As a mother, advocate, and candidate for the Alabama State School Board, I’ve seen firsthand how the quiet march of artificial intelligence (AI) into our public school classrooms is happening with little public awareness and even less parental consent. While the tech industry touts AI as the future of education, the reality is far more complicated — and in many ways, far more dangerous. This is not a debate about whether technology belongs in schools. It’s a call to pause, evaluate, and protect children before we hand over their data, emotions, and daily experiences to unregulated machines. Across the country, AI tools are already embedded in software used in classrooms — often installed by default on school-issued devices without informing parents. These tools don’t just support learning; they track facial expressions, predict emotional states, and collect vast amounts of personal information. When I raised concerns in my local district, even administrators admitted they didn’t know the apps even existed on the machines. It gets worse. Some AI systems store data on third-party servers, outside the reach of school district oversight. Parents rarely have access to this data, don’t know who can see it, and can’t opt out. In many cases, children are being profiled and emotionally analyzed without ever giving meaningful consent. And this is happening to minors. Children who legally cannot open a bank account or create a social media profile without parental consent are being subjected to predictive algorithms inside the classroom. Advocates of classroom AI say it improves safety by detecting potential threats. In tech-heavy communities like Huntsville, Alabama, some districts have adopted facial recognition and behavioral analytics to monitor students. But these programs raise urgent questions: What happens when a system flags a student incorrectly? What emotional harm comes from constant surveillance? And what precedent does this set for future generations? We are raising children in what author Jonathan Haidt calls The Anxious Generation — a generation already plagued by rising anxiety, isolation, and digital dependence. Normalizing AI surveillance in their learning environments only exacerbates these problems. It teaches kids to perform for machines rather than relate to people. It chips away at trust between students and teachers, families and schools. The good news? People are starting to take action. First Lady Melania Trump has championed child protections in the digital age. She recently celebrated the signing of the Take It Down Act, legislation backed by the Trump administration to remove explicit AI-generated content involving minors from the internet. This is a critical step in the right direction. But classroom AI poses a broader risk. We need transparency, oversight, and parental rights built into the law. I’m advocating for a model policy that any state can adopt: A ban on emotion-detecting and behavior-predicting AI systems in schools Mandatory parental opt-in before AI tools can be used on students Transparency requirements for all EdTech vendors Annual AI ethics and data privacy training for school staff A statewide or state-level task force to assess AI impact, report findings, and recommend guardrails Local school boards don’t need to wait for Washington or their state capitol. They can start now: Audit every digital tool currently in use Inform parents Pause new AI adoption until clear guardrails are in place We must ask ourselves: Are we solving real problems with AI in classrooms, or creating new ones we don’t yet understand? This isn’t anti-technology. It’s pro-accountability. Pro-parent. Pro-child. Whether you live in Alabama, California, or anywhere in between, your school district likely has AI embedded in ways you never imagined. It’s time to demand transparency, ask hard questions, and ensure that no child becomes a test subject for Big Tech. Let’s make this a national conversation. Let’s protect the classroom. * * * Emily Jones, a North Alabama native and founder of the state’s first Moms for Liberty chapter, is running for the Alabama State School Board to restore excellence to a system in decline. Like many parents, COVID-era schooling opened her eyes to just how far our public education system has fallen—from slipping academic standards to a breakdown in trust between families and schools. With Alabama ranking 45th in the nation, we must ask: what are we doing to stop the slide? Emily is committed to rebuilding the vital partnership between parents and teachers and restoring classrooms as places where educators are empowered to teach and students are expected to thrive. It’s time to raise the bar for Alabama’s children. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

A treasure trove of scientific papers by codebreaking war hero Alan Turing have fetched over a half million dollars at auction after being found in a loft and nearly shredded. The incredible archive of important works by the British mathematical genius was discovered gathering dust at a property in London after it was gifted to […] The post Alan Turing Papers Found in Loft And Saved From Shredder to Fetch a Record $625,000 appeared first on Good News Network.

