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As usual, we here at WWP have a lot to say about #MexicanWolf recovery, and this article lends itself to.... OMG. PUPPIES! DO YOU SEE THE PUPPIES?!!! DYING OVER HERE. PUPPIES!
Where were we?
https://news.azpm.org/p/newsfeature/2023/5/25/216135-coexisting-in-rural-spaces/
The purpose of this research is to explore the factors that lead to and challenges of leaving and joining social media platforms, including federated social media. This research will help us to understand how socio-technical infrastructures are regenerated and remain resilient from influxes of newcomers, in order to inform better designs and processes.
One of the decisive moments in my understanding of #LLMs and their limitations was when, last autumn, @emilymbender walked me through her Thai Library thought experiment.
She's now written it up as a Medium post, and you can read it here. The value comes from really pondering the question she poses, so take the time to think about it. What would YOU do in the situation she outlines?
Book challenges are fueled by parents' objections to LGBTQ themes - The Washington Post
Objection to sexual, LGBTQ content propels spike in book challenges
An analysis of book challenges from across the nation shows the majority were filed by just 11 people.
ELEVEN BIGOTS, FOLKS. JUST ELEVEN BIGOTS are trying to destroy public education across the USA. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/23/lgbtq-book-ban-challengers/
A truly amazing and exhaustively cited act of investigative journalism by the phenomenal @zinnia
It turns out that virtually ALL of the sham "science" behind the anti-trans movement can be traced directly back to a very small number of purely ideologically driven "doctors" citing one another over and over again to try to give the impression that standard evidence based trans healthcare is controversial.
It's basically the scientific equivalent of writing a blog with nothing more than your own opinions, your friend writes an article citing your blog, another friend writes an article citing both of you, and then showing up in front of public health boards saying "see, here's 3 articles showing how I'm right!"
In any normal and reasonable political environment, these quacks would be laughed out of the room with such flimsy "evidence". Yet because the far right has captured statehouses across the country, they're laundering this junk science into "real" science.
In rural Australia in the 1940s, my mother had rocks thrown at her and was branded a 'communist' because her father, a school headmaster, advocated for establishing a public library.
In the Canadian province where I now reside, the Catholic Church controlled libraries -- and thus access to information -- until the 1960s.
We forget how recent the democratisation of knowledge is -- how transformative such institutions were and how hard-won.
We should not part with them easily.
Mt St Helens on May 14, 2023. The next day, a landslide took out the only road leading up to the Johnston Ridge Observatory, stranding a dozen people (and a dog) who had to be airlifted out and cutting off access to the area.
I think the mountain wanted to be alone.
#Photography #MtStHelens #WashingtonState
photo by Paige Huong
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