Christine Turkey-Slaughter
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Christine Turkey-Slaughter
@cslaughter
Social Science Research Librarian @UVA, neurotic forever-ABD @Yale, sociologist. She/her

They literally said they are gonna expand it to people who owe $2500 or more. Then they’ll expand it to people who owe any kind of debt.

Rep. Cleo Fields, whose 6th Congressional District was ruled unconstitutional, gives his testimony. Fields pointed out how the only four African-American representatives from Louisiana since 1877 are here. #lalege #lagov @LAFirstNews


Chief Justice John Roberts says Supreme Court justices are not “political actors.” apnews.com/article/suprem…





The U.S. will start revoking passports this week for parents who owe $100,000 or more in child support and soon will expand the policy. apnews.com/article/passpo…

Pope Leo and his brother John in Rome. Some pictures from the last interview. 🖼️😀



Jessica Winter has been raising her children to detest A.I. Then her daughter’s public middle school began receiving Google Chromebooks, which came pre-installed with an all-ages version of Gemini, a suite of A.I. tools. “When my daughter, who is in sixth grade, begins writing an essay, she gets a prompt: ‘Help me write,’ ” Winter writes. “If she is starting work on a slide-show presentation, the prompt is ‘Help me visualize.’ She shoos away these interruptions, but they persist: ‘Help me edit.’ ‘Beautify this slide.’ ” Proponents of generative A.I. in elementary and middle schools argue that such early exposure will foster digital-media literacy, and prepare them for a future in which most professions are steeped in A.I. But the technology also poses significant cognitive and social-emotional risks to young people. Read Winter’s report about A.I.’s infiltration into schools—and what it could mean for young minds: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/NSWuBG

Happy 15th birthday, Nyan Cat meme. In April 2011, the Nyan Cat video was uploaded to YouTube. Nyan Cat on YouTube in 2012




Jane Ying Wu, who took her own life, was cleared of wrongdoing by the US National Institutes of Health. Her family alleges that her employer destroyed her career. go.nature.com/3OZDs51













