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Nice, impossible to see how this could possibly backfire!
Anyway, here's BBC research released last week that found over half of AI assistants' responses about BBC News content contained significant errors, including editorialising, misattribution and factual errors: www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
Anyway, here's BBC research released last week that found over half of AI assistants' responses about BBC News content contained significant errors, including editorialising, misattribution and factual errors: www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
February 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Nice, impossible to see how this could possibly backfire!
Anyway, here's BBC research released last week that found over half of AI assistants' responses about BBC News content contained significant errors, including editorialising, misattribution and factual errors: www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
Anyway, here's BBC research released last week that found over half of AI assistants' responses about BBC News content contained significant errors, including editorialising, misattribution and factual errors: www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
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On the left:
President Trump: "I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk ... will lead the Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE")"
On the right:
Government declaration (by Joshua Fisher) submitted to Judge Chutkan stating Elon Musk is not the leader of DOGE
President Trump: "I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk ... will lead the Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE")"
On the right:
Government declaration (by Joshua Fisher) submitted to Judge Chutkan stating Elon Musk is not the leader of DOGE
February 18, 2025 at 3:52 AM
On the left:
President Trump: "I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk ... will lead the Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE")"
On the right:
Government declaration (by Joshua Fisher) submitted to Judge Chutkan stating Elon Musk is not the leader of DOGE
President Trump: "I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk ... will lead the Department of Government Efficiency ('DOGE")"
On the right:
Government declaration (by Joshua Fisher) submitted to Judge Chutkan stating Elon Musk is not the leader of DOGE
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Here's a note at Law Dork on tonight's developments: substack.com/@chrisgeidne...
BREAKING: DOJ refuses to provide Judge Chutkan with any numbers regarding last Friday's firings. DOJ also refuses to make any commitment regarding what "personnel actions" the seven agencies at issue — OPM, Education, Labor, HHS, Energy, Transportation, Commerce — might take in the next two weeks.
February 18, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Here's a note at Law Dork on tonight's developments: substack.com/@chrisgeidne...
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Gift link because soo few people subscribe to local papers, and the impact of the Musk/Trump cuts is worth everybody knowing about.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off
www.sfchronicle.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Gift link because soo few people subscribe to local papers, and the impact of the Musk/Trump cuts is worth everybody knowing about.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off
www.sfchronicle.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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I appreciated this story about Susan F. Wood, which mentions she confronted the politics that were keeping Plan B off the market.
Grateful for another quiet hero.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/u...
Grateful for another quiet hero.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/u...
Susan F. Wood, Who Resigned From the F.D.A. Over Plan B, Dies at 66 (Gift Article)
She left the agency because of its delay in approving the morning-after pill for over-the-counter use. Her resignation drew national media attention.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I appreciated this story about Susan F. Wood, which mentions she confronted the politics that were keeping Plan B off the market.
Grateful for another quiet hero.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/u...
Grateful for another quiet hero.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/u...
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Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window
February 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window
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Hundreds of people gathered Monday 2/17 at Houston City Hall to protest President Donald Trump's leadership & authoritarian overreach as part of a nationwide wave of protests called "Not My Presidents Day."
#houston #texas #protest #trump #elon
Photo: Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle
#houston #texas #protest #trump #elon
Photo: Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle
February 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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A reminder that many Indian Health Service workers were not eligible to take DOGE's "fork in the road" deferred resignation offer
"For public health and safety reasons, and in consideration of the medical and health care needs of the American Indian and Alaska Native beneficiaries served"
"For public health and safety reasons, and in consideration of the medical and health care needs of the American Indian and Alaska Native beneficiaries served"
February 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A reminder that many Indian Health Service workers were not eligible to take DOGE's "fork in the road" deferred resignation offer
"For public health and safety reasons, and in consideration of the medical and health care needs of the American Indian and Alaska Native beneficiaries served"
"For public health and safety reasons, and in consideration of the medical and health care needs of the American Indian and Alaska Native beneficiaries served"
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My post here about getting fired from USDS went viral, but my post on LinkedIn about it (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7296541591333203969/) went REALLY viral. It was the top post linked to the top article in the Top News section on the LI home page for about 12 hours […]
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federate.social
February 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
My post here about getting fired from USDS went viral, but my post on LinkedIn about it (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7296541591333203969/) went REALLY viral. It was the top post linked to the top article in the Top News section on the LI home page for about 12 hours […]
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BREAKING: A bunch of U.S. Digital Service employees (including me) were fired tonight. It's still unclear exactly how many. There is no visibility whatsoever into what determined who was let go. Legacy USDS (i.e., pre-DOGE) leadership was not involved in the decision about whom to let go and […]
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federate.social
February 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
BREAKING: A bunch of U.S. Digital Service employees (including me) were fired tonight. It's still unclear exactly how many. There is no visibility whatsoever into what determined who was let go. Legacy USDS (i.e., pre-DOGE) leadership was not involved in the decision about whom to let go and […]
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On Saturday the trump admin terminated 100s of employees at the CDC, incl 2 dozen workers from the Laboratory Leadership Service, "a pipeline for the next generation of CDC leaders," a senior official said. "We're being cut off at the knees. It is going to cripple public health for decades."
CDC 'disease detectors' among hundreds fired as Trump administration ramps up agency cuts
Administration officials last week informed CDC leaders of plans to cut up to 10% of its workforce as it targeted federal probationary employees.
www.nbcnews.com
February 17, 2025 at 3:11 AM
On Saturday the trump admin terminated 100s of employees at the CDC, incl 2 dozen workers from the Laboratory Leadership Service, "a pipeline for the next generation of CDC leaders," a senior official said. "We're being cut off at the knees. It is going to cripple public health for decades."
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Trump cuts reach FDA workers focused on food safety and medical devices
Trump cuts reach FDA workers focused on food safety and medical devices
Positions cut also appeared to focus on agency’s centers for tobacco products, including oversight of e-cigarettes
The Trump administration’s effort to slash the size of the federal workforce reached the Food and Drug Administration this weekend, as…
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Trump cuts reach FDA workers focused on food safety and medical devices
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“There’s also a lot of Québécois who would usually fly the Québec flag are now flying the Canadian flag.”
You Americans will never appreciate how pissed we are at your country that Quebecois are flying Canadian flags.
You Americans will never appreciate how pissed we are at your country that Quebecois are flying Canadian flags.
Canadians celebrate flag day in defiance of U.S. annexation threat
Feb. 15 marks Flag Day and the 60th anniversary of the maple leaf becoming Canada’s official flag.
www.ctvnews.ca
February 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
“There’s also a lot of Québécois who would usually fly the Québec flag are now flying the Canadian flag.”
You Americans will never appreciate how pissed we are at your country that Quebecois are flying Canadian flags.
You Americans will never appreciate how pissed we are at your country that Quebecois are flying Canadian flags.
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The judge says Trump's EO on transgender health care would create a perverse situation in which a cisgender person could get puberty blockers to treat cancer but a transgender person could not get puberty blockers to treat cancer. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The judge says Trump's EO on transgender health care would create a perverse situation in which a cisgender person could get puberty blockers to treat cancer but a transgender person could not get puberty blockers to treat cancer. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington state, who blocked Trump's executive order re: transgender health care, says it is unconstitutional in multiple ways, including usurping Congress' power of the purse storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 17, 2025 at 12:40 AM
JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington state, who blocked Trump's executive order re: transgender health care, says it is unconstitutional in multiple ways, including usurping Congress' power of the purse storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The author of SIFT is @mikecaulfield.bsky.social. I first encountered it in 2020. See hapgood.us/2019/06/19/s...
I love that the entire point is (re)building context to support interpretation - “reconstructing the necessary context to read, view, or listen to digital content effectively”
I love that the entire point is (re)building context to support interpretation - “reconstructing the necessary context to read, view, or listen to digital content effectively”
SIFT (The Four Moves)
How can students get better at sorting truth from fiction from everything in between? At applying their attention to the things that matter? At amplifying better treatments of issues, and avoiding …
hapgood.us
February 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The author of SIFT is @mikecaulfield.bsky.social. I first encountered it in 2020. See hapgood.us/2019/06/19/s...
I love that the entire point is (re)building context to support interpretation - “reconstructing the necessary context to read, view, or listen to digital content effectively”
I love that the entire point is (re)building context to support interpretation - “reconstructing the necessary context to read, view, or listen to digital content effectively”
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Information hygiene request - please circulate & take action.
I’m getting bombarded with frantic fragments.
Information flow is crucial right now, and every link in the chain matters. This is a concrete place where you can play a massive role in improving transmission.
Start with SIFT method:
I’m getting bombarded with frantic fragments.
Information flow is crucial right now, and every link in the chain matters. This is a concrete place where you can play a massive role in improving transmission.
Start with SIFT method:
February 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Information hygiene request - please circulate & take action.
I’m getting bombarded with frantic fragments.
Information flow is crucial right now, and every link in the chain matters. This is a concrete place where you can play a massive role in improving transmission.
Start with SIFT method:
I’m getting bombarded with frantic fragments.
Information flow is crucial right now, and every link in the chain matters. This is a concrete place where you can play a massive role in improving transmission.
Start with SIFT method:
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#3 -final list of HHS cuts *do not include* CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service after all, sparing agency's so-called "disease detectives"
but other fellowship programs were not so lucky: multiple officials confirm Public Health Associate Program was cut
but other fellowship programs were not so lucky: multiple officials confirm Public Health Associate Program was cut
February 16, 2025 at 5:14 AM
#3 -final list of HHS cuts *do not include* CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service after all, sparing agency's so-called "disease detectives"
but other fellowship programs were not so lucky: multiple officials confirm Public Health Associate Program was cut
but other fellowship programs were not so lucky: multiple officials confirm Public Health Associate Program was cut
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#2 - cuts by end of today span not just CDC, IHS and NIH as we heard previously...
...but also CMS, ASPR and FDA
...but also CMS, ASPR and FDA
February 16, 2025 at 5:14 AM
#2 - cuts by end of today span not just CDC, IHS and NIH as we heard previously...
...but also CMS, ASPR and FDA
...but also CMS, ASPR and FDA
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A holiday weekend update on HHS cuts
#1: probationary workers from multiple agencies this evening all started getting basically same letter
"you are not fit for continued employment because your ability, knowledge and skills do not fit the Agency's current needs"
#1: probationary workers from multiple agencies this evening all started getting basically same letter
"you are not fit for continued employment because your ability, knowledge and skills do not fit the Agency's current needs"
February 16, 2025 at 5:14 AM
A holiday weekend update on HHS cuts
#1: probationary workers from multiple agencies this evening all started getting basically same letter
"you are not fit for continued employment because your ability, knowledge and skills do not fit the Agency's current needs"
#1: probationary workers from multiple agencies this evening all started getting basically same letter
"you are not fit for continued employment because your ability, knowledge and skills do not fit the Agency's current needs"
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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”
Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.
From the fednews community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the fednews community
www.reddit.com
February 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”
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The British stand in solidarity with American scientists. www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...
www.bmj.com
February 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The British stand in solidarity with American scientists. www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...