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Outsourcing Our Thinking & Creative Abilities to AI is Creating a Flat, Soulless World: How to Fight Back
"If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them." — George Orwell, 1984 AI, over a relatively short period of time, has infiltrated many aspects of our lives. As a technology, however, the concept of Artificial Intelligence has been around since the 1950s. The first chatbot was named ELIZA and was created in 1966 by a computer scientist at MIT. However, in the span of just 6 years (since 2020), AI has gone fr

Tawanda
3 days ago8 min read


Arming Yourself With Knowledge: How to Download All of Wikipedia So You Can Access It Offline, Forever.
"Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied." —Robert Boyce Yes, you can have Wikipedia in the palm of your hand, literally (no internet required). An app called Kiwix allows you to download an offline copy of Wikipedia (with or without images) to be used/stored on your smartphone, desktop computer, laptop, or tablet. This will allow you to access the full Wikipedia catalogue if the grid ever goes down or if the internet is no longer available for whatever reaso

Tawanda Jazz
Nov 30, 20253 min read
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