has_not_been_viewed_much — Will W.

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Hier hat jemand festgestellt, dass ein Museum Bilder in seinem Katalog mit einem Tag versieht, wenn das Kunstwerk nicht viel angesehen wurde.
Hier kann man dezidiert genau diese Kunstwerke ansehen.

GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse (part 1)

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AI has no moat

Zur Zeitpunkt des Postens wurde GLM 5.2 schon von Kimi K3 überholt.
Anthropic befindet sich im Damage Control Modus.
Ich persönlich hänge immernoch auf Claude, weil es einfach einfach ist. Ich bin da etwas langsamer als der Rest.

The End of Reading Is Here

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Ein spannender Artikel über die Frage, ob die allgemeine Lesefähigkeit vielleicht nur eine kurzfristige Aberration in der Menschheitsgeschichte darstellt.
Hier einige Auszüge (weil wer liest schon ganze Artikel, nä?)

This explosion of textual fragments has come at the expense of devoting sustained attention to longer written works that convey rich and complicated information. Maryanne Wolf, a cognitive neuroscientist at UCLA, argues that people are losing the ability to think deeply about writing. That doesn’t mean they are forgetting how to decode individual words. Rather, they are losing the higher-order abilities of comprehension and synthesis. America, in other words, isn’t illiterate. It’s postliterate.

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Lupita Villalobos, who teaches 3-year-olds at a pre-K in Duncanville, Texas, told me that the district gives each student a tablet to use during school. She’s prevented her students from using the devices, as she knows how much time they spend on them at home. “I had a student who had a very strong reaction to starting school,” she said. “Typically, students cry maybe the first couple weeks and say they want their mom. But this student would cry for her tablet.”

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In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates famously argues that the advent of writing “will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.” He was right. But as writing eroded individuals’ memories, the media theorist Andrey Mir has observed, it improved society’s collective memory.

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Social-media platforms give Americans unprecedented opportunities to watch their representatives’ every move. Their algorithms reward simplistic, inflammatory, emotionally resonant content over complexity, nuance, and rigor. […] Politicians on the right and the left have figured out how to exploit these new platforms. Reihan Salam, the president of the conservative-leaning Manhattan Institute, described to me how this plays out. “You name an enemy and you polarize the public,” he said. “You don’t allow for nuance, because nuance is just a confusion when you’re in a struggle for power.”

Das betrifft übrigens nicht nur Amerikaner. Die sind nur in allem etwas schneller.

By some measures at least, books continue to thrive. Last year, print-book sales were higher than they were a decade ago. Barnes & Noble opened more than 60 new stores. Almost 400 independent bookstores sprung up in 2025. Substack has seen an explosion of subscriptions for long-form writing. Celebrities such as Dua Lipa and Reese Witherspoon have used their fame and influence to launch wildly successful book clubs. Audiobooks have become a billion-dollar industry.

But the optimists overlook a crucial thread in the data: Text is thriving among a dwindling proportion of the population. Just 20 percent of adults accounted for more than 80 percent of all books read last year. “It’s becoming a kind of niche hobby, like stamp collecting or growing orchids,”

Ich hatte neulich schon die Diskussion, dass Lesen ja ein priviligiertes, weißes Hobby ist, das nur Sprösslinge aus Bildungsbürgerhaushalten ausüben. Ich habe dem nichts entgegenzusetzen, im Gegenteil, die Datenlage gibt dem ganzen Recht. Ich weiß nicht, wie man das besser machen kann. Einen Buchclub bei der Arbeit gründen? Thaliagutscheine zu Weihnachten? Die Scham, nicht zur lesenden Klasse zu gehören, existiert übrigens auch. Auf der anderen Seite “bringt lesen nichts”, im Sinne von: Es ist tatsächlich eher ein Hobby, das nicht unbedingt mit ökonomischem Erfolg zusammenfällt:

Cultural and economic power tends to flow to people who are skilled at using the most popular communications technology. Today, those people are streamers, podcasters, and influencers.

Some people have noticed what we’re giving up, and they’re choosing a different path. Nearly two dozen states have banned cellphones during the school day. After Texas’s ban went into effect at the start of this past academic year, a Dallas school district saw 200,000 more library books checked out compared with the year before, a nearly 25 percent increase.

Hoffentlich nicht, um da Löcher reinzuschneiden und Handies drin zu verstecken roflmao

Unzufriedenheitsmaxxing

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Ein Blog, über den ich immer wieder stolpere.
Ich finde es spannend, wie die ganze -maxxing Sache immer mehr um sich greift. Vor etwa 8 Jahren war das noch ein Nischenbegriff aus den -chans, mittlerweile schreibt die Tageschau drüber. Die ganze Kraft einer Kultur.