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Peter RileyNo work, No school, No shopping.
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☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻“In 2023, the Swedish government announced that the country’s #schools would be going back to #basics, emphasizing skills such as #reading and #writing, particularly in early grades.
After mostly being sidelined, physical #books are now being reintroduced into classrooms, and students are learning to #write the old-fashioned way: by hand, with a #pencil or #pen, on sheets of #paper.”
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“digital technology isn’t being removed from schools altogether. Rather, digital aids “should only be introduced in teaching at an age when they encourage, rather than hinder, pupils’ learning.” Achieving digital #competence remains an important objective,”
#Learning / #Sweden / #EvidenceBased / #Digital / #Technology / #DigitalTecnology / #analog / #analogue <https://undark.org/2026/04/01/sweden-schools-books/>
@thereverend4253 @baldur I did see one AI application recently that I found worthwhile. Apparently Amazon is integrating AI into AWS system management. This has resulted in a number of major service outages.
I think that is an excellent application of the technology.
I hope that Meta, OpenAI, Oracle, and MicroSlop follow Amazon's lead.
@baldur I expect complaints against my proposal from people saying "regulation is bad" and "Things will be more expensive."
I hope they move someplace where agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and medicine have no regulations. Where there is not torts law.
We will see how that goes.
@baldur Make software vendors (and their C-suite) financially liable for damages caused by their product, and their C-suite criminally liable if human death occurs because of en error.
Minimum 10 year sentence for C-suite for abuse, or leaking, of user private data.
I think we will all have a more secure, stable, and financially prosperous life because of this.
@michaelgemar @0xabad1dea I wouldn't want an aggressive person that weighs more than a dog.
@taylorlorenz have you read "Weapons of Math Destruction"?
I find that a good critique
Neither left nor right