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Dave Parisi
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Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics
Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc
Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk
Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1
Mostly reformed goth
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"JPMorgan on Monday said building AI infrastructure will cost more than $5tn"

Crazy idea: Why not, rather than spending $5 TRILLION dollars to pay for data centers to create fake brains, just pay actual human beings with real brains that same $5 trillion?
"Investors have been selling off the debt of US tech heavyweights, showing how jitters over Silicon Valley’s boom in spending on artificial intelligence have spilled into the bond market."
Investor angst over Big Tech’s AI spending spills into bond market
Debt issued by groups building data centres has been hit in recent weeks
www.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Honestly believe that using 'alpha' like this is a foolproof Shibboleth for douchebaggery.

Normal human beings in finance (all three of them) do not do this.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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The Trump administration State Department is taking money that's supposed to be used for helping vulnerable refugees around the world and using it to bribe corrupt governments into taking people that ICE can't deport to their home countries.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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trust is neither given nor earned. it forms naturally between people who share the experience of having listened to Skinny Puppy at or after 3 am in the dark by themselves
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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so, today I got the surgery center where I got my deviated septum fixed to send me an itemized bill so I could submit to my FSA for reimbursement

my out of pocket cost: $473

what my insurance paid: $4258

what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
I was at an event yesterday where Rand Paul spoke via video and talked about how great it was to send ACA money "directly to the people" so that they could work collectively to get better deals on health care.
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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In my comics class today, I talked about Billy Graham (1935-1997), artist for Black Panther in the early '70s (and the first African-American artist to work for Marvel) who brought some incredible style to the idiom of comic art. #comics #comicshistory
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Reskeet with an iconic fictional band:
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Song of the day: Rhea’s Obsession, “Death by Moonlight”

rheasobsession.bandcamp.com/track/death-...
Death By Moonlight, by Rhea's Obsession
from the album Re: Initiation
rheasobsession.bandcamp.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Whenever someone says "Scott Galloway has some good ideas" I immediately exit the conversation, this is a nice validation of that practice.
ALSO TODAY: @mariabustillos.com on Scott Galloway's take on the Masculinity Crisis and his prescription for “aspirational masculinity” which "boils down to subjugating women, only a little bit less and a little more politely than his alt-right brethren would." flaminghydra.com/alone-in-the...
Alone in the Manosphere
The New Yorker’s Jessica Winter this week dissected Scott Galloway’s new book on masculinity, Notes on Being a Man, with an expert scalpel. According to Winter, Galloway tacitly agrees with right-wing...
flaminghydra.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Okay the Adama maneuver skeet has me inspired

Battlestar Galactica: this is a cautionary tale about creating the humanoid robot slaves

Robotics companies in 2025: at long last, we have created the humanoid robot slaves from

youtu.be/pHUEYIE_MZA
Battlestar Galactica | Epilogue (150,000 years later)
YouTube video by Battlestar Galactica
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Interesting that NY gov Kathy Hochul felt compelled to put out a statement against Dems' deal to end the shutdown
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Assistant Professor of 20th-21st Century British Literature (with an emphasis on literatures of the diaspora) at UMass Amherst.

careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
Details - Assistant Professor of English: 20th-21st Century British Literature | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
careers.umass.edu
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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You are 61, you have had a heart bypass, a knee replacement. Here's $2000. Get negotiating.
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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regular content updates for years because that is what the gamers who bought it for $5 in a sale deserve.
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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It’s genuinely incredible a political party would build up such a groundswell of momentum with a shutdown and massive landslide political victories across the country only to turn around and gut punch the entire country. It’s such a disaster. It’s such an incomprehensible self inflicted disaster
The democrats are supposed to be a pressure release valve for social inequity and with that gone… good luck
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Tomorrow at NYU! I'll be talking about Beautiful Mystery with Elayne Oliphant, a brilliant scholar and wonderful friend. You don't actually need an NYU ID to get in. @dukepress.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers.

“If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” one commander says.

It’s a genocide.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Lots going on but from outside it seems that at least part of the calculus was that flight disruption for middle class and up travelers matters more than life disruption for untold numbers who’ll be deprived of health care.
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Credit where due, fucking with air travel was genius MAGA move. It impacts upper & middle class and, more importantly, a powerful business interest. Starving millions of poor people doesn't piss off Wall St.
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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this sort of thing doesn’t end until a couple centrist senators go down in flames in a primary

time to get some guys without nazi tattoos and get on that
November 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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If a budget deal goes through without restoring Medicaid & ACA subsidies, they will never be restored.

That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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I really liked Predator: Badlands, but just once I'd like to see the Weyland/Yutani Corporation catch a break. Won't someone please think of the shareholders.
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM