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🚫 Banning phones in schools Is drastically changing the behavior of kids
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Over the past few years, a huge number of schools in the United States and around the world have banned cell phone use among their students. It’s a divisive topic, and the effects are only starting to come into focus.
Just look at New York State, where governor Kathy Hocul and lawmakers put a ban into the state budget last spring in an effort to give kids a break from distractions at school. Gothamist spoke to students about their experience with the ban, and the number one takeaway was that kiboshing phones is forcing kids to actually talk to each other in meatspace again — and it’s making schools way noisier, for better or worse.
“Sometimes I would take naps in the lunchroom, but now I can’t because of the noise,” 15-year old Queens high school student Jimena Garcia told the site. “But it’s fun.” That’s a bold contrast, the Gothamist reported, from previous semesters where kids sat in the lunchroom silently on the phones, creating an environment where you could “hear a pin drop.” Read more
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🇺🇸 Trump Admin says it’s not bailing out the AI industry regardless of how hard It crashes (link)
📽 Meta brings its short-form video feed of AI slop to Europe (link)
💰 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman talked about how it will pay for about $1.4 trillion in infrastructure commitments (link)
📚 Amazon launches an AI-powered Kindle Translate service for e-book authors (link)
😱 Researchers “embodied” an LLM into a robot vacuum and it suffered an existential crisis thinking about its role in the world (link)
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