Exacerbate

to make something worse; to make something more severe (often used in reference to feelings, illness or disease)

Alberto Acerbi

Alberto Acerbi

@acerbialberto.com

I wonder whether AI usage will exacerbate academic divisions, at least in social sciences - users vs non-users, which are already quite clearly overlapping with the divisions already there.

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins

Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins

@wittywebhandle.bsky.social

"40% of Argentina's workers do not have formal employment contracts. Unions warn the new bill would only exacerbate the situation.

However, the government argues it will reduce under-the-table employment and create new jobs by lowering taxes on employers."

OK but the latter LITERALLY never happens

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Christl

Christl

@christl.bsky.social

2019:
#Gabbard warned that a war in #Iran "would actually undermine our national security, cost us countless American lives, cost civilian lives across the region, exacerbate the refugee crisis in Europe & it would actually make us less safe by strengthening terrorist groups like #ISIS & #al-Qaeda."

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