Screen capture of the "expert review" suggestion from Grammarly with the text: Bridge Historical and Digital Circuits: In what way might invoking the original Jim Crow-era Chitlin' Circuit deepen readers' grasp of continuity and change? A brief comparative sentence could vividly map past performance routes onto today's podcast networks. This suggestion is inspired by Tiffany E. Barber's "Black Public Media nd the Politics of Digital Space." In her work, Dr. Tiffany E. Barber explore the intersections of Black culture and digital media, discussing how platforms like podcasts serve as modern-day "Chitlin' Circuits," providing spaces for Black voices and narratives. This aligns with the idea of mapping past performance routes onto today's podcast networks." This paragraph is followed by a small button that says "source."

A screen capture of Journal of Radio and Audio Media's webpage. It displays the title, bibliographic information, and abstract for: "The Podcast Chitlin' Circuit: Black Podcasters, Alternative Media, and Audio Enclaves" by Dr. Sarah Florini.

Another wrinkle to the Grammarly "expert review": The recommendations it makes have hallucinations. I put in the abstract for some of my work on Black podcasting. One of the names listed was Tiffany E. Barber, which summarized her work on the podcast Chitlin' Circuit and then linked to *my* article.

#AusPol

""I'm afraid I could be arrested if I travel to that state for your wedding and need to use the restroom at the venue ..."

Anna’s hummingbird in sakura flowers

Anna’s Hummingbird on sakura at dusk

📷🌿🪶🌸

Can you be a #GravySeal while wearing pyjamas?

U.S. court allows state bans on gender-affirming care for adults in unprecedented ruling While bans on trans youth’s care have been numerous in recent years, this is the first to restrict care for transgender adults.

NEWS: It was never about the children.

Transgender adults now face care restrictions after the ruling of the federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia.

www.advocate.com/news/court-b...

Check how many autocorrect options there are for the words fascist and fascism

Karl Weick (organizational psychologist, foundational work on sensemaking) had a great refrain: “How can I know what I think until I see what I say?” I often think about this in relation to how AI can interfere w/ thinking by substituting its words for ours. This experimental study offers evidence.

Facebook post by Nekima Levy Armstrong: "Friends, A Breaking News headline just appeared in the Star Tribune, claiming that the national Target boycott ended today. This is false. The writer of the story, Carson Hartzog, is fully aware that the Target boycott was launched in Minneapolis on February 1, 2025. I have spoken to her several times since then, yet she failed to reach out to me, Jaylani Hussein, or Monique Cullars Doty, the three founders of the national Target boycott for the story. Carson even used the photo from our press conference that includes my daughter, Assata Joy and Ms. Rosemary Nevils, an elder in our community, to try to add legitimacy to a bogus story. I am once again disgusted by the Star Tribune and their attempts to minimize and erase the voices of our community. The nationwide Target Boycott is not over, unless and until Target reverses its decision to rollback Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as we said from the beginning. “Pastor” Jamal Bryant does not speak for us or our community and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott of Target, a company that is headquartered in Minneapolis. Please don’t believe the hype and these attempts to rescue Target from the effects of capitulating to the Trump Administration. Target rolled back DEI because of Donald Trump. They donated $1 million to the Trump/Vance inauguration committee. Target also allowed ICE to stage in its parking lots during Operation Metro Surge. The nationwide boycott of Target is successful and it will continue. Please continue to shop elsewhere."

Nekima on the Target boycott.

BREAKING: Unite the union has voted to cut Labour affiliation by 40% - £580,000 - on the anniversary of the Birmingham bin strike.

Ahead of the rules conference next year union chiefs will now formally consult with members to see whether they want to remain in the Labour party.

Nope!!!!

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

Don’t stop talking about the Epstein files.
Don’t stop talking about the Epstein files.
Don’t stop talking about the Epstein files.
Don’t stop talking about the Epstein files.
Don’t stop talking about the Epstein files.
Don’t stop talking about the Epstein files.
Don’t stop.

89% of Americans want the Epstein files released.

Stop the Epstein war, prosecute the Epstein oligarchs.

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Firefighters know the value of water.

And this is the anti-trans logic loop:

1. demand evidence

2. design reviews that cannot find evidence

3. cite absence of evidence as justification for withdrawing care

4. use withdrawal of care to prevent generation of new evidence.

It's what the Reagan administration did to trans folks.

Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people.

This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists.

The study underpinning this played one particular trick.

Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5

Cal's thread should be published in the national media, a completely rigged review that will achieve their aim of blocking all treatment for trans kids. The complete control anti-trans activists have in the NHS should be a national disgrace, it's akin to anti-vaxxers seizing control of vaccinations

Littleproud resigns after realising he would have to have meetings with Angus Taylor

"I'm buggered. Can't we just tell him I'm sick or dead or something?" he said to staffers. chaser.com.au/national/lit...

Time to pass a law that any party spokesperson of media outlet that opines with hindsight reckons on pandemic management has to show this chart in the background at all times #nzpol

“haven’t got the energy to lead” should be their new slogan 😂

😂 many coffee menus in Melbourne are taller than the barista ☕️

Looks like it is. Their favourite word: signalling 🙄

a woman is holding a cup of coffee with the hashtag schitts creek Alt: Schitts Creek: Moira says “There’s nothing wrong with treating yourself, dear”.

So true.

I thought the French Revolution part was going somewhere but then, just whiny waffling…

There’s plenty of complexity in non-Starbucks coffee orders in Australia.

Possibly less tantrums.

We don’t line up for much but we do for good coffee and we’re nice to our baristas because they make the good coffee ☕️

also, tantrums can get you kicked out of cafes here. No coffee for asshats.

Can you please confirm if creatine monohydrate is to be avoided with endometriosis?

Cobram olive oil is the real deal.

Post COVID-19 condition is associated with altered regional cerebral blood volume as revealed by dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI — MacIntosh et al. "The findings revealed a pattern of lower rCBV in the PCC group relative to controls in ROIs that have previously been reported in analogous structural and perfusion neuroimaging studies."

From Canada:

Post COVID-19 condition is associated with altered regional cerebral blood volume as revealed by dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI

www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

Screenshot from Science for ME weekly update

#LongCovid #NeuroPASC #COVIDBrain #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19