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Joshua Benton
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Senior writer + founder of at . I write about (a) digital journalism, (b) southern history, mostly. Cajun. Takes mine, not Harvard's.
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Dreamix: Video Diffusion Models are General Video Editors
proj: dreamix-video-editing.github.io
abs: arxiv.org/abs/2302.01329
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It's tough when you want to write a column about how universities want to "muzzle students" but the example you write it about has literally nothing, nada, zip to do with student speech at all
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Just once I would love an editor at the nation's most prestigious newspaper to have the object permanence to ask a columnist, "Hey, since 95% of campus controversies turn out to be false, do you mind double-checking this one?"
Lot to ask I know.
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it is once again time for me to tweet the Brian Schottenheimer career summary twitter.com/adamschefter/s
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This is funny because Thomas Chatterton Williams is so insultingly stupid, and has the audacity here to present the nation of France as unified in this argument, as if there’s not a history past and present of Black French intellectuals/philosophers that are easily accessible.
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Calling this the argument of a child gives it too much credit. Was the Civil Rights movement "elevating race"? Were suffragettes "elevating gender"?
There is literally no way to fight for equality without *naming the group being oppressed.*
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Do people ever get tired of reading this shit
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Does anyone maintain a list of streets, parks, or other public infrastructure named for LGBTQ people?
As in :
Harvey Milk Plaza (SF)
Bayard Rustin Way (Nyack, NY)
Audre Lorde Way (NYC)
James Baldwin Court (SF)
...and so on?
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Morning has broken and here is the view from atop Mt. Washington where the wind chill is still -102F with sustained winds at 97 mph and a temperature of -42F. #winter #arcticblast
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I thought this was an onion article because of that photo. Those kids look super happy with their daddy, loool. twitter.com/MSFreePress/st
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If you’re seeing DEI-related roles be eliminated in your newsroom during the recent waves of layoffs, I would love to talk to you for . My DMs are open.
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Governor Tate Reeves said in a private conversation that Medicaid expansion would be in Mississippi's best interest — but that he refuses to support the policy for political reasons, reports:
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stolen valor, marmot edition
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Today’s your annual reminder that Georgia has a groundhog named General Beauregard Lee who comes out of a plantation house that should’ve been burned to the ground by Punxsutawney Phil on his March to the Sea… but here we are. He’s not to be trusted.
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Today’s your annual reminder that Georgia has a groundhog named General Beauregard Lee who comes out of a plantation house that should’ve been burned to the ground by Punxsutawney Phil on his March to the Sea… but here we are. He’s not to be trusted.
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This is a travesty. and her team are doing important, critical work, and the should be embarrassed about how it's turning its back on controversy. It's a terrible message for future leaders it's supposed to train.
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If Harvard is “committed” to scholarship about misinformation they shouldn’t be pushing out Donovan or ending the project — it’s work NO ONE else was doing. Disappointing leadership from yet again:
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Claire Wardle's First Draft misinformation/verification project previously left Shorenstein
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"Donovan was told her prominence at the school led Elmendorf to end her time at the Shorenstein Center, two HKS staff members said."
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!!?!?!?!!?!?!?!??!?!?
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Harvard @Kennedy_School Dean Doug Elmendorf is forcing out misinformation expert Joan Donovan from her role at the Shorenstein Center and ending her research project, according to three HKS staffers with knowledge of the situation
Read more in @thecrimson
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Watch for "cops save baby ducks" stories in the next few months. Media collaborates with police to produce these puff pieces after every police brutality incident.
Literally every dept does these after police killings, it's amazing. Thread
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They're criminalizing teachers who let students access to books the state doesn't like (such as books by Black people), and the NYT is like "wow, about time someone took on those bullies in the education establishment"
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Years of concern trolling about leftist "cancel culture" and "political correctness" and the NYT simply lacks the tools or desire to describe what is happening twitter.com/FLFreedomRead/
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I am in Florida right now, and seeing how legacy publications are framing fascism in my home state this week is causing me to lose my mind. I’m not surprised; I’m furious. twitter.com/zunguzungu/sta
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New: Santos' 2022 campaign reported receiving more than $45,000 from relatives in Queens.
One of those relatives, who was recorded as giving $5,800, told me at their apartment yesterday that they did not make any donation to Santos. w/
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At The Seattle Times, 70 percent of revenue now comes from readers: wan-ifra.org/2023/01/at-the
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. 's provost said today he was surprised by the resolution of the Board of Trustees creating a new school w/in the university on "civic life & leadership" - which the Board chair calls a "remedy" for the left-of-centerness of the faculty.
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NEW: Rep. Alyce G. Clarke, who became the first Black woman elected to the Mississippi Legislature in 1984, announced she's retiring at 83.
“Hopefully I’ve made a difference in the community, in the county, and even in the state of Mississippi,” she said.
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It’s not only happening in Florida…
A librarian was ordered to remove posters with Elie Wiesel quotes because they violated a “new policy banning educators from ‘advocacy activities’ in the Central Bucks School District.”
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I salute our 18-year-old comrades who are giving their union-busting parents hell at home. levernews.com/fear-and-loath
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The power to tell another group what they can and can't learn about themselves; which of their authors and scholars can and can't be used in an elective study of themselves.
A one-way power: black folk have very little input on AP European History.
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Simple: Biden has consented to the searches, Trump hasn’t. So to search Trump’s other properties the FBI needs probable cause that they will find classified documents there (beyond a hunch or guess) to get a search warrant twitter.com/atrupar/status
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"Americans don't know x" polls are among the more underrepresented in the discourse.
Lots of people don't know about the things they're supposed to be politically activated about!
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Half of women are unsure if medication abortion is legal in their state, and a third don’t know if they are allowed to access emergency contraceptive pills, per a new @KFF poll 19thnews.org/2023/02/where-
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I'm so very excited and fortunate to be a Shorenstein Center Fellow this semester at the Harvard Kennedy School while I work on a book. Pinch me. And/or send book writing tips. twitter.com/ShorensteinCtr
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Ending, as a Beyoncé tour should, in south Louisiana
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Beyoncé announced the Renaissance World Tour, her first solo tour since 2016. It will start May 10 in Stockholm and run for at least 47 dates.
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As one should be!
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Some Mississippi journalism news.
Pumped to work with @JMitchellNews!
mississippitoday.org/2023/02/01/mci
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