Lessons Out of Crisis
Part of the important, enduring tradition of Pride is the community’s insistence on creative disruption…We bring forward demonstrations of joy, grief, and rage particular to LGBTQ experience. More
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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
"Academic freedom... means ensuring that the widest possible variety of ideas and opinions can be freely expressed, and that dissenting views and contrary perspectives are welcomed rather than shut down," write @SuzanneNossel & @ACEducation's Ted Mitchell https://www.newsweek.com/this-how-keep-academic-freedom-alive-america-opinion-1789678