ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

The Forbes richest list should be renamed the fascist list.

"Follow us on Twitter" is now a declaration of fascist complicity.

I'd like to tell you some of what I am up to these days: I am writing a book about the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys trials. I had a unique vantage for more than 100 days, all told. I enjoy bringing people inside of the courtroom with me and I want to do it this time in a big way.

#nationalism

Here’s some perspective.

Americans:
•Cancel student debt!
•Cancel medical debt!
•Make insulin free!

Most of Developed World:
•What is student debt?
•What is medical debt?
•Insulin is already free!

What GOP calls “socialism”—even conservative parties in most developed nations call a “human right.”

Cool image, bro.

but

#AltText or it didn't happen.

This flew under the radar for some reason and needs more attention.

Over a week ago Turnitin admitted that their AI detection tool is much more prone to false positives in real-world usage than they originally said it would be. 4x higher.

And that "As a result of this additional testing, we’ve determined that in cases where we detect less than 20% of AI writing in a document, there is a higher incidence of false positives."

https://www.turnitin.com/blog/ai-writing-detection-update-from-turnitins-chief-product-officer

#EdTech #LLMs #AIHype

If you ever wonder how deep racism is ingrained in America's history and its culture, just remember that all it took was democratically electing a black man to the office of President to make every single Republican openly embrace fascism.

love that we are talking about the AI arms race & the ethical issues with AI text detection tools in the #otessa23 keynote

Take a peek behind the @ProPublica curtain at the many innovative ways my colleagues used to reach Spanish-speaking dairy workers in rural #Wisconsin: “The reporters’ process underscores one of our central beliefs at
ProPublica: Publishing a story about injustice isn’t enough if we don’t reach the people who are directly affected.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-reached-dairy-farm-workers-while-writing-about-them

Married 25 year-olds

In 1980: 63%
In 2021: 22%
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/23/young-adults-in-the-u-s-are-reaching-key-life-milestones-later-than-in-the-past/

Guess what's in the public domain and unfortunately still very pertinent?

Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/140

This came up in conversations in this thread about child labor.
https://universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson/110411907037744418

LOOK AT THEIR HANDS :sxn_cute: 😪

Ask all people that you see if they are for or against FASCISM in the United States. That's the only real question that matters right now.

U.S. friends:

Yesterday, I discovered that neither of my parents knew they are eligible for a new COVID booster.

Check in on your parents, grandparents, and friends 65 and older to make sure they know they are eligible so they can make an informed decision.

#CovidIsNotOver

@MugsysRapSheet @SrRochardBunson

GOP: "well, since you outlawed slavery, our only option for cheap labor is a permanent class of poorly educated folks to exploit, as young as possible."

If you're out in public and you see someone whose gender you can't figure out, follow there's simple steps:

1. Don't fuckin worry about it

This message brought to you by the trans agenda

"Corporate consumption of medical care keeps growing...'They are trying to run it like a business, but it's not a business,'" said one doctor.
Same for education, prisons, and any number of other services abandoned to the merciless maw of the market: https://is.gd/6PefSD

The thing about this corruption and criminality—George Santos, Clarence Thomas, Rudy Giuliani, Trump—is that it’s so obvious. So brazen. As if there’s no need to hide it.