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☆ Outdoorsy Men’s Wear That Suits the City Too
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Ilya Lipkin | Hisato Tasaka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

in fashionOutdoorsy Men’s Wear That Suits the City TooWhen out for adventure, whether hiking a trail or navigating the sidewalk, it helps to look the part.

☆ Media literacy is more than spotting fake news. How one librarian gives teens the tools to decide what to trust
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Alisha Ebrahimji | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

With lots of kids now getting their news from social media – where disinformation and content created by artificial intelligence run rampant – 18 states have some form of K-12 media literacy education on the books, according to Media Literacy Now. Of those, four – Delaware, Texas, New Jersey and, starting this year, California – mandate media literacy, with lesson standards now being crafted state by state. “But we haven’t really taught people how to use them ethically, efficiently and responsibly.”To do that, a media literacy lesson might include analyzing which emotions the wording of a mass media headline evoke. And California starting this year requires media literacy instruction to be integrated into K-12 mathematics, science and history-social science curriculums when they’re revised, according to the bill. It’s why Manganello has spent nearly two decades perfecting how she teaches media literacy.

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☆ Hard Hit by Loss of Thai and Palestinian Workers, Israeli Farmers Call for Volunteers
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Miriam Jordan | More About Miriam Jordan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Israeli farms, core to the country’s national identity, for years employed Palestinian and Thai workers. “My workers are gone because of the war; I’m panicking,“ said Gabi Swissa, 61, from his farm outside Kadima in central Israel. For decades, he has counted on Palestinians and Thais to plant, harvest and pack strawberries. Volunteers he had expected to help on his farm one day last week had not shown up. Since the outset of the war, he said, farms are lacking at least 15,000 workers.

Persons: Thais, I’m, “, Gabi Swissa, Swissa, ”, Yuval Lipkin Organizations: Volunteers, Ministry of Agriculture Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ A copywriter who was laid off without an explanation says she was replaced by ChatGPT, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A copywriter, laid off without explanation, says ChatGPT replaced her role. She told The Washington Post that her work assignments dried up after the chatbot launched. AI-powered products are causing concern among employees who worry the new tech will replace them. A copywriter, who was let go by her company without an explanation, says she was replaced by ChatGPT, The Washington Post reported. 25-year-old Olivia Lipkin, who is based in San Francisco, was laid off from a tech startup in April, per The Post.

Persons: ChatGPT, Olivia Lipkin, Olivia, Slack, Lipkin, I'm, that's, Arvind Krishna, OpenAI Organizations: Washington Post, Morning, The Washington Post, IBM Locations: The, San Francisco

☆ Opinion | Finding the Origin of a Pandemic Is Difficult. Preventing One Shouldn’t Be.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( W. Ian Lipkin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Similarly, in 2008 my team investigated a hemorrhagic fever outbreak with an 80‌‌ percent case fatality rate in Zambia and South Africa. Finding the origin of a viral outbreak can be incredibly difficult, even with full government cooperation and the best available technologies. It’s important to try, because the insights into how a virus emerged may be useful in reducing the risk of future outbreaks. We cannot wait for answers that may never come before doing what must be done to prevent the next pandemic. And yet very little has been done in the wake of this pandemic to better either source of risk.

☆ Fact Check-Monkeypox, polio and new COVID variants are not ‘planned’ as ‘scare tactics’ to affect the U.S. midterms
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

Monkeypox and polio outbreaks, or new COVID-19 variants, have not been “planned” or orchestrated as “scare tactics” to manipulate the Nov. 8 midterm elections in the United States. As laid out in a Reuters explainer (here), experts agree that the major driver behind both vaccine-derived and wild polio outbreaks remains an under-vaccinated population. “Monkeypox is nothing more than a scare tactic to make you stay home and not vote in the November elections. Experts contacted by Reuters dismissed claims that these disease outbreaks are connected to election cycles and said they would not disrupt the upcoming electoral process. There is no evidence that monkeypox and polio outbreaks or new COVID-19 variants have been orchestrated as “scare tactics” to manipulate the U.S. midterm elections.

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