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There are four kinds of emotionally immature parents, according to Gibson: driven parents, who try to perfect everyone around them; passive parents, who avoid all conflict; rejecting parents, who don’t seem to enjoy being with their child at all; and emotional parents, who have mood swings, are emotionally inconsistent and need others to stabilize them.…

https://kottke.org/24/04/0044373-capricious-social-media-a

He talks about the tiny attention span of his pupils. “Since the lockdowns, I’ve found that I can only engage a classroom on one thing for 15 minutes max, before needing to change the activity. They can’t actually listen for longer than five minutes.” His own ability to focus has changed, too. — Read on…

Anyone who posts videos to TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube is providing more than enough training material for someone to make a pretty good clone. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/how-an-automated-spokemodel-drove-the-internet-insane.html

Conceived, designed, and built in Paris at the CEA: https://youtu.be/DYdhj6P_zaQ?si=Ybp_JBK9b-ypCC3_ Offering unprecedentedly high resolution images of the brain

https://kottke.org/24/04/swirling-magnetic-fields-visible-in-new-black-hole-images One black hole is much larger than the other but the fields are similar – this is apparently a major discovery.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/03/netherlands-fact-of-the-day-3.html The post (citing an article) says yes, the most popular comment, which reads as knowledgeable, says no. How difficult it is to know anything today…

https://kottke.org/24/03/the-vela-supernova-remnant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova_remnant