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Author. Speaker. Consultant. Love Letters to the Future podcast and Substack https://tinyurl.com/4nm38z7y. US & AoNZ. New Mythos and futurist gal about town. Phoenix Horizon trilogy--(R)EVOLUTION, (ID)ENTITY, and (CON)SCIENCE--predicted far too much.
Misty Copeland comes out of retirement to put Timothée Chalamet in his place during a live ‘Sinners’ performance at the #Oscars.
Congratulations!🎉
This is the best video about Covid that has ever been made www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqWx...
folks if the LA times is acknowledging covid as an ongoing mass disabling event it is definitely an ongoing mass disabling event
A 50-year-old woman “had never been on an airplane until authorities flew her to North Dakota last year to face charges” based solely on AI facial recognition.
The harms of gen AI go far beyond copyright theft and environmental damage.
Starting to think the British press aren't coping too well with the Green Party wanting to tax wealth fairly.
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New Writer Beware blog post: A quick reminder that the deadline for filing a claim in the Anthropic copyright settlement is fast approaching writerbeware.blog/2026/03/13/d...
Hayley, if you follow me, I can message you a screenshot of his complete response to me, if it helps.
“Our instinct at the firm is, every time we hear about another attack, we need to see the chat logs because there’s [a good chance] that AI was deeply involved…”
Oh my god people are giving small children AI toys and expecting them to learn communication from them??? THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT HUMANS SHOULD BE DOING THIS IS NOT AI'S JOB WHAT THE HELL www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"The headline was designed to capture a complex mathematical and biological reality: that in 2026, the "ripple" of community infections has become a primary driver of the population's temporary immunity threshold."
It doesn't capture that and leads to misinterpretation. But they won't change it.😥
Unfortunately, I got a reply and he's digging his heals in that the headline is appropriate. His point of view is best summarized as: we got an expert who said this headline. It doesn't matter if readers take it out of context. We present both sides, so any misinterpretation is a 'you' problem. >>
Just wrote a scathing letter to Keith Lynch. Hope their better angels kick the editors in the **** and make them change the headline.
🚨 If anyone has contacts at Stuff to get this headline updated urgently please do so.
Expert advice is that getting Covid repeatedly is not like building immunity, it's more like accumulating damage. Each infection raises your risk of long Covid and serious complications.
This is unacceptable.
"The COVID-19 pandemic at 6 years: Mass death, debilitation and media silence"
"The pandemic has killed over 30 million people worldwide, left more than 400 million suffering from Long COVID... It is one of the most catastrophic events in modern history—and it is not over."
Result! Just received from Grammarly:
"Hi,
Thank you for reaching out.
After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces."
1/
🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky
I'm going to share this story one more time, because I think the problem it describes -- being unable to determine what is true online or in the news, and just giving up entirely on trying -- is going to get more and more common. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
absolutely do not trust this expert on grammarly. he is bad and should feel bad.
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
So Chris Hipkins not only took advice & kept the economy afloat and jobs and businesses alive through #Covid-19, he pushed to keep Kiwis healthy and alive at a time when corpses were piled up across Italy, UK, US, and India.
Kudos @chrishipkins.bsky.social #nzpol #newzealand
Time to pass a law that any party spokesperson of media outlet that opines with hindsight reckons on pandemic management has to show this chart in the background at all times #nzpol
Oh my dears. I’m so sorry. Sending you all strength.
Healing History's Wounds at Writing the Other. Highly recommend anything @nisishawl.bsky.social teaches.
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Sorry, forgot to tag my incredible cohost, @laurafayeten.bsky.social ! 😍
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Given genAI, it seems that fa$c!$t$ do both.
I will remind you again and again the words of Terry Pratchett delivered by Granny Weatherwax
Evil begins when you treat people like things
Each Covid-19 wave wrecks your health. Here's what you can do.
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