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#ccmusic meeting at meet.jit.si/ccmusic
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Nonprofits partner to restore over 200 acres of critical wetlands: 'Putting it back to the way it was'.

The conservation expansion will boost water quality and provide communities with an extra layer of protection against the impacts of extreme weather. #ClimateChange

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Linus hat den #linux kernel 6.11 von #Wien aus released:

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#Linux #wien

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After defeating a 25-year incumbent in the primary, Mara Dolan is set to join the Massachusetts governor’s council. Her win in November is all but certain, making her the first public defender on the council. #DemocracyDay boltsmag.org/massachusetts-jud…
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Looks like we need a separate thread on trump's hate-post about Taylor Swift.

trump has stirred up a hornet's nest.
It's got Swifties energized.
The Sunday pundits are in a tizzy, some are questioning his mental status.
It's even got some trump supporters quaking in this boots.
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Tweet from Pop Crave - Donald Trump shares a new post: "I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!"
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Ana Navarro:
"Donald Trump has lost what little sanity he had left.
Taylor Swift broke him."

Kamala Harris broke him first. Then Taylor Swift.

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tweet from Ana Navarro. text is in the post.
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Have you heard or read anyone claiming that this was a good idea?

Actually, we do. Please proceed, Mr. trump.
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Tweet from Don Van Natta Jr. "Imagine thinking this is a good idea"
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BREAKING: New York Post says two people were firing at each other outside Trump's golf club, and the gunfire was not targeting Trump.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

#News #finance #economics #stocks #Options

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Ronald Reagan's former staff back Harris-Walz ticket: "Today is a choice between integrity and demagoguery."
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#HarrisWalz #NoRepublicansEverAgain

#norepublicanseveragain #harriswalz

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Family Therapy and the Autism Spectrum: Autism Conversations in Narrative Practice by Marilyn J. Monteiro, 2016

The autism spectrum presents a range of communication, social, and sensory differences that are challenging for clinicians to address. Family Therapy and the Autism Spectrum provides a guide to conceptualizing those differences and ways to discuss them with clients and their families.

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Readers are provided with narrative examples illustrating the application of key concepts introduced in the text. These case examples address issues that range across the life cycle, from families with young children to ones with teens who are emerging as adults. Using the techniques learned in this book, clinicians will be able to guide families towards their positive autism narrative. This book also features a visual framework to organize the compelling narrative of each person’s autism spectrum pattern of developmental differences or brain style. Using this visual framework and the corresponding descriptive language, clinicians and families can work together to create their "autism conversations." The conversations lead to the transformative experiences of developing competencies, resiliency, and advocacy for individuals and their families. The conversations also lead individuals with spectrum differences to use empowering language, supporting their ability to develop self-advocacy and self-determination skills. Review I have known Dr. Monteiro professionally for many years and am delighted that this book permits a wider group of people to learn from her as I am privileged to do. This book is warm, rigorous, and superb in its entirety and speaks to a crucial issue in working with families with autistic children. Both as a clinician and as the parent of a child with autism, I found this book to be immensely informative and directly useful both personally and professionally.
#Books #autism #NonFiction #familytherapy @bookstodon group

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Opportunity to steal!

GOP lawmaker: Making it harder to vote 'is our opportunity to win'
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#RepublicansCheat #NoRepublicansEverAgain #GOP #VoteBlueUpAndDown

#GOP #norepublicanseveragain #voteblueupanddown #republicanscheat

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How To Succeed In Mrbeast Production (Leaked Pdf). - simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/15/… rather insightful stuff... #youtube
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Schlecht gealtertes Wahlplakat der Klimaleugnerpartei.

#Hochwasser #klimakatastrophe

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Im Hintergrund die über das Ufer tretende Donau. Im Vordergrund steht ein Wahlplakat der FPÖ mit dem Slogan "5 gute Jahre" im Wasser am Rand einer überfluteten Straße.
#klimakatastrophe #Hochwasser

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Ab 9:50 nimmt @maithink die offizielle! Darstellung der Kriminalstatistik auseinander mit dem Ergebnis, dass diese offiziellen Darstellungen nicht nur "missverständlich" sind sondern extrem manipulativ. Und man muss da von Absicht ausgehen, denn die Anstrengung, die in so eine Darstellung der Zahlen einfließen muss um dermaßen manipulativ & falsche Assoziationen hervorrufend zu sein ist so immens, dass man nicht von Zufall oder "Fehler" ausgehen kann.

#rassismus

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#Rassismus @Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim

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Alternative app stores will be allowed on Apple iPad in the EU from September 16 tcrn.ch/3MKhrm3

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Finally created an official policy for AI/LLMs in class, both for writing and for coding (datavizf24.classes.andrewheiss…)
AI, large language models, and bullshit | highly recommend not using ChatGPT or similar large language models (LLMs) in this class. I am not opposed to LLMs in many situations. I use GitHub Copilot for computer programming-related tasks all the time, and | have ongoing research where we're experimenting with using Meta’s Ollama to try automatically categorizing thousands of nonprofit mission statements.Using LLMs requires careful skill and attention and practice, and they tend to be useful only in specific limited cases. I am deeply opposed to LLMs for writing. Google Docs and Microsoft Word now have built in text-generation tools where you can start writing a sentence and let the machine take over the rest. ChatGPT and other services let you generate multi-paragraph essays with plausible-looking text. Please do not use these. There’s a reason most university classes require some sort of writing, like reading reflections, essay questions, and research papers. The process of writing is actually the process of thinking: Writing is hard because the process of getting something onto the page helps us figure out what we think — about a topic, a problem or an idea. If we turn to Al to do the writing, we're not going to be doing the thinking either. That may not matter if you’re writing an email to set up a meeting, but it will matter if you’re writing a business plan, a policy statement or a court case. (Rosenzweig 2023)
Using LLMs and AI to generate a reflection on the week’s readings will not help you think through the materials. You can create text and meet the suggested word count and finish the assignment, but the text will be meaningless. There’s an official philosophical term for this kind of writing: bullshit (Hicks, Humphries, and Slater 2024; Frankfurt 2005). Philosophical bullshit is “speech or text produced without concern for its truth” (Hicks, Humphries, and Slater 2024, 2). Bullshit isn’t truth, but it’s also not lies (i.e. the opposite of truth). It’s text that exists to make the author sound like they know what they’re talking about. A bullshitter doesn’t care if the text is true or not—truth isn’t even part of the equation: [A bullshitter] does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all (Frankfurt 2005, 61). LLMs and AI systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and so on are bullshit machines. That might sound hyperbolic, but at a technological level, that’s literally what they do. LLMs use fancy statistics to take an initial prompt or starting phrase and then generate the most plausible words or phrases that are likely to follow. They don’t care whether the text it creates is true—they only care about whether it looks plausible.
Do not replace the important work of writing with AI bullshit slop. Remember that the point of writing is to help crystalize your thinking. Chugging out words that make it look like you read and understood the content will not help you learn. In your weekly reflections and assignments, I want to see good engagement with the readings. I want to see your thinking process. I want to see you make connections between the readings. I want to see your personal insights. I don’t want to see a bunch of words that look like a human wrote them. That’s not useful for future-you. That’s not useful for me. That’s a waste of time. I will not spend time trying to guess if your assignments are AI-generated.2 If you do turn in AI-produced content, I won’t automatically give you a zero. I’ll grade your work based on its own merits. I’ve found that AI-produced content will typically earn a ✓− (50%) or lower on my check-based grading system without me even needing to look for clues that it might have come from an LLM. Remember that text generated by these platforms is philosophical bullshit. Since it has nothing to do with truth, it will not—by definition—earn good grades.
ChatGPT is bullshit Michael Townsen Hicks, James Humphries & Joe Slater Abstract Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs. We distinguish two ways in which the models can be said to be bullshitters, and argue that they clearly meet at least one of these definitions. We further argue that describing AI misrepresentations as bullshit is both a more useful and more accurate way of predicting and discussing the behaviour of these systems.

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#SCOTUS was hit by a flurry of damaging new leaks Sunday as a series of confidential memos written by the chief justice were revealed by The New York Times.

The court’s Chief Justice John Roberts was clear to his fellow justices in February: He wanted the court to take up a case weighing #Trump’s right to presidential immunity—and he seemed inclined to protect the former president.”
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#Trump #SCOTUS
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@lin11c @lednaBM I try to do it when I can. For some reason, sometimes it doesn’t present itself, even though I haven’t used them up
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@MarvClowder Dahlia!
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Khorne group fighting in Kursk answers to Ukraine’s doomers byteseu.com/421483/ #Ukraine #Україна
Khorne group fighting in Kursk answers to Ukraine's doomers
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That's nice, but most of them seem irredeemable. We can't stop trying.
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" ... that liberal parties do not win back votes by shifting to the right."

Exactly. Most people understand that there's no reason to vote for Republican Lite when they can vote for the real thing.

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IDF probe: High probability hostages killed during strike on senior Hamas terrorist byteseu.com/421474/ #BreakingNews #GlobalNews #LatestNews #News #World #WorldNews
IDF probe: High probability hostages killed during strike on senior Hamas terrorist
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