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Sharing more resources to help you defend libraries. Kelly Jensen works so hard on the Book Riot Literary Activism newsletter. It is the best place I know of to get news about censorship. Sign up here.
🔖 Read Please Don’t Use Generative AI To Mimic Historical Figures.
This is all kinds of a bad idea. The BlueSky thread linked in the post shares a conversation that makes me think the LLM wasn’t trained on Anne Frank’s writing, given its ignorance of the ethnic part of Jewish identity.
📚💬 “Kill the protestors, arrest the leaders, gaol the journalists. It’s what they do. It’s what tyrants do.” K. J. Charles, A Fashionable Indulgence
Just… In case you were wondering whether romance tackles serious issues.
Information is my love language!
GLSEN is my go-to resource for LGBTQ+ issues in K-12 education.
The Trevor Project is a suicide prevention and crisis intervention program for LGBTQ+ young people.
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Your mind is valuable.
Your attention is an important part of your mind.
Stop treating it like slop.
Finished reading: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder 📚
This was a good book to read today, full of helpful ideas. Reading notes coming soon. Highly recommend.
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🔖 Read Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.
I first read this in high school and was long overdue for a re-read. If you’ve never read it, I urge you to read it today and let it prompt you to consider what is just and what work remains.
