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The fact that the United States has a federal department named after a meme should tell you everything you need to know.
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Hypervisible
24 days ago
“Ironically, while naming AI psychosis might seem like a step toward addressing an emerging, unmet public health need, this term easily becomes a distraction from the underlying problem it exposes — by pathologizing users instead of penalizing companies.”
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Sara
24 days ago
I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.
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BLAKE 🏝 🔜 MFF
26 days ago
Having lived through two cat 5 Caribbean hurricanes: Jamaica will require aid for years. The devastation's hard to overstate. This is our new norm under climate change. Infra like elec/water will be disrupted for weeks for critical locations, months for residents. DO NOT DONATE TO USA RED CROSS.
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how am I just realizing that Mamdani's mother is Mira Nair?!?
26 days ago
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Damn. Not even one response. Back in the day I woulda got at least 6 😔 if not much more.
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Nancy Friedman
28 days ago
Stop hiring humans? Don't stop hiring humans? Make up your minds! (Photos by me in San Francisco, October 25, 2025)
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Okay y'all, some friends got pretty bad news recently. please send/share 🎶 tunes to help — any genre: house, EDM, reggae, alternative, rock, indie, hip-hop, whatever. 🙏🏽
#music
#community
30 days ago
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Alejandra Caraballo
about 1 month ago
Writing up my thoughts on this into a long piece. The one thing that worries me is that large scale protests in competitive authoritarian regimes often precede authoritarian consolidation rather than a reversal of autocracy. Russia, Hungary, Turkey also saw large protests before backsliding further.
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Dammit Apple. I never upgrade my OS because you always break ish. I just mistakenly/begrudgingly upgraded to Tahoe and now my music library is in shambles. JFC. WTF.
about 1 month ago
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Jon Cooper
about 1 month ago
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KáLyn Coghill, PhD.
about 1 month ago
For my friend's dissertation: Looking for Black girls between 10-24 years old to take a dissertation survey on positive messages they hear about themselves in general and in hip hop. Chance to win a gift card. 20-40 mins to complete. Please see the flyer for info!
#Blackademics
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Indivisible ❌👑
about 1 month ago
This is what democracy looks like.
#NoKings
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Axel Bruns
about 1 month ago
And so we learn that the Portuguese word for enshittification is merdificacão. 🤣
#AoIR2025
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Tory Stephens
about 1 month ago
Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/t...
#Tariffs
#Consumers
#Economy
#Business
#Bills
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Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says
The firm said its estimate of additional expenses for companies is probably conservative.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/tariff-costs-to-companies-this-year-to-hit-1point2-trillion-with-consumers-taking-most-of-the-hit-sp-says.html
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Tilly Bridges
about 1 month ago
spotify pays millions to transphobic anti-vaxxer Joe Rogan and so my production company pulled all our podcasts off the service years ago and never looked back they “pay” fractions of pennies to every musician there too consider finding a better service shouldn’t be hard when the bar’s this low!
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Helen Kennedy
about 1 month ago
This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.
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Ify Nwadiwe
about 1 month ago
I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
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Jon of The North
about 1 month ago
Keep in mind that ICE now has a budget larger than every military in the world except the US and Chinese militaries. Things are going to get much worse. I'm not saying this to create fear, it's fact. The administration is at war with Americans.
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Hypervisible
about 1 month ago
Dystopia now comes with a Halloween costume.
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Ring puts a fun twist on the surveillance state with security camera Halloween costumes.
Amazon now sells its new $200 4K Outdoor Cam Pro with your choice of one of five free Halloween camera costumes, or you can 3D print your own. Sticking a camouflaged camera behind your bowl could be a...
https://www.theverge.com/news/798203/ring-4k-outdoor-cam-pro-candy-camera-halloween-costume
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Lauren MacIvor Thompson
about 1 month ago
I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.
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Your Tiny Journalist Friend.
about 2 months ago
I took this photo of a sniper on a roof in Ferguson 11 years ago on this day. And now there are snipers on a roof in Broadview.
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Heather Froehlich
about 2 months ago
ITHAKA S&R has started a Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker
sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen...
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Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker - Ithaka S+R
In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs. These deals
https://sr.ithaka.org/our-work/generative-ai-licensing-agreement-tracker/
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cait (and adonis)
3 months ago
my sister googled "fun things to do in Boston this weekend" and it told her to go sit on Storrow Drive and watch a bunch of college kids peel their rented Penske moving trucks open like tin cans
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Marisa Kabas
3 months ago
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so
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and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
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Officer repeatedly seen on camera in DC crackdown shows Trump agents' impunity
US Park Police officer Patrick O’Hanlon isn’t unique in his behavior. He just got caught.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/parks-officer-ohanlon-camera-trump-dc-crackdown
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Sarah J. Jackson
3 months ago
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
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wow. hadn't been in here for 3 weeks. didn't really miss it. welcome back to the beginning of school.
