elliott
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Thinking about Chappell’s excellent acceptance speech and I keep coming back to Fiona Apple “This World is Bullshit”. Still gives me chills! youtu.be/RVHQJlogH0k?...
Fiona Apple's Speech: "This World Is Bullshit"
YouTube video by i'll be running around
youtu.be
February 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Thinking about Chappell’s excellent acceptance speech and I keep coming back to Fiona Apple “This World is Bullshit”. Still gives me chills! youtu.be/RVHQJlogH0k?...
It truly is the logical end of the Silicon Valley mindset: the richest highest IQ alpha man on performance enhancing drugs IS the state personified
Our deep dive into Musk's takeover: Even some officials who like what Musk is doing feel helpless to hold him accountable. His allies are diving in to agencies, gaining access to systems, planning layoffs, and proposing a sweeping AI initiative to review contracts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
Inside Musk’s Aggressive Incursion Into the Federal Government (Gift Article)
The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
It truly is the logical end of the Silicon Valley mindset: the richest highest IQ alpha man on performance enhancing drugs IS the state personified
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it really is appropriate to view this as potentially the biggest privacy and cybersecurity scandal in American history
“Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer who has been tapped to lead a technology team at G.S.A., told some staff members that he hoped to put all federal contracts into a centralized system so they could be analyzed by artificial intelligence”
Our deep dive into Musk's takeover: Even some officials who like what Musk is doing feel helpless to hold him accountable. His allies are diving in to agencies, gaining access to systems, planning layoffs, and proposing a sweeping AI initiative to review contracts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
February 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
it really is appropriate to view this as potentially the biggest privacy and cybersecurity scandal in American history
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twitter just removed this design + locked my account for the next 12 hours
February 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
twitter just removed this design + locked my account for the next 12 hours
Gay guy music video night is BACK!! youtu.be/vBynw9Isr28?...
Lady Gaga - Abracadabra (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by LadyGagaVEVO
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February 3, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Gay guy music video night is BACK!! youtu.be/vBynw9Isr28?...
going to start cryptically regime-posting until our nightmare is over
February 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
going to start cryptically regime-posting until our nightmare is over
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ACT UP, 1990
January 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
ACT UP, 1990
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BREAKING: Secretary of State Blinken Is Sitting on Staff Recommendations to Sanction Israeli Military Units Linked to Killings, Rapes
A special State Dept panel told Blinken the US should restrict arms sales to Israeli military units credibly accused of human rights abuses. He has not taken action.
A special State Dept panel told Blinken the US should restrict arms sales to Israeli military units credibly accused of human rights abuses. He has not taken action.
Blinken Is Sitting on Staff Recommendations to Sanction Israeli Military Units Linked to Killings or Rapes
A special State Department panel told Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the U.S. should restrict arms sales to Israeli military units that have been credibly accused of human rights abuses. He ha...
www.propublica.org
April 17, 2024 at 8:23 PM
BREAKING: Secretary of State Blinken Is Sitting on Staff Recommendations to Sanction Israeli Military Units Linked to Killings, Rapes
A special State Dept panel told Blinken the US should restrict arms sales to Israeli military units credibly accused of human rights abuses. He has not taken action.
A special State Dept panel told Blinken the US should restrict arms sales to Israeli military units credibly accused of human rights abuses. He has not taken action.
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Incredible that someone would say this out loud but I’m glad he did. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
April 2, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Incredible that someone would say this out loud but I’m glad he did. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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Quite the #Oscars image by @vpsreports.bsky.social
March 11, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Quite the #Oscars image by @vpsreports.bsky.social
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I'm happy to announce that Chirag Shah & my paper "Envisioning Information Access Systems: What Makes for Good Tools and a Healthy Web?" is now available through ACM TWeb. A short thread of introduction:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Envisioning Information Access Systems: What Makes for Good Tools and a Healthy Web? | ACM Transactions on the Web
We observe a recent trend towards applying large language models (LLMs) in search and positioning them as effective information access systems. While the interfaces may look appealing and the apparent breadth of applicability is exciting, we are concerned ...
dl.acm.org
February 27, 2024 at 7:15 PM
I'm happy to announce that Chirag Shah & my paper "Envisioning Information Access Systems: What Makes for Good Tools and a Healthy Web?" is now available through ACM TWeb. A short thread of introduction:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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This is a cult of death
There's cotton candy at the starvation party. This is what severe societal mental illness looks like.
February 27, 2024 at 4:06 PM
This is a cult of death
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Please everyone make sure to be responsible in using this Indiana Tattale-a-Teacher website to which you can *UPLOAD FILES*
Indiana AG's new "report a teacher" portal is truly something else. Not only can people upload "supporting documentation", but there's a curated collection of those documents for users to browse. It's a state funded website to facilitate targeted hate campaigns.
www.in.gov/attorneygene...
www.in.gov/attorneygene...
