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Rachel Lee SCARY 👻
@rachelleecherry.com
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Higher ed data nerd, band mom, cycling obsessed triathlete. Thanks to my dogs, vacuuming is my true passion.
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We’ve already seen quite a few examples of ICE agents trying to kidnap someone and eventually giving up and running away because a crowd had gathered and shouted them down. That’s EFFECTIVE.
A lot of folks may think that just yelling at ICE agents is ineffective, but consider the cumulative psychological toll of being yelled at EVERY DAY when trying to do shit. Even the biggest asshole in the world who doesn't give a shit about other people will feel the pressure.
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Excellent cross racing today in Overijse.
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In the U.S., a country where untreated mental illness & substance abuse are at epidemic proportions, @lollardfish.bsky.social makes a good case for more legal & ethical oversight of AI to protect these vulnerable populations.
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arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/h...

This is funny: one way to tell that openAI scraped YouTube, is that its Whisper transcription is biased toward transcribing inaudible or garbled text to "drop a comment in the section below" or "please like subscribe and share" and such
Hospitals adopt error-prone AI transcription tools despite warnings
OpenAI’s Whisper tool may add fake text to medical transcripts, investigation finds.
arstechnica.com
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“the president got mad at a television commercial so now your maple syrup is more expensive” is no way to run a country
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There are ten times as many home health aides in the US as there are miners
right. given the numbers, “how to win back the working class” should be as much about care and service workers as hard hats. and yet.
It’s time for the top tier of winter cycling: cyclocross on TV while I’m putting in 45-60 minutes on Zwift.

Top tier of winter running is an hour and a bit in temps just below freezing, then a hot shower, then snuggling under a blanket on the couch with coffee and breakfast. And cyclocross on TV.
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Very helpful field guide
Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull”

First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.

With me so far? 1/x
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That's no ballroom
A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.
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hey so for once there's an actual happy update to something

our local ice cream guy came home and he's getting a green card
sexy 10k training plan intermediate

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bringing back my most viral tweet for spooky season
If a full week before Halloween counts as “last minute,” as a professional procrastinator, I am cooked
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rushing to integrate undercooked, misrepresented, and misunderstood technology into every corner of our lives just so a handful of terrible people could make more money might have been a bad idea
“An artificial intelligence system apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.”
US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for firearm
Baltimore county high schools have gun detection system that alerts police if it sees what it deems suspicious
www.theguardian.com
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lol they out here gutting higher education because they hate learning new things what the ACTUAL hell is going on
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I am very tired of objections to genAI slop like "this is soulless garbage and I don't want it ever" being met with "We hear you! 🧑‍💼 We can make a better more believable AI presenter. ✍️A less uncanny article. 📖A really undetectable AI voice reading a book to you. 📒We are ✨working✨ on your feedback!"
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WE ARE PIVOTING BACK TO PRINT PEOPLE, NOW IS THE TIME LET’S GO
Every last social media platform is a dumpster fire lately, I think it's time to start getting back into my bookshelves and catch up on some movies.
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Breaking news: censorship isn't just for banned books anymore. My musical Between the Lines was cancelled due to the comments of a single parent.
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SNAP benefits expire in one week.
Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.
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i like that we know the ICE fitness standards now because now we all know exactly how fast we need to be able to run to be just slightly faster than any given ICE agent. a useable training goal
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in any society that didn't want to completely shred the social fabric, this would be blanket illegal.
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Something I learned from my public health days is that an easy way to improve health broadly in the U.S. would be to simply increase funding for SNAP so families could buy what they want. Too long we've restricted SNAP because of ridiculous ideas about what lower income people should eat.
SNAP assistance should be enough to cover 2000 calories a day of HEALTHY food PER PERSON. Yes I want the government to make sure everyone has wholesome, tasty, filling meals. The problem isn't that people need assistance with food, it's that the assistance is a freaking joke.