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she, her, and sometimes y a comforting porridge for the masses
after seeing the most pristine sounding post-rock show in maybe 5 years last night: are taiwanese sound engineers just that good? or are americans just all deaf?
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.
3 days ago
1859: Abolitionist John Brown is the 1st American executed for treason. His crime? Freeing the enslaved And the 2nd? Aaron Dwight Stevens, 29yo. Served Brown during the attempted slave revolt at Harpers Ferry, VA A stark reminder that legality is not always a measure of justice, but power.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
3 days ago
lol
thehardtimes.net/music/new-sp...
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New Spotify Wrapped Feature Shows How Much of Your Money Went to Funding AI Warfare Technology
Spotify released its popular annual year-end “Wrapped” feature which gives users a snapshot of their music and podcast listening trends along with a new feature that shows how much of their money went...
https://thehardtimes.net/music/new-spotify-wrapped-feature-shows-how-much-of-your-money-went-to-funding-ai-warfare-technology/
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every transit system ought to be as delightful as a 3 minute headway on a sunday
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Karen Attiah
8 days ago
Hellllll yesss
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give good people money for their excellent products and services.
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Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times. james blake godspeed you! black emperor tim hecker kendrick lamar sleepytime gorilla museum
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"our town" is a hell of an x-files episode to watch today
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dear signal, precisely 0 people want polls in their e2e encrypted messaging platform
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chillin so hard my ass almost froze off
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blinded by headlights? how about: blinded by LED stage lighting? i straight up put on sunglasses the last time i went to a show. diffusion in household LED bulbs finally caught on; why can't they do something about stage lighting? don't get me started about shit being too loud even with earplugs on
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remember answering machines? remember album interludes composed of answering machine messages?
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"when does the human cost become too high for the building of a better machine?"
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caylen
24 days ago
a “Space Force”, if you will
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the man who sold the world? 🔲 bowie 🔲 cobain
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rooting for you, nyc!
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normalize posting accurate set times
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Hypervisible
about 1 month ago
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
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Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5577963/guillermo-del-toro-frankenstein
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hear me out: nonsmoking hiphop shows where they just hand out edibles beforehand
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normalizing posting set times before the show.
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Marco Rogers
about 1 month ago
White people watching the White House get demolished: How could he do this?! Black people watching the White House get demolished, while knowing it was built with slave labor: I mean... ok.
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vijay iyer
about 2 months ago
For all you nyc photobugs out there, I'm playing a solo piano set in the atrium of Grand Central Station Saturday at 10pm for Brandon Stanton's "Humans of NY" - i might be inaudible amid the throngs but it should be a pretty cool kodak moment nonetheless!
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/bran...
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A 'Love Letter' to the City, Humans of New York Takes Over Grand Central
Brandon Stanton's 'Dear New York' debuted earlier this month at Grand Central Terminal with his iconic portraits.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/brandon-stanton-dear-new-york/
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feeling an earthquake and the usgs website returning 503 is the most 2025 thing i could have imagined
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shit, damn, motherfucker 💔
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
2 months ago
I refuse to treat an AI generated avatar as a human while people who are very definitely human in every way are not being treated like humans.
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you're not going to convince me otherwise. that pitchfork list has got to be AI slop.
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lightning storms happen here so infrequently that it could only be a sign of the end times
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a summary of today: 🦵🦵 💪💪 💉💉 🍦🍦
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
3 months ago
Most editorial comments I want to make about this will get me in trouble so let me just say, trans people are precious and segregationists can go fuuuuuuuuck themselves A Black and Asian woman shilling for segregation is SHAMEFUL
www.them.us/story/kamala...
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Kamala Harris Says She Has “Concerns” About Trans Student Athletes
The former vice president said that the Trump campaign mischaracterized her in its “Harris Is for They/Them” campaign ad.
https://www.them.us/story/kamala-harris-trans-student-athletes-position-concerns
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several friends and i are having a conversation how this is the first earthquake in a long time that triggered feelings of "is this going to be like 1989"
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is the hayward fault on bsky
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leaving the roots show and someone out here saying their first album was 1994.
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if we were in the good place, dogs would outlive us.
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Emily M. Bender
4 months ago
<3 this review of The AI Con, not least for the phrase "Slopholm Syndrome"
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Never mind the botlickers, ‘AI’ is just normal technology
We desire existential certainty in this world of complexity and amid our sense of powerlessness, but turning to the new oracles isn’t a solution
https://mg.co.za/thought-leader/opinion/2025-08-17-never-mind-the-botlickers-ai-is-just-normal-technology/
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KNEEL BEFORE ZOD, as the general has finally ascended.
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Gregg Gonsalves
4 months ago
"While much of the media is obsessed with the art of the deal—the terms of surrender to Donald Trump being offered up by major universities around the country—this transactional lens obscures the fact that 'this isn’t negotiation. It’s authoritarian extortion.'”
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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If We Want to Save Public Health, We Need to Get Out of Our Bubble
The struggle to save public health and biomedical research in the US must be seen as part of a global battle against antidemocratic forces.
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/public-health-democracy-movement/
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Phil Mandelbaum
4 months ago
ICYMI: Amazon still doing Amazon things The company is not only reintroducing new versions of old features that allow police to access footage from Ring users Amazon is introducing a new Ring feature that will allow police to request *livestream* access to our home security devices.
@eff.org
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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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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition)
4 months ago
This site helps people find radio stations hit by the public media funding cuts--in addition to your home outlets, people might consider donating to rural stations as they will be hit much harder than urban public radio
adoptastation.org
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Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media
Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.
https://adoptastation.org/
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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦
4 months ago
Please consider giving to the Astoria Food Pantry, which serves immigrants in Queens, many of whom have been prevented from going to work because of fear of ICE raids. The line of those waiting for food was down the block when I passed by today.
www.astoriafoodpantry.com/donate-money...
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Jeff Yang
4 months ago
Them anti-affirmative action Asians were just so sure the white supremacists were on their side because “meritocracy”
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jamelle
4 months ago
when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
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Elizabeth Lopatto
5 months ago
The scale and speed of ICE Air allows the agency to move detainees faster than courts can react — even, or perhaps especially, in the case of wrongful deportations.
www.theverge.com/planes/70247...
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The brutal realities of ICE Air
ICE Air operates with speed and brutality.
https://www.theverge.com/planes/702479/ice-air-trump-mass-deportation-charter-airlines
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Joe Katz
5 months ago
Highly recommend these mutual aid orgs. GoFundMe has also set up a landing page for verified fundraisers for those affected by the flooding here:
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race really is a construct! also, shout out to ethnic studies departments fighting the good fight to do exactly this
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5 months ago
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lunch is a german sandwich from an eritrean cafe because this is america, bitches.
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wishing for a future with freedom from tyranny, fear, and suffering to everyone i love, and even those i don’t, and that is something worth celebrating.
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