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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 6h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 1d

apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience

plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

juliaserano.medium.com

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 1d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 10h

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 15h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · Aug 18

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

For help with attribution and sourcing, Grammarly is releasing a citation finder agent that automatically generates correctly formatted citations backing up claims in a piece of writing, and an expert review agent that provides personalized, topic-specific feedback.

Screenshot from Grammarly's demo of inserting a post-hoc citation.
https://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents/citation-finder

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 20h

I’m constantly like “why would I want to eat any of those many things I know how to make”

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 20h

We finally figure out what dark matter is

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 20h

״דזשוניאַר קאַר ענטוזיעסטס״

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 21h

װי אַלט מוז מען זײַן צו פֿאָרן מיטן אױטאָ אין קאַנאַדע 😳

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 21h

I like that chaye is an actual Jewish name because every time i hear it I think ‘ooh beastie’

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 21h

(I mean don’t correct קיכלעך or anything we all know it’s קיכלעך)

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 21h

(This sentence is one in which I absolutely encourage folks to come and correct because I was going mostly on vibes here)

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 1d

It’s fun that in Yiddish a lokshn kugel (לאָקשן קוגל) is a noodle pudding but an erd kugel (ערד קוגל) is just the planet earth

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 21h

מאַקאַראָנדלעך!! כ׳בין געגאַנגען אױף אַ פּאָפּאָ פֿעסטיװאַל מיט אַ פּאָר װאָכן צוריק אָבער נישטאָ קײן קיקלעך איז דאָרטן געװען

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 21h

דאָס האָט מיר אױך גענומען אַ מינוט 🍐

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 21h

linguistics conferences are nice because like this is literally the keynote

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 23h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 1d

The pretzel is really getting me by the old heartstrings

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 1d

Someone made a little slop machine avatar of themselves as a pirate and i am obsessed with this little potato of a skull and crossbones it gave them

AI slop pirate with a little messed up skull and crossbones

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 2d

artwork of some guy hunched over looking at like a bird thing, orange high-relief terrain with starry sky and gigantic skull in background. caption over skull reads actual deadly diseases, caption near guy reads RFK Jr looking for penis autism

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 1d

It’s fun that in Yiddish a lokshn kugel (לאָקשן קוגל) is a noodle pudding but an erd kugel (ערד קוגל) is just the planet earth

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