Mindy McAdams

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Didn’t always live in Florida. Loves to travel. Teaches journalism students to code. Reads novels. Eats. Sleeps. https://mindymcadams.com/

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Well this is grim

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Reminder for people who seem to be convinced that a deficit barely outside the margin of error in July is insurmountable

Bluesky feed is all “The NYT is destroying democracy with attacks on Biden.” Agenda setting theory lives on — but is the wider public paying any attention to what the NYT says?

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The Supreme Court’s ruling putting presidents above the law must be understood not simply as a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of those he will commit if given the chance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Supreme Court Gives Its Blessing to Trump’s Criminalitywww.theatlantic.com And gives him permission for a despotic second term.

My question: Is inciting an insurrection to overthrow the government an “official act” or nah? Seems kind of fuzzy

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Those who can, teach. Those who can't, push educators aside and scam every possible dollar out of school systems.

“Being a software engineer, he got to spend a little bit of time backstage with the [AI] developers, whereupon they revealed that most of the demos were faked. The products didn't work. They just hadn't solved some minor issues, such as actually predicting the thing that they're supposed to predict”

An indictment of the news media.

Biggest campaign story ever: using a private email server that could hold top secrets but doesn’t and could be breached but wasn’t. Tiny story: stealing top secrets. Hiding them in a bathroom. Taking them to NJ. Showing them to foreigners. Meeting with foreign governments.

Repeatedly arresting and jailing people for sleeping outdoors: Could we just skip straight to giving them a place to live? (Not a jail cell.) The cost of the arrests and jail stays also raises the alternative of basic income, which could be cheaper in the long run.

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Jesus. In this country even white men who are doctors can't always get doctors to listen to them when it counts. www.huffpost.com/entry/doctor...

I'm A Doctor Who Almost Died Because My Own Doctors Refused To Do This 1 Basic Thingwww.huffpost.com Unfortunately, my experience is all too common. If you find yourself in a situation like I did, here's what you should do.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stoops lower than I believed possible, vetoing most of the state's support for the arts. It's only $32 million among $1 billion in cuts, but it's devastating for artists and arts organizations, while proving how little he values the arts. loom.ly/ShtvKEc

Florida governor Ron DeSantis vetoes $32m in state arts fundingloom.ly Museums and other cultural institutions will lose out on millions in promised grants that were originally in the state budget before it was sent to DeSantis to sign

Growing up, I watched the movie The Ten Commandments every year on TV. I think they showed it in Easter Week. Remember, in those old days we only had about 5 TV channels, so an epic Hollywood movie (even with commercial interruptions) was a treat.

Threw together a quick post from the book here: open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...

Thou Shalt Notopen.substack.com When I saw today’s news that Louisiana has become the first state to mandate the display of the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms, I thought it sounded a lot like the 1950s campaign to ...

So they’re going to have “Thou shalt not commit adultery” on the walls in K-12 classrooms, but they’re not allowed to discuss or teach about sex?

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It's increasingly clear that the people who make generative AI don't like films, don't like books, don't like art of any kind, and don't understand why anyone else does.

This isn’t a movie, it’s a screensaver bgr.com/tech/movies-...

Movies may soon use AI to change the story each time you rewatchbgr.com Filmmakers are experimenting with a new type of filmmaking called generative film, which uses AI to change the film each time it's watched.

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I can't remember a tech campaign this relentless.

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"Heat already kills more people in the United States each year than hurricanes, floods and tornadoes combined" Gift link

Dozens of Groups Push FEMA to Recognize Extreme Heat as a ‘Major Disaster’www.nytimes.com The labor and environmental groups are pushing the change so relief funds can be used in more situations.

Premise of the TV series Resident Alien: humans have screwed up the planet so badly, an alien civilization has to send a doomsday device that will kill all the people on Earth but not affect other species. When I think about the increasing anti-vax movement, I think we won’t need the aliens’ help.

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Breaking News: Evan Gershkovich, an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal, will be tried for espionage in the Russian city where he was arrested more than a year ago.

Russian Prosecutors Finalize Indictment of Evan Gershkovichwww.nytimes.com The Wall Street Journal reporter will be tried on a spying charge in Yekaterinburg, the city where he was arrested more than a year ago.

There might be some correlation between U.S. women dominating college enrollments (as men decline) and the recent draconian laws interfering with women’s reproductive rights and autonomy. Of course the conservatives are also working hard to break the entire U.S. education system, so …

In the past 150 years the only variable that has correlated to lower birth rates has been women’s education. While a lot of that can be specific efforts by women to delay having children, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if it was also because increased education means increased sex education.

We on that Apple WWDC roller coaster now!

It’s not very different from Walmart employees qualifying for food stamps because the “retail giant” pays them so badly. The corporation gets the employee’s labor at a bargain rate and expects others to provide charity to make up for it.

I had the same experience when I first read it. I had to click the embedded link and see the letter for myself. Truly wild. For folks who don't want to click through the links, this is the "Courtesy Letter" American issued:

The bent Justice thinks everyone else is bent too.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito suggests partisan funding of ProPublica is to blame for its coverage of the court, in a secret recording at a recent dinner (Rolling Stone) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Google's AI Overviews must create entirely new information in response to a search query. That costs an estimated *30 times* more energy than simply extracting information from a source through a traditional search. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... by @parshallison.bsky.social

What Do Google’s AI Answers Cost the Environment?www.scientificamerican.com Google is bringing AI answers to a billion people this year, but generative AI requires much more energy than traditional keyword searches

Good news for transgender kids and their families in the draconian state of Florida! Article gifted.

Judge Strikes Down Florida’s Ban on Transgender Care for Minorswww.nytimes.com A federal judge ruled that Florida could not “prohibit transgender minors from receiving specific kinds of widely accepted gender-affirming medical care.”

Had a chat the other day about using AI to extract documents with certain characteristics from a large set of documents, and how this differs from question answering and text generation. If the corpus is very large, false positives and negatives might not matter much — so there’s less at risk —

Go ahead, ruin everything.

Instagram confirms it is testing an unskippable ad format with a countdown timer that briefly prevents feed scrolling (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Just thinking about how people convicted of one felony may often be locked up until their sentencing date but not a rich man convicted of 34 felonies

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it rules that a jury of rando New Yorkers is braver than several federal judges and basically every single senator

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My main takeaway from this is that every time he is mentioned from now on, it should be like this: “Convincted felon and presumptive GOP nominee for President, Donald Trump…”

Well, I am surprised. I thought a convicted felon could not hold an elected federal office. Apparently that’s not so. www.reuters.com/world/us/can...

Could Trump be president despite conviction in hush money trial?www.reuters.com Donald Trump’s criminal conviction for illegally covering up a hush money payment to a porn star will not prevent the Republican candidate from pursuing his campaign to retake the White House, even if he were sentenced to prison before the Nov. 5 election.