3 months ago
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my arroz con pollo is The Bomb.
#nom
3 months ago
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cuando tu sabes, tu sabes. sabes?
3 months ago
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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator
3 months ago
This is an example where the problem is not so much the capabilities of LLMs as it is the fact that we have independently normalized a widespread culture of acceptable lying
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Apostolos K.
4 months ago
France wildfire is 'catastrophe on an unprecedented scale', says PM
www.bbc.com/news/art...
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France wildfire: Blaze is 'catastrophe on an unprecedented scale'
The huge wildfire is the largest in France so far this year and has burned an area larger than Paris.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6y803pjkwo
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Nanoraptor
4 months ago
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i hope she knows...
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MONSIEUR NOV -TROP FRESH (OFFICIEL VIDEO)
YouTube video by Nov (MonsieurNov)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lojuEqek8ZM
4 months ago
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“Down to here”. Eddie Murphy. Mid-80s.
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4 months ago
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Palantir and Starlink should be considered a threat by every government agency foreign and domestic. Thiel and Musk (both Apartheid babies) do not care about governments or international law.
4 months ago
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Alex Gil
4 months ago
Good read on sustainibility of a very particular pedagogical model with lessons for those in the business of teaching DH.
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Timothy Burke
4 months ago
2 Chainz sampled Tom Lehrer's The Old Dope Peddler 60 years after it had been recorded. Lehrer's response to the license request: "As sole copyright owner of 'The Old Dope Peddler', I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?" RIP TOM
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Alondra Nelson
4 months ago
Read this interview with a personal hero, Professor
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: "we have essentially presumed that data collection is a good...We have long ignored this important inclination that collection itself is endangering our privacy and civil liberties"
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5 questions for Danielle Citron
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2025/07/25/5-questions-for-danielle-citron-00477042
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What. And I mean this. In thee entire. Fuck.
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4 months ago
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Brandon 🤖🔨
4 months ago
Credit cards are very convenient and all, but it's crazy that we've just accepted that there will be a(nother) middleman in every single transaction taking 2-3% out while allowing a couple of companies to know about every single purchase we make.
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This Is Not yesterdays news of 100 Palestinians killed trying to get flour. Genocide is an understatement.
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4 months ago
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Aaron Tay
4 months ago
I tested it in Primo Research Assistant, not surprising, I got similar results since Summon Research Assistant is sister product and both work the same by using LLM to generate Boolean search strategy. Gaza war shows no results. Tusla Race riots get a scary error message but does generate answer(1)
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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈
4 months ago
We've been seeing light probes for SharePpoint `/_layouts/*` for a cpl wks & an extra minor burst from the 19th on from these IPs (1 of which is "new*" to GN): 185.177.72.8 49.36.215.199 172.174.82.132 206.238.198.198 45.15.167.151 45.15.167.149* 45.130.86.2 141.255.164.12 194.88.100.206 Block'em.
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Honestly surprised and doubtful they can’t already do this.
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4 months ago
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Ian Coldwater 📦💥
4 months ago
Amazon Ring is introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices. Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire
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Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance
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LOX and Poppa, turning niggas into Jim Hoffa. Who gon’ stop us? Your last joint double copper.
4 months ago
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rom comrade
4 months ago
"But you cannot separate the technological artefacts from the fact that the process of building these technologies mirror racial capitalism and coloniality, employ global labor exploitation and extractive practices, and reinforce the global north and south divide." I will never stop shouting this.
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Hypervisible
4 months ago
“By the end of the year, Delta plans for 20% of its ticket prices to be individually determined using AI, president Glen Hauenstein told investors last week.” “Over time, the goal is to do away with static pricing altogether…”
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Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket
The airline touted a partnership with an AI-enabled revenue system as a step on the road to fully personalized ticket pricing, part of its goal to raise profit margins long-term.
https://fortune.com/2025/07/16/delta-moves-toward-eliminating-set-prices-in-favor-of-ai-that-determines-how-much-you-personally-will-pay-for-a-ticket/
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Hari Kunzru
4 months ago
I have begun to think (on the model of France) about the idea of a Third Republic - 1st is 1776, 2nd since the Civil War. US institutions have been so degraded and legitimacy so eroded that I think we can say it will take a new founding for the project to continue
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I cried for the first time in a long time today. Make of that what you will.
#DoE
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