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Michael Schmidt
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Creative Director & #Mobility Industry Lead at @virtualidentity.bsky.social, talks about #Feminism / #ClimateCrisis. Opinions mine.
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kimlanelaw.bsky.social
Don't know whether this is new or has been up for awhile. Either way, when the White House creates a hit list of journalists it doesn't like, the free press is in danger. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
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Explore the Media Bias Tracker that fact checks and holds Fake News accountable. False claims debunked, Hall of Shame for serial offenders, Leaderboard of networks ranked by Repeated Lies. Stay inform...
www.whitehouse.gov
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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aniccia.bsky.social
Waymo privatized another public street:

Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco

Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.

The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.

OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Cooked. fortune.com/2025/05/19/m...
Tracey Franklin, chief people and digital technology officer at Moderna, created profiles of the company’s executive team in a GPT using the results of their personality studies. “I have scenarios of when two people are maybe at conflict, or when I have to go in with an opinion,” she said at Fortune’s inaugural Workplace Innovation Summit on Monday. The GPT then predicts the group’s potential reaction to Franklin’s recommendation. She has also used the technology to model how certain individuals might react to a scenario, as well as explain to her why she may have received a particular reaction. She then uses the models to determine how she can best foster a reconciliation between team members in conflict. This is all before any conflict has even occurred. 

“I think I’m pretty good with people, but it gives me an advantage that I didn’t have before, because I don’t fully understand someone’s innate human personality response like the GPT allows me to do,” she said.
May 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
michaelschmidt.bsky.social
Time to call it a day.
November 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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kobuk.at
Der Countdown läuft!
Wir suchen noch rund 500 Mitglieder – und haben nur mehr drei Tage Zeit.

Wer uns im Endspurt unterstützen will: Ab 3 Euro im Monat bist du dabei!
👉 www.kobuk.at/unterstuetzen
November 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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restofworld.org
Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise
https://restofworld.org/2025/data-centers-jobs-microsoft-google-chile/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1763146621
November 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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amydiehl.bsky.social
Across the top 592 podcasts, where 66.3% of hosts were men; 33.2% women. In top 100 podcasts, 72.8% of guests were men; 27.2% women. 62.6% of episodes did not feature a woman guest. Women most likely to appear as a guest when podcast had a woman host.
annenberg.usc.edu/news/researc...
USC Annenberg releases a new study exploring the gender and race/ethnicity of hosts and guests of popular podcasts
The first-ever Golden Globe Award nominations for podcasting will be announced this month, as the medium continues its growing popularity across the entertainment landscape. As podcasts audiences
annenberg.usc.edu
November 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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davidzipper.bsky.social
Remember all the hype about how Uber and Lyft would allow people to live car-free?

Well, it turns out ridehail has no discernible impact on car ownership at all.

Analysis from Glenn Mercer's excellent newsletter:
glennmercer.substack.com/p/the-impact...
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
michaelschmidt.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
michaelschmidt.bsky.social
Not a good prompt: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
EU could water down AI Act amid pressure from Trump and big tech
European Commission confirms reports it is looking at postponing parts of landmark legislation
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
michaelschmidt.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Experts find flaws in hundreds of tests that check AI safety and effectiveness
Scientists say almost all have weaknesses in at least one area that can ‘undermine validity of resulting claims’
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:25 AM
michaelschmidt.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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andrewmueller.bsky.social
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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parsingphase.dev
AI is the capitalist endgame of renting our own thoughts back to us.
October 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
michaelschmidt.bsky.social
“We all know what the lobbyists want,” he said. “It’s to increase their profits, with the price being paid by humankind.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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October 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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theverge.com
Google is turning on the gas for its data centers
Google is turning on the gas for its data centers
The plan is to capture the carbon emissions.
buff.ly
October 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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heatherrandell.bsky.social
“By 2035, data centers globally are projected to use about as much electricity as India…according to the International Energy Agency. A single data center can also use more than 500,000 gallons of water a day, nearly as much as an Olympic-size swimming pool.”

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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indivisible.org
😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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gspeng.bsky.social
"No AI" is the new "No Filter"
October 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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emma-briant.co.uk
Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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melhogan.bsky.social
Call for Papers:

Special Issue of Global Media and China

AI and its Environmental and Labour Implications: China and Beyond

journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...
journals.sagepub.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
October 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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whitneybauck.bsky.social
I first wrote about Denver’s ebike rebate program in 2022 and it’s been very cool to watch the trajectory since www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
October 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM