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This headline makes it sound like people are forgetting an average of 300 words every year, but the actual statistic is that people are saying 300 less words out loud in conversations every year, or around one word per day. Also, that still leaves the remaining number over 12,000, so it's not exactly a huge percentage we're losing.
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-people-spoken-words-year-years.html
In a society increasingly shaped by self-checkouts, GPS navigation and touchscreen ordering kiosks, new research shows face-to-face conversation may be quietly fading. A new study published in Perspectives on Psychological Science suggests that people are losing 338 spoken words every year and have been for at least a decade and a half.
MoMA Plans a Retrospective for Marcel Duchamp, the Dada Artist Who Was Unimpressed With His Own Masterpieces
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/moma-plans-retrospective-marcel-duchamp-dada-artist-who-unimpressed-masterpieces-180988407/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Arts & Culture @arts-culture-Smithsonianmag
The French-American avant garde artist said painting and sculpture exhibitions made him sick. But the collection of 200 of his works may tell the story of art in the 20th century
"'Yeash' is not a valid English word."
"WELL, IT WAS WORTH A TRY, CROSSPLAY!"
Arsenio Hall has a new memoir out and has been doing the interview circuit this week, so this morning I watched a bunch of clips of one of his old talk show's most infamous details, the insanely energetic and over-the-top opening credits. I remember in my early twenties finding it silly and pointless, but here years later I'm really moved by how joyous and celebratory it is, and respect Hall's attempts to bring something younger and blacker to late night.
What the new #Backrooms trailer teaches us is how much fun Mark Danielewski's "House of Leaves" could have been if he wasn't so fucking pretentious
As I don't use Microsoft products, and avoid "AI" at all cost, I hadn't seen this until now.
Microsoft's terms of use for CoPilot says the quiet part out loud to preempt legal issues, that "yes, the bullshit machine we crowbarred into Windows, MS Office, and Github is just for entertainment purposes".
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/for-individuals/termsofuse
Ergo, "AI" is not a tool, but a toy.
It is literally a Magic Eightball crossed with a Tamagotchi, which you can't escape if you use Windows.
Oh, whew, good! I DID think that the perception of AI seed startups commanding higher valuations was all in my imagination!
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Allan Haverholm