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Philanthropy + Nonprofits editor @ConversationUS | @ArlingtonMag freelancer| former @OTWords @IPS_DC @Business
Arlington, VA
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Emily Schwartz Greco retweeted
Michael J. Fox has been named a Companion of the Order of Canada. 🇨🇦
For decades, he’s raised millions for Parkinson’s research and inspired countless others.
A Canadian icon, a remarkable legacy who continues to make Canadians proud. 🍁❤️
Emily Schwartz Greco retweeted
We should not be celebrating technology that can deceive people and blur the distinction between what's real and what's fake!
It should be illegal -- plain and simple -- for any AI to impersonate a human being without a clear and visible disclaimer that it is, in fact, AI.
Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test.
48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video.
It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).
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The 48% figure and "video Turing test" claim are from Tavus's own study of 54 one-minute calls, not independently verified or using a standard protocol. Griffin-Lite leads NVIDIA's VideoFDB benchmark on their public leaderboard.
cellcog.ai/blog/tavus-gri…
research.nvidia.com/labs/amri/proj…
tech-ish.com/2026/10/02/tav…
NAOMI KLIEIN to SAM ALTMAN:
"...you ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation and without credit to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.
You are not 'liberating human creativity' -- you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft 'training data'."
Emily Schwartz Greco retweeted
Men can choose to not do this. Men can choose to treat women the way they would like to be treated (I suspect that most men, when extremely drunk and high on ketamine and having reluctantly consented to some limited sexual activity, would not find it pleasant to have their condition advertised as “free ass” to random men on Snapchat). We can create a culture in which men who treat women this way are considered reprehensible, pathetic, and worthy of scorn, whether or not they have technically committed a crime.
slate.com/life/2026/09/corne…
Emily Schwartz Greco retweeted
The Kennedy Center’s Grand Foyer is 630' long and 63' high. The crystal chandeliers were hand-blown by @orrefors and an official gift by the Kingdom of @Sweden in 1971. The huge mirrors at left were a gift the Kingdom of @Belgium on behalf of its people and nation.
A detail worth noting in the Kennedy Center madness is a magnificent 12,000 crystal lighting array at the Opera House created by J & L Lobmeyr, who also made chandeliers for the Vienna State Opera and Schönbrunn Palace. It's an official gift from the Republic of Austria, meant as a permanent memorial to President Kennedy.
Emily Schwartz Greco retweeted
This photo will require some explaining to the court, and to trustees supposed to be operating under a duty of fiduciary faith to the institution (not to its chair).
Emily Schwartz Greco retweeted
NEW: A woman working on Rep. Joyce Beatty's Kennedy Center lawsuit visited the center this morning and found it not only closed but watched as forklifts trucked in the kind of gates that surround construction sites. 1/
Emily Schwartz Greco retweeted
This story is also a tale of two social media platforms. Seven of the videos were posted to Bluesky, but most were posted to X. Bluesky removed the inauthentic accounts. X did nothing. @elonmusk you there?
Emily Schwartz Greco retweeted
Washington journalism is in a moment of generational change. We’re rising to meet it.
We cover politics and policy and the people who shape life in Washington — not just at the White House and in Congress, but at the Wilson Building, at Northwest Stadium and in the neighborhoods where we live.
Welcome to The Washington Sun.
washingtonsun.com/
Emily Schwartz Greco retweeted
JUST IN: Judge Trevor McFadden (Trump/DC) declines to block DoD from firing 2 Stars & Stripes journalists & its publisher. He sees no 1st Amendment violation in punishment for interviews given about S&S's independence Doc: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin… Earlier: politico.com/news/2026/08/28…
Emily Schwartz Greco retweeted
NEW: @columbiajourn will launch a special program for undergraduates in 2027, Dean Jelani Cobb confirmed to us today. It will be the first dedicated journalism academic program for @Columbia undergraduates since 1935.
✍️ for @ColumbiaSpec
columbiaspectator.com/news/2…
Emily Schwartz Greco retweeted
A group of three military veterans and an architectural historian on Friday asked a U.S. judge to block the Trump administration from breaking ground on an arch in Washington. reuters.com/world/us/opponen…
Emily Schwartz Greco retweeted
Accountability for the wealthiest people on Earth is hard to come by.
Thank you for believing in the power of independent journalism to accomplish it.
(And, yes, more to come.)
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Emily Schwartz Greco retweeted
I like that this design appears to show the birth date of liberty as 1776, and its death as 2026
Available for purchase today at 12PM ET: 2026 President Donald J. Trump $1 Coin. These coins are also in circulation, so check your pocket change. Collect them today! #CoinCollecting #America250
bit.ly/4wMEEbC
ALT Promotional image for a 2026 Semiquincentennial President Donald J. Trump $1 coin. Features the coin depicting a portrait of Donald J. Trump with the inscription "Liberty" and the years "1776-2026." Coin also includes "In God We Trust" and the initials "JFM." Background shows the White House and logos for "America 250" and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Text reads: "Available Now.
Emily Schwartz Greco retweeted
The Court's majority rules that the National Trust for Historic Preservation has no standing to sue over the White House ballroom construction. So that raises a question - who has standing to stop a President from spending money not approved by Congress?
Emily Schwartz Greco retweeted
This one weird trick that economists don't want you to know about: Simply don't pay your suppliers for the goods you sell and undercut your competition.
WaPo: Trump lauded low prices at Freedom Fuel. A supplier says some gas wasn't paid for.
Mansfield Oil Company alleges in a lawsuit that a distributor never paid for gas that was supplied to some Freedom Fuel stations.
washingtonpost.com/investiga…
Emily Schwartz Greco retweeted
“The Art of the Deal” author can’t even strike a deal with the friendliest nation on earth. 🇨🇦
Emily Schwartz Greco retweeted
Stars and Stripes editor Erik Slavin told CBS today: "I received the notice of proposed separation today and I’m reviewing it. I’ll respond through the required process. According to the notice, I am being fired for stating in a CBS interview that censorship of news for service members would constitute a red line. The Pentagon's public affairs office has charged me with insubordination.
I stand by the principle that Stars and Stripes must remain editorially independent, as required by law and by the department’s own policies."
CBS piece on Stars and Stripes last month on @CBSSunday: cbsnews.com/news/the-battle-…
