Associate Professor of Mass Communications at SIUE. Local-first software for serious work at SIM DAD LLC.

St Louis, MO
Joined May 2011
Can't really complain about that.
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Students pursuing social work and mental health counseling would likely lose access to loans. That's not to mention the many non-degree programs that train people for support positions (e.g., teaching aides, medical assistants, culinary, etc.) also falling short.
This is bad….
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Unless there is a super PAC called "The U.S. Government," I could see staffers facing jail time and impeachment hearings for the president for such an ad. Of course, that would only be true in the hypothetical world in which the federal government still followed the rule of law.
This ad is both incredibly illegal and politically asinine. Kudos to everyone involved.
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If you ignore genetics and basic metabolic biology, then sure, absolutely.
Here's something interesting about GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide. For the first time, human beings don't have to earn the body they want. Up until now, the body was an honest signal of effort. That's no longer true, and it's worth asking what we lose when it isn't. (1/4)
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I understand criticizing the Army and the collaboration, but this underplays the situation. It's not surprising for a talent agency to drop a client after they publish a video that intentionally inflames ongoing harassment.
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That's not to mention that they made it clear they spent time during the stream trying to be toxic enough to get banned from the livestream's chat. Plus, I assume the stream resulted from a collaboration that the agency brought to Gheesling.
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In case you were wondering, making death threats on @amazon-owned @Twitch gives you a long weekend (after waiting until the end of your Friday stream). It appears that Twitch TOS has changed significantly since I took a break from researching it.
MikeFromPA unbanned on Twitch
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Hello @TwitchSupport and @djclancy999. What part of the TOS allows a partnered streamer to make death threats toward another partnered streamer and then post an edited version of the same stream with added screenshots to clarify that it was a death threat and not get banned?
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After getting past the general absurdity of electing to be part of a nanny state (without even mentioning that ChatGPT uses consumer conversations for training data by default), these two get to the benefit of a well-regulated "always-on" digital assistant in the form of an LLM.
“Clearly, no one on there is watching porn.” - Hard Fork’s Casey Newton on ChatGPT’s new feature.
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There is a long way to go in the realm of regulations; however, by calling LLMs AI, we add a boogeyman element to something that is, in my opinion, a natural evolution of predictive text.
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The Candace Owen v. Andrew Wilson debate on the Charlie Kirk Assassination was sad. If I were still teaching debate or argumentation, I could cut it into a semester's worth of how-not-tos.
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As an MSU alum, I hope everyone gets their act together to prove the El-Sayed v. Rogers polls wrong.
I love Michigan and am so proud to have put up my hand to serve. I spoke with Abdul a few moments ago to offer him my full support as we work to defeat Mike Rogers this November. Thank you, Michigan. haleyformi.com/news/haley-st…
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AP Leith, PhD retweeted
I dont usually post clips from TMZ but this is worth watching.
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The bill protects all real people, not just minors. But the core claim is true: MN banned automated AI nudification tools, and xAI filed a federal lawsuit to block the ban. The legal debate is over corporate liability and free speech, but that is exactly what the bill does.
That’s not what this law does and Elon Musk is actually on the correct side here. If you actually explain what the law does everyone would realize claims like this are ridiculous. I have a video coming out next Friday on this.
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It kills me that K-Dramas take the Truman Show approach to product placement.
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I love the current projects Mamdani is accomplishing in New York; however, I don't think you can call it balancing the budget if all you've done is delay required payments without establishing a mechanism or policy to ensure sufficient structured savings.
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I have just realized that my use of Twitter/X has reduced to just complaining about content creators I encounter during my research. It's become a means to vent into the void. It's a good thing I get no impressions.
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Hasan Piker, the man who was previously lambasted in the media for saying that America deserved 9/11 and who this past weekend spoke at the @CollegeDems convention in DC, has now framed and hung the 9-12-2001 NYT paper behind him on stream. This is not the path to a blue wave.
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