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Made the CommSky Starter Pack https://go.bsky.app/QkcgePD Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military esports, video games, and gender theory. Happily šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆ.
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It’s certainly a very important like that they’ve crossed. Marines are generally viewed by the public as trustworthy, so I’m going to be looking to see if that changes once they start participating in the LA Crackdown
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Oh I see well that makes it less obscene then 🫠
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Its only a $12 billion publishing industry, I’m sure she could spend that in a weekend
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But this is what I mean: John Roberts rejected such a program in 2017 as ā€œsociological gobbledygook.ā€ That branch has decided it will reject the usage of statistics to determine fairness, unless it favors white people (as in anti-affirmative action decisions). You can’t fix that with a law.
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I don't mean this as an insult but your idea is only for part of the executive branch. I'm talking about systemic federal dysfunction, which includes Congress and the Courts. Those don't get fixed without rewriting the Constitution.
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Disengagement isn't nearly that bad (it's only been <50% in 1996). Lower turnout recently tends to favor Republicans and we had a huge drop in voter participation from 2020-2024. But I see turn out challenges as downstream of dysfunction: people are less inclined to vote if their votes don't matter.
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I dunno guys, I cut my teeth 18 years ago on an Army program that recklessly attached civilians to military units and gave them authority, and whatever promise the Human Terrain System had on paper in practice it was unworkable and made units much worse off over all. This is a titanically bad idea.
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You hit confluence park! Awesome. When the Platte is a bit higher they have kayakers there in the morning
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Next: What is Freedom of Speech? Compares how the concept is understood in different countries comprising both legal and socio-normative dimensions.
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He was vile and extremely popular in the 90s and hyped up Newt Gingrich’s horribleness!
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Yep. I’m so glad I ended up leaving nonprofit comms before Notebook LLM took over everything
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Every PR executive I talk to says human generated content is going up the value chain (meaning it’s being priced as a luxury good) while the cheap clients — including charities — will get by with AI. It’s… man I just don’t think that’s a good direction for our civilization.
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Many of the top end NYC and Chicago PR firms (for my students) want them to be able to use AI but also put them in offline writing tests to ensure they have the basic skills of the job. But that’s only for some tracks in some industries. I try to focus on that in my writing classes.
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I’m with you. I remember as a kid being with my parents as they cackled along to Rush Limbaugh calling a teenaged Chelsea Clinton names on his radio show, and they rolled their eyes when I asked why they were being so mean to a kid my age. The idea that this began with Trump is a huge lie.
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It shuts down debate. Yesterday I was with colleagues and they all said, ā€œemployers want people trained on AIā€ and agreed with all of the downsides I raised but that’s what hiring managers want so that’s how all of higher education is distorting itself to accommodate. It’s depressing.
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I just don’t get why every AI expert says these systems are unreliable, makes constant mistakes, and can’t be trusted, but then executives want to put it into every single thing we do, as if that won’t compound these flaws and harm people. It’s like taking up smoking after you know it causes cancer.
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Schools have teaching awards for integrating AI into the classroom. They don’t have awards for teaching remedial reading and writing for students who literally can’t read without a google summary next to them. Feels bad!
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I won’t vote for him but that’s a helluva endorsement for a future run
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There’s a plethora of things to say being issuing statements of concern and demands for amorphous things to happen
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The Critic was a prophetic show
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We do!
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Then, in contrast, I'm like... What does being held accountable mean? Is he going to call for Kristi Noem's impeachment? Give us something, Rep Jeffries!
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Also good, though it's begun to bother me that authoritarianism is spoken in the future tense and not the present tense (I don't know of a more accurate descriptor for what's happening right now). But this is not hard to do: take a forceful stand, and demonstrate to us that you have values and care.
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Oh jeez I forgot about her. No surprise she's silent, too. She seems uninterested in the world, only in her various social commitments.
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Got it, so you do think it's acceptable to speak this gently even though many of her colleagues who did not vote for the DHS secretary lying about her colleague are speaking much more forcefully. We really have different expectations for our leaders.