Before he was David Mamet the acclaimed author, filmmaker, and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, he worked a variety of low-paying jobs well into his 20s: from kitchen help at a summer camp to a maintenance worker in a truck factory to working in the Merchant Marine doing maintenance on boats. Mamet said he knows what it’s like to get your hands dirty to make ends meet.  “I also worked in a day camp teaching. Even right after I got out of college, I was unemployable, didn’t have any skills, and the degree wasn’t worth anything,” Mamet said in an interview with the Washington Examiner.  “The one thing I knew how to do was to work because they say, ‘You can’t get work in Chicago, you can’t work.’ Well, I found ways to work because I had to,” the Chicago native said.  All of these experiences formed not just his distinctive talent capturing the human experience with blunt, raw, emotional dialogue. They allowed him to capture what the loss of dignity and power does to men in the American workforce, how betrayal and chaos creates complicated relationships, and how the slow breakdown of morality through outside pressures can lead the everyman toward catastrophe.  Through it all, one common thread in his work is what he refers to as his “crazy love of our country.”  “My grandparents were immigrants. My dad was raised by a single mom during the Depression, very, very poor, and she didn’t speak English, and I knew my grandmother very well,” he recalls with deep fondness, adding, “She was a wonderful woman.”  Mamet said his father grew up and went to college on the GI Bill, got into Northwestern University, and graduated first in his class.  “And then he set out on the business of going to work. He worked like a son of a b—and he worked all day and he’d come home, we had dinner, he’d take a bath, put on his bathrobe, and that’s what I remember him doing every night,” he explains with deep admiration.  As a result, Mamet emulated his father’s work ethic.  “So I always worked as a kid. I worked weekends and holidays and all the summer vacations, so I knew what it was to get a job and go to work.”  After Mamet earned his Merchant Mariner card, he went to New York but struggled to find work.  “So I went back to Chicago and worked cleaning offices, and I worked a lot of stuff in food preparation and service, and I drove a cab for a year there, a whole bunch of stuff,” he explained.  Somewhere in there he said he started writing plays.  “I got asked to come back to this college and work directing theater,” he explained.  After the position ran out, he along with fellow thespian William H. Macy, whom he had known since college, decided to go off on their own and start their own theater company.  “It was called the St. Nicholas Theater. And we started putting on plays and we all had day jobs, all of us, and there wasn’t any money. We had the time of our lives. And one thing led to another. And I went to New York and I won the Obie Award from the Village Voice, and I started to make a little living as a playwright, which I didn’t even think was possible,” Mamet said.  Boy, was it ever a living.  Mamet would go on to write the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Glengarry Glen Ross” as well as “Oleanna,” “Speed-the-Plow,” which earned him a Tony nomination, and “American Buffalo.” His screenplays include “The Verdict,” for which Mamet received an Academy Award nomination, and “The Untouchables” and “Wag the Dog,” which earned him his second Oscar nomination.  Mamet said 50 years after starting his first theater company and writing his first plays, he is still in awe that it happened.  “I am very, very, very grateful to be in America, where immigrant people send their kids into the professions and they send their kids like me into the arts. And that’s my story. I’m very grateful for that. I lived in a time when I could make a living writing plays,” he said.  He was Hollywood and Broadway’s darling until 2008, when the Village Voice asked him to write a story about a play he had done centering on American politicians, a profession he said he always found amusing.  “Growing up in Chicago and working in everything in the world, I was no stranger to shakedowns both by the administration. The question always was, who do you got to pay around this place?”  “The idea of corruption growing up in the Mayor Daley Chicago was the way things were. So I wrote a play about politics, making fun of politics, and the Village boys asked me to write an article about the play,” he added.  Mamet called the article “Political Civility.”  “I said, we’ve got to be civil with each other. This is a comedy. It’s about how all politicians are a bunch of whores. We all know that, but we must be civil in our actual political discourse. I said, I’m not even civil to myself. I always describe myself as a brain-dead liberal.”  Those last three words, “brain-dead liberal,” and why Mamet was no longer one, became the choice of the part of the Village Voice headline that read, “David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal.'” The pushback was ugly.  