Authors and creative workers: Look for an envelope like this to claim your share of $1.5 billion from AI thieves in a major lawsuit against Anthropic PBC. Read more about the settlement at nwu.org/anthropic

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Does anyone have suggestions for a podcast on Russia's war on Ukraine? Context is good; current events even better. My grandmother has been following the Telegraph's coverage, and this is leading to some dangerous recommendations on her home screen. I'd love to set her up with a good alternative!

ICE is terrorizing my neighborhood (Pilsen) and so many others in Chicagoland. There have been sightings and abductions everyday. Please support our rapid response efforts: bit.ly/punofundraiser

Displaced in Gaza upholds the long-standing Palestinian tradition of storytelling, documenting both the horror of the genocide and the resilience of the Palestinian people. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2620-d...

The Spanish Navy said Wednesday it is sending the warship Furor to protect the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla after activists said drones had attacked their boats near Greece. This comes after Italy earlier committed to sending navy vessels to escort the flotilla.

Writing tip: Don't be German

They've lost the 9yos

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Stolen from an Animorphs Facebook group.

“it is neglect of the highest order to look children in the eyes and say we knew how to protect you and we just didn’t do it.”

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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so uh I have some deadlines coming up

pernicious to include "struggle" here, so often the language of people's movements, alongside Musk's fascist bullshit

Hey historians 🗃: have you read anything interesting lately that looked at organic social protests and attempted to unpack their dynamics? Any period and context is fine: looking for methodological insights!

my heart rejoices ❤️

google has been trying for months to build a new data center not far from my house. tonight was the final city council meeting and they officially withdrew their proposal! the data center isn’t moving forward! public outrage works!!!

The whole administration in one quote

I'm firmly on the side of autism in this war on autism.

🚨 Help Needed 🚨 A young man in Chicago is on the streets right now. He's trying to get his life back together, but he needs help. There's a shelter of sorts: $17/night $90/week $250/month It's just a bed in a very small room, and a door that locks. His Cash app is $LarryHills7 Thanks, group!

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LLMs can only generate a new text through an opaque process, which is all but guaranteed to create inaccuracies and prejudices. They cannot rearrange or identify connections in your text through an understanding of the content. If you want help doing that, work with a classmate, colleague or editor.

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As an archivist, this keeps me up.

LLMs can only generate a new text through an opaque process, which is all but guaranteed to create inaccuracies and prejudices. They cannot rearrange or identify connections in your text through an understanding of the content. If you want help doing that, work with a classmate, colleague or editor.

*If* the info is accurate, is of course, a giant if. Not only is the generated content often wrong, it's prejudiced. I've seen how it warps historical content in subtle or sometimes not so subtle and harmful ways. Learning how widely ChatGPT et al. are being used in the field is terrifying.

There is no way to use ChatGPT ethically or wisely. If the info is accurate, you didn’t learn it. Also, it’s built on stolen data and generative AI is going to further harm our environment. There are no upsides.

also imagine being a graduate student and willingly degrading your own learning by using gAI; it is genuinely alarming to think of how it is going to impact generations of creativity and original thought

“You can have a verbal conversation like you would with a professor” We have office hours for this exact purpose.

I enjoyed it when the student said it doesn't damage her critical thinking skills, and then 2 paragraphs later says she uses it to summarise difficult topics. Students don't know how much this is going to ruin the key skills they're paying a premium at University to develop.

if youd like to get a bit more background on how young men get radicalized online but don't want to dive into hell facefirst alone i have a book about it (it's five years old, but speaks to methods & human motivations that are still current, i think) www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia...

The new guidelines officially limit vaccine approval to people older than 65 and those older than 6 months who are immunocompromised or live with another qualifying health condition, such as asthma, diabetes, or heart disease. Previously, the vaccines were recommended for most adults.

“It is completely unclear when any pharmacies will have it in [and] the communications have been so poor,” Elana Levin, who is looking for Nuvaxovid in New York, told Truthout. Novavax and Sanofi did not respond to Truthout’s requests for comment.” Sanofi only told 1 reporter they’d ship next week.

"Debra told Truthout her local CVS refused to vaccinate her 5-year-old, even though the child has asthma, which is on the CDC's list of qualifying conditions." "There's a lot of misinformation." "Ultimately, this year, nobody in my family is likely to get a COVID vaccine." #USA #Healthcare

The new and more prohibitive guidelines around COVID-19 vaccines mean fewer people will get vaccinated and more will die. For @truthout.org, I spoke to folks across the country about their efforts to find a vaccine and what the access barriers mean to them. truthout.org/articles/fda...

Media workers, let's step up and support our Palestinian colleagues. Chip in to @dropsitenews.com's fundraiser to help 29 reporters get out of Gaza City and survive displacement.

"[L]argest HIV outbreak in Maine's history." Causes: "closing of programs that distributed sterile syringes to people who use drugs, a shortage of medical providers focused on HIV, and the clearing of the city's largest homeless encampment." #Maine #USA #Drugs #Housing #Healthcare #Policing