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@christianerobb.bsky.social
Perpetually enamored w/the complexities of it all: culture/tech/climate/sentience - it just keeps going, no?
Post-Disciplinary:
Director/Producer; Fmr. Professor_Media Studies/Director-Digital Interarts, Curator/Programmer.
My views are my own.
Post-Disciplinary:
Director/Producer; Fmr. Professor_Media Studies/Director-Digital Interarts, Curator/Programmer.
My views are my own.
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Mamdanis charisma needs to be bottled and studied in a lab
November 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Mamdanis charisma needs to be bottled and studied in a lab
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Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
Senior Writer, Culture
WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...
condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
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Emma Thompson, one of Stephen Fry’s best friends since they were undergraduates, at Cambridge University, told Rebecca Mead that she and Fry have long shared a great love of Oscar Wilde. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/oD-CKb
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Emma Thompson, one of Stephen Fry’s best friends since they were undergraduates, at Cambridge University, told Rebecca Mead that she and Fry have long shared a great love of Oscar Wilde. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/oD-CKb
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has told Cop30 delegates that he was ready to fight for his roadmap “to phase out oil, coal and gas in whatever forum was necessary.”
November 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has told Cop30 delegates that he was ready to fight for his roadmap “to phase out oil, coal and gas in whatever forum was necessary.”
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What most people would call corruption, grifting, graft, and criminality gets branded as "blurring of lines "
November 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
What most people would call corruption, grifting, graft, and criminality gets branded as "blurring of lines "
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Meet the 2025 J.M.K. Innovation Prize awardees – ten early stage innovators tackling urgent issues in social justice, the environment, and heritage conservation.
2025 J.M.K. Innovation Prize Awardees | The J.M. Kaplan Fund
The J.M.K. Innovation Prize seeks to identify and support bold problem-solvers leading transformative, early-stage projects in the fields of heritage conservation, the environment, and social justice.
www.jmkfund.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Meet the 2025 J.M.K. Innovation Prize awardees – ten early stage innovators tackling urgent issues in social justice, the environment, and heritage conservation.
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🎶 old mcdonald replaced his farm with an energy intensive data center, a i a i o 🎶
November 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
🎶 old mcdonald replaced his farm with an energy intensive data center, a i a i o 🎶
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#ScienceSunday
#Vaccines
Here is another example where scientists have generated systemic immunity against human papilloma virus using nasal delivery of a cationic nanogel containing the HPV16 E7 protein as an antigen. In addition, an anti-tumor effect was seen. Game-changing!
Vaccines save lives.
#Vaccines
Here is another example where scientists have generated systemic immunity against human papilloma virus using nasal delivery of a cationic nanogel containing the HPV16 E7 protein as an antigen. In addition, an anti-tumor effect was seen. Game-changing!
Vaccines save lives.
Cationic nanogel–based nasal therapeutic HPV vaccine prevents the development of cervical cancer
Cationic nanogel–based nasal therapeutic vaccine induces cancer-specific immune responses and inhibits cancer development in cervical tissue.
www.science.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
#ScienceSunday
#Vaccines
Here is another example where scientists have generated systemic immunity against human papilloma virus using nasal delivery of a cationic nanogel containing the HPV16 E7 protein as an antigen. In addition, an anti-tumor effect was seen. Game-changing!
Vaccines save lives.
#Vaccines
Here is another example where scientists have generated systemic immunity against human papilloma virus using nasal delivery of a cationic nanogel containing the HPV16 E7 protein as an antigen. In addition, an anti-tumor effect was seen. Game-changing!
Vaccines save lives.
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I’ve been not making friends in various corners of Silicon Valley, including at Meta, saying that within 3-5 years, this [world models, not LLMs] will be the dominant model for AI architectures, and nobody in their right mind would use LLMs of the type that we have today”
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/yann...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/yann...
He’s Been Right About AI for 40 Years. Now He Thinks Everyone Is Wrong.
Yann LeCun invented many fundamental components of modern AI. Now he’s convinced most in his field have been led astray by the siren song of large language models.
www.wsj.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I’ve been not making friends in various corners of Silicon Valley, including at Meta, saying that within 3-5 years, this [world models, not LLMs] will be the dominant model for AI architectures, and nobody in their right mind would use LLMs of the type that we have today”
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/yann...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/yann...
