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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/9268729

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[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

If you need an actual example story on how something like this can happen.

you know the old stuff where teachers are like, you need to do math manually, youll never always have a calculator in your pocket (of course in retrospect its almost the opposite given smartphones). this particular case was TOO accommodating, and allowed her to use text to speech services to do work, so she never learned how to "read"

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

“All I see is words everywhere,” Ortiz said.

Umm, yes?

[–] lolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Incredible. Small thing, but I was surprised to read “Connecticut.”