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Is there a term for the logical fallacy of "being a specialist in a field making people wrongly assume their knowledge applies in other fields"?
Sort of related to Dunning-Kruger but not the same (Dunning-Kruger is "some knowledge in one field makes people wrongly assume more knowledge in that field").

"Is Subscribe to Open Good for Libraries?" @ Katina Magazine:
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2026/is-s20-good-for-libraries
"Three librarians explain the model’s appeal and explore the challenge…

Ohne Krankenversicherung in Alaska: Hubschraubertransport & Blinddarmentfernung kosten 60.000–140.000 USD. Die gesamten Kosten müssen selbst getragen werden.
Es ist nicht unwahrscheinlich, dass #Inuit in den #USA nicht krankenversichert sind, 1/4 lebt unter der Armutsgrenze.

Poverty and Health Disparities for American Indian and Alaska Native Children: Current Knowledge and Future Prospects
This report explores the current state of knowledge regarding inequalities and their effect on American Indian and Alaska Native children, underscoring gaps in our current knowledge and the opportunities for early intervention to begin to address ...

RE: #KnowledgeFight, the people who've been studying

OK, what the actual fuck?
I’m not signed in and, to the best of my knowledge, I don’t even have a Guardian account. And this is within the web view in Mona.
CC @…
#theGuardian

Sources: SpaceX has agreed to buy Cursor for $50B ; SpaceX says it is working with Cursor to "create the world's best coding and knowledge work AI" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/business/spacex-cursor-deal.html

SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion
The potential acquisition comes as Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite maker, which has been emphasizing artificial intelligence, is preparing to go public.

The reasons we consider plagiarism to be cheating in school and malpractice in professional contexts are many of the same reasons that LLMs are not going to replace all knowledge-based human labor. (Details left as an exercise for the reader.)
And yes, a whole lot of what LLMs do •would• count as plagiarism if one of my students did it manually, and •should• count as plagiarism just the same if they use a machine to do it — not just in a “that’s cheating!!” sense, but more importantly in a “that’s not really doing the work” sense.
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Den Kommilitonen 4theWords.com für ernsthafte, wissenschaftliche Schreibarbeiten vorschlagen.
Mischief managed!
#ProjektMaster

Without health insurance in #Alaska: Helicopter transport and appendictomiy cost $60,000–$140,000. The entire cost must be borne by the individual.
It is not unlikely that #Inuit in the USA lack health insurance; a quarter live below the poverty line.

Poverty and Health Disparities for American Indian and Alaska Native Children: Current Knowledge and Future Prospects
This report explores the current state of knowledge regarding inequalities and their effect on American Indian and Alaska Native children, underscoring gaps in our current knowledge and the opportunities for early intervention to begin to address ...

Sources: Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in DeepSeek at a $20B valuation, partly benchmarked against Moonshot's pending round at an $18B valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tencent-alibaba…

Tencent, Alibaba in Talks to Invest in DeepSeek at $20 Billion-Plus Valuation
Chinese tech giants Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group are in talks to invest in DeepSeek, the AI upstart that recently started fundraising for the first time, according to four people with knowledge of the conversations. DeepSeek, owned by Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer Capital Management, is ...