@APLeith

Associate Professor of Mass Communications at SIUE. Local-first software for serious work at SIM DAD LLC.

 St Louis, MO
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Joined May 2011
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I'm bothered that people are conflating someone's tweet distribution with their real-world labor. I assume @neeratanden and @mehdirhasan are doing substantial offline work to positively impact this election. Why elevate a streamer to the public sphere unnecessarily?
Neera Tanden🌻
@neeratandenOct 22
What I find meta about this whole discourse is @mehdirhasan attacking everyone for talking about a streamer in California when he constantly asks people about him and then pushes out the videos. I pointed this out in my conversation with him at Georgetown when he asked me about Piker. Seems kinda hypocritical
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This is why scientific literacy matters, especially for journalists. ~31% of respondents listed the economy/inflation/cost of living as their "most important" issue, but that doesn't mean it's the only issue shaping their November vote.
Taylor Lorenz
@TaylorLorenzOct 23
No one actually gaf about the data center stuff it seems
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People realize that "live by the sword, die by the sword" is just a more aggressive version of "you get what you give," right? If @BulwarkOnline says @elonmusk deserves to be jailed, then his use of that phrase means he wishes the same fate on them.
Tommy Vietor
@TVietor08Oct 24
Elon just casually threatening to kill the team at @BulwarkOnline. Typical Friday.
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Clarification: @BulwarkOnline can likely lay out many reasons to jail @elonmusk. I know of nothing jail-worthy by the staff of The Bulwark. The true danger of Musk's statement is the extralegal measures some may take to fulfill that wish.
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Choose One: (a) He is pretending to wave at a crowd of people so people think he's popular. (b) He believes there is a crowd of people when there isn't one.
News to Remember
@allchronologyOct 20
Kudos to the camera man. He decided NOPE - ain’t letting him pull this shit. Not today. Not on my watch.
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If you want to call @hasanthehun just a Twitch streamer, then @piersmorgan is just a YouTube streamer.
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How is it an "ambush" to show up to your own daily show as a named co-host? An ambush requires surprise. Tanden literally confirmed with MR producers on Tuesday that you'd both be on. Stepping away for a "lunch break" and then returning for post-show commentary doesn't add up.
Emma Vigeland
@EmmaVigelandOct 16
Neera, I’m clearly not scared to meet you face-to-face. We met in person on CNN this past year and I found us to be more aligned than not. Would you have preferred me to join this call without previously discussing doing so? To ambush you for clicks? Like what even is this lol
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Can't really complain about that.
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Students pursuing social work and mental health counseling would likely lose access to loans. That's not to mention the many non-degree programs that train people for support positions (e.g., teaching aides, medical assistants, culinary, etc.) also falling short.
Lo@LOsaParksSep 28
This is bad….
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Unless there is a super PAC called "The U.S. Government," I could see staffers facing jail time and impeachment hearings for the president for such an ad. Of course, that would only be true in the hypothetical world in which the federal government still followed the rule of law.
Dan Pfeiffer
@danpfeifferSep 27
This ad is both incredibly illegal and politically asinine. Kudos to everyone involved.
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If you ignore genetics and basic metabolic biology, then sure, absolutely.
Dr. Alok Kanojia
@HealthyGamerGGSep 26
Here's something interesting about GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide. For the first time, human beings don't have to earn the body they want. Up until now, the body was an honest signal of effort. That's no longer true, and it's worth asking what we lose when it isn't. (1/4)
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I understand criticizing the Army and the collaboration, but this underplays the situation. It's not surprising for a talent agency to drop a client after they publish a video that intentionally inflames ongoing harassment.
Kotaku
@KotakuSep 23
Popular Slay The Spire Streamer "Dropped" By Talent Agency After Criticizing U.S. Army–Sponsored Twitch Streams: kotaku.com/popular-slay-the-…

Streamer Dropped From Talent Agency For Criticizing U.S. Army Twitch Streams

FrostPrime says he was dropped from his agency after being told to stop criticizing Dan Gheesling's U.S. Army–sponsored Twitch livestreams

kotaku.com
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That's not to mention that they made it clear they spent time during the stream trying to be toxic enough to get banned from the livestream's chat. Plus, I assume the stream resulted from a collaboration that the agency brought to Gheesling.
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In case you were wondering, making death threats on @amazon-owned @Twitch gives you a long weekend (after waiting until the end of your Friday stream). It appears that Twitch TOS has changed significantly since I took a break from researching it.
yeet
@Awk20000Sep 7
MikeFromPA unbanned on Twitch
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Hello @TwitchSupport and @djclancy999. What part of the TOS allows a partnered streamer to make death threats toward another partnered streamer and then post an edited version of the same stream with added screenshots to clarify that it was a death threat and not get banned?
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After getting past the general absurdity of electing to be part of a nanny state (without even mentioning that ChatGPT uses consumer conversations for training data by default), these two get to the benefit of a well-regulated "always-on" digital assistant in the form of an LLM.
Pod Save America
@PodSaveAmericaAug 16
“Clearly, no one on there is watching porn.” - Hard Fork’s Casey Newton on ChatGPT’s new feature.
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There is a long way to go in the realm of regulations; however, by calling LLMs AI, we add a boogeyman element to something that is, in my opinion, a natural evolution of predictive text.
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The Candace Owen v. Andrew Wilson debate on the Charlie Kirk Assassination was sad. If I were still teaching debate or argumentation, I could cut it into a semester's worth of how-not-tos.
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