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I love NYC. And trains. And riding trains in NYC.
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Dare Obasanjo
8 days ago
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees. I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
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Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
https://www.businessinsider.com/executives-adopting-ai-higher-rates-than-workers-research-2025-10
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The Comfy Dude
about 20 hours ago
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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Bill Grueskin
4 days ago
The NYT, along with many other credible news orgs, do this ALL THE TIME
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Tim Marchman
4 days ago
NEW: Reports of DOGEâs death arenât highly exaggerated, theyâre wrong. Follow
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@telliotter.bsky.social
on a voyage into the federal agencies where all your favorite young engineers are burrowed in âlike ticks.â
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DOGE Isnât Dead. Hereâs What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has âburrowed into the agencies like ticks,â government sources tell WIRED.
https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-doge-doing-now/
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Robby Lerman
14 days ago
After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
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Jonathan Cohn
14 days ago
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
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If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-out-gmail-ai-training_l_69208af8e4b06c13afa4974c
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Levi Anthony Luckenbach
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Kevin M. Kruse
16 days ago
âBut I have to enable Holocaust denialism because my favorite sports reporters are thereâ
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Erin Reed
17 days ago
Since people asked, my top places for trans people right now are France, Australia (parts), Canada (parts), Spain (though politics there are tenuous), Iceland, Uruguay.
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Marisa Kabas
17 days ago
New â I wrote about the myriad ways journalismâs moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
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Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-elite-journalism-nuzzi-lizza-rfk-jr-trump
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THE CITY
18 days ago
NEW: Brad Lander says he wants a trial, not a deal to drop his charge stemming from an arrest by ICE.
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After Arrest by ICE, City Comptroller Rejects Deal and Seeks Trial
Other officials arrested while protesting at 26 Federal Plaza in September will have their federal charges dropped if they avoid arrest inside a federal building for six months.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/18/brad-lander-ice-arrest-trial-federal-charges/
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Ezekiel Bones
18 days ago
Make the boards and executives of AI companies personally liable for the harms they cause
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âA world-saving missionâ: Ontario man alleges ChatGPT drove him to psychosis
When Allan Brooks asked A.I. chatbot, ChatGPT a simple math question for his son, he didnât expect it to turn into a more than a three-week conversation that would send him down a mental spiral and ma...
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/ontario-man-alleges-chatgpt-caused-delusions-sues-parent-company-openai/
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Robin Marty
18 days ago
"Bill Adams, chief economist for Comerica Bank, calculates that a worker would have to earn $170,000 in 2025 to wield the same purchasing power that a $100,000 salary delivered in 2005." The. Hell?
www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
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Americans with six-figure incomes are in 'survival mode'
A six-figure salary doesn't mean what it used to, a new poll suggests.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/11/14/americans-with-six-figure-incomes-in-survival-mode/87253991007/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
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steven monacelli
18 days ago
As I told the Columbia Journalism Review, this swatting incident occurred just before I published an investigative report that unmasked the operators of four major neo-Nazi accounts on X. I don't think the timing was coincidental.
www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...
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The dangers facing local reporters who cover extremism.
The extremism beat has gone mainstreamâbut in local markets, itâs still intensely personal.
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/local-reporters-dangers-covering-extremism.php
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein đ
21 days ago
âGen Z has the lowest racial resentment of any generation ever studied.â Important work from
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that offers a clear explanation of why there is an intense push to change school curricula to make them more white supremacist
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
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The Shocking Truth About Gen Z Voters Is That Theyâre Pretty Great
Stop panicking: They are the most progressive generation ever, especially on race. If that surprises you, youâve been listening to the wrong story.
https://newrepublic.com/article/203034/racial-resentment-gen-z-voters
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Iris van Rooij đ
21 days ago
âWhile the AI industry claims its models can âthink,â âreason,â and âlearn,â their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.â
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AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-will-not-save-higher-education-but-may-destroy-it-by-olivia-guest-and-iris-van-rooij-2025-10
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
21 days ago
I really thought we'd emerge from covid with an appreciation of the frailty of life. But Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan... the causal dehumanization of refugees... it's hard not to feel like we're all just bodies for the elite meat grinder.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein đ
26 days ago
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial đ«
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It's just me, somewhere reading Freud
26 days ago
Honestly, it feels like we can never count on white folks/ white systems to hold the line for justice. The ability to tolerate the discomfort that comes from principled conflict is unbelievably low
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The Onion
about 1 month ago
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time
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Michael Hobbes
about 1 month ago
This makes me absolutely incandescent
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Parker Molloy
about 1 month ago
So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI! This is truly insane. Total unreality.
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Amy Westervelt
about 1 month ago
A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Dan Sheehan
about 1 month ago
The idea that networked communication's unavoidable endpoint as being "a highly efficient manufacturer of niche suicide cults" is really spot on to how it feels to be on here right now, so many people seeking oblivion in one way or another
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Mary Shannon
about 2 months ago
If you heard this from a guy in dirty pants on the subway, the Republicans would use it as an example of how dangerous cities are. We have such a poor understanding of mental health in this country that broad swaths of people just do not realize they are seeing delusional disorders in real time.
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Carl Quintanilla
2 months ago
In speeches, Vought spoke of âdemoralizing federal workers to the point that they donât want to do their jobs.â â.. we want them to not want to go .. because they are.. viewed as the villains,â he said. âWe want to put them in trauma.â from 2024:
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Nikki
2 months ago
Robert Morris, Texas megachurch pastor, pleads guilty to sexually abusing a child
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Robert Morris, Texas megachurch pastor, pleads guilty to sexually abusing a child
Under a negotiated plea agreement, he was given a ten year sentence, but he will only serve six months of that sentence.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/robert-morris-guilty-child-sexual-abuse-texas-megachurch-pastor-rcna234748
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Kyle Griffin
2 months ago
Jeffrey Epstein never got kicked out of Wall Street's VIP club. Epstein's banking and investment activities in the years before his 2019 death were more widespread than previously known â including accounts at several banks as well as large transactions with well-known hedge funds.
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Exclusive | The Wall Street Firms That Kept Ties With Jeffrey Epstein Until the End
From TD Bank to Honeycomb Partners, several hedge funds and banks were linked to the wealthy sex offender.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/jeffrey-epstein-wealth-89bf772f?mod=hp_lead_pos1
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Second Ave. Sagas
2 months ago
The initial Times write up does not mention that the feds are now alleging that the MTA's compliance with federal regulations is unconstitutional, a laughable assertion on its face, the feds attempted to re-write the rule last night, and that this grant pause is illegal. All of these are facts.
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Jake Berman
2 months ago
This is naked extortion. The so-called "unlawful DEI principles" that this Vought fellow is on about? They're required by law. Every Administration since Reagan has signed off on it. Including Trump I.
www.transportation.gov/civil-rights...
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Acyn
2 months ago
AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance However, they are weaker than they lookâŠ
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eileen chengyin chow
2 months ago
The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
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National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/09/23/B3ZEYVBMNBDMRHJL5SP7SJOLAI/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNFD0pleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETEwTXFDWlNHMW53b1JYeWtRAR6V8x5LAZN5dVoEgFMldFSwOPLYQINc6MHEyd8gXuMn6rzGrGz5N173OUUIvg_aem_w2CmH92vGXbEx2Q9Pac4-g
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Moira Donegan
2 months ago
âMale lonelinessâ is a vague, empirically unfalsifiable Potemkin village of an argument meant to smuggle yet more anti feminism into popular consensus.
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Doug Gordon
2 months ago
âThe Mamdani administration will allocate $20 million per year to ensure that every school can have an Open Street. This money will support additional programming, operational support, and maintenance to ensure each child has access to clean, safe, and fun spaceâevery day.â
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Green Schools for a Healthier New York City
Green Schools for a Healthier New York City Children deserve to inherit a safe, healthy world. The Mamdani administration will fight to protect New Yorkers from the present and future impacts of the c...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EE0TS9OtIn_uthXC0F831Kxoz5k2HA6G7yaXyNx_994/edit?tab=t.g1jotssk9q8x
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Prof Mike Yearworth
3 months ago
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html
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Barack Obama
3 months ago
This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent â and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.
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Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/business/media/washington-post-charlie-kirk-karen-attiah.html
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Barack Obama
3 months ago
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesnât like.
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Letâs be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trumpâs most brazen attack on free speech yet.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/let-clear-happened-jimmy-kimmel-025000655.html
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Prisonculture
3 months ago
I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.
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Kate Tuttle
3 months ago
I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.
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Frozen Nuggs
3 months ago
Fascists work by misdiagnosing problems and having solutions that only solidify their power.
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Anthony Michael Kreis
3 months ago
Mamdani Holds Huge Lead in Mayorâs Race, Times/Siena Poll Finds
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/n...
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Mamdani Holds Huge Lead in Mayorâs Race, Times/Siena Poll Finds
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/nyregion/mayor-poll-mamdani-cuomo.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Asawin Suebsaeng
3 months ago
Yes
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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The Supreme Court Is Trump's Partner in Crimes Against America
The Supreme Court just allowed Trumpâs immigration thugs to question people on the streets if theyâre speaking Spanish or working as day laborers.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/supreme-court-trump-partner-crime-america-1235423581/
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jamelle
3 months ago
basically trumpâs âIf I Did Itâ
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jamelle
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
3 months ago
Todayâs news confirms it: Cuomo is Trumpâs choice for Mayor. The White House is considering jobs for Adams and Sliwa to clear the field. New Yorkers are sick of corrupt politics and backroom deals. No matter whoâs running, we will deliver a better future on November 4.
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Trump Advisers Have Discussed a Job for Adams if He Quits Mayorâs Race
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/nyregion/trump-adams-sliwa-quit-nyc-mayor.html
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Paul F. Tompkins
3 months ago
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you donât fool me
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David Roberts
3 months ago
Science: Trump supporters are assholes.
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Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism
Support for Donald Trump is linked to darker personality traits, including increased psychopathy and decreased empathy, new research finds. The study also connects conservative political beliefs to lo...
https://www.psypost.org/trump-supporters-report-higher-levels-of-psychopathy-manipulativeness-callousness-and-narcissism/
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Justin Hendrix
3 months ago
WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteranâs paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.
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A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich
âErik, youâre not crazy.â ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteranâs paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-ai-stein-erik-soelberg-murder-suicide-6b67dbfb?st=Hp4Ajw&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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