femmenoire.bsky.social
Politically engaged literature professor. I write about Black environmental literature, war, and African Americans in the 19th century. President of C19: The Society for Nineteenth-Century Americanists. Plant and poetry lover. DC.
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❤️
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I can't love this enough
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Nothing but.
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There is no reason for an institution as wealthy as UPenn to do this. None.
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Fascinating!!
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It does!!
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No. That's not it. There are clear references to enslavement in the book. This was a choice that isn't fully explicable by censorship.
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That's repulsive. How he could write that sentence I have no idea. How it got past editors is another mystery.
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You captured their voice so perfectly
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Yep. Will never forget it.
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He needs to hand his job to AOC
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Exactly.
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On that point, my argument is that LLMs, which scrape other people's words, ideas and research as a "product" without attribution and sourcing, are indeed inherently unethical. But I was addressing the critical thinking aspect, not the ethics.
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I just said to a friend that if Musk were a Black man dragging a bunch of Black teenage hackers into all of these federal agencies, the laws would suddenly become crystal clear. No one would be saying "Well maybe he should have access to Ft. Knox and the IRS"
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I also must say that I am coming at this from the position of a literature professor and I have already witnessed deteriorating skills (attention, reading) that experts attribute to overuse of social media. Students now rely on LLM/AI because they find traditional learning taxing.
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www.zdnet.com/article/are-...
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Yes. Studies show that LLMs destroy critical thinking skills. First, they make people lazy about seeking out valid information sources. Then people just slop up and copy the (stolen and plagiarized) bad information without evaluating it.
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It likes to make heroes of men. Women don't get the hero treatment.
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Good. Because I've been hearing about his voters for a decade with only the rare interest in what the rest of us think, and we are far more numerous when you count those who voted against him and those who didn't vote at all. Such a skewed perspective.
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No. They never do.
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I doubt that legacy media will ask about this.
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Yes.
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That's fantastic!
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My thinking is some legitimate sources need to be there no matter what. Because as you say, the WH will carry on happily with Fox and OAN. We need some eyes on this administration at all times.
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Yes.
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250 K. Over that, and you're on your own.
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That's only up to a certain amount, though.
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Nice!
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Exactly
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This is what gives me pause: "There is hereby established a United States Marshals Service as a bureau within the Department of Justice under the authority and direction of the Attorney General." And T's ability to fire them at will. We will see I guess.
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They are presidential appointments.
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They are within the DOJ. Can you explain? www.usmarshals.gov
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If the U.S. marshals are under the DOJ's command (I think they are) what happens if AG Bondi tells them not to arrest the offenders?
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It's such a great theme! We're excited!
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Thank you
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That's my worry. The have captured all arms of the government. I mean we can try a citizen's arrest but somehow I don't think that's gonna work.
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They've tried but the media doesn't pay attention because it's not shiny or sensational enough. The Dems got to figure out alternative modes of messaging.
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What is this protest?
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Rude but true 👍
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Here's a more in-depth analysis of Orban "consolidating his party’s control over the arts" as "a mechanism for advancing a singular ethno-nationalist narrative." artisticfreedominitiative.org/our-programs...
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Seems ridiculous, but it's not a joke. One more step from the dictatorial playbook of the US right wing's favorite authoritarian: Hungary's Viktor Orban, who has used control of the arts as one of his tools for controlling national narrative and suppressing dissent www.npr.org/2022/03/21/1...