When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

If the kid in your life asks you to do something with them, the answer should always be yes

Ah, yes. As if we needed further proof this weekend that Ezra Levin > Ezra Klein

Download Now: Know Your Rights at Protests Zine Download and distribute this free “Know Your Rights at Protests” Zine to ensure you and your community are prepared before attending a protest. This zine was adapted from ACLU’s “Protester’s Rights” r...

And here's the protesting rights zine in question, free info and download courtesy of Move On: front.moveon.org/download-now...

I'm literally working a teen outreach event in the morning will be sharing resources there before heading back to the library right as a bunch of those kids probably head off to the afternoon protest. Hopefully will be able to dart out there on my 15 minute break. Give 'em hell, y'all!

Have to work as #SaturdayLibrarian yet again during a #NoKings protest. Luckily, I've been building up our zine library and will have lots of know-your-rights info to pass along to folks heading to the nearby local protest. Planning at passive craft table with extra cardboard just in case too

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.”

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.

Trying to normalize saying "I don't have enough information to have a strong opinion on that". Trying to stop engaging in every need for a hot take

Those teens are also more likely in underfunded schools, without access to school libraries or professional librarians, and they likely have a harder time accessing their public libraries.

The right has been itching for this outcome and they're getting it.

I guess that's the most straightforward "where" but the "how" is mystifying. They just leave him tied up while they go to school, assuming (correctly) he won't escape? Where do they hide him during the party, and no one stumbles on or hears him?

Was he at Stu's house all along? Since his parents were out of town? 🤔

I've always wondered...in the original Scream ilm, where/how did Billy & Stu keep Mr. Prescott for a few days while they waited to frame him for their killing spree? Not a plot hole per se, but just a technicality that is weirdly overlooked

WATCH LIVE: Democratic lawmakers join 'People's State of the Union' rally during Trump's address YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

You realize y'all should be watching this one, right? www.youtube.com/live/seuerlt...

Oop, fact check! Sen Padilla will actually be one of the official Democratic responders to the SOTU, apparently delivering it in Spanish 👏

Happily, my rep and senators are at the People's State of the Union today, boycotting that other one

Inside the Trump Administration’s Plan to Change Public Education YouTube video by ProPublica

Must watch. 🏫 👀 Short, well-reported video on how the current administration is destroying public education in the US: youtu.be/-NYq_N6fO-w?...

"nostalgia is not a strategy"
- mark carney

since they won't let me unsubscribe, we do what we can!

a little too excited to mark those emails from Google about Gemini as spam 😈

a man in a suit and tie is saying i just want it to stop . Alt: Jim from The Office, gazing off to the side despondently, saying "I just want it to stop"

Oh, that way madness lies. Let me shun that. No more of that.
- King Lear, III.iv

Go thou further off. Bid me farewell, and let me hear thee going.
- King Lear, IV.vi

So so so proud of my kid & all the others who participated in national walkout to protest ICE. They planned, shared intel, spoke with teachers & families in advance. They did every best practice to make their voices heard & keep their community safe 💛

Hey, things are awful, we're all stressed, but it's still good to read books and encourage others to read, especially nonreaders. Reading novels can build empathy, and we could use even more empathy right about now.

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

Oh, 100%

OpenAl Showed Up At My Door. Here’s Why They’re Targeting People Like Me YouTube video by More Perfect Union

There are lots of reasons I don't use gen AI. Mostly that I value my critical thinking, writing, & researching skills. But also, why would I knowingly back shady-ass companies who want zero accountability? youtu.be/qnOmUWd-OII?...

a woman in a black dress is looking at a man in a room . Alt: Moira Rose from Schitt’s Creek silently staring at someone in absolute judgement

Ugh, I cannot with people who constantly back into parking spots

DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

THREAD: 404 Media has been covering ICE and the technology they've been using to surveil and raid "targets", detain people based on a flawed facial recognition app, and lie about violence on the streets.

They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

User @backintimeag: The text “Kirsten will be happy when ICE gets the fuck out of Minnesota” over a picture of 1850s immigrant and Minnesota-dwelling doll character Kirsten Larson in the snow.

In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram

🖋️ “End the Killings: States Must Unite to Stop Lawless ICE Operations” hit 5,000 signers!

💬 Text SIGN PQZSKS to 50409

50501 is joining forces with FLARE USA, Citizens' Impeachment are joining forces to go to Congress for the next National Day of (Direct) Action! On February 17th, we will be taking part in a National Day of Lobbying to impeach, convict, remove, & to cut ICE funding - right in your neighborhood!