A Couple of Tidbits
Been very busy and also feeling a bit sick lately (heat? dunno - but today's supposed to be cool and rainy, so we'll see). Therefore, I've not got a lot for today's Open Thread. But I do have a few tidbits!

Tidbit 1:
A young woman in Canada, a student at a high school in Montreal, got suspended for supporting Palestine! So much for free speech, eh? It was, of course, that she was against the wars and the genocide Israel is doing. And she posted a link to a reel by Lee Camp about October 7th. And those two things got her suspended.

Lee says:

That’s right. Apparently the first ever suspension in Montreal public schools (or perhaps even Canada’s public schools in general) due to reposting criticism of a country was because of …me. Wow. I’m more powerful than I realized.

But here’s the good news. After many people wrote to defend the student and protesters even showed up in freezing temperatures in March to demand the school system apologize, the student was vindicated.

What the heck?! Canada, how disappointing!

Protesters in support of the student, what the student wrote on her own private instragram account is on the little white protest sign (from the story at therover.ca here)

Tidbit 2:
How do you tell if you are reading AI? Most of the time, I think it's easy, at least online. But, maybe I'm reading it and don't even know at times that I'm doing that. I mean, one can easily detect AI stories on say, Quora. The pronouns are never correct, they switch from he to she and back again, details are often really weird, verbs can be strange. But what about in a supposedly serious article? Or if it's posted by a real person, like Hunter Biden, for example? Well, Ron Placone talks about that in his post: How to Spot AI Writing.

He goes into things I had never thought about, how AI structures writing, presenting points of view and so on. I'm not sure I can detect this kind of AI even with the helpful points he's made. But it's a start!

What do you think about AI and how to detect it? Got any tips?

Ok, Here's the open thread! What's up, whatcha doing? Reading? Thinking? Listening to? Remember, everything is interesting if you dive deep enough, so tell us about where you're diving!