Mamet said he had gone from the golden boy to the boy whose number everyone lost.  “I had a lot of time on my hands because I wasn’t writing plays anymore. People wouldn’t put them on if you still put them on Broadway. But the regional theaters, which always did my plays and always accepted my new plays, decided not to,” he said.  His essay collection “Everywhere an Oink Oink” is a humorous take on his time in Hollywood. It contains the exact type of dialogue you’d expect from Mamet prose. His wit and his take on Hollywood’s culture of greed and compromise comes to life in vivid observations.  His latest book is aptly called “The Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, and Entertainment.” It is a force of nature that examines our corporate curators who hold power in government, institutions, academia, politics, and of course, Hollywood. They are seen with a keen, unfiltered eye that deconstructs the influence they have had on everything we see, feel and touch. Prepare to buckle your seat belt as he offers his views on the deep state and its impact on our constitutional protections.  COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM  We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Up Close and Personal With David Mamet  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

A recent study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology sheds light on the impact of forgiveness on memory. Scientists have found that forgiving someone who has harmed you does not result in distortion or loss of details of what happened. Instead, it changes your emotional attitude toward the event: memories remain just as vivid and detailed, but your emotional reaction to them becomes less acute and negative. The authors of the study were interested in what exactly happens in the mind when you forgive. There are different theories: one suggests that forgiveness helps weaken the memory of the offense due to a decrease in the frequency of thoughts about it – the so-called “episodic fading.” Another theory, “emotional fading,” claims that forgiveness does not affect the accuracy of memories, but only changes the emotional perception of the event. For the study, a research team led by Gabriela Fernandez-Miranda of Duke University conducted four studies involving nearly 1,500 people. Participants were asked to recall instances of unfair treatment that they had either forgiven or not, and to rate the characteristics of their memories, both in terms of detail and emotional resonance. The results of the first two studies showed that people who forgave the offender experienced less negative and less intense emotions when recalling the event. However, the level of detail and vividness of the memories did not differ from those who did not forgive. This observation remained when taking into account the seriousness of the offense, indicating that the emotional attenuation is associated not with a change in the perception of the event itself, but with the processing of emotions when recalling it. “I was interested in how victims of serious crimes in Colombia can forgive their perpetrators, while many of us have difficulty forgiving lesser offenses,” Fernandez-Miranda explained. She added that she had assumed that the frequency of rumination might differ depending on forgiveness, but the data showed that this was not the case, suggesting that rumination was not the primary mechanism for forgiveness. In the third study, participants recalled not only incidents in which they had been victims, but also incidents in which they had been perpetrators. The results confirmed the previous findings: forgiveness was accompanied by a decrease in the emotional intensity of memories, while the content and detail remained unchanged. The fourth study focused on the relationship between forgiveness and attitudes toward the offender. Participants who forgave reported less desire to retaliate and avoid contact, as well as more positive attitudes. However, emotional feelings when recalling the offense were strongly associated with these changes in attitude, rather than how they felt at the time of the incident. The study confirms that forgiveness does not mean forgetting or minimizing the significance of a traumatic event. The memory is preserved, but the emotional pain is reduced. At the same time, forgiven offenses were perceived as less immoral, which may indicate a psychological compromise that facilitates reconciliation. The authors note that the data were collected primarily from Western participants, which limits the generality of the findings. In addition, the studies relied on retrospective self-reports rather than longitudinal observations of changes in memory and forgiveness. Future studies plan to expand the samples to gain a deeper understanding of forgiveness processes. The post Power of Forgiveness: Study Reveals It Soothes Pain Without Blurring the Past appeared first on Anomalien.com.

