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Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
9 Jun 2023
I want to remind people that the Repubs said Hillary was unqualified because of how she treated a few emails……
9 Jun 2023
Trump's contempt for United States national security, captured in a single photograph:
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Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
8 Jun 2023
A great reporter, writer, voice, and soul. RIP Wade, and thanks for every single memorable moment:
npr.org/2023/06/08/116783745…
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Another day of smoky skies in southeastern Canada and the northeast U.S. Observed earlier today by NOAA-20, NOAA-21, and SNPP VIIRS: col.st/MtFhf.
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15 May 2023
And awaaaaayyy we go… are we ready for a Deep Fake/AI election?
14 May 2023
This photo is not real. It is generated by AI. Expect a lot more of this during this election cycle.
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Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
11 May 2023
The MAGA base is a minority group in American politics whose needs we must all apparently bend over backwards to accommodate. This was the "lesson" many journalism leaders took from 2016 and are now fighting the same war. It is nuts.
11 May 2023
there is something to write about how folks like licht insist on transmogrifying the trump base — a distinct minority of americans — into something like a majority
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Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
9 May 2023
Dear school administrators: Before telling teen reporters that you can't comment b/c of FERPA, do your homework. FERPA only protects the privacy of personally identifiable information in a student’s education record. It doesn't prevent you from being accountable to the community.
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Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
1 May 2023
Amazon has a new low-cost health service called Clinic.
But there's a hidden price: Your privacy.
Before you can sign up, you have to sign away some of your HIPAA protections to Amazon.
You agreed to what?
I investigated @washingtonpost: wapo.st/3nbJ26B
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Good morning to readers.
Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Please RT this thread. It’s an important one.
Some news: I’m leaving NPR as part of the layoffs that dramatically cut the org's workforce.
I’ve decided to go back into Ukraine to keep reporting.
But this time, alone.
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Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
5 Apr 2023
Don’t Say Gay won’t protect gay kids from anti-lgbt abuse.
But it WILL protect straight kids from having to learn that anti-lgbt abuse is wrong.
And that's the point.
4 Apr 2023
Advocates warned that the "Don't Say Gay" law was just the beginning & now we're seeing the dangerous expansion. I stand with our LGBTQ children against these hateful attacks from Florida Republicans. apnews.com/article/florida-l…
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28 Mar 2023
Really gotta watch out for those drag queens in Tennessee — those 9 year olds just aren’t safe.
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Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
23 Mar 2023
3) I ask ChatGPT to rewrite my writing with 7 different "goals":
1. More concise
2. More emphatic
3. More humorous
4. More descriptive
5. More persuasive
6. More informative
7. More action-oriented
This one is my personal favorite.
Great for rewriting emails/messages.
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Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
23 Mar 2023
At a high level, ChatGPT is horrible at coming up with things "from scratch."
• "Write me a Twitter thread on X"
• "Draft an email about Y"
• "Come up with ideas about Z"
When given prompts like this, ChatGPT has to make too many arbitrary decisions—which means poor output.
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Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
23 Mar 2023
From the beginning, I made 1 crucial mistake with ChatGPT:
I expected it to "think" rather than "do."
This means I fed it poorly written, 1-sentence prompts and expected some magical output.
But poor instructions = poor results.
So here's how I reframed it:
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26 Mar 2023
This is awesome news — and I find myself... frustrated.
And yet, hopeful.
We could've been 15.
We could've been 16.
Until this week, we could've been 17.
But Hawaii, New Jersey and West Virginia got there first.
A 🧵, friends.
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24 Mar 2023
Everybody say "Congratulations West Virginia!" 🥳🎉 Governor Jim Justice just signed the Student Journalist Press Freedom Protection Act, making West Virginia the 17th New Voices state! loom.ly/3VbnbHE
ALT New Voices 17 with a picture of West Virginia
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26 Mar 2023
...to do real, important journalism without fear of arbitrary censorship because they weren't talking about the "right" or "permitted" things.
I appreciate you sticking around for this 🧵 — we've been at it for six years in Albany, and we're not going anywhere. (26/)
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26 Mar 2023
If it takes 6 or a dozen more, we're going to get it done. We're building support and gaining allies — I'm hopeful for some things on the horizon.
If Hawaii, New Jersey and West Virginia can do it, #NewYork can too - and must.
Because student voices matter. #newvoices (/end)
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