ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

Are there any national organizations that are supporting teachers who are targeted by anti-LGBT extremist groups for being supportive of LGBT students?

New view: I’m getting a peek into Belva, a crater within a crater. It’s ~0.6 miles (1 km) wide, and sits on top of this fan of sediments that a river carried into the much bigger Jezero Crater long ago. A few mysteries to explore here before I roll on: http://go.nasa.gov/3GWA8jZ
#PerseveranceRover

#AI #chatgpt

Techdirt:
The Elon Musk Mind Virus: Spreading Easily Debunked Misinformation That Confirms His Own Biases

"Elon Musk has been on a tear of late, attacking the 'mainstream media' at every turn. It’s true that this started about five years ago, when Tesla started getting some negative press (after about a decade of extremely positive press), and Musk seemed to absolutely lose his shit..."
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/20/the-elon-musk-mind-virus-spreading-easily-debunked-misinformation-that-confirms-his-own-biases/

@e_urq

What I find mystifying is how the *source* of these copy-paste legislative onslaughts is never identified.

What I find perplexing is the *funding* behind these disenfranchisement schemes & seditious conspiracies is never identified.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_Institute

The Claremont Institute is the de facto legislative body for Red states.

Not "We the People". Not voters. Not elected officials.

Founded by Harry Jaffa, the "natural law" wingnut.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/04/18/male-supremacy-core-hard-rights-agenda

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A friend who's a public school teacher isn't allowed to accept gifts valued at over $50 from publishers, outside organizations, or parents. Clarence Thomas feels entitled to accept gifts "from a friend" that are worth more than she earns in a decade.

ChatGPT scraped 120K tokens from Little Green Footballs.

AI is in ur website, stealin ur shit

mixing up a curse of strahd run by editing together a 3 hour version of hot diggity dog ziggity boom which fades in whenever there's an encounter with strahd

Arizona State U #Library not only has a new #Black Collections archival repository—there's also a free, online Black Memory and Storytelling Symposium going on right now!*

https://libguides.asu.edu/blackmemorysymposium

*Assuming you're reading this on Thursday 2023-04-20 and Saturday 2023-04-22.

Statistically, 1 in every 3 people in a relationship cheat so I only need to figure out if it’s my boyfriend or my husband.

#MastodonNews April 20, 2023

Yes it can!

The Verge: Can ActivityPub save the internet? >>> https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network

"So what is ActivityPub? It’s a technology through which social networks can be made interoperable... one that’s much more like email or old-school web chat than any of the platforms we use now. It’s governed by open protocols, not closed platforms. It aims to give control back to users and to make sure that the social web is bigger than any single company."

#twittermigration

Record Store Day is coming this Saturday!

Florida has extended the “don’t say gay” law all the way through high school graduation

This means all public school children cannot mention or learn about the existence the LGBTQ+ community

All the bad faith people saying “this will only apply up to 3rd grade” are part of the problem. Literal useful idiots to fascist Christian zealots.

Buzzfeed is shutting down its news division because despite winning a Pulitzer Prize, “it never made money.”

And this is why publicly-funded media matters. News is of immense public value, whether or not it’s profitable. #media #Journalism #Democracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/business/buzzfeed-news-shut-down.html

Must’ve been a good joke! 😹

I learned today that 5 of my books are among the more than 1600 books banned in some schools right now.

https://pen.org/index-of-school-book-bans-2022/

For more information
https://pen.org/issue/free-the-books/

How to Organize a White Elephant Gift Exchange

Last day in the Northwest and a beautiful afternoon, so took the slow road home via The Crook of Lune, a special spot with a rare view of #Ingleborough bathed in glorious sunshine. Taken on my little android phone with a 4.6MP camera but it ticks my box! ;) #photography #Lancashire #Cumbria #NorthYorkshire

Tomorrow is release day for my new book Constellations of Ruin, but today I am extra thrilled that librarians can enter to win two free copies via the ALA #HorrorForLibraries https://raforallhorror.blogspot.com/2023/04/horrorforlibraries-giveaway-199-2.html