About a year ago, Jan Berenstein passed on, as had Stan some time before. And appearing in headlines across the internet, I saw "Jan Berenstain Dies at 88".
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They misspelled her name. In her obituary. Gosh, that's really just m…<!-- page 28: extraction failed (likely Gemini RECITATION block) -->
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Wilma A. Bainbridge
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Wilma A. Bainbridge appears to be a researcher studying how false memories and collective misremembering operate—particularly phenomena like the Berenstain Bears "Mandela Effect," where large populations consistently recall the spelling as "Berenstein" despite the correct spelling being "Berenstain." She's cited in these readings to ground the course's investigation of how AI systems, algorithmic cultures, and networked technologies can amplify, reinforce, or generate these kinds of distributed cognitive errors at scale, making the boundary between individual perception and collective hallucination increasingly porous.
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