Paula Schaap

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Finance writer and editor, who also writes about science and religion.
My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:
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The latest filing by Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation suit against Fox nails something critics have long argued for.

Fox is not a news organization. It's something else.

But what is this other thing? In this thread, I will try to answer that.

Next slide, please. 1/

#journalism #fox #uspol #uspolitics

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Curious what people think about the Times publishing this piece, aside from opinions about the professor's ideas. (Full disclosure: I think his views are reprehensible.)

A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean? https://nyti.ms/3RSYSOg

A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean?

Yusuke Narita says he is mainly addressing a growing effort to revamp Japan’s age-based hierarchies. Still, he has pushed the country’s hottest button.

The New York Times

Fun fact - #layoffs are a social contagion amongst businesses, and do little (to nothing) to actually help companies recover during economic downturns.

Don’t take my word for it - this comes from years of study and scholarly research:

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/

What explains recent tech layoffs, and why should we be worried? | Stanford News

As layoffs in the tech sector mount, Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer is worried. Research – by him, and others – has shown that the stress layoffs create takes a devastating toll on behavioral and physical health and increases mortality and morbidity substantially. Layoffs literally kill people, he said.

Stanford News
Hey big #tech. #Unionize You’re not special, they’ll happily just fire you to make the next quarter slightly more profitable.
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Let’s say a middle-aged librarian/writer had never played a video game. This person loves stories, language, and history and is not comfortable with graphic depictions of violence. This person would like to be immersed in a story that is also a game, and would prefer not to buy a whole bunch of stuff or acquire an entirely new skillset.
What’s the one game you would recommend?
@stevesilberman I agree. Engagement, for me, is higher here. I visit Post to follow some people I don't see here. Have you read @Teri_Kanefield's post comparing the chat platforms? Informed and insightful.
https://terikanefield.com/socialmedia/
Twitter Alternatives: Mastodon, Post.news, Threads, Bluesky, and others - Teri Kanefield

Spoiler: People are evaluating the various Twitter alternatives as separate entities, but if Post.news and Meta’s Threads, follow through with their promise to federate, the way to think of the platforms will be “walled gardens” v. platforms that are connected to the fediverse. If you know what these words mean and how they relate to … Twitter Alternatives: Mastodon, Post.news, Threads, Bluesky, and others Read More »

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