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More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social
BREAKING: The House just voted to remove the pesticide provisions from the farm bill that would have protected Bayer from lawsuits over cancer-causing glysophate in Roundup. The amendment passed 280-142.
Jeffrey Sens@jeffreysens.bsky.social
FB friend passed this Ai tidbit to me. No "Manual connection" for the wife on LinkedIn.
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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …
Chloë Lum@compulsiveobserver.bsky.social
Everyone I know who uses AI gets hyper defensive even when facing mild, indirect critique. Working artists with MFAs and PhDs will tell me that they need it to generate ideas or write grant applications. They insist it’s no different than using a camera 100 years ago.
⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie)@stinasdemons.com
Please tell me 1-5 of your fave nonfiction books. Here's mine: The People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts & Other Literary Curiosities from History - Edward Brooke-Hitching An Underground Education: The Unauthorized & Outrageous
![This rises in part from the choice of pronoun. I call Gethenians “he” because I utterly refuse to mangle English by inventing a pronoun for “he/she.” [This “utter refusal” of 1968 restated in 1976 collapsed, utterly, within a couple of years more. I still dislike invented pronouns, but I now dislike them less than the so-called generic pronoun he/him/his, which does in fact exclude women from discourse; and which was an invention of male grammarians, for [badly highlighted in yellow] until the sixteenth century the English generic singular pronoun was they/them/their, as it still is in English and American colloquial speech. It should be restored to the written language, and let the pedants and pundits squeak and gibber in the streets. [end highlight] In a screenplay of The Left Hand of Darkness written in 1985, I referred to Gethenians not pregnant or in kemmer by the invented pronouns a/un/a’s, modeled on a British dialect. These would drive the reader mad in print, I suppose; but I have read parts of the book aloud using them, and the audience was perfectly happy, except that they pointed out that the subject pronoun, “a” pronounced “uh” [ǝ], sounds too much like “I” said with a Southern accent.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:55tiuj2l7combvcv6klgcmqv/bafkreia4xomepccpfjmm3zqj7bpaytgvaz6ur7vj6x5j2ezsjrsuq43yiy)
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov
Folks, we got another jingle judge. Submit your 2-K jingle by TOMORROW night (5/1) — Lin Manuel Miranda and Cardi B are helping me pick the top 5 before New York votes on a winner. Rules and more info at nyc.gov/jingle.
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Amazing animal relationships - meet Nzou the buffalant of Africa
One of the most amazing animal relationships we've ever seen was Nzou, the elephant who thinks she's a buffalo. Find out more!
Aman Batheja@amanbatheja.bsky.social
The Senate once again rejected a measure to end the Iran War. Two things of note: --Susan Collins backed it for the first time—the first such shift since the war began --This was the last such vote before Friday's 60-day legal deadline. Expect more talk to "an illegal war" next week
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QuadCityPat@quadcitypat.bsky.social
There i literally no way to describe this without the screen shot. @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social
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