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Josh Fischman @jfischman.bsky.social · Aug 24

Think slavery doesn't matter today? Wrong. Current Congress members whose families owned 16+ enslaved people now have 4 million $ more than members who did not own slaves. Slave owning = 2024 money and influence 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Slaveholder ancestry and current net worth of members of the United States Congress

Background Whether and how much past slavery affects contemporary social and economic conditions in the United States is an area of active debate. Newly available data on which members of the United S...

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WhoKnowsWhatTiger @shonatiger.bsky.social · 13h

Um waw

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 17h

Some kid is doing the standard “ur mom” voice chat trash talk and they got no idea they’re talking to bashar al assad

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social · 17h

nationaltoday.com/black-girl-d...

"Black Girl Day Off is observed every October 11 annually in the United States. It is a day dedicated to encouraging black women to take a mental day off to focus on their emotional well-being."

Celebrating Black Girl Day Off 🌸🌸

Black Girl Day Off

Today is Black Girl Day Off, a day dedicated to promoting health involvement in black communities to close the gap in health inequalities.

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 16h

As part of our ongoing efforts to broaden Boston Review’s reach during our 50th anniversary, we are working to expand our presence across libraries.

If you love our writing and want to see us on more shelves, please share this form with your library!

www.bostonreview.net

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André Bruwer @andrebruwer.bsky.social · 16h

As a chemical engineer I would like to point out that you should always be wary when chemical engineers make claims about stuff in other fields they know nothing about.

Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · 20h

Researcher claims he's found the Garden of Eden after carefully analysing the Bible and Quran – it may have been situated in the highlands of Bahir Dar, a fertile region in northwestern Ethiopia.

Researcher claims he's found the Garden of Eden and reveals where the mysterious location is

An American chemical engineer has made a case for the biblical Garden of Eden being situated in a unique location.

www.unilad.com

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Tiffany Leigh Rose from the Dead 🖤🪦🥀 @tlrose.bsky.social · 17h

High five, we made it through the week
#Caturday

a photo of a really cute tabby cat from neck up (the rest of her is beneath a scratcher toy) with one paw extended

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 15h

Care is antifascism.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 15h

In addition to Glaze and tools mentioned above...

"Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the