Parental mistrust, hostile interactions a growing concern for Alberta teachers
When CBC News asked teachers what we should pay attention to in education, some flagged the growing mistrust that’s hurting relationships with parents and in some cases growing volatile. Here’s what we learned.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/inside-the-classroom-mistrust-9.7103297?cmp=rss

New publication: #Lipids as currency in #parasitoid competition: #Interactions between two #lipidscavenging species.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2026.104942

G-Dragon's Social Media Interactions With Chaebol Heiress Turns Heads #Chaebol #GDragons #Heads #Heiress #Interactions #Media #Social #Turns
https://kpopnewshub.com/g-dragons-social-media-interactions-with-chaebol-heiress-turns-heads/?fsp_sid=11260

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

To an impartial estimate it will seem clear that many of the wisest, most virtuous, and most beneficent parts that are to be played upon the Theatre of Life are filled by gratuitous performers, and pass, among the world at large, as phases of idleness. For in that Theatre, not only the walking gentlemen, singing chambermaids, and diligent fiddlers in the orchestra, but those who look on and clap their hands from the benches, do really play a part and fulfil important offices towards the general result. You are no doubt very dependent on the care of your lawyer and stockbroker, of the guards and signalmen who convey you rapidly from place to place, and the policemen who walk the streets for your protection; but is there not a thought of gratitude in your heart for certain other benefactors who set you smiling when they fall in your way, or season your dinner with good company?

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #interactions #gratitude #awareness #company #life #living #others #people #stage #theater #world

🤖⚡️ Oh look, another riveting piece on how AI coding #agents are apparently guzzling #electricity like it's going out of style. 🌍💧 But fret not, your daily #chatbot #interactions are as impactful as a single drop in an ocean of irrelevance. 🙄💡
https://www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01-20-cc-impact/ #AIcoding #impact #environment #HackerNews #ngated

Looking forward to getting the January issues of #CACM and #Interactions in the mail. #UMAP2026 @abellogin @ACM @sigchi @sigweb

One (unintended?) consequence of #AI in the form of ubiquitous and easily accessible #LLMs: opportunities for #human #interactions with friends/spouses/loved ones/family memories/librarians/mavens/experts etc while in pursuit of information will be replaced by yet another human #computer #interface

“Many contemporary #socialscience approaches ignore the #coevolutionary framework, instead focusing too much on linear regressions. Our world is better understood through #complex #reciprocal #interactions.” (More from the #BrianKlaas piece on #coevolution) open.substack.com/pub/briankla...

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