I was born in 1967 in Chalmette, Louisiana (St. Bernard Parish), a suburb of New Orleans so close to the city that is is the actual site of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans. I did not know that my father moved to Chalmette in the mid-1950s as part of the “white flight” from New […]| deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog
On April 11, 2025, California teen Adam Raine took his own life. Adam Raine In seeking answers, Raine’s parents discovered his eight-month, intense history of confiding in ChatGPT– incl…| deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog
Ghislaine Maxwell is not a victim. She is a sexual predator who for at least a decade trafficked minor females, chiefly for financier Jeffrey Epstein, but also for others to abuse, including herself. From the June 28, 2022, press release about Maxwell’s sentencing (US Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York): Ghislaine Maxwell Sentenced To […]| deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog
Online testing, AI platforms, and internet capabilities in general have made cheating in and across academic courses so very easy. For some, the entire college experience is little more than one hu…| deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog
In June 2025, Louisiana governor Jeff Landry signed into law two bills aimed at giving Louisiana teachers a permanent pay raise (as opposed to the string of annual $2k stipends approved three years…| deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog
Persons traveling in groups, wearing masks and often vests that say “Police” or “ICE”– no other identifiers, including refusing to identify themselves by name– a…| deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog
On June 09, 2025, the Louisiana Senate voted 39-0 on HB 1, the House budget bill, which “Provides for the ordinary operating expenses of state government for Fiscal Year 2025-2026.” The bill, which includes some amendments, will return to the Louisiana House. HB 1 initially passed the Louisiana House by a vote of 99-0 on […]| deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog
On May 28, 2025, the St. Tammany Parish (LA) School Board (STPSB) held a special meeting “To Consider and Accept a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between St. Tammany Federation of Teachers…| deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog
From November 2024 to March 2025, researchers at the University of Zurich conducted a study in which they used “semi-automated, AI-powered accounts” in place of actual people to see measure the effectiveness of AI in persuading humans to change their opinions as compared to authentic human argument: Present work. In this pre-registered study, we conduct […]| deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog
Technological advances give rise to opportunities. Unfortunately, for scammers, “opportunities” means heretofore unrealized potential to rip people off. Consider the advent of the ̶…| deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog
Especially in an effort to continue K12 education in the face of the 2020 COVID pandemic, many districts and schools have shifted to a 1-to-1 computer learning model in which each student is assigned a device, often a Chromebook, likely due to the Chromebook’s “unparalleled low-cost combination of user-friendliness, speed and security,” as Forrest Smith, […]| deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog
Keeping track of the flurried chaos wreaked upon life in general in these United States by a federal government with Donald Trump at the helm is (understatement) challenging. Case in point: The Tru…| deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog
