https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/opinion/saudi-arabia-ethiopians-border-politics.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #opEd #humanRights #NotWalkingTheTalk

The notion of planting miles of trees to hold back encroaching deserts is misguided and damaging, write researchers.

Instead, they urge, we should promote programs that secure livelihoods and respect dryland ecologies.

✍️ By Matthew Turner, Diana Davis, Emily Yeh and Pierre Hiernaux

Read the #OpEd: https://knowmag.org/GreenWalls_Mastodon

#science
#ScienceMastodon
#ecology

#Headliine #OpEd #strike #UPS #UPSstrike #WGA #SAG-AFTRA #Teamsters #Byline

Great #OpEd about that Oppenheimer movie by Greg Mitchell, who wrote more than once about Hollywood's unflinching love letters to nukes. On top of that, I find it appalling that, in a time of a life-threatening Yellow Peril resurgence, such a movie is released and praised w/o questioning any of Nolan's popularized endorsements. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/07/oppenheimer-christopher-nolan-movie-narrative-hiroshima-nagasaki-nuclear/

Caspar Salmon's fuming #OpEd is a delight. You can hear him slowly pop off the head of a tortured, eyeless fashion doll.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/19/barbie-indie-director-film-maker-greta-gerwig

#film #IndependentCinema

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/16/opinion/climate-change-biden-building-investment.html?unlocked_article_code=aYib3YCffZfVTA6DCC9H7OvXkY4IIj3KlmjCG-9BChZyDD3cYigOSvZSoDLD7lsFhFQjj6Y1utQtHx5aBgaUycfbLwLfyEUKv_U7h7-nR7Q1OVDn0j7pU1AUHaR1Nt1NbvUhF_iGzghyicWCw72oQM1gxQWGf_0miY6kHROEDHd17b4sYQMr_V4S93FMK3SyxSjhRNjTNTcnWT-1a0qu1yTUr_srPVSlnjOU-2wTNk5NIpGZAFFyfrJpStKFTZN8Yzji33jAPrzg0GeJeTyPm-0Pzj_qOihP2I3kjDTD0xpXC6zTaUjORqfg0Wl_xqcJVZj3sMaoa7YFWgfhaVUmtdZvXOQ65KSt3MUpGOsVZ1Xfaw&smid=url-share #NYTimes #OpEd #EzraKlein #Governance #Liberalism

Now for non-fashion stuff (sorry fashion was only one link today):

WPO: We must end the tyranny of printers in American life
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/14/printers-must-die/

I agree!

#tech #printers #article #oped

MY THOUGHTS ON THE SCOTUS

https://janrifkinson.blogspot.com/2023/07/reflecting-on-scotus-of-2023.html

#newsjunkie #oped #conservatives #SCOTUS #yourvotecounts #2024

Does anyone on #SFBA have experience writing opinion pieces for local news papers? The admin team is about to attempt a draft explaining SFBA and the fediverse to a local paper audience. Ideally, in a way it could be customized to each area of the bay! I’d love to invite our neighbors to join us here 🎉

Also, I’d love to hear about your local paper so I can include them 📰 I would be super excited if you want to write it for your paper too! I’d greatly prefer to have a recommendation come from someone in the community than one of the admin team for the website 😅

#OpEd #Opinion #LocalNews #BayArea #SpreadMastodon #WelcomeTheCommunity

Does anyone on #SFBA have experience writing opinion pieces for local news papers? I’m about to attempt a draft explaining SFBA and the fediverse to a local paper audience. Ideally, in a way it could be customized to each area of the bay! I’d love to invite our neighbors to join us here 🎉

Also, I’d love to hear about your local paper so I can include them too 📰 I would be super excited if you want to write it for your paper too! I’d greatly prefer to have a recommendation come from someone in the community than one of the admin team for the website 😅

#OpEd #Opinion #LocalNews #BayArea #SpreadMastodon #WelcomeTheCommunity

This is encouraging from a balance of powers / federal checks and balances Constitutional perspective…

“Republicans’ Anti-Woke, Anti-Vote Crusade Has Crashed Into the Constitution” #NYTimes #OpEd #GiftLink #ConCW
http://wfryer.me/44l

This is good news for the future of representative democracy in the United States. #OpEd “The odds of a Trump coup attempt in 2024 are dropping fast” in #WashingtonPost

https://wapo.st/44pbK3x

#ConCW #politics #polarization

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/18/opinion/us-supreme-court-voting-rights.html?unlocked_article_code=faYy2LncldYdszaetp8oLsSlL8VNyZ3pgbaD8qepaYuP_2pQ4KFS4Lgw2k1JhGttvsf4R-0IXF434Z7NbpmgqRM9uDwxj82BN0iXGB51tbxB8uCaVVY3XUikU39NHYJehq1dH49Z1ifbCez-PQMajXey_GiJQATuy1ixTaBT-7XxBTOR_8ufWo2y10naPjdMRPUmachogdxLdbgUDek5pNJpWpo9wKaz_AvuR2jZQtCYPBzsWqV7cTzGoGYpBpOjFMZBjYBmjU87lm-2Hnifx0aJfFEUX7xUoFn6EW90FY_H-9zOiSi8d7igY1yBR5Jyi8efKF_-udeNcwCqkBl5ZZtwykUqxycm&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #NYTimes #GuestColumnist #OpEd #SipremeCourt #VotingRights

Delegitimizing our law-enforcement officials / institutions & the United States Department of Justice has dangerous potential consequences...

"...this movement’s true goals are inescapable: manufacturing a pretext for GOP weaponization of law enforcement later..."

#OpEd #NYTimes #ConCW #polarization #politics

https://wapo.st/3JkAlhU

"…the #UnitedStates passed reason two or three #election cycles ago. If only they could invade themselves to bring #democracy".
The most recent charges against #Trump only make them more popular within his base and party. American #politics is truly broken. 😕
#aritcles #commentary #TheGuardian #theguardiannewspaper #oped
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/09/the-charges-mount-but-trumps-not-worried-hes-just-the-guy-to-make-jail-great-again?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Ohio needs more action than lowered flags in gun tragedies

#Guns #OPED #MassShooting #Ohio #SchoolShootings #MassShootings #GunViolence #GunCulture #GunControl #USPol #USPolitics
https://www.peoplesdefender.com/2023/05/19/ohio-needs-more-action-than-lowered-flags-in-gun-tragedies/

I got a lot of heat for this #OpEd two months ago, but I don't remember someone convincing me, that I am wrong. On the contrary – I think, the basic premise still holds. So I'm curious what the rest of #Mastodon and the #Fediverse thinks, because it's applicable to both:
https://www.heise.de/meinung/Kommentar-Mastodon-muss-etwas-kosten-um-auf-lange-Sicht-zu-bestehen-7518145.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

What I was arguing for was, that Mastodon (all the Fediverse, really) needs to cost something for users, to work in the long term.

Let me explain..

A thread 🧵 (1/6)

#SocialMedia #TwitterTakeover

Referenced link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-cant-solve-this-famous-murder-mystery-puzzle1/
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-cant-solve-this-famous-murder-mystery-puzzle1/

Originally posted by Scientific American / @sciam: http://nitter.platypush.tech/kennaculture/status/1649438341245599745#m

RT by @sciam: My #oped #article in @SciAm asks if the murder mystery book #cainsjawbone can be solved with #AI. Thanks to @Unbounders and @Zindi, @rina_gill, and @AmyFlorida626 for trying to solve the case!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-cant-solve-this-famous-murder-mystery-puzzle1/
TY also to @sophiebushwick and @meghas!

Interesting #oped in #ArsTechnica that highlights the environmental costs of, unequal access to, and nontransparent access to the popular #AI #largelanguagemodels

TIL #OpenAI #ChatGPT #LLM model is not that open.

#artificialintelligence

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/generative-ai-is-cool-but-lets-not-forget-its-human-and-environmental-costs/?utm_brand=arstechnica

“Last month one of our #journalists received an interesting email. A researcher had come across mention of a #Guardian article, written by the journalist on a specific subject from a few years before. But the piece was proving elusive on our website and in #search.”

“Despite the detailed #records we keep of all our content, and especially around deletions or #legal issues, they could find no trace of its existence.

Why? Because it had never been written.

Luckily the #researcher had told us that they had carried out their #research using #ChatGPT. In response to being asked about articles on this subject, the #AI had simply made some up.” — #ChrisMoran

#persuasive #invention #hallucination #bullshit / #OpEd <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/06/ai-chatgpt-guardian-technology-risks-fake-article>