Okay Gugu
@guguspeaks.bsky.social
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Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
Hoping that @molly.wiki can help explain.
Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others
January 15, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
“The fight is not between labor and markets. It is between two stories of the market: one where power is legitimate for some, and one where power becomes illegitimate the moment workers discover they can wield it too.”
January 6, 2026 at 6:32 AM
“The fight is not between labor and markets. It is between two stories of the market: one where power is legitimate for some, and one where power becomes illegitimate the moment workers discover they can wield it too.”
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“The real question is not whether labor is anti-market. It is why a labor-dependent business pushes a large share of risk onto workers and society while retaining most of the control..” - Santosh Desai
“The real question is not whether labor is anti-market. It is why a labor-dependent business pushes a large share of risk onto workers and society while retaining most of the control..” - Santosh Desai
Whose Gig is it anyway?
Is the gig economy all that different from the informal economy? The question matters because labels smuggle in theories. ‘Gig economy’ arrives with a particular story: flexibility, choice, entreprene...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:31 AM
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“The real question is not whether labor is anti-market. It is why a labor-dependent business pushes a large share of risk onto workers and society while retaining most of the control..” - Santosh Desai
“The real question is not whether labor is anti-market. It is why a labor-dependent business pushes a large share of risk onto workers and society while retaining most of the control..” - Santosh Desai
www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum... “Donald Trump is a dictator now…The strike on Venezuela was a dictate, nothing more. There was zero effort to rally the American people behind him, zero effort to seek Congressional input, and zero concern over the illegality of this operation” @willbunch.bsky.social
America launches its 250th birthday year by becoming a rogue state | Will Bunch
Trump's illegal war on Venezuela cemented his claim to dictatorship and marked the U.S. as a global pariah.
www.inquirer.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:34 AM
www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum... “Donald Trump is a dictator now…The strike on Venezuela was a dictate, nothing more. There was zero effort to rally the American people behind him, zero effort to seek Congressional input, and zero concern over the illegality of this operation” @willbunch.bsky.social
peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/03/t... “Trump will get his standing ovation at the US Congress, but the price for that has already been paid by hundreds of dead civilians in Venezuela and millions more who are struggling to survive…” - Taroa Zúñiga Silva and @vijayprashad.bsky.social
The United States attacks Venezuela and kidnaps its president in an illegal operation : Peoples Dispatch
The attack on January 3 is part of the US war that began in 2001 and will continue long after the engines of the Chinook helicopters cool down.
peoplesdispatch.org
January 5, 2026 at 6:19 AM
peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/03/t... “Trump will get his standing ovation at the US Congress, but the price for that has already been paid by hundreds of dead civilians in Venezuela and millions more who are struggling to survive…” - Taroa Zúñiga Silva and @vijayprashad.bsky.social
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-are-the... “What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today.” @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
We Are the Bad Guys
The swaggering threat to global stability is us.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:14 AM
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-are-the... “What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today.” @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
Helpful articles on Venezuela I’ve read in the past day:
hegemon.substack.com/p/venezuela-... “After all, great power competition implies rivalry, zero-sum conflict, strategic maneuvering against other great powers. What’s emerging instead looks more like a hegemonic carve-up.” @seva.bsky.social
hegemon.substack.com/p/venezuela-... “After all, great power competition implies rivalry, zero-sum conflict, strategic maneuvering against other great powers. What’s emerging instead looks more like a hegemonic carve-up.” @seva.bsky.social
Venezuela Is a Gift to Putin
and a harbinger of more Russian aggression in Europe
hegemon.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Helpful articles on Venezuela I’ve read in the past day:
hegemon.substack.com/p/venezuela-... “After all, great power competition implies rivalry, zero-sum conflict, strategic maneuvering against other great powers. What’s emerging instead looks more like a hegemonic carve-up.” @seva.bsky.social
hegemon.substack.com/p/venezuela-... “After all, great power competition implies rivalry, zero-sum conflict, strategic maneuvering against other great powers. What’s emerging instead looks more like a hegemonic carve-up.” @seva.bsky.social
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This has been the default imperialist position for centuries, so really the oddity was that brief period of comfortable unipolar hegemony where it seemed gauche to say it out loud. No clearer sign of late imperial anxiety than the contemporary return of this old ass monocle and pith helmet blather
On X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇
January 5, 2026 at 1:34 AM
This has been the default imperialist position for centuries, so really the oddity was that brief period of comfortable unipolar hegemony where it seemed gauche to say it out loud. No clearer sign of late imperial anxiety than the contemporary return of this old ass monocle and pith helmet blather
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really tired of seeing claims that our illegal kidnapping of the Venezuelan president is to "distract" us from the Epstein files. Trump and the men around him have wanted this for a long time. this is a bad thing in its own right, not some attempt to hide from accountability
January 5, 2026 at 3:26 AM
really tired of seeing claims that our illegal kidnapping of the Venezuelan president is to "distract" us from the Epstein files. Trump and the men around him have wanted this for a long time. this is a bad thing in its own right, not some attempt to hide from accountability
“Epstein responded that Modi’s visit to Washington, which was to be his first meeting with Trump, was “a part of Israel strategy”.. Epstein later continued, “...what i am told is that discussions re Israel strategy were dominating modi dates.”
@dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com/p/modi-epste...
@dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com/p/modi-epste...
