Mike Simons, MJE
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Dad & husband. Teacher. Adviser, @tesseraeybk. 2021 @NationalJEA Ybk Adviser of the Year. Robotics coach. Band director. Coffee addict. Proud #Hoosier alum.
Corning, NY
Joined February 2008
I want to remind people that the Repubs said Hillary was unqualified because of how she treated a few emails……
Trump's contempt for United States national security, captured in a single photograph:
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A great reporter, writer, voice, and soul. RIP Wade, and thanks for every single memorable moment: https://t.co/sVOFhjwbnG
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Wade Goodwyn had one of public radio's most recognizable voices, but it was his rich writing and keen observations that made him a listener favorite over decades at NPR.
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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: https://t.co/DeMP4pJ3Iy.
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And awaaaaayyy we go… are we ready for a Deep Fake/AI election?
This photo is not real. It is generated by AI. Expect a lot more of this during this election cycle.
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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.
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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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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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: https://t.co/67CEI5gB5l
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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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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.
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.
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Really gotta watch out for those drag queens in Tennessee — those 9 year olds just aren’t safe.
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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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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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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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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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...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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...that the kids just go wild and libel lawsuits will rain from the skies? It's never happened. They couldn't find a single case successfully brought against student journalists. Instead, #newvoices bills and the Tinker protections have given students the chance (25/)
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...do it the right way. Hold them to high standards, yes. Our bill does. And if things go sideways and the kids go 'out of control?' Well — funny thing, that. Our friends at @SPLC have done the research. In the 17 states with #newvoices laws, that concern... (24/)
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...creating space to share a wide variety of viewpoints, helping their schools and classmates appreciate and understand one another, or permitting them to disagree. But let them ASK the questions. And HAVE the conversations. Help teach them to... (23/) #newvoices @newvoicesny
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NO. A million times: NO. We need these kids asking important, and yes, sometimes tough, questions. We need them curious about the status quo and the world in which they live. We need them lifting up the voices of ALL in our communities.... (22/)
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