It took only one Bible passage to expose the myth of leftist "tolerance."On June 13, the Los Angeles Dodgers hosted their annual "Pride Night," a celebration of LGBTQ ideology and activism. As part of the special night, Dodgers players wore special-edition team caps featuring the Dodgers logo overlaid with rainbow colors.Christians believe that Jesus is Lord of all creation — including over culture, identity, and sexuality. Enter Clayton Kershaw, the teams's 10-time All-Star pitcher and committed Christian. He decided to add his own special touch to his cap. Inscribed next to the rainbow-colored team logo, Kershaw wrote: Gen. 9:12-16.It was a subtle yet powerful reminder that the LGBTQ lobby does not own the rainbow — but God does.Bible basicsThe passage that Kershaw referenced on his cap points to one of the most famous stories in the Bible.After God destroyed the earth with the flood, God made a covenant with his servant Noah and all creation in which he promised never again to destroy creation with the chaos waters. The sign of that covenant, God explained, is the rainbow.Genesis 9:12–16:And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all future generations: I have placed my bow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all the living creatures: water will never again become a flood to destroy every creature. The bow will be in the clouds, and I will look at it and remember the permanent covenant between God and all the living creatures on earth.”The Hebrew word for "bow" in Genesis 9 is the same Hebrew word that means a bow used in war and hunting. Interestingly, nearly every usage of the word in the Old Testament refers to the weapon, the only exceptions being in Genesis 9 and Ezekiel 1:28.The meaning of the rainbow is significant: It's a sign of God's power, his promises, and his mercy — not personal pride in sin and anti-God ideologies.Leftist (in)toleranceLike clockwork, leftists (ironically) unable to coexist with people who disagree with them blasted Kershaw. One viral X post summed up their outrage."Clayton Kershaw will always be a Dodger great, but it’s things like this that make him a lot less likable. Just wear the hat. Be a tolerant Christian and accept that there are others who believe differently than you," the post reads.The message behind the post is obvious: Submit. Shut up. Keep your Christianity to yourself.This is the kind of "tolerance" leftists demand. It no longer means disagreeing respectfully or giving people space to live by their own reasonable convictions. In the leftist worldview, "tolerance" is a one-way street — and there's no room for any views but theirs.Ironically, the demand for "tolerance" pretends that a double standard doesn't exist. While leftists want Christians to be tolerant of the LGBTQ agenda, they're simultaneously demonstrating intolerance for Christianity. Leftist "tolerance" is a core lie of the liberal agenda, and it's how you know the demand for "tolerance" from everyone else is not genuine.Truth untamedTo modern leftists, "tolerance" is silence, compliance, affirmation, and total surrender — or else. The problem is that Christianity doesn't operate on these terms. Faith in Jesus is not a hobby. It's an all-encompassing truth claim that changes literally everything. Christians believe that Jesus is Lord of all creation — including over culture, identity, and sexuality. To be "tolerant" in the way that leftists demand — such as embracing, promoting, and affirming anti-God ideologies — would require Christians to reject the lordship of Jesus Christ. This "tolerance" guts Christianity of its moral clarity and truth claims, and it reduces Jesus to a private guru who never makes demands of us. And the "tolerant" Jesus that leftists imagine certainly never contradicts LGBTQ ideology.But the real Jesus doesn't bend to the leftist agenda. Real Christianity bears witness to truth, speaks with conviction, and refuses to be muzzled. When God's truth is weaponized and his symbols are co-opted for anti-God ideologies, Christians must stand up and speak out with conviction, wisdom, and clarity. That's exactly what Kershaw did. Leftists hate this because biblical truth spoken by bold Christians is both a light that illuminates leftist lies and a disinfectant that wipes them away.Reclaim the rainbowIn this cultural moment, Christians live under constant pressure to compromise. Leftists love Christians who stay quiet, keep their heads down, and privatize their faith, but despise Christians who dare challenge the leftist agenda and stand up for biblical truth.But Kershaw didn't back down. His simple protest reclaimed the true meaning of the rainbow, exposed the leftist double standard on "tolerance," and reminded Christians how to act courageously in a culture that looks down on biblical truth.Let us follow Kershaw's lead.Reclaim the rainbow. Boldly stand on God's truth. And never cower to leftist demands for "tolerance."

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