Sarah T Roberts, PhD
@ubiquity75.xyz
Professor, researcher, author.
Prez, Assocof Internet Researchers (AOIR), synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
Prez, Assocof Internet Researchers (AOIR), synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD
@ubiquity75.xyz
· Oct 22
There are so many elements that have made his ascension possible: co-opted corporate media; social media’s unregulated environment; the overwhelm from the sheer number of misdeeds; coordinated foreign interference; destruction of K-12 education; racist grievance culture; unchecked gross inequity.
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The uselessness of the Dem establishment never ceases to amaze me.
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The uselessness of the Dem establishment never ceases to amaze me.
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Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care?
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care?
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
Power is out in my entire house and LADWP’s reporting line seems…to not work. 800-342-5397.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Power is out in my entire house and LADWP’s reporting line seems…to not work. 800-342-5397.
Tehching Hsieh Turned Every Second Into Art www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Tehching Hsieh Turned Every Second Into Art
In a series of daring, often yearlong works—locking himself in a cage, refusing to go indoors, tying himself to another artist—Hsieh showed how the passage of time could be a medium in itself.
www.newyorker.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Tehching Hsieh Turned Every Second Into Art www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It seems to me that past right-wing moved to eliminate government programs would be couched in some sort of “taxpayer savings” rhetoric. I haven’t seen anything of the sort with the SNAP cuts. Just cruelty and no justification as to why, thinly veiled or otherwise.
November 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It seems to me that past right-wing moved to eliminate government programs would be couched in some sort of “taxpayer savings” rhetoric. I haven’t seen anything of the sort with the SNAP cuts. Just cruelty and no justification as to why, thinly veiled or otherwise.
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Sociopaths need to be kept from all power over others
Did anyone else catch this? This was Pam Bondi's chief of staff up until a month ago.
Trump AG ally 'turns heads' at conservative legal conference with new power grab ploy
Politico reporter Josh Gerstein writes that former Pam Bondi Chief of Staff and Stephen Miller ally Chad Mizelle wants Congress to declare war on judges who make decisions against President Donald Tru...
www.alternet.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Sociopaths need to be kept from all power over others
In other news, longtime academic staff are disappearing from UCLA. They are being fired for budgetary reasons.
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
In other news, longtime academic staff are disappearing from UCLA. They are being fired for budgetary reasons.
Here’s a writeup about the hearing from earlier today. Please note the statement from the University of California, notably not a plaintiff in this suit. It’s laughable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Trump Pressure Risks Free Speech at University of California, Judge Warns
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Here’s a writeup about the hearing from earlier today. Please note the statement from the University of California, notably not a plaintiff in this suit. It’s laughable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
So where’s the airline industry on pressuring the Feds to get their mess together?
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
So where’s the airline industry on pressuring the Feds to get their mess together?
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Thank you, UCLA Faculty Association!
November 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Thank you, UCLA Faculty Association!
A hearing is underway re: the American Association of University Professors et al v. Trump et al, Motion For Preliminary Injunction.
November 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A hearing is underway re: the American Association of University Professors et al v. Trump et al, Motion For Preliminary Injunction.
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‘”There are rules that are written down and there are unwritten rules, and it seems to me that one of the unwritten rules is an ideological litmus test.” Philosophy professor John Fisher
UCR CIVIC Panel Discussion on the UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP)
YouTube video by UCR CIVIC
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Some real “all the cool kids pee their pants” energy right there
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Some real “all the cool kids pee their pants” energy right there
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oh my god they actually did it lmao
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
oh my god they actually did it lmao
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The PPFP took the authority to hire away from departments, decentering faculty & departmental needs, gave administrators and third-party funders the power to direct hiring. It used activist research as proxies for race to hire almost exclusively far-left progressive activists. CA is better without.
November 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM
This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.
These dinosaurs have got to go.
Schumer is plainly just a massive bigot. he will not support a Muslim for elected office
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
These dinosaurs have got to go.
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The way in which the establishment is so afraid of a little socialism…
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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The way in which the establishment is so afraid of a little socialism…
November 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The way in which the establishment is so afraid of a little socialism…
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Ah yes *checks watch* looks like it’s time to vilify physical copies - with a new angle.
A new study has found that buying physical copies of games is "100 times more carbon-intensive" than buying the digital version
www.gamesindustry.biz/manufacture-...
www.gamesindustry.biz/manufacture-...
Manufacture and shipping of physical games is "100 times more carbon-intensive" than digital, new study finds
Data from French carbon accounting firm Greenly also finds handheld gaming may be the greenest option for players
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Ah yes *checks watch* looks like it’s time to vilify physical copies - with a new angle.