Abbey White

mostly tired freelance journalist | asme finalist, glaad media award nominee, NAEJ, SoCal, NLGJA winner | tips: [email protected]

[Abbey White @amwtweets]

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[Abbey White @amwtweets]

Alongside a look at the #StrangerThings house, I spoke to #HHN Hollywood's @john_murdy about bringing Curry Barker in for the #Obsession experience. He also teased things like a giant bat biting the head off Ozzy Osbourne for Hollywood's tribute house.���

[Abbey White @amwtweets]

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[Abbey White @amwtweets]

Lots of good responses about why hallucinate doesn't work. I'd argue, through a mental health lens, the things PEOPLE hallucinate aren't there. What AI spews IS there because it gets all its info from humans. Even the stuff we get wrong, which is how it ends up as an output.

[APStylebook @APStylebook]

Susan Seager posted on Bluesky, asking us to ban the term "hallucinate" for AI. She said in part, “The term “hallucinate” is an inaccurate, industry-friendly term that should be banned when reporting news about AI fabrications.”
Our generative AI guidance says AI sometimes generates inaccurate or fabricated responses to queries, an effect AI scientists call hallucination. If using the term hallucination, describe it as an issue associated with the technology that produces falsehoods or inaccurate or illogical information. Some in the field prefer the term confabulation or simpler terms to describe the inaccuracies that don't draw comparisons with human mental illness.
What do you think? How would you describe it when AI creates inaccurate information?

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

Exclusive: A rare bookseller suspected his books were being bought by AI companies. He stuck an AirTag in a book and we tracked it to a secretive Amazon facility in Las Vegas where they scan and destroy books called VGT3:

https://t.co/WXSo0zB6JF

[APStylebook @APStylebook]

You've probably heard the theory that em dashes mean someone has used AI.
AP Stylebook Editor Anna Jo Bratton disagrees in a blog post that acknowledges it would be helpful to have a clear and obvious tell when AI is the author. She writes: Unfortunately, that tell is not the em dash, which has been around for many years. In fact, they are so ubiquitous in AP lingo, we just call them dashes.

Read more:
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[Sharareh Drury @shararehdrury]

Really powerful piece by @amwtweets on how #OffCampus' episode “The Breakup" utilized a survivor-centric approach, and offered audiences an often unexplored/rarely discussed part of recovering from sexual trauma -- reclaiming one’s sexual pleasure.

https://t.co/eA7wClQUXz

[Abbey White @amwtweets]

The internet is too toxic to make fandom buddies online like we used to!

[Abbey White @amwtweets]

Even if they care, you rant/rave to THEM, and do not open up your convos beyond the group chat/phone calls. If you want to open up to randoms, do it in-person at cons/events where you can read body language and vocal tone, and then never have to interact again if you don't wanna.

[Kyle Kushblasta @SkinnyTuna]

to be clear this is the normal way to engage with art. you are supposed to rant and rave to your friends who do not care

[lana @lavillanelleee]

i always wonder what it's like to be deeply obsessed with specific media but not interact in fandom spaces

[Lexy Perez @LexyJPerez]

Loved being able to work with @amwtweets on this one. An important story handled with so much care for those involved, the book fans and puts a spotlight on how well the show handled Hannah and Garrett’s journeys.

[SCOTUS Wire @scotus_wire]

🚨 The Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship to children born in the United States, including those whose parents are in the country unlawfully or only temporarily, striking down President Trump's executive order.

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: Four states are standing in the way of a water rights deal that tribes say would help them build more housing, grow sustainable economies and better protect public health. “It’s a fundamental human rights issue,” said one law professor. https://t.co/aLmBeh9GVH

[Abbey White @amwtweets]

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[ProPublica @propublica]

BP execs were deeply involved in shaping a highly influential climate science paper.

The authors not only discussed ideas with the oil company but, in a departure from academic norms, passed drafts back and forth and welcomed extensive feedback.
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[Douglas Farrar @DouglasLFarrar]

For millions of Americans who can’t afford to buy, renting isn’t a choice.

A @guardian investigation shows how private equity-backed corporate landlords exploit them, one invented fee at a time. Just look at what Greystar charges:

• a penalty for “breaking the lease” by dying (charged to one grieving family)
• DNA testing of your dog’s poop
• $26.75/mo “boiler management fee”
• $95/mo “lifestyle fee” (for a spin room and picnic tables)
• $25/mo “valet trash,” a service that costs the landlord $8
• “final bill fee,” charged just to stop being their tenant
• a fee to pay your rent online
• “variable refrigerant flow fee”
• “solar rebill fee”
• “stormwater/drainage admin fee”

[Nabilah Parkes @Nabilah_Parkes]

During discovery, internal docs showed Monsanto employees ghost wrote safety studies and maintained direct lines into EPA review panels. The same EPA approved Roundup safety labels. The Supreme Court ruling now says regulator approval shields companies from failure to warn lawsuits.

A reminder that our government mandated asbestos and cleared leaded gasoline. It was litigation that revealed the undeniable harm that companies knew they were causing. This ruling will undeniably make it harder to hold corporations accountable with their deceit.

[ProPublica @propublica]

The Office of Management and Budget, run by Russell Vought, has labeled both humanitarian aid and global health money as “unallocated,” meaning the OMB must approve how it is spent.

Legal scholars say this likely violates the law.
https://t.co/lk0z0Owpf6

[Jeremy Barr @jeremymbarr]

The Scientific American union has released a statement criticizing the sale — and the 15 employee layoffs that are resulting from it — and referring to it as an effort at "union-busting."

They also claim political motivations might be at play: "We also have reason to believe that the sale was motivated by fear within Springer Nature that our attempts to doggedly report on the crisis facing science in America today would lead to repercussions from the Trump administration. On multiple occasions the company has sought to quash or tone down political or sensitive stories that were journalistically sound."

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

How Netflix’s ‘Little House on the Prairie’ Brings Its Pioneering Black Doctor to the Screen (Exclusive) https://t.co/9Fbcy4n1Zh