Journalism

As schools struggle with the Advent of AI, we’re hit once again with the same infinite sphere of discussion that we’ve entered dozens of times over the past 50 years. Chiefly among the struggles that have come to a head amongst the new technology is Student Engagement. We give children infinity and then tell them not to use it, which means very little advancement has been made on actual education levels, and educations systems end up failing to foster any kind of student interest in subjects. ...

It’s no secret that the American school system has been outdated for decades. In my opinion, the main issue is that the subjects we learn haven’t been professionally practiced by themselves in forever. The applications of mathematics or history by itself, and this means that nobody can see any point to learn it. Germanic countries seem to have the best education systems, and I’d like to research what makes them better

Can We Have Open-Source AI Hosting on Personal Servers? If so, why hasn’t it caught on? If not, why not? People have lately been very concerned with artificial intelligence servers’ overuse of water. It’s a very real concern, and one that I really hope we can solve. I’ve also noted that we can now install AI services locally and run them offline. Why can’t this extend to personal servers? If it could, we’d have so much freer customization and better use of AI. ...

The History Behind Changelings Today, I heard a claim floated by one of my friends that in medeival Europe, neurodivergent people (including autistic folk) were cast off into forests under the claim of being ‘changelings.’ I don’t know how much I believe that, and here, I’m gonna try to find out what a changeling actually was, and find out whether or not it’s a real claim.