@Lancaster67

Support: Workers, whistleblowers, nuclear power, GMO, disabled/LGBTQ rights, harm reduction, police/prison abolition. I have settler privilege. He/him/his

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Shout this from the rooftops! To make AI detectors both effective (catches most cheaters) and fair (doesn't accuse non-cheaters) is not only hard - it is MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. #LLMs #AI
A student submitted an essay she wrote by hand. Her university ran it through an AI detector. The detector said she cheated. She is autistic. Her name is Moira Olmsted. Adelphi University. February 2026. Turnitin flagged her essay as 100% AI-generated. She was disciplined. Two other AI detectors classified the same essay as human-written. She sued. She won. The court called the school's decision "arbitrary and capricious." She is not the only one. In May 2026, a high school student in Palo Alto was expelled after an AI detector flagged his work. He faced visa revocation. He filed a federal civil rights lawsuit. A researcher at Griffith University just proved mathematically why this keeps happening. The paper is on arXiv. The finding is one sentence. AI text detectors have a structural flaw that no amount of better engineering can fix. Here is what the math says. If a university wants its detector to catch 80% of cheaters, at least 750 out of every 10,000 innocent students will be wrongly accused. That is not a software problem. It is a theorem. If the university tries to limit false accusations to 1%, detection power collapses to 6%. It catches 6 out of every 100 AI-written papers. The other 94 get through. There is no setting where the detector is both fair and effective. The reason is diversity. Every student writes differently. Non-native English speakers use simpler vocabulary. Shorter sentences. Clearer structures. So does AI. A Stanford study found that 61.3% of TOEFL essays written by non-native English speakers were misclassified as AI-generated. A separate analysis tested 14 commercial detection tools. Zero out of 14 reached 80% accuracy. The students most likely to be wrongly accused are non-native English speakers, neurodivergent students, and anyone who writes with clarity and precision. The qualities that make their writing effective are the same qualities the detector mistakes for a machine. Vanderbilt University understood this. They disabled Turnitin's AI detection in 2023 after calculating that even a 1% error rate across 75,000 submissions would produce 750 wrongful accusations per year. 750 students accused of cheating for writing like themselves. The paper's conclusion is not that we need better detectors. It is that the diversity of human writing itself makes accurate detection mathematically impossible. The same thing that makes your writing yours is the thing that gets you accused. arxiv.org/abs/2603.20254
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If Musk lived in Canada, the most he could give to a candidate would be $1,775. That is one of the most important safeguards we have of democracy in this country. 1/2
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Oh, so he COULD HAVE just skipped the Zionist propaganda event he attended on October 7th.
JUST IN: Mamdani to skip NYC’s Columbus Day parade on Fifth Avenue, breaking with decades of mayoral tradition.
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Must-watch. "Naza" means "collateral damage". The IDF deems it fine to kill 20, 100, or even more civilians alongside one (supposedly legitimate) military target. I think we've all known this for many years. But it's remarkable to hear it from the horses' mouths. #FreePalestine
The documentary “NAZA” provides a searing look into the inner-workings of the Israeli military’s operation in Gaza. Academy Award-winning director Yuval Abraham joined me to discuss the film's implications, and the discoveries he made while making it. youtube.com/watch?v=Z_Q7eq7y…
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Zack Polanski, the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, is going down the same disastrous path as Canadian Green Party leader Elizabeth May. In 2016, after the Canadian Green Party adopted my resolution in support of BDS, leader Elizabeth May, who stridently opposed the BDS resolution, complained bitterly about the Green Party's process for adopting the resolution. In the end, May's opposition to the will of party members nearly destroyed @CanadianGreens. The party has not recovered since then. Will @ZackPolanski have the good sense to respect the will of @TheGreenParty, or will he adopt the morally bankrupt tactics employed by @ElizabethMay to subvert the will of party members? #ukpoli #Palestine #zionism #genocide
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Today President Trump posted a fake quote in which “Denzel Washington” supposedly heaped praise upon him. Phony viral slop about Denzel declaring himself a Trump megafan has circulated for years. It had not previously been circulated by the president. cnn.com/2026/10/12/politics/…
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I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Did you vote in the Alberta referendum by special ballot? Make sure that you confirm your vote was actually received by using the link Elections Alberta sent you from info@elections.ab.ca when you submitted your request. And, if it isn't received in time? Go vote in person! 🇨🇦
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We all want Zohran to fire Jessica Tisch, but getting the CURB Act passed is something we can do right now.
