Cold Spring
Cold spring and a redwing blackbird. / Norway maple in a litter of seed keys. / Inconvenient, the needs of the soul. // Cold spring. Fresh paint on a… More
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Crowds gathered on a recent Friday at a Melbourne, FL, Ben & Jerry's. But it wasn't the Cherry Garcia drawing the extra customers. It was opening night for the "Banned Book Nook"—and customers scooped up novels, memoirs and biographies along with ice cream https://www.npr.org/2023/03/23/1164284891/book-bans-school-libraries-florida
Fake images shows #AI's disruptive power.
Far-right activist Jack Posobiec recently tweeted a deepfake video seeming to show President Biden announcing a military draft.
“Screw them all,” he said of fact-checkers and mainstream news outlets. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/22/trump-arrest-deepfakes/
Go, Grace!!!
Be a Grace, people! https://twitter.com/PENamerica/status/1638729237027864579