When I served as a staff writer @miamiherald.com (‘93-‘97) our photojournalists + reporters talked reverently of photojourno #CarolGuzy, who’d departed The Herald in the late ‘80s for the #WaPost. Fast forward: #Guzy is still a force of visual accountability. See her recent pic, via ZUMA Press👇🏾🥺

“AI risks entrenching racism and sexism in Australia, the human rights commissioner has warned, amid internal Labor debate about how to respond to the emerging technology.”

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i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

How many people and children forced to starve in Israeli concentration camps did Israel execute today? Lowest guess I'll allow is 45 of which 27 children, because that's the lowest that figure has been for the past few weeks.

0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.

please please please write to your MPs about this i am so serious please

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We did it before, we’re doing it now, and we’ll do it again. Big thanks to @beaudonelly.bsky.social @conplnk.bsky.social @koltai.bsky.social @charleymaher.bsky.social @merelzoet.bsky.social @galen.reich.me.uk

You should. I’ve been directly impacted by their arrogance and made software . The deference to them is part of the problem , computer technology is now civic infrastructure . Infrastructure is political . Race is infrastructure of the US Racial experts should have always been involves

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Worth reading these reflections from Anna Rogers, Tal Linzen, Emily Bender, Sam Bowman, Chris Potts, Chris Callison-Burch, Ellie Pavlick, Yejin Choi, Iz Betalgy, and more. For me, quoting friends at a conference in 2023: "I care about language. I'm not leaving NLP."

if you own a smartphone, good news! they are harvesting your soul and using it to power machines that blow up children in the third world

the nazis are out here asking the big questions like “what if we programmed a missile to think and have subjective opinions on genocide” hell has spilled over onto Earth

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23andMe has gone bankrupt and might now have to sell all their user data. what happens when Meta falls? Or Google or Amazon? what happens to all that user data? Who ends up owning the most comprehensive database about you, your life, your habits, and the most accurate model of your inner thoughts?

Because of what I do at work, people quite often ask me about "more responsible" ways to use GenAI, so I've written a blog post with 7 things to look out for and 3 ways of making intentional choices when using text generators www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...

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‪The Bellingcat challenge is back (and set by me this week)! 👉 challenge.bellingcat.com 👈 This week's challenge uses satellite images taken with Landsat 8 - but the colours aren't always 'normal'... 🛰️ Can you complete them? 🔍

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Hmm. A masterclass in writing a statement about "Science under threat" without specifying where that threat has come from? 😕

17 states are literally suing to make it okay to kill me and people like me. Abled allies, please show up. I haven't seen much from you in the last five years. I want to believe you'll be there now. Will you be?

rigged my computer to electrocute me when i lose at minesweeper

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Staffed by more than 30 engineers, lawyers and others — many with ties to Musk’s companies — DOGE and its allies have rattled the federal workforce.

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On every walk, our dog tries to persuade me that the superior smells lay just a ways beyond the length of his leash.

broke - Kamala Harris: “i will follow the law when it comes to transgender individuals” woke - Stephen Smith:

Y’all if you want a moment of genuine trans joy tonight, I finally sat down and watched Johanne Sacrebleu, the Mexican Emilia Peréz parody combining my two favorites, passionate trans art and making fun of the French 🥰 I understood one in every five words and didn’t stop cackling the whole time.

Also shows those AI companies never had a moat outside of ensuring it is too cost-prohibitive for competitors to train a model. US export bans forced researchers around the world to be smarter instead of just scaling up, and the outcome is honestly hilarious to me. www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/n...

Imagine if a national leader said the military’s job was to rebuild failing infrastructure instead of separate families and possibly murder people at protests

JG Ballard, 1995 introduction to his 1973 novel Crash, which he called the first poronographic novel about technology and the NYTimes reviewed as: ‘Crash is, hands-down, the most repulsive book I've yet to come across.’

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*Hideo Kojima game set during the Somme* Colonel: Tommy. This is Trench Footman. He'll be your guide when you need to patch yourself up. TF: You're holding the Synergised Hypodermic Epinephrine Limbic Loadout, or SHELL. Press R1 to use SHELL to cure SHOCK. Tommy: SHOCK?

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regular PSA as always that when you doctor says "please do blood labs in the middle of the cycle" you should smile, nod, and then do labs at the end of the cycle. mid cycle data is completely useless and is actively harmful to your health for the levels that most endocrinologists mandate per WPATH.

one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.

"In the eyes of autocrats and plutocrats, the future is not a right but a commodity." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) hidinginplainsightbook.com

Thiel can be a moron but this piece he’s written actually reads like an incredibly lucid warning about what Silicon Valley has just unleashed, from the perspective of the man who’s funded a lot of the tech. That kernel of truth seems to be lost in all the moralizing discourse in the replies however