A # of Teen Vogue’s journalists were let go.
= a serendipitous op to #MSNOW = a show for Gen Z+MSNOW NOW
@maddow.msnbc.com
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
@nicollewallace.bsky.social
@stephruhle.bsky.social
@ChrisHayes.bsky.social
@velshi.com
@aliciamenendez.bsky.social
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
= a serendipitous op to #MSNOW = a show for Gen Z+MSNOW NOW
@maddow.msnbc.com
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
@nicollewallace.bsky.social
@stephruhle.bsky.social
@ChrisHayes.bsky.social
@velshi.com
@aliciamenendez.bsky.social
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A # of Teen Vogue’s journalists were let go.
= a serendipitous op to #MSNOW = a show for Gen Z+MSNOW NOW
@maddow.msnbc.com
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
@nicollewallace.bsky.social
@stephruhle.bsky.social
@ChrisHayes.bsky.social
@velshi.com
@aliciamenendez.bsky.social
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
= a serendipitous op to #MSNOW = a show for Gen Z+MSNOW NOW
@maddow.msnbc.com
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
@nicollewallace.bsky.social
@stephruhle.bsky.social
@ChrisHayes.bsky.social
@velshi.com
@aliciamenendez.bsky.social
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
“In all those stories about people who sold their souls to the devil, I never quite understood why the devil was the bad guy. They got what they wanted: fame, money, love, whatever—though usually it turned out not to be what they really wanted or expected.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
“In all those stories about people who sold their souls to the devil, I never quite understood why the devil was the bad guy. They got what they wanted: fame, money, love, whatever—though usually it turned out not to be what they really wanted or expected.”
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It takes a lot for me to be horror-struck by anything a major media outlet writes or does these days, given the absolutely appalling state of journalism, but after what I have seen from the NYT, the Economist, FT and Condé Nast today, I just want to say,
November 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
It takes a lot for me to be horror-struck by anything a major media outlet writes or does these days, given the absolutely appalling state of journalism, but after what I have seen from the NYT, the Economist, FT and Condé Nast today, I just want to say,
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My quote of the day
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
Jonas Salk
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
Jonas Salk
November 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
My quote of the day
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
Jonas Salk
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
Jonas Salk
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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Ira Sachs’s film “Peter Hujar’s Day,” starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall, is “a requiem for Hujar and for the many other members of the downtown art scene lost to AIDS,” @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/TLoPBB
“Peter Hujar’s Day” Gives the Past a New Life
Ira Sachs’s film, starring Ben Whishaw as the renowned photographer and Rebecca Hall as his interviewer, is a personal memorial for the protagonist and his milieu.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Ira Sachs’s film “Peter Hujar’s Day,” starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall, is “a requiem for Hujar and for the many other members of the downtown art scene lost to AIDS,” @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/TLoPBB
They get it:
“Gen Z women aren't playing around.”
“Gen Z women aren't playing around.”
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
They get it:
“Gen Z women aren't playing around.”
“Gen Z women aren't playing around.”
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Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes.
I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
Auburn University requires faculty to review courses to comply with anti-DEI law
Auburn's provost office posted a web site on how to comply with state and federal DEI mandates on Oct. 31.
www.al.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes.
I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
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Snuck out for a quick photo of tonight's hazy full Moon in #SantaBarbara right before #Mamdani took the stage. Good thing I did then too because I can barely see it now!
What an incredible day this has been!
#MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography
What an incredible day this has been!
#MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Snuck out for a quick photo of tonight's hazy full Moon in #SantaBarbara right before #Mamdani took the stage. Good thing I did then too because I can barely see it now!
What an incredible day this has been!
#MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography
What an incredible day this has been!
#MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography
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thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
Wow.
Today is only the beginning.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
Today is only the beginning.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Wow.
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I was really not prepared for a timeline in which the national publications with the political journalists we most respected to be Teen Vogue, Wired, and Rolling Stone, but that's the timeline we've been in for years.
Sad to see Teen Vogue folding into general Vogue.
Sad to see Teen Vogue folding into general Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I was really not prepared for a timeline in which the national publications with the political journalists we most respected to be Teen Vogue, Wired, and Rolling Stone, but that's the timeline we've been in for years.
Sad to see Teen Vogue folding into general Vogue.
Sad to see Teen Vogue folding into general Vogue.