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The CURB Act is being held up by Democratic Council Member Oswald Feliz. The bill can’t be put to a vote without a hearing, and Feliz is blocking the hearing.
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"It is hard to overstate the scale of death, destruction, and suffering inflicted on Gaza... The 223,000 tons of explosives dropped on Gaza—roughly equivalent to 15 times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima—have killed more than 74,000 Palestinians, the vast majority of them civilians, and reduced most of Gaza to rubble. Israel’s assault, over which it is currently on trial for genocide at the International Court of Justice, has wiped out some 92 percent of Gaza’s housing stock, 95 percent of its farmland, all 12 of its universities, and nearly half of its 36 hospitals—in other words, the very institutions and infrastructure that sustain life." - @elgindy_ foreignaffairs.com/palestini…
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Havana Syndrome media blitz incoming. The NYT just gave a positive review to Rey's and Zill de Granados's propaganda piece.
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Number of times JK Rowling has posted about the Cornell 7: zero Number of times she’s posted about trans people in the same time span: 10
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🧵NEW In one of the largest studies to ever take place on social class in Canada, Michelle Maroto, Guillaume Durou, Samuel Braden and I show the effects of financial insecurity Canadians are facing with a sample size of 7483 and interviews with 127 people onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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The BC Conservatives haven’t said what they’ll do with: - card check cert -anti-scab -first contract -minimum wage -paid sick days/overtime The first thing prov rightwing govts do when elected after the NDP is roll back labour laws. BCers deserve to know the Con plan is.
Card check. Anti-scab legislation. Paid sick days. Canada's highest provincial minimum wage. The largest skills training investment in BC history. All of it is at risk if the Conservatives win on October 24.
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Buy this Cory @doctorow book and read it (before it’s too late)
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"If Alberta is always the victim, then [it] never has to ask how it contributes to the relationship it says it wants to repair. It never has to ask whether its demands are clear, whether its expectations are realistic or.. [simply] grievances." 🔗 thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/10/0…
Replying to @DrJaredWesley
How is it possible to have that level of a victim complex?
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I've left Twitter, but I'm still writing a daily blog. You can read today's post ("How labor rights rescued Ultima from a monopolist") at pluralistic.net/2026/10/12/t… It's also available on Mastodon at: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117427… And on Bluesky at: bsky.app/profile/did:web:plu…
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Black Americans were barred from almost every beach in the South. So in 1935 the first Black millionaire in Florida bought his own stretch of ocean and opened it to everybody. Two hundred acres, white sand, bands, hotels, and nobody to tell you to leave. American Beach. Abraham Lincoln Lewis founded the Afro-American Life Insurance Company in Jacksonville and became Florida's first Black millionaire. He bought the land on Amelia Island so his employees and their families would have somewhere to go. It became the most important Black resort on the Atlantic coast. Zora Neale Hurston went. Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Joe Louis all played or stayed there. Look up the photographs. Families in good swimwear beside good cars. Women laughing in the surf. Children buried in sand. It is a complete picture of Black American leisure in the 1940s and 50s, which almost nobody has ever been shown. Then desegregation opened other beaches, a hurricane took some of it, and developers took most of the rest. A man bought an ocean so his people could swim. Stories like this are why we document savvypurchase.samcart.com/pr…
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Trump has engaged in more brazen criminality and corruption than any president ever, and is now sending immigration investigators after his political enemies
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Canucks get slapped again. It has been 7 games. Anaheim’s rebuild took 7 years. This is hard for players. Zeev Buium: “To lose by 4 (goals) or 3 or 5 three nights in a row, it’s hard. It’s hard to wake up and feel positive. It’s just tough.” sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/sla…
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