojis-bring-facial-expressions-and-hand-gestures-back-into-our-conversations/