“Modi on board”: Jeffrey Epstein Pressed Steve Bannon to Meet With Indian PM Shortly Before His Death
Records of emails and text messages reveal previously unknown details about Epstein’s efforts to broker influence on Indian geopolitics and his interactions with a senior leader of Modi’s party.
www.dropsitenews.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“Epstein responded that Modi’s visit to Washington, which was to be his first meeting with Trump, was “a part of Israel strategy”.. Epstein later continued, “...what i am told is that discussions re Israel strategy were dominating modi dates.”
@dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com/p/modi-epste...
@dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com/p/modi-epste...
“What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be.” @winterjessica.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
“What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be.” @winterjessica.bsky.social
“One might ask if difficult, essential work might be well paid, at this moment in history, regardless of a person’s sex. But then much of the centrist manosphere’s rhetoric is predicated on refusing to see half of what’s in front of you.” Writes @winterjessica.bsky.social
It’s become conventional wisdom that America’s young men are in crisis. The reality is more complicated than that. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-did-men-do-to-deserve-this
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“One might ask if difficult, essential work might be well paid, at this moment in history, regardless of a person’s sex. But then much of the centrist manosphere’s rhetoric is predicated on refusing to see half of what’s in front of you.” Writes @winterjessica.bsky.social
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COMPLICITY NOT COWARDICE. COMPLICITY.
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
COMPLICITY NOT COWARDICE. COMPLICITY.
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”
Despite his U.S. legal exposure, Adani’s star remains undimmed in India because he was with Modi “long before” he came to power and is trusted by the government…”He is someone … they can rely on to carry out their wishes,” @pranshuverma.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
India’s $3.9 billion plan to help Modi’s mogul ally after U.S. charges
Internal documents detail how Indian officials oversaw a plan to steer billions in investments to Gautam Adani’s businesses from the state life insurance agency.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Despite his U.S. legal exposure, Adani’s star remains undimmed in India because he was with Modi “long before” he came to power and is trusted by the government…”He is someone … they can rely on to carry out their wishes,” @pranshuverma.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
“The singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist born Michael Archer got to us when he was ready; fans waited because any chance to hear from him, whether it was an interview, a record, or a performance, offered a window into mystic, molting, and encyclopedic brilliance.”
hello, here are frazzled d'angelo thoughts www.vulture.com/article/dang...
D’Angelo Saw His Future in the Past
To understand the late musician’s originality, look to his covers of the greats.
www.vulture.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“The singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist born Michael Archer got to us when he was ready; fans waited because any chance to hear from him, whether it was an interview, a record, or a performance, offered a window into mystic, molting, and encyclopedic brilliance.”
“Tech companies are not doing enough to protect people from tragic outcomes because they are not designing these tools to be geared towards truth, merely towards engagement and profit,”
October 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“Tech companies are not doing enough to protect people from tragic outcomes because they are not designing these tools to be geared towards truth, merely towards engagement and profit,”
“When you say something questionable, others will challenge you…Truth is intersubjective, meaning that we need other people—their testimony, their experiences, their rationality—to be well informed. And chatbots are not people.They don’t have experience.They are not witness.They are fancy wordplay.”
This is the biggest, toughest article I’ve done about so-called “AI psychosis.” It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.
He Grew Obsessed With an AI Chatbot. Then He Vanished in the Ozarks
Jon Ganz committed a terrible crime in his youth, but he survived prison, fell in love, and started over. His new life unraveled in a way nobody could have predicted.
www.rollingstone.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“When you say something questionable, others will challenge you…Truth is intersubjective, meaning that we need other people—their testimony, their experiences, their rationality—to be well informed. And chatbots are not people.They don’t have experience.They are not witness.They are fancy wordplay.”
“If everyone’s a DJ but no one dances or earnestly cares about the music, everything has to be broader, more conspicuous. Artists are pressured to do whatever possible to be seen and heard, not their best work out of love.”
September 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
“If everyone’s a DJ but no one dances or earnestly cares about the music, everything has to be broader, more conspicuous. Artists are pressured to do whatever possible to be seen and heard, not their best work out of love.”
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“As creation gets conflated with entrepreneurship, making art becomes an experience, a lifestyle, to be bought and sold.” Dani Offline
“As creation gets conflated with entrepreneurship, making art becomes an experience, a lifestyle, to be bought and sold.” Dani Offline
everyone wants to be a DJ, no one wants to dance
This is not an essay about nightlife, not exclusively.
danioffline.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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“As creation gets conflated with entrepreneurship, making art becomes an experience, a lifestyle, to be bought and sold.” Dani Offline
“As creation gets conflated with entrepreneurship, making art becomes an experience, a lifestyle, to be bought and sold.” Dani Offline
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The Washington Post’s decision to fire a Black opinion journalist for accurately quoting Charlie Kirke’s racism is a fitting tribute to “free speech” as Kirke and his hagiographers practiced it: whites only, flattering to the powerful, and in furtherance of a fascist agenda.
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
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I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The Washington Post’s decision to fire a Black opinion journalist for accurately quoting Charlie Kirke’s racism is a fitting tribute to “free speech” as Kirke and his hagiographers practiced it: whites only, flattering to the powerful, and in furtherance of a fascist agenda.
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It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.
September 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.
“"Putting the Infidels biker club in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Gaza is like putting the KKK in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Sudan. It makes no sense whatsoever," said Edward Ahmed Mitchell, deputy director of CAIR”
Absolutely Horrifying.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Absolutely Horrifying.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites
BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.
www.bbc.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“"Putting the Infidels biker club in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Gaza is like putting the KKK in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Sudan. It makes no sense whatsoever," said Edward Ahmed Mitchell, deputy director of CAIR”
Absolutely Horrifying.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Absolutely Horrifying.
www.bbc.com/news/article...