Rebecca 🍉
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prod editor in academic pub + travel advisor @flyheart.travel // facilitating pleasure to avoid despair // Taiwanese Am 🏴∞🌈《she/her》
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oh we're big fans! www.coyotemedia.org/whats-behind...
What’s Behind Our Name? A COYOTE That Showed Us How To Howl
Margo St. James’s sex worker advocacy group first coined COYOTE, which stood for Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics.
www.coyotemedia.org
December 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
oh we're big fans! www.coyotemedia.org/whats-behind...
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here is said PubLunch story sorry I was so mad I forgot how to find the link
Kindle's New "Ask this Book" Uses Generative AI to Create An In-Book Chatbot - Without Permission or Rights - Publishers Lunch
Authors have been fighting diligently to limit the encroachment of generative AI in courts and in contracts and now there is a new front in those battles as Amazon has quietly helped themselves to tho...
lunch.publishersmarketplace.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
here is said PubLunch story sorry I was so mad I forgot how to find the link
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The LAPD also consistently hurts Angelenos and those who serve them (journalists!) without regard for human dignity + the massive legal costs it creates.
Inside LAPD's nearly $400M settlement crisis that's bankrupting LA
Taxpayers are covering civil rights violations and officer misconduct while basic city services face cuts—and a new audit could reveal whether LAPD is doing anything to stop the pattern.
lapublicpress.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The LAPD also consistently hurts Angelenos and those who serve them (journalists!) without regard for human dignity + the massive legal costs it creates.
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The LAPD is the only city department that never gets told to find money elsewhere. It has entire, expensive programs that are destroying our environment, our quality of life, without any demonstrable impact on the safety of Angelenos.
Example: The ~$50 mill it burns on helicopters every year.
Example: The ~$50 mill it burns on helicopters every year.
Why the Noise of L.A. Helicopters Never Stops
The L.A.P.D. says it has the largest local airborne law-enforcement unit in the world. A recent audit found little evidence that its choppers deter crime.
www.newyorker.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The LAPD is the only city department that never gets told to find money elsewhere. It has entire, expensive programs that are destroying our environment, our quality of life, without any demonstrable impact on the safety of Angelenos.
Example: The ~$50 mill it burns on helicopters every year.
Example: The ~$50 mill it burns on helicopters every year.
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The part where they wanted to take his picture to see if he was a citizen is them trying to establish an excuse to deport him. They're using AI to check people's photos to match against some database then claiming the AI is always right and docs saying otherwise are forgeries.
December 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The part where they wanted to take his picture to see if he was a citizen is them trying to establish an excuse to deport him. They're using AI to check people's photos to match against some database then claiming the AI is always right and docs saying otherwise are forgeries.
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This is, of course, the correct response. He would only be required to carry documents under the INA if he wasn’t a citizen. You know this of course, but others may not.
December 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This is, of course, the correct response. He would only be required to carry documents under the INA if he wasn’t a citizen. You know this of course, but others may not.
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This caused most websites to adopt ultra strict moderation guidelines in terms of any content related to sexuality, which in turned killed sex education content, deplatformed hundreds of sex workers, caused loses of income and IMO greatly aided the rise of incel content and the manosphere.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 AM
This caused most websites to adopt ultra strict moderation guidelines in terms of any content related to sexuality, which in turned killed sex education content, deplatformed hundreds of sex workers, caused loses of income and IMO greatly aided the rise of incel content and the manosphere.