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Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more
December 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more
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one thing of many that would be really good to rebuild in this country is local news reporting
December 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
one thing of many that would be really good to rebuild in this country is local news reporting
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Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.
December 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.
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also interesting that the administration thinks it has a say in CBS News personnel matters. perhaps they've been given an indication that they do.
It’s interesting that the administration wants you to know that Bari Weiss is in league with them.
December 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
also interesting that the administration thinks it has a say in CBS News personnel matters. perhaps they've been given an indication that they do.
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I searched for what a single button on my water heater does, and the top result in DuckDuckGo is this page with *thousands* of AI-generated words about the damn button, with any useful information utterly buried in obfuscation.
Rinnai Tankless Water Heater Priority Button: Complete Guide to Master Your Water Temperature Control
Learn about the Rinnai tankless water heater priority button.
hvaclaboratory.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I searched for what a single button on my water heater does, and the top result in DuckDuckGo is this page with *thousands* of AI-generated words about the damn button, with any useful information utterly buried in obfuscation.
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I'll be doing a talk at the Oakland Public Library next month, chatting with librarian Ian Hetzner about the state of local journalism, what it's like covering the city these days, and lots more.
Come through and join the discussion.
oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/69278...
Come through and join the discussion.
oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/69278...
Darwin BondGraham: A conversation with The Oaklandside's News Editor
Darwin BondGraham is the News Editor at The Oaklandside. He is also the co-author, with Ali Winston, of the 2023 book, The Riders Come Out at Night, which examines the Oakland Police Department's hist...
oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I'll be doing a talk at the Oakland Public Library next month, chatting with librarian Ian Hetzner about the state of local journalism, what it's like covering the city these days, and lots more.
Come through and join the discussion.
oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/69278...
Come through and join the discussion.
oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/69278...
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"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.
Weiss concluded: “We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star, and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”
December 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
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Zuck continues to back away from causes he previously championed. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Zuckerberg Cut Ties With Pro-Immigration Organization He Founded
Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy has cut ties with the pro-immigration advocacy group that he founded more than a decade ago, a move that parallels other sweeping changes he’s made to his company’s poli...
www.bloomberg.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Zuck continues to back away from causes he previously championed. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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This is re: TikTok and X — and Meta, having long employed former Republican operative and Kavanaugh pal Joel Kaplan, just hired right-wing influencer Robby Starbuck to help it ferret out bias in its AI systems.
Neat.
Neat.
September 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This is re: TikTok and X — and Meta, having long employed former Republican operative and Kavanaugh pal Joel Kaplan, just hired right-wing influencer Robby Starbuck to help it ferret out bias in its AI systems.
Neat.
Neat.
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This headline starts unremarkably, and ends with me seeing red. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Roy Lee Grossed $9B From Movies Like ‘Weapons’ and ‘Minecraft’ But What He Really Wants to Do Is Make ‘Calvin & Hobbes’
In a rare interview, THR’s Producer of the Year, whose 11 credits in 2025 also include ‘The Long Walk’ and ‘How to Train Your Dragon,’ explains why studios should give fewer notes and how a psychic dr...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This headline starts unremarkably, and ends with me seeing red. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Look a lot of people were at the Lucifer Foundation's annual Billionaire Vision Brunch in 2011. I didn't talk to all of them. Some of us just find the work the Lucifer Foundation does to be interesting.
December 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Look a lot of people were at the Lucifer Foundation's annual Billionaire Vision Brunch in 2011. I didn't talk to all of them. Some of us just find the work the Lucifer Foundation does to be interesting.
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Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
three of these coulda been my choice but i went with @lizpelly.bsky.social's Mood Machine
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December 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
three of these coulda been my choice but i went with @lizpelly.bsky.social's Mood Machine
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What's a librarian's favorite book? 📚 🤔 Find out! 🔍 👉 https://bit.ly/4qlAJA5
December 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
What's a librarian's favorite book? 📚 🤔 Find out! 🔍 👉 https://bit.ly/4qlAJA5
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December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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It's so jarring to see how truly out of touch executives and upper management are, not just with what the public wants and expects, but with what their organizations actually even do
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
It's so jarring to see how truly out of touch executives and upper management are, not just with what the public wants and expects, but with what their organizations actually even do
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Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
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he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post
December 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post
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*tearfully looking up at a portrait of the guy who illegally sold weapons to Iran and used to profits to fund right-wing death squads in Nicaragua*
The presidency once served as a reminder of our common humanity. Ronald Reagan described its purpose as building "a nation composed of good and decent people."
December 17, 2025 at 1:11 AM
*tearfully looking up at a portrait of the guy who illegally sold weapons to Iran and used to profits to fund right-wing death squads in Nicaragua*
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Sucks shit that everything good about collaborative human endeavor to better understand and survive our future can be set on fire by the aronist in chief because he's mad about wind or whatever.
There will be feasting and dancing when our lives are no longer bent to his petty whims.
There will be feasting and dancing when our lives are no longer bent to his petty whims.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Sucks shit that everything good about collaborative human endeavor to better understand and survive our future can be set on fire by the aronist in chief because he's mad about wind or whatever.
There will be feasting and dancing when our lives are no longer bent to his petty whims.
There will be feasting and dancing when our lives are no longer bent to his petty whims.
patron called needing a late night computer to work on a school project and the term internet cafe does not mean what it used to mean so like where does one go after the library closes if they need a computer? where's the nearest pay phone? how old am i? send help
December 16, 2025 at 3:18 AM
patron called needing a late night computer to work on a school project and the term internet cafe does not mean what it used to mean so like where does one go after the library closes if they need a computer? where's the nearest pay phone? how old am i? send help