@jowrotethis @notinrushhour3 @MalloryRubin @steveahlman Hey @jowrotethis and @steveahlman my feed has 2:30min of ads, no content…. Look @ pic timeline… Are other people seeing the episode?
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Mike Simons, MJE
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Mike Simons, MJE
@msimons
Dad & husband. Teacher. Adviser, @tesseraeybk. 2021 @NationalJEA Ybk Adviser of the Year. Robotics coach. Band director. Coffee addict. Proud #Hoosier alum.
Corning, NY Joined Şubat 2008
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Hello #Ahsoka Ep 4 Deep Dive, I didn’t expect to see you so soon. Snips courtesy of @steveahlman. open.spotify.com/episode/3tRP3w…
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Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
I want to remind people that the Repubs said Hillary was unqualified because of how she treated a few emails……
Michael Beschloss@BeschlossDC
Trump's contempt for United States national security, captured in a single photograph:
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Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
Another day of smoky skies in southeastern Canada and the northeast U.S. Observed earlier today by NOAA-20, NOAA-21, and SNPP VIIRS: col.st/MtFhf.
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And awaaaaayyy we go… are we ready for a Deep Fake/AI election?
MeidasTouch@MeidasTouch
This photo is not real. It is generated by AI. Expect a lot more of this during this election cycle.
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Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
The MAGA base is a minority group in American politics whose needs we must all apparently bend over backwards to accommodate. This was the "lesson" many journalism leaders took from 2016 and are now fighting the same war. It is nuts.
b-boy bouiebaisse@jbouie
there is something to write about how folks like licht insist on transmogrifying the trump base — a distinct minority of americans — into something like a majority
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Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
Dear school administrators: Before telling teen reporters that you can't comment b/c of FERPA, do your homework. FERPA only protects the privacy of personally identifiable information in a student’s education record. It doesn't prevent you from being accountable to the community.
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Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
Amazon has a new low-cost health service called Clinic.
But there's a hidden price: Your privacy.
Before you can sign up, you have to sign away some of your HIPAA protections to Amazon.
You agreed to what?
I investigated @washingtonpost: wapo.st/3nbJ26B
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Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
Good morning to readers.
Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Please RT this thread. It’s an important one.
Some news: I’m leaving NPR as part of the layoffs that dramatically cut the org's workforce.
I’ve decided to go back into Ukraine to keep reporting.
But this time, alone.
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@NASASpaceflight hey y’all - what, if anything, are they trying to recover from the first launch? #starship #spacex
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@WeatherNation It’s beautiful - but they wouldn’t have seen it the way it is in the photo. Rainbows are relative in appearance, based on the sun’s position and angle to the viewer.
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Talk about a memorable trip! People who visited the Niagara Falls were treated to this spectacular and majestic #rainbow on Monday! 🌈
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Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
Don’t Say Gay won’t protect gay kids from anti-lgbt abuse.
But it WILL protect straight kids from having to learn that anti-lgbt abuse is wrong.
And that's the point.
Rep. Lois Frankel@RepLoisFrankel
Advocates warned that the "Don't Say Gay" law was just the beginning & now we're seeing the dangerous expansion. I stand with our LGBTQ+ children against these hateful attacks from Florida Republicans. apnews.com/article/florid…
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Really gotta watch out for those drag queens in Tennessee — those 9 year olds just aren’t safe.
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Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
3) I ask ChatGPT to rewrite my writing with 7 different "goals":
1. More concise
2. More emphatic
3. More humorous
4. More descriptive
5. More persuasive
6. More informative
7. More action-oriented
This one is my personal favorite.
Great for rewriting emails/messages.
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Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
At a high level, ChatGPT is horrible at coming up with things "from scratch."
• "Write me a Twitter thread on X"
• "Draft an email about Y"
• "Come up with ideas about Z"
When given prompts like this, ChatGPT has to make too many arbitrary decisions—which means poor output.
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Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
From the beginning, I made 1 crucial mistake with ChatGPT:
I expected it to "think" rather than "do."
This means I fed it poorly written, 1-sentence prompts and expected some magical output.
But poor instructions = poor results.
So here's how I reframed it:
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If it takes 6 or a dozen more, we're going to get it done. We're building support and gaining allies — I'm hopeful for some things on the horizon.
If Hawaii, New Jersey and West Virginia can do it, #NewYork can too - and must.
Because student voices matter. #newvoices (/end)
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...to do real, important journalism without fear of arbitrary censorship because they weren't talking about the "right" or "permitted" things.
I appreciate you sticking around for this 🧵 — we've been at it for six years in Albany, and we're not going anywhere. (26/)
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This is awesome news — and I find myself... frustrated.
And yet, hopeful.
We could've been 15.
We could've been 16.
Until this week, we could've been 17.
But Hawaii, New Jersey and West Virginia got there first.
A 🧵, friends.
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Student Press Law Center@SPLC
Everybody say "Congratulations West Virginia!" 🥳🎉 Governor Jim Justice just signed the Student Journalist Press Freedom Protection Act, making West Virginia the 17th New Voices state! loom.ly/3VbnbHE
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