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drjdo.bsky.social @drjdo.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a beautiful place. It has been there since 1740. Before both the French and Indian war and the American Revolution. #RhodeIsland

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Eagle Fandom BNF ☕️🦬 @trenchologist.bsky.social · Feb 13

Please share and boost! Tomaquag Museum (one of my favorite museum/visits of all time) had over $2mil in approved Fed grants halted and are facing layoffs and stalled work that will affect so much of their mission. They’re asking for donations and we can step up to help.

mailchi.mp/tomaquagmuse...

The Tomaquag Museum symbol and motto— an indigenous Narragansett design in blue, green and yellow with white loops on a red background encircled in dark purple, “engage, educate, experience.”

About
The Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum is an Indigenous museum in Exeter, Rhode Island. The museum was founded by anthropologist Eva Butler and a Narragansett and Pokanoket woman named Princess Red Wing in 1958. It is one of the oldest tribal museums in the country and is located in Exeter, Rhode Island.
Wikipedia
Founder: Princess Red Wing
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Current Director: Loren Spears

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drjdo.bsky.social @drjdo.bsky.social · 1d

Proud from my hometown. Spent a lot of time in that museum-definitely go if you visit #RhodeIsland

Edward Fitzpatrick @fitzprov.bsky.social · Nov 26

“There’s no US history without Indigenous people’s history,” Tomaquag Museum executive director Lorén Spears said on the #RIReport podcast.
www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/18/m...

For Indigenous people, Thanksgiving represents a day of mourning - The Boston Globe

“There’s no US history without Indigenous people’s history,” says Tomaquag Museum executive director Lorén Spears.

www.bostonglobe.com

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drjdo.bsky.social @drjdo.bsky.social · 3d

Nazi playbook.

Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 3d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 7d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 11d

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

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drjdo.bsky.social @drjdo.bsky.social · 14d

👏👏👏

drjdo.bsky.social @drjdo.bsky.social · 18d

FFS

drjdo.bsky.social @drjdo.bsky.social · 18d

Then why are you pushing to integrate AI in schools? It’s anti-critical thinking.

drjdo.bsky.social @drjdo.bsky.social · 19d

I am on the recovery side of #Covid thanks to #Paxlovid. The delay in approving the latest vax seriously affected my health. #Anti-vaxxers are the bottom feeders for intellect, and #JFKjr really wants citizens to die.

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drjdo.bsky.social @drjdo.bsky.social · 19d

Just a random person so appreciative of your defense of democracy.

drjdo.bsky.social @drjdo.bsky.social · 19d

You’re right. Into everything! My biggest concern is it is forced on those who don’t have the agency to not use it

drjdo.bsky.social @drjdo.bsky.social · 21d

🔥🔥🔥

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 21d

K-12 teachers using AI to produce lesson plans that may be riddled with errors is a terrible next step from what’s been happening for the last two decades, which is a turn away from subject content expertise to tech expertise and a constant chasing of pedagogical fads.

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 21d

Now think about what it’s doing to our children that some teachers are relying on it to develop lesson plans that no one is fact- or bias-checking.

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drjdo.bsky.social @drjdo.bsky.social · 22d

Actual science here. Not bullet points out of context. “Solved Autism.” 🤯
They will “solve” cancer next by denying MRIs, CT scans, and ultrasounds,etc.
re: If you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 22d

AUTISM and TYLENOL

A study of 2.5 million children showed a small association between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism—but this finding DISAPPEARED when full siblings were compared.

“Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism…”

Full article:

Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability

This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

jamanetwork.com

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drjdo.bsky.social @drjdo.bsky.social · 24d

“It lacks the humility to acknowledge uncertainty.” Up to 48% of the time, models are hallucinating. WHY is there an insistence on integrating in schools?!
#OpenAI #ChatGPT #DigitalDivide

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 24d

“'Like students facing hard exam questions, large language models sometimes guess when uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty,' the researchers wrote in the paper. 'Such ‘hallucinations’ persist even in state-of-the-art systems and undermine trust.'”

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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drjdo.bsky.social @drjdo.bsky.social · 26d

There’s emptiness behind their eyes,
There’s dust in all their hearts,
They just want to steal us all and take us all apart~
#PsychedelicFurs
Love My Way

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drjdo.bsky.social @drjdo.bsky.social · 28d

My best friend used to sing “Babe Ruth through the night” in the National Anthem bc she only heard it when her dad was watching baseball.

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drjdo.bsky.social @drjdo.bsky.social · Sep 14

This is not partisan politics. It is the Republican agenda: Racism.

drjdo.bsky.social @drjdo.bsky.social · Sep 14

It’s all on purpose. Those with the least connectivity-Black, Latino and indigenous Americans, people with disabilities, underserved, and the elderly-have no importance to this administration. #DigitalRedlining is just another form of oppression.
#DigitalDivide
#DigitalApartheid

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drjdo.bsky.social @drjdo.bsky.social · Sep 14

Aaannd the next time I do the exact same thing, I will feel this way again😂

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drjdo.bsky.social @drjdo.bsky.social · Sep 13

A class action lawsuit contending the clear and present danger to the transgender community. #BankruptTheWSJ

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · Sep 12

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

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drjdo.bsky.social @drjdo.bsky.social · Sep 11

Looks like @governor.ca.gov is trolling for the evangelical vote.

drjdo.bsky.social @drjdo.bsky.social · Sep 9

If it’s not the whole truth, it’s a lie. Half-truths and selected truths are like being mostly dead.

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · Sep 9

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

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