Eyes on Education
www.in.gov
February 17, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Please everyone make sure to be responsible in using this Indiana Tattale-a-Teacher website to which you can *UPLOAD FILES*
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Indiana AG's new "report a teacher" portal is truly something else. Not only can people upload "supporting documentation", but there's a curated collection of those documents for users to browse. It's a state funded website to facilitate targeted hate campaigns.
www.in.gov/attorneygene...
www.in.gov/attorneygene...
Eyes on Education
www.in.gov
February 17, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Indiana AG's new "report a teacher" portal is truly something else. Not only can people upload "supporting documentation", but there's a curated collection of those documents for users to browse. It's a state funded website to facilitate targeted hate campaigns.
www.in.gov/attorneygene...
www.in.gov/attorneygene...
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I’ve been covering the “He Gets Us” Jesus PR campaign since 2022. I was the first or at least one of the first to expose it as a right-wing evangelical recruitment effort, though RD and I didn’t get credit when bigger outlets picked the story up
religiondispatches.org/behind-the-i...
religiondispatches.org/behind-the-i...
Behind the Inclusive-Sounding Ads of this $100 Million PR-Blitz-for-Jesus it's the Same Old Conservative Christian Fantasy
This month, a $100 million advertising campaign and website have been launched nationwide to help a particular figure rebrand. In the current climate, just who, do you think, might warrant such a mass...
religiondispatches.org
February 11, 2024 at 8:54 PM
I’ve been covering the “He Gets Us” Jesus PR campaign since 2022. I was the first or at least one of the first to expose it as a right-wing evangelical recruitment effort, though RD and I didn’t get credit when bigger outlets picked the story up
religiondispatches.org/behind-the-i...
religiondispatches.org/behind-the-i...
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Totally anonymous poster who claims to work at Boeing gives a plausible explanation for what happened and why
"Unplanned" removal, installation inspection procedure at Boeing - Leeham News and Analysis
By the Leeham News Team Jan. 15, 2024, © Leeham News: It’s not supposed to happen. The door plug on the Boeing 737-9 MAX isn’t supposed to separate from the airplane in flight, as it did on Alask...
leehamnews.com
January 23, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Totally anonymous poster who claims to work at Boeing gives a plausible explanation for what happened and why
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do i know anyone in the bay area who would like to adopt a cat? he is 3 years old, very friendly and cuddly, fixed, can live happily with other cats. he is being abandoned (happy to share more privately) and i would really like to help this guy find a safe place to land!
January 12, 2024 at 11:18 PM
do i know anyone in the bay area who would like to adopt a cat? he is 3 years old, very friendly and cuddly, fixed, can live happily with other cats. he is being abandoned (happy to share more privately) and i would really like to help this guy find a safe place to land!
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An ancient holy banger
December 24, 2023 at 4:05 PM
An ancient holy banger
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Californians, your local tenants’ org could always use help/donations, but *especially* now. For my fellow Oaklanders, Oakland Tenants Union is great and linked to below.
November 27, 2023 at 6:03 PM
Californians, your local tenants’ org could always use help/donations, but *especially* now. For my fellow Oaklanders, Oakland Tenants Union is great and linked to below.
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reposting for posterity
November 21, 2023 at 10:01 PM
reposting for posterity
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It’s incredibly dangerous how the richest man in the world — deluded by paranoia, narcissism, and far-right conspiracies — can get arms of the state to go after his perceived enemies instead of holding him to account as they should be doing.
November 21, 2023 at 1:25 AM
It’s incredibly dangerous how the richest man in the world — deluded by paranoia, narcissism, and far-right conspiracies — can get arms of the state to go after his perceived enemies instead of holding him to account as they should be doing.
“the internal materials…reveal an underlying tension between potentially life-and-death engineering problems and the effort to deliver the future as quickly as possible.”
THIS is the story, the rest always follows! Absolute insanity to trust a silicon valley co with “safety”
THIS is the story, the rest always follows! Absolute insanity to trust a silicon valley co with “safety”
Every well-meaning self-driving car advocate has been a pawn of giant corporations that couldn't give a shit about their cars running over kids.
theintercept.com/2023/11/06/c...
theintercept.com/2023/11/06/c...
Cruise Knew Its Self-Driving Cars Had Problems Recognizing Children — and Kept Them on the Streets
Cruise, General Motors’ self-driving division, knew its cars sometimes had problems detecting children — but kept the vehicles on the road.
theintercept.com
November 7, 2023 at 5:22 AM
“the internal materials…reveal an underlying tension between potentially life-and-death engineering problems and the effort to deliver the future as quickly as possible.”
THIS is the story, the rest always follows! Absolute insanity to trust a silicon valley co with “safety”
THIS is the story, the rest always follows! Absolute insanity to trust a silicon valley co with “safety”