What was once another shortened way to call a friend "brother," "bruh" is now being used by Gen Alpha to address parents, express sadness, frustration, happiness and seemingly everything under the sun. (Diaz, NPR)
Read MoreAdults in Britain are officially spending more time on their mobile phones than they are watching a television set, research has found. The gap between the number of people who would spend hours slumped in front of the television and those who “doomscroll” on their mobile phones has steadily decreased over the past decade. (Farber, The Times UK)
Read MoreWe stress-tested 16 leading models from multiple developers in hypothetical corporate environments to identify potentially risky agentic behaviors before they cause real harm. In the scenarios, we allowed models to autonomously send emails and access sensitive information. They were assigned only harmless business goals by their deploying companies. (Anthropic)
Read MoreRenewed debates are happening across the United States about the place of religion – especially Christianity – in public schools. An evenly divided Supreme Court recently upheld a ban on what would have been the nation’s first religious public charter school, in Oklahoma. (Rotolo, Pew Research)
Read MoreGov. Greg Abbott announced Saturday that he signed the bill, which is expected to draw a legal challenge from critics who consider it an unconstitutional violation of the separation of church and state. A similar law in Louisiana was blocked when a federal appeals court ruled Friday that it was unconstitutional. Arkansas also has a similar law that has been challenged in federal court. (Vertuno, Religion News Service)
Read MoreThe Supreme Court announced Monday it will take up the case of a devout Rastafarian whose head was forcibly shaved by Louisiana prison guards despite the man’s religious vow not to cut his dreadlocks. Louisiana’s attorney general, who is defending the state prison officials, and the lower-court judges who ruled against Damon Landor all strongly condemn what happened to him in prison. (Marimow, The Washington Post)
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