“A Bala Cynwyd woman got a fake letter notifying her she’d have to house migrants under a nonexistent Biden-Harris program: ‘Congratulations’ the fake letter reads, ‘you have been selected as a Wayward Steward exchange home for homeless immigrants and victims of foreign wars.’”
The letter, delivered to a voter in Bala Cynwyd, said it was from the Pennsylvania Congressional Office of Immigrant Affairs. No such office exists.
Looks interesting, want to dig into the chapters on South Asia.
"We’ve seen explosions in Tyre, which was supposed to be one of the safe places that people could flee to from here, and that’s now under intense bombardment." It's almost like this is an Israeli playbook they've already done elsewhere or something. #Lebanon#Gazawww.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
At least six killed, 100 wounded and deaths expected to rise as Israeli strikes flatten apartment buildings in Beirut.
So remember those major Science studies with Meta about the role of algorithmic ranking, polarization, and misinformation on social media? It turns out Meta made 63 tweaks to the algorithm during the study period which were not reported in the study. New in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
They’re not even trying to hide it anymore. “Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there are complex copyright questions around scraping data to train Al models, but he suggests the individual work of most creators isn't valuable enough for it to matter.”
Thanks that’s super helpful!
(It’s the Scottish philologist John Leyden’s collection fyi).
The MSS are as follows: Add MS 26580; Add MS 26582; Add MS 26585, Add MS 26568; Mss Eur D6; Add MS 26576; Add MS 26592 (key); Add MS 26578; Add MS 26581 (this is the most important one); Add MS 10370 (key). If I even just see the last three the trip is worthwhile. So so grateful!
Omg I am so grateful, thanks!
#skystorians who have recent experience at the British Library: any pointers?