#maps #AncientHistory #Rome #roads 'The findings are staggering. The network is nearly double the length previously cataloged, at 299,171 kilometers (about 186,000 miles) of ancient routes.'

ZME Science

Scientists Just Remapped the Entire Roman Road System. All 300,000 km of it

Not all roads lead to Rome, but a lot of them did.

#Twitter #UK #politics #OnlineExtremism 'For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does.'

Sky News

How the world

How the world's richest man is boosting the British right

@npub1mxm6...pxa0 FOUND THE AI USE CASE

Gizmodo

Kim Kardashian Blames ChatGPT for Failing Law Exams

Kardashian said the chatbot made her fail tests "all the time."

Posting the whole story just for this line: "A few clicks on Google will find decades of stories raising doubts about his suitability, often accompanied by pictures of Andrew in a top hat, like a renegade Monopoly piece."

Is this finally rock bottom for Mr Andrew Mountbatten Windsor?

Stripping Andrew of the title 'prince' is colossal, says the BBC's royal correspondent Sean Coughlan.

#AI #ethics #HigherEd 'The professors were initially moved by this acceptance of responsibility and contrition… until they realized that 80 percent of the apologies were almost identically worded and appeared to be generated by AI.'

Ars Technica

Caught cheating in class, college students “apologized” using AI—and profs called them out

Time for some "life lessons."

I'm in North Carolina so I have to respect the rivalry and not be too nice, but I have to say this is not South Carolina energy. She doesn't even pretend.

WIRED

Nancy Mace Curses, Berates Confused Cops in Airport Meltdown: Police Report

At an airport in South Carolina on Thursday, US representative Nancy Mace called police officers “fucking incompetent” and berated them repeate...

I usually get to Granny's around lunch so the nurses will sometimes hold her tray until I arrive so I can feed her. I'm pleased to do it as I can usually coax her into eating a bit. She's not much interested in food anymore. 1/2

#TerryJones #MontyPython #memorials 'A statue of Terry Jones, celebrating him as the Nude Organist from Monty Python's Flying Circus, will be unveiled on the seafront of his home town of Colwyn Bay next year.'

Monty Python: Nude organist statue of Terry Jones for home town

The designs for the statue of the Python star are revealed for the first time.

Good morning to everyone but especially this man right here.

#CapBlackXtraBrother

‘Borrow A Brother’ Run: Returning Trash Cans.

318pm: Returned trash cans outside of a female friend’s house who’s having knee surgery today. Put in full trash bags that she left on ...

This goes way harder than it has any right to. This man is going to make me have to explain in public why I'm going around muttering "squack-o-lantern"