Jill Anderson

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historian. poetry, libraryish; working on mid-20th-century girls' art-career fiction. Now in central PA.

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Please note the wildly incorrect polling in France. No matter what the cacophony of pundits keep saying, polls are not predictive, and are never the end of the story. Organizing, volunteering, engaging in conversation, and direct action are effective tools. Let's use them here too.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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There are many things that infuriate me about the pundit class right now, but probably one of the top on my list: Project 2025 has posted their plans for every single federal department on their website. They have a training academy for prospective appointees. Where are the hard hitting op-eds?

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EdTech is where higher education institutes, government bodies & tech corps are pushing AI so hard yet with no evidence of the benefits (plenty of evidence against it). this report is another evidence that should caution all pushing AI into education to just STOP and evaluate the evidence

“ai” edtech company collapses after taking six million dollars from the Los Angeles school district to develop an “educational friend” platform.

A.I. ‘Friend’ for Public School Students Falls Flatwww.nytimes.com Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed.

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The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...

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The problem isn't that AI can do your job (it can't). The problem is management thinks AI can do your job.

The NYT laying off half it’s art dept as they ramp up the use of A.I. tools is 100% related to UArts closing due to a “steep drop in enrollment.” Regardless of A.I.’s actual capabilities the story being told to (and accepted by) business leaders is damaging the perceived value of the visual arts.

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you know in Blade Runner when Harrison Ford goes to William Sanderson's house and he's so lonely that he's built a bunch of creepy haunted robot dolls to be his friend? that's the same energy i get from the AI industry

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The anxiety around AI and the backlash to AI-generated products is strong enough that even corporations like Dove and Discover are declaring their human-first bonafides and creators and startups are making "No AI" pledges A '100% LLM-free' consumer trend is here www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Excuse Me, Is There AI in That?www.theatlantic.com Businesses and creators see a new opportunity to brand their work as 100 percent human-made.

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New Yorkers, please call your state assembly rep and senator and tell them to publicly condemn this unconscionable Hochul plan. We're still in a pandemic. And thousands of people are immuno-compromised. This would hurt people -- even help kill them.

UPDATE: NY Governor Kathy Hochul said on CNN last night that she is considering a ban on masks. This is absolutely shameful! New York has suffered so much from COVID, and COVID is not over. We should be normalizing and depoliticizing masks, not banning them.

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These people absolutely put more thought, care, and concern…more humanity, into their large language models than for other people.

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June 12 is Loving Day. It is the anniversary of when SCOTUS decided Loving v. Virginia on June 12, 1967.

On January 6, 1959 Mildred & Richard Loving were convicted of "cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth" (miscegenation) and forced to leave the state of Virginia instead of spending a year in prison. Eventually Loving v. Virginia legalized interracial marriage.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi

Man, consequences for people in power would be great. We should do that at some point.

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One thing I think a lot of white people in the US both north and south fail to understand is that the history of the south is Black history as soon as you look past the governmental level. Down at the level where normal people live their lives, the south's population was and is very Black.

The majority of South Carolina's population was of African descent for over 200 years, i.e., most of its history as a political entity. www.blackpast.org/african-amer....

South Carolina's Black Majority (1708-1920) •www.blackpast.org By 1708 South Carolina became the first British North American colony to have an African American majority. The first Africans to arrive in South Carolina likely came in 1526 as part of the San Miguel...

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still reeling at that example Hey parents you know how you can’t improvise personal details into a bedtime story (?), but would love to make that a whole project you have to proofread in advance? Sure, who can’t relate

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ever read something without looking at the byline and then have to make sure that Phyllis Schlafly is in fact dead

I read this and am utterly perplexed. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/10/o... [gift link]

Opinion | The Success Narratives of Liberal Life Leave Little Room for Having Childrenwww.nytimes.com Progressives need to stop thinking of family as a conservative hobbyhorse.

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Every time I see "AI" being crammed into another consumer product I think of how in the 50s we put radium in suppositories because "the atom" was the snakeoil hype of the moment

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Reading another Boomer narrative about how school shooter drills are like the nuclear bomb drills they endured as children and how it's the same trauma and I am always frustrated by this because nuclear war was not something that ever happened. But school shootings happen ALL THE TIME.

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This future is bleak but it is *not* written, no matter what the doomer crowd wants you to believe. You, yes *you*, have power to help so that it doesn’t come to pass.

Trump loyalist pushes ‘post-constitutional’ vision for second termwww.washingtonpost.com Russ Vought, the former president’s budget director, is laying the groundwork for a broad expansion of presidential powers.

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Male journalist: asks a question about her ‘body type’, by which he means “fat” Nicola Coughlan:

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Report: "Trump allies plan fascism" Anti-anti-Trumpers: "Alarmist nonsense" Trump allies: "No really! We want fascism!" AAT: "I don't see any plan." Trump allies: "We have now published the plan" AAT: "Those people have no influence on Trump" Trump: "These are the people who influence me!"

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It's much better when you see that the post is from British far-right politician Tommy Robinson and how he tried to explain it

Saw a D-day post where they clearly used AI because the troops are heading into the Atlantic.

"I thought you said our job was Beach."

“Finding Private Ryan??? I don’t even LIKE Ryan.”

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“Finding Private Ryan??? I don’t even LIKE Ryan.”

Saw a D-day post where they clearly used AI because the troops are heading into the Atlantic.

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Saw a D-day post where they clearly used AI because the troops are heading into the Atlantic.

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Every single criminal in a car chase with one of these things escapes easily by having it pursue them through a car wash

the president of a California-based company assured me yesterday they are 'indeed working with police departments' to create fleets of militarized Cybertruck cop cars my look into disaster capitalism's latest batshit boutique industry for @popsci.bsky.social www.popsci.com/technology/c...

Militarized Cybertruck cop cars are comingwww.popsci.com A California company is advertising ‘tactical response’ Cybertruck upgrades for police cruisers, including shotgun racks and sirens.

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honestly, this is why I find it difficult to give up the bird site

Man, this sounds awful. Personal future circumscribed by a technology that can only draw on existing text.

Researchers at MIT “built an AI-powered chatbot that simulates a user’s older self and dishes out observations and pearls of wisdom. The aim is to encourage people to give more thought today to the person they want to be tomorrow.” ht @bluberrymorning.bsky.social

AI researchers build ‘future self’ chatbot to inspire wise life choiceswww.theguardian.com Exclusive: Scientists at MIT hope talking to 60-year-old self will shift thinking on health, money and work

Are You There, God? It's Me, Margarine #MakeABookGreasy

As I Olay Dying #MakeABookGreasy

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A generous act from Dr Williams, for those who want a template for writing to their campus CIOs with their concerns about Microsoft AI tools and their privacy (among other things) nightmares.

Yeah, sure docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Concerns about Windows 11, CoPilot, and Recalldocs.google.com

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Looking for the lie 👀

Remarkable that we all spent the last 25 years actively installing software to fight malware and spyware and now the techbros are just putting malware and spyware directly into everything and selling it to us.

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It is also worth noting that "universal" stories appeal to zero people, because no one lives a universal life. The more specific a story is, the more we relate to it even if we have a different life, because we recognize that the story feels real

Just fold the studio into Disney and kill it already. Make Toy Story sequels till the sun fucking burns out. Love how this shift conveniently happened when more woman/POC were really pushing to direct their own stories. Defining their experiences as not "universal" is saying the quiet part aloud.