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#SOSCollective

What in the hay-ell?!?!? 😳😠😡🤬

It is time to trace the money and support around the egregious book bans happening now.

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What in the world …. this is another facet of child labor that needs to be addressed globally. cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a601…

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Wherever there is an effort to take away power and to disenfranchise —restricting the right to read, dictating what to read, censoring writers, bombing, burning, or defunding libraries — become primary tactics. Libraries are under attack because they are a threat to tyranny.

What in the hay-ell Louisiana!?!? Librarians!!! It is time to vote as well as start considering running for political positions on the local, state, and federal level.

Earth Day: How one grocery shopper takes steps to avoid 'pointless plastic' (from The Associated Press) apnews.com/article/f112aa…

Athletic director used AI to frame principal with racist remarks in fake audio clip, police say (from The Associated Press) apnews.com/article/853ed1…

I used the chatbot arena data from LMSYS Org to create a visualization of LLM’s Elo rating changes. You can see: 1. The gap between various companies/open source projects is narrowing. 2. The major players are gradually becoming the various big tech companies.

Nonprofit Founder Gets Emotional Surprise From First Scholarship Recipient youtu.be/e_WenZ8pi9g?si… via YouTube

We are launching a platform to connect researchers who are open to collaborate with others... (1/3)

An Emory University competition awarded two students $10,000 for their AI study tool. Six months later, the school suspended the creators for that same tool. Now one is suing. wsj.com/us-news/educat… via The Wall Street Journal Emory University

RIP Dr. Ruth! cbsnews.com/news/dr-ruth-w…

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TOMORROW, 8/19 from 6:30-8:30 pm in Chicago: “Building a Liberatory Library” Join Roy Kinsey (Rapbrary); Danielle Mullen (Semicolon Books); Lani Maldonado; Denise Ruiz and Tracie D. Hall (Litanies for Survival) discussing how libraries and bookstores can be tools for freedom.

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