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Posts by Melissa Manlove
i guess i am not his “own people,” since he stole from me to make his “A.i.”
My team just launched The Beam, a new media outlet for Arizona. I’m particularly excited about something we built for parents: School Board chatbots. thebeam.org/arizona-scho...
Danielle Smith has a plan to destroy public health care in Alberta—and she’s not doing it alone.
Documents and lobbying records reveal the government is consulting directly with Canada’s private insurance giants on how to implement two-tier health care, reports @nikbarryshaw.bsky.social
Fuck this. As an industry, we are in an existential crisis of book banning because of homophobia and transphobia weaponized by racist authoritarians. “Dirty books” are not the problem. Censorship is.
Make whatever books you like, but don’t you dare call other books dirty in your shitty marketing.
This marketing is really insulting to the rest of us out here who’ve been writing for teens for a while. We’ve got censors on one side, colonization by adult Romantacy on the other and now these condescending “saviors” right in the middle telling us we’re dirty. This sucks.
If this is shared outside of my bubble, nice to meet you, and feel free to check out my earlier work. Like the story below of this other VERY strange nest! ⬇️
Definition and quantification of the mirage effect.
AI 'mirages' mean tools used to analyze medical scans could fabricate their findings
MIRAGE: The Illusion of Visual Understanding 🧪
arxiv.org/html/2603.21...
Exposes fundamental vulnerabilities in how visual–language models reason and are evaluated, pointing to urgent need for private benchmarks.
🍂 🖋️🧪
OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”
You can’t trust chatbots.
Remember to be wary, as today is the only day of the year that incorrect or misleading information is posted on the internet.
Love and acceptance: helping trans children live happy lives
This Transgender Day of Visibility, parents reveal the simple formula that can make all the difference to trans children in difficult times | Jennie Kermode
@jenniekermode.bsky.social
Nonprofits have real power to support voter participation.
Know what’s allowed: bit.ly/40RK33Y
#Democracy #NonprofitImpact
One of the greatest public health achievements of the last 60 years? Fewer than 10% of American adults smoke!
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
…what happened now?
“Sycophancy was present across all the chatbots they tested, & the bots frequently told users that their actions or beliefs were justified in cases where the user was acting deceptively, doing something illegal, or engaging in otherwise harmful or abusive behavior.”🧪
Combined cycle gas turbine power (often used for mid-merit and peaking plants), and offshore wind are both at ~$100/MWh for generation. Coal and grid scale batteries are at ~$80/MWh for generation or discharge. PVs and onshore wind are at ~$40/MWh generation.
We don't need to fight over fossil fuels. BloombergNEF reports grid-scale batteries are as cheap as coal per MWh. Offshore wind is comparable in price to combined cycle gas turbine power, & onshore wind & PVs (fixed & tracking) are both significantly cheaper than fossil fuels. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋
Scenes from today’s “No Kings” anti-Trump rally in Sydney, Australia
Woman in sunglasses holding up cardboard sign that reads ‘Nae king, nae queen’ (‘No king, no queen’), T. Pratchett
Black and white dog seated at protest and wearing sign that reads ‘I CAN POOP A BETTER PRESIDENT’
Protest crowd with woman carrying sign that reads ‘The only animal with blue blood is the octopus!’
Beautiful day for a protest. #NoKings #Geneva #Switzerland
"Hey guys we have a school run by robots"
"Wow you eliminated the biggest single ongoing cost of literally any institution: staffing! Will it cost less?"
"HAAHAHHHAHAHHAHHAHAHA
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hoo boy
tee hee
No."
No Kings Paris
@indivisible.org @indivisibleparis.org
A couple dozen people holding signs both homemade and printed against Trump and ICE at the No Kings event in Thessaloniki, March 28th, 2026.
Americans in Thessaloniki say : NO to Trump! #NoKings #NoKingsGreece
#NoKings #NoKings3 #NoKingsIII
Good morning from Amsterdam, and happy 'No Kings Day'
Note for Republicans: Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands and is a country in Europe.
Protest crowd in Puerta del Sol Madrid
Protest crowd in Puerta del Sol Madrid with Democrats Abroad banner
Speaker at No tyrants protest in Puerta del Sol Madrid
#NoTyrants Madrid with @democrats.org Abroad
No tyrants, Barcelona
#notyrants #democratsabroad #barcelona
Posted this and a friend texted to say they were on the fence about going and this tipped them into going. Let your friends know you're going! Invite them along! They're mad too and doing something always feels better than doing nothing. We're in this together. ❤️👊
Forget all the “Protests don’t matter” and “No Kings is just silly” nonsense.
Protests matter. Societal resistance has been hardening. It’s a massive problem for the MAGA regime.
And “No Kings” is crucial as part of an effort to dispel the idea that “real America” stands behind Trump.