ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@qoto.org

Cool image, bro.

but

#AltText or it didn't happen.

This flew under the radar for some reason and needs more attention.

Over a week ago Turnitin admitted that their AI detection tool is much more prone to false positives in real-world usage than they originally said it would be. 4x higher.

And that "As a result of this additional testing, we’ve determined that in cases where we detect less than 20% of AI writing in a document, there is a higher incidence of false positives."

https://www.turnitin.com/blog/ai-writing-detection-update-from-turnitins-chief-product-officer

#EdTech #LLMs #AIHype

If you ever wonder how deep racism is ingrained in America's history and its culture, just remember that all it took was democratically electing a black man to the office of President to make every single Republican openly embrace fascism.

love that we are talking about the AI arms race & the ethical issues with AI text detection tools in the #otessa23 keynote

Take a peek behind the @ProPublica curtain at the many innovative ways my colleagues used to reach Spanish-speaking dairy workers in rural #Wisconsin: “The reporters’ process underscores one of our central beliefs at
ProPublica: Publishing a story about injustice isn’t enough if we don’t reach the people who are directly affected.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-reached-dairy-farm-workers-while-writing-about-them

Married 25 year-olds

In 1980: 63%
In 2021: 22%
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/23/young-adults-in-the-u-s-are-reaching-key-life-milestones-later-than-in-the-past/

Guess what's in the public domain and unfortunately still very pertinent?

Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/140

This came up in conversations in this thread about child labor.
https://universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson/110411907037744418

LOOK AT THEIR HANDS :sxn_cute: 😪

If you're out in public and you see someone whose gender you can't figure out, follow there's simple steps:

1. Don't fuckin worry about it

This message brought to you by the trans agenda

"Corporate consumption of medical care keeps growing...'They are trying to run it like a business, but it's not a business,'" said one doctor.
Same for education, prisons, and any number of other services abandoned to the merciless maw of the market: https://is.gd/6PefSD

The thing about this corruption and criminality—George Santos, Clarence Thomas, Rudy Giuliani, Trump—is that it’s so obvious. So brazen. As if there’s no need to hide it.

@jimmygnarly

NRA found to be little more than a Russian money laundering scheme to bribe Republicans. Almost no arrests, no news, and Republicans now wear AR-15 pins during and after school shootings.

cc: @statmonkey @MPgh @StillIRise1963

So Sen. Feinstein's medical condition is worse than she's disclosed, and the newly disclosed issue is one affecting cognition and memory.

This is incredibly sad for her and her family, and they deserve sympathy.

But she should have retired years ago, and absolutely should step down now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/18/sen-feinsteins-health-complications-shingles-more-severe-than-disclosed/

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.
Greta Thunburg

The Nazis did not successfully murder millions because every German was a Nazi. They succeeded because not enough Germans were anti-Nazi.

You have the power to stop it from happening again. All it takes is the willingness to stand up and fight.

A freshman Democrat brought receipts to the GOP's hearing on D.C. crime - MSNBC as @joyannreid would say, Representative Crockett won the week. #NotPlaying https://apple.news/Az5aqQjqJT-mj_ci9bYKkhg

This is the message. Shout it from the rooftops and beat the GOP to death with it.