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41 votes
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Readers rate poems worse when they believe they're written by AI, despite their ability to detect AI being no better than chance
29 votes -
I sail the world in a replica 10th-century Viking longboat – it has brought new friendships and showed me how generous people can be
18 votes -
The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over thirty-five years ago and contains more than 200,000 maps
14 votes -
Japanese translation request - achievement stickers
19 votes -
The Online Accent Database: Explore authentic accents with a growing video library of real-world interviews
22 votes -
Vatican declares Society of St. Pius X in schism, excommunicates bishops
64 votes -
Rare copy of Declaration of Independence found by UK National Archives in papers of captured US ship
19 votes -
Wit, unker, git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy
28 votes -
On the US Declaration of Independence
15 votes -
Thunder mug and tea voider: understanding the chamber pot in early America
14 votes -
How to ask for help (in an academic context)
8 votes -
From 1638-1655 a forgotten Swedish settlement extended across the Delaware Valley – smallest, least-populated and shortest-lived European colony in the US was also the most clandestine
12 votes -
Time travel is always horror
12 votes -
Archaeologists have discovered a huge Viking Age textile production site in Denmark – dates back more than 1,000 years and underlines the sophistication of Viking society
13 votes -
We can fix the future, Star Trek shows us how
33 votes -
Pre-modern armies for worldbuilders, part III: paying for it
23 votes -
Should the plural of "milf" be "milfs" or "milves"?
Tell Tildes your opinion
72 votes -
Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie
34 votes -
How a Swedish king went on strike in 1768 – this moment in political history poses an interesting question: does a monarchy need a monarch?
8 votes -
Den Gamle By, located in Aarhus, Denmark, has claimed the European Museum of the Year Award 2026
8 votes -
Why young men sound "less manly"
18 votes -
It's not just X. It's Y.
29 votes -
Swedish fisherman digging for worms stumbles upon cache of silver coins, beads, rings and pendants dating to the 12th century
36 votes -
An open letter to the University of California Regents requesting that standardized testing be re-introduced into admissions, >200 UC Professors signatures
40 votes -
CJ the X & Prof. C. Thi Nguyen | Loosely-structured discussion on philosophy of Games, Metrics, Values
11 votes -
A Dialogue on Freedom
24 votes -
The high‑tech shipbuilding methods that helped Vikings dominate the seas
6 votes -
Spanish Civil War animated
6 votes -
"The reason I'm not an atheist is that I think the philosophical arguments against it are unanswerable"
34 votes -
Is British English actually better than American English?
I often hear that British English is better than American English, I've also heard people say that British English is "real english", but I'm not really sure why that is ? what makes it better in...
I often hear that British English is better than American English, I've also heard people say that British English is "real english", but I'm not really sure why that is ?
what makes it better in your opinion and what makes American English worse ?
personally, I'm indian and I find it much easier to understand American English.29 votes -
The VCs of BC (2015)
6 votes -
Everyone's got a proof when they explode
16 votes -
Swedish for "the", or: why I hate linguistics
8 votes -
What's the longest place name in continental Europe?
18 votes -
How do you preserve a 400 year old Swedish warship? Vasamuseet in Stockholm is tackling the continued challenge of maintaing the 17th century Vasa.
8 votes -
Iceland pushes Apple to add Icelandic language support
25 votes -
The 18th-century English fake news that helped spawn an American sea
10 votes -
Lost on the ice: The 1897 hydrogen balloon attempt to reach the North Pole
16 votes -
Kim Bowes on the economic lives of Rome's ninety percent
11 votes -
Enormous' cave hidden under medieval Pembroke castle could rewrite prehistory, researchers say
27 votes -
New search engine reveals if ancestors were in Nazi party
23 votes -
Why Portuguese is the most underestimated global language on Earth
19 votes -
Born into slavery, Adolf Ludvig Couschi Badin became part of the Swedish royal court and left a legacy of books and letters
9 votes -
Wit, unker, git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy
30 votes -
As an antidote to AI and online translation tools, a Cornell German professor gives her students a typewriter-only assignment once a semester
20 votes -
Over 200 years after being sunk by the British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson, one of Denmark's most famous warships has been discovered at the bottom of Copenhagen Harbor
15 votes -
Enjoying reading in the age of LLMs
I used to really value the art of essay writing. There seemed to be such a richness in the different ways people would construct arguments, structure those arguments, then deliver those arguments...
I used to really value the art of essay writing. There seemed to be such a richness in the different ways people would construct arguments, structure those arguments, then deliver those arguments stylistically, not just from the perspective of being persuaded as a reader but also from the perspective of seeing how a given writer thinks, relates to the living tradition of language, and understands the world conceptually. But it's basically lost most of its meaning to me in this age of LLMs. The reality is, LLMs are capable of writing texts that, if you gave them to a seasoned reader 5 years ago, they'd say it was well written and indicative of a truly thoughtful mind. Even if there currently exist certain tells with LLMs, those styles certainly existed in different ways in real human writing beforehand. Now, those perfectly reasonable set of styles are verboten and we have to dedicate half our deep focus to figuring out whether, or to what extent, an essay or article was written by AI. It's difficult to enjoy, let alone care, about essay writing and the writers behind them now.
I can still find value in books, though, because they were written in the past and I don't mind never reading any non-scientific book published after 2022 if it comes down to it.
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[Steyr] AUG
13 votes -
Landslide: a ghost story
8 votes