PSA: I really like Mastodon (much more than Twitter) and I want to just make sure I'm finding the right audience here.

I'm an immigration researcher with a modest but not insignificant public profile. My goal is to make non-partisan immigration data available and accessible to the public, which is why I primarily post about immigration.

If you want to stay up-to-date with immigration, consider sharing this and giving me a follow. Thanks!

#immigration #asylum @immigration

We join in denouncing Florida HB 999 as a threat to academic and intellectual freedom, with American Association of University Professors, American Council of Learned Societies, American Federation of Teachers, American Historical Association, and National Coalition Against Censorship.

https://buff.ly/3mvWul7

#transphobia #genocide #cpac #recycled_nazism

85 years ago, under the German Nazi regime, the Institute of Forensic Medicine recommended that the “phenomena of transvestism” be “exterminated from public life.”

A few days ago US conservative Michael Knowles said, live streamed from the CPAC 2023 conference in the USA, that “transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely,” in an eerie, almost word-for-word, echo of Nazi Germany.

https://youtu.be/GxxJ6ibruvQ

Here is your must-read article for the day, a profile of @emilymbender, and her efforts to deflate the ridiculous hype around large language models such as ChatGPT.

It's also about the people who are behind that hype, and about what their way of thinking has the potential to do to us.

It's worth reading all the way to the end.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

Day 3 #WomensHistoryMonth

Maya Angelou: Iconic poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist, whose words continue to inspire and empower generations.

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”

Art by: Karen Hallion