Thread: So NPR did a piece this morning on the “Replacement Theory” that we started to really hear about around Charlottesville. And since I’m in bed sick today I have time to share how this rhetoric has had a very real impact on my life. 🧵
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The example of AI writing used in this article is damn scary.
I'm getting emails every day from other writing faculty worried about students using ChatGPT but this is actually a more grim scenario because media CEOs and VCs will do anything to avoid paying writers.
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BREAKING: Buzzfeed announces it will increase the use of ChatGPT to create content after cutting 12% of its workforce last month.
Its stock has jumped up a staggering 146%.
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it’s fine not to like a movie but idg the impulse to condescend to people who connected with EEAAO, as if there’s a white or wrong way to experience “genuine feeling” twitter.com/queenicroissan
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. is calling for Congress to pass police reform in the wake of Tyre Nichols death.
President wrote to members of congress “Sit in your comfy leather chair, watch the video when it is released, and tell us what else you need to vote "yes" on police reform.”
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I FULLY support this😍🥰
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Regé-Jean Page is the most handsome man in the world, says science trib.al/nYUUzKf
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Three years ago today. RIP Kobe and GiGi 💔🕊️.
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Let me talk about this Aretha Franklin "Natural Woman" song versus the trans community thing. I know it's fake news but I think sometimes the bulls**t gives us a launching point into some conversations that we need to have
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My mom (talking about my sister’s birthday plans): “they went to place you have to figure out how to get out of.”
Me: 🤨
My mom: “you know, a place you have to figure out how to get out of.“
Me: “don’t you technically do that every time you go to a place???”
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Absolutely amazing to watch. So happy for Callum and his family—it took such courage from all of them for this to happen. Grateful for those willing to step out on the edge to give themselves & others hope—patients and doctors. Thank you for being there!!🥹
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Recently, I met Callum, 17, from Pennsylvania. He’s had one of the most debilitating/severe cases of Tourette syndrome UNTIL NOW. I found out he was going to undergo an experimental surgery to implant a device into his brain. We followed him through it & were there for the reveal
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Lawyer: Virginia school administrators were warned three times in the hours before a 6-year-old shot his teacher.
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Teacher shot by 6-year-old texted a loved one "about an hour" before she was shot, saying that the student said he had a gun in his backpack & administrators at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News weren't helping.
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Fascinating new data from the #Census2021 on sexual orientation by age.
This doesn't mean being lesbian, gay or bisexual has become more common: it just means younger generations feel more able to come out and live their true lives.
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OPINION: It isn't enough that cops can kill Black people with little to no consequences, but now Republicans are using our trauma to luxuriate in their pro-cop narrative.
✍🏿 gives his opinion on footage of Breonna Taylor's death aired at a diner.
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#OnThisDay in 1980, Robert L. Johnson launched Black Entertainment Television (). The network started with 2 hours of weekly programming and became a full-fledged cable channel in 1983. #APeoplesJourney
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Gannett displays its commitment to local journalism.
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In the last six months, Gannett has laid off or bought out almost every journalist at the St. Cloud Times, a newspaper covering a metro area of 200,000. In May, there were 9 employees — by January, only one reporter was left.
Now, there are 0. My story: axios.com/local/twin-cit
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And this is the part of him that I will remember, and happy that I got a chance to know him. I didn't always say the right things, but I'm glad we met. RIP bro, #ripkorie
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Part of finding peace is being the bigger person… because tonight I could have ignored someone but I didn’t in fact I engaged with an brief conversation! We have to start choosing peace over petty because petty is cute but peace is growth! #PeaceOverPetty being nice is FREE!
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May he rest in peace 🙏🏽
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Part of finding peace is being the bigger person… because tonight I could have ignored someone but I didn’t in fact I engaged with an brief conversation! We have to start choosing peace over petty because petty is cute but peace is growth! #PeaceOverPetty being nice is FREE!
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Thank you to and for having me on tonight to talk about ! Our Scholar application is open NOW for DC area young parents who want to earn a college degree! For more info: generationhope.org/scholar-progra
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LOOK, just to the right of the bell tower! That’s tonight’s launch from on the Eastern Shore!
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I’m posting this to continue to raise awareness of how women in sports are harassed on a daily basis.
I worked all 4 years of college to afford an education, graduated with a degree in my field and have over 6 years of experience..yet still reduced to this.
Men, be better.
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The “surprise” George Santos promised for reporters
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NEW: 2 Memphis, TN fire department employees have been "relieved of duty" while an internal investigation is conducted in connection with the death of #TyreNichols.
Here’s my latest for @NPR w/ @byJoeHernandez:
npr.org/2023/01/24/115
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Usually I have an aversion to "Men of the Cloth" but I gotta say, this one get's it. 😂😇😂
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Thankful for all the GENUINE love, thoughts & prayers from all across the world.. y’all will hear from me soon! 3️⃣🫶🏾
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Rihanna has earned her first Oscar nomination for Best Original Song with "Lift Me Up" from #WakandaForever. 👑 #OscarNominations2023
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Angela Bassett is now the first performer from a Marvel Cinematic Universe film to be nominated for an acting Oscar.
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There are many disgraceful stories of the media and trans issues right now, but quoting a brand new account w few followers that was easily identified as parody, plus not even trying to contact them first — and then other outlets just running with it — absolutely unforgivable.
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26% of the population has a disability, most of those disability are not visible. cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabil
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Just an observation about these “Vaccine Injury” videos going around…
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I had a picture of my husband and kids on my desk, wore a wedding ring, and my students referred to me as Mrs. Piper…
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This tweet is unnecessarily misleading. The censorship happening can be concerning enough for people without making it seem line schools won’t have books.
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1. Florida teachers are being told to remove all books from their classroom libraries OR FACE FELONY PROSECUTION
The new policy is based on the premise that teachers are using books to "groom" students or indoctrinate them with leftist ideologies.
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A shopping cart after receiving one dose of the Pfizer vaccine
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Rep. Ruben Gallego announces 2024 bid for Kyrsten Sinema's Senate seat
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If my kid felt safer telling everyone at school this than they did telling me, I’d probably reflect on my parenting rather than speaking to the NY Times
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A Kentucky Republican women's club held an event honoring one of the cops in the raid that killed Breonna Taylor, and blared video footage with gunshot noises
People unaffiliated with the event heard and saw the footage: "Our mouths just dropped"
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Tfw your brothers are about to sell you to a band of passing Midianites
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Replying to @oliverdarcy and @ReliableSources
“Many of the questions she has fielded have not been about the subject matter, but have centered on her very credibility and how she has performed in the job”
This whole article is one big microaggression and this statement is an example of the covert racism of liberal circles
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Prosecutors to charge actor Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter in fatal shooting of cinematographer on movie set.
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