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"While many initially suspected the shooter would be a Bernie Sanders-style leftist, Mangione’s social media feeds reveal an Ivy League-educated tech bro who disavows 'wokeism' and venerates Elon Musk.
important read by @eshugs.bsky.social in the @sfstandard.com sfstandard.com/2024/12/10/t...
important read by @eshugs.bsky.social in the @sfstandard.com sfstandard.com/2024/12/10/t...
This one internet subculture explains murder suspect Luigi Mangione's odd politics
No one can seem to pin down Luigi Magione’s weird confluence of beliefs — no one, that is, except the members of this strange subculture.
sfstandard.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:46 PM
"While many initially suspected the shooter would be a Bernie Sanders-style leftist, Mangione’s social media feeds reveal an Ivy League-educated tech bro who disavows 'wokeism' and venerates Elon Musk.
important read by @eshugs.bsky.social in the @sfstandard.com sfstandard.com/2024/12/10/t...
important read by @eshugs.bsky.social in the @sfstandard.com sfstandard.com/2024/12/10/t...
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💥 THE BATTLE BEGINS 💥
The tech industry has had quite a year with its billionaires revealing who they really are for all to see. Who will be the WORST PERSON IN TECH?
🗳️ Voting is now open: forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1...
The tech industry has had quite a year with its billionaires revealing who they really are for all to see. Who will be the WORST PERSON IN TECH?
🗳️ Voting is now open: forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1...
December 9, 2024 at 2:09 PM
💥 THE BATTLE BEGINS 💥
The tech industry has had quite a year with its billionaires revealing who they really are for all to see. Who will be the WORST PERSON IN TECH?
🗳️ Voting is now open: forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1...
The tech industry has had quite a year with its billionaires revealing who they really are for all to see. Who will be the WORST PERSON IN TECH?
🗳️ Voting is now open: forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1...
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New: Texas’ governor has served 404 Media with a subpoena for info about an internal Google database we were leaked. This is a serious threat to press freedom and we are fighting it legally. We object.
www.404media.co/404-media-ob...
www.404media.co/404-media-ob...
404 Media Objects to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's Subpoena to Access Our Reporting
404 Media's reporting on an internal Google privacy violation database has been subpoenaed by the State of Texas. We are fighting it.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2024 at 4:49 PM
New: Texas’ governor has served 404 Media with a subpoena for info about an internal Google database we were leaked. This is a serious threat to press freedom and we are fighting it legally. We object.
www.404media.co/404-media-ob...
www.404media.co/404-media-ob...
His goodreads is stacked with airport books...following RFK Jr., Rogan, McAfee, Snowden, and AOC. CS major. Guy has all the trappings of a rightwing Silicon Valley libertarian. Interested to see if the newsmedia can make sense of his politics.
December 9, 2024 at 7:02 PM
His goodreads is stacked with airport books...following RFK Jr., Rogan, McAfee, Snowden, and AOC. CS major. Guy has all the trappings of a rightwing Silicon Valley libertarian. Interested to see if the newsmedia can make sense of his politics.
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To all the analysts jumping on here to warn about tomorrow, Syrians are ten steps ahead of you.
Have some basic human empathy and let those celebrating the release of the unjustly detained, the reuniting of families, the hopes of return, and the end of a brutal regime do so in peace.
Have some basic human empathy and let those celebrating the release of the unjustly detained, the reuniting of families, the hopes of return, and the end of a brutal regime do so in peace.
December 8, 2024 at 3:30 AM
To all the analysts jumping on here to warn about tomorrow, Syrians are ten steps ahead of you.
Have some basic human empathy and let those celebrating the release of the unjustly detained, the reuniting of families, the hopes of return, and the end of a brutal regime do so in peace.
Have some basic human empathy and let those celebrating the release of the unjustly detained, the reuniting of families, the hopes of return, and the end of a brutal regime do so in peace.
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let people enjoy the fall of a murderous demon who used chemical weapons on children for five fucking minutes
On Twitter a ton of accounts are just angrily replying and quote tweeting anyone happy that Assad fell as if we’re not extremely aware that rebels are a mixed bag and he may get replaced with a regime as bad or worse
Guys, most people know this *and* can be glad Assad’s regime collapsed
Guys, most people know this *and* can be glad Assad’s regime collapsed
December 8, 2024 at 5:17 AM
let people enjoy the fall of a murderous demon who used chemical weapons on children for five fucking minutes
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Well Israel just crossed the border so…welcome to tomorrow
To all the analysts jumping on here to warn about tomorrow, Syrians are ten steps ahead of you.
Have some basic human empathy and let those celebrating the release of the unjustly detained, the reuniting of families, the hopes of return, and the end of a brutal regime do so in peace.
Have some basic human empathy and let those celebrating the release of the unjustly detained, the reuniting of families, the hopes of return, and the end of a brutal regime do so in peace.
December 8, 2024 at 5:02 AM
Well Israel just crossed the border so…welcome to tomorrow
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I wonder if cybertruck drivers are ever like for the price of this car I could've bought 3 that do not look like this
December 7, 2024 at 10:00 PM
I wonder if cybertruck drivers are ever like for the price of this car I could've bought 3 that do not look like this
Local subreddits are racist as hell. Chicagosuburbs making fentanyl jokes about my town, and over in bayarea you've got people saying "east palo alto is safe, thankfully it's been gentrified a ton"
December 7, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Local subreddits are racist as hell. Chicagosuburbs making fentanyl jokes about my town, and over in bayarea you've got people saying "east palo alto is safe, thankfully it's been gentrified a ton"
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this is so not surprising if you're following people like @histoftech.bsky.social or @hypervisible.bsky.social or @meredithmeredith.bsky.social or @ruha9.bsky.social; like this shouldn't come as shocking -i think at most i'm triangulating some ideas that are right there- but worth saying/repeating
December 6, 2024 at 10:26 PM
this is so not surprising if you're following people like @histoftech.bsky.social or @hypervisible.bsky.social or @meredithmeredith.bsky.social or @ruha9.bsky.social; like this shouldn't come as shocking -i think at most i'm triangulating some ideas that are right there- but worth saying/repeating
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If y’all are really wondering about tech bros and their politics, might I suggest a book.
Cyberlibertarianism
An urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings In a timely challenge to the potent political role ...
www.upress.umn.edu
November 30, 2024 at 4:00 AM
If y’all are really wondering about tech bros and their politics, might I suggest a book.
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That a right-wing lawyer just suggested before the Supreme Court that Americans don't have a right to not conform is... a real mask-off moment in a way I suspect is not going to get enough attention.
December 4, 2024 at 5:09 PM
That a right-wing lawyer just suggested before the Supreme Court that Americans don't have a right to not conform is... a real mask-off moment in a way I suspect is not going to get enough attention.
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Khan is on a roll today. A third case just dropped: www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
December 3, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Khan is on a roll today. A third case just dropped: www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
Learned about north shore chicagoland from geoffrey baer and discovered that Anthony bourdain is the coolest guy to ever live. About to binge baer and bourdain stuff for the next month.
December 4, 2024 at 8:43 AM
Learned about north shore chicagoland from geoffrey baer and discovered that Anthony bourdain is the coolest guy to ever live. About to binge baer and bourdain stuff for the next month.
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Embarrassing. They're going to feel so stupid in 10 years when nobody's wearing dead salmon hats anymore.
Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years
Orcas off the coast of Washington State are balancing dead fish on their heads like it's the 1980s, but researchers still aren't sure why they do it.
www.livescience.com
November 28, 2024 at 3:14 AM
Embarrassing. They're going to feel so stupid in 10 years when nobody's wearing dead salmon hats anymore.
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Media reports are missing some important context regarding Claudia Sheinbaum’s statements to Trump: Her government now does the dirty work of the U.S. by deterring migration and detaining migrants. Mexico IS our trade partner; it’s also an accomplice to our violent and inhumane immigration policies.
November 27, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Media reports are missing some important context regarding Claudia Sheinbaum’s statements to Trump: Her government now does the dirty work of the U.S. by deterring migration and detaining migrants. Mexico IS our trade partner; it’s also an accomplice to our violent and inhumane immigration policies.
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New from 404 Media: Bluesky may have said it won't use user data to train generative AI, but someone else just published a dataset of million Bluesky posts for "machine learning research". Already very popular dataset, your data may be scraped www.404media.co/someone-made...
Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research'
A Hugging Face employee made a huge dataset of Bluesky posts, and it’s already very popular.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2024 at 11:29 PM
New from 404 Media: Bluesky may have said it won't use user data to train generative AI, but someone else just published a dataset of million Bluesky posts for "machine learning research". Already very popular dataset, your data may be scraped www.404media.co/someone-made...
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Niantic is well aware its AI models based on Pokemon Go data will be useful to the militaries, but is not ruling out selling it to them www.404media.co/pokemon-go-d...
Pokémon Go Data ‘Adding Amplitude to War Is Obviously an Issue,’ Niantic Exec Says
A Niantic executive said he could see governments and militaries buying Niantic geospatial AI trained on player data, but the company said it’s still early days.
www.404media.co
November 25, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Niantic is well aware its AI models based on Pokemon Go data will be useful to the militaries, but is not ruling out selling it to them www.404media.co/pokemon-go-d...
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I'm trying so hard to recreate Chicago Twitter here. Do I have any niche neighborhood or city budget hot takes? What if I impaled myself to give everyone a villain of the day? Bluesky will be worthy once it has produced an original Chicago-related discourse for people to rally around
November 25, 2024 at 3:43 AM
I'm trying so hard to recreate Chicago Twitter here. Do I have any niche neighborhood or city budget hot takes? What if I impaled myself to give everyone a villain of the day? Bluesky will be worthy once it has produced an original Chicago-related discourse for people to rally around
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Getting real loud with what used to be the quiet part.
November 23, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Getting real loud with what used to be the quiet part.
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There are certainly administrations that weaponize the immigration system to the fullest extent, those who wield it in the most dangerous ways possible. But EVERY administration, no matter the party, dehumanizes migrants, uses them as political pawns, and subjects them to horrendous abuse.
November 22, 2024 at 11:57 PM
There are certainly administrations that weaponize the immigration system to the fullest extent, those who wield it in the most dangerous ways possible. But EVERY administration, no matter the party, dehumanizes migrants, uses them as political pawns, and subjects them to horrendous abuse.
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Kendrick with this album:
November 22, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Kendrick with this album: