Dad & husband. Teacher. Adviser, @tesseraeybk. 2021 @NationalJEA Ybk Adviser of the Year. Robotics coach. Band director. Coffee addict. Proud #Hoosier alum.
Corning, NY
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Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
A great reporter, writer, voice, and soul. RIP Wade, and thanks for every single memorable moment:
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Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
Another day of smoky skies in southeastern Canada and the northeast U.S. Observed earlier today by NOAA-20, NOAA-21, and SNPP VIIRS: col.st/MtFhf.
Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
The MAGA base is a minority group in American politics whose needs we must all apparently bend over backwards to accommodate. This was the "lesson" many journalism leaders took from 2016 and are now fighting the same war. It is nuts.
Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
Dear school administrators: Before telling teen reporters that you can't comment b/c of FERPA, do your homework. FERPA only protects the privacy of personally identifiable information in a student’s education record. It doesn't prevent you from being accountable to the community.
Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
Amazon has a new low-cost health service called Clinic.
But there's a hidden price: Your privacy.
Before you can sign up, you have to sign away some of your HIPAA protections to Amazon.
You agreed to what?
I investigated @washingtonpost: wapo.st/3nbJ26B
Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
Good morning to readers.
Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Please RT this thread. It’s an important one.
Some news: I’m leaving NPR as part of the layoffs that dramatically cut the org's workforce.
I’ve decided to go back into Ukraine to keep reporting.
But this time, alone.
Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
Don’t Say Gay won’t protect gay kids from anti-lgbt abuse.
But it WILL protect straight kids from having to learn that anti-lgbt abuse is wrong.
And that's the point.
Advocates warned that the "Don't Say Gay" law was just the beginning & now we're seeing the dangerous expansion. I stand with our LGBTQ+ children against these hateful attacks from Florida Republicans. apnews.com/article/florida-l…
Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
3) I ask ChatGPT to rewrite my writing with 7 different "goals":
1. More concise
2. More emphatic
3. More humorous
4. More descriptive
5. More persuasive
6. More informative
7. More action-oriented
This one is my personal favorite.
Great for rewriting emails/messages.
Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
At a high level, ChatGPT is horrible at coming up with things "from scratch."
• "Write me a Twitter thread on X"
• "Draft an email about Y"
• "Come up with ideas about Z"
When given prompts like this, ChatGPT has to make too many arbitrary decisions—which means poor output.
Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
From the beginning, I made 1 crucial mistake with ChatGPT:
I expected it to "think" rather than "do."
This means I fed it poorly written, 1-sentence prompts and expected some magical output.
But poor instructions = poor results.
So here's how I reframed it:
Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
I spent 3 hours yesterday with my solar telescope pointed at a tall tornado-y looking thing on the sun. This 14-Earths-tall swirling column of plasma was raining moon-sized gobs of incandescent material on the sun. I can't imagine a more hellish place.
Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
Ron is eager to call stories like this a "hoax" because he only wants to be held accountable for the most limited interpretation of the laws he signed, but the threat of prosecution he created means schools and libraries have to interpret them as broadly as possible.
Insane: Under Ron DeSantis's book crackdown, 20 books by Jodi Picoult just got banned at one county's schools.
One of them is "The Storyteller," about the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor.
"Banning 'The Storyteller' is shocking," Picoult tells us:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
Student journalists came to the Capitol to back legislation protecting their publishing decisions from interference by school officials.
capitolpressroom.org/2023/03…
Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
Coming up on The Capitol Pressroom - @NYS_OGS Commissioner @JeanetteMoy talks procurement, @NewYorkSNA campaigns for #Meals4AllNY, @NRDC eyes ban on pesticide, and student journalists storm the Capitol (and our hearts). mailchi.mp/35787ef24c2a/wcny…
Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
HIGH SCHOOL INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD: 33 CORNING ATHLETES QUALIFY FOR STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS (24 PHOTOS) . . . @CorningHawks
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Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
What a week for @IUHoosiers
@IndianaMSOC headed to NCAA Sweet 16 again
@IndianaVB beats #5 OSU and goes 2-0
@IndianaWBB wins at Tennessee and goes 3-0
@IndianaMBB wins at Xavier and goes 2-0
@IndianaFootball posts its biggest comeback win in 20 years, wins at MSU.
Mike Simons, MJE retweeted
1/ I swung by the @NASA_Orion mission control room yesterday . . . I quipped “Are we there yet?” The flight director retorted back in his best Dad voice, “I’ll have you know we have a procedure to turn this spaceship around and GO back to earth right now!”
