Jocelyn Leitzinger

Starting a running thread of all the posts I've made about corporate front groups and corporate disinformation campaigns to make them easy to find

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

What a fantastic day - Aleksandar Vucic lost to the student protest movement in Serbia and Lula won in Brazil Two down, two more to go ✊️

Lula has flipped the state of Amapa, which he lost to Jair Bolsonaro in the 2022 runoff by 3 percentage points. He will win it today; he is ahead by 6 percentage points with 99% of precincts reporting. He'd finished ahead by a hair in the first round, 45.7% to 45.7%.

please please vote before election day, and tell your circles to. Republican mayors and governors are watching this unfold and getting ideas.

Brazil extended voting hours in lieu of the attempts at voter suppression seen today. We'll know the results soon enough. I hope for all our sakes Lula wins.

I haven’t slept a full night in three weeks ahead of the polls opening in Brazil today. I might be shouting into a void here, but if you can spare a few seconds to send good energy towards our elections today and for the largest country in South America to beat fascism, please do so. 🇧🇷

Aside from the international stuff -- in BC we've had civic and provincial elections in the past week, plus the fallout from the Alberta referendum next door. And the US midterms will likely affect us too. So we're already shaken up around here.

NEW POLL: Overwhelming majorities of voters oppose possible efforts to disrupt or deny the midterms. The takeaway? Be ready to speak out against efforts to delay election certification or block official results — you won't be alone. Dive into the full analysis here: https://protdem.org/3UkxKgP

It would be nice to have an EPA again someday

Not for nothing but PBS does election night coverage and we work really really really hard on it. Union shop as well!

I feel seen

MSNow isn't a primary comms vector for my employer and my children's school. MSNow doesn't portray itself as "the public square" nor do institutions use it that way. Stop pretending you don't know things.

Seemingly in response to Garvaghy being overruled the Orange Order are escalating with unapproved marches, destroying Irish-language signage and memorials www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

The last two years of this administration are going to be a blood bath and the only thing to debate is how much of it will be literal and how much will be figurative. Sigh.

What if you see ICE at the polls? (Don't worry! Read on for the plan!) @indivisible.org roped me in to design and illustrate a new zine! Check it out in this 🧵 - and visit linktr.ee/wewillvote to sign up for the Election Protection Program and find all the resources you need!

If not reader, why reader shaped?

“I can't say this on the record yet, but welcome to Juilliard”

Data centers in space are not a good space target because they would immediately overheat and become useless pieces of space junk. Hope that helps.

71 in Boston, the el nino stuff is going to make winter very weird

We're already seeing food shortages in some parts of the world and it's expected to get worse as the super El Niño progresses - compounded by global fertilizer and groundwater crisises We can't afford to be losing food because folks thought the internet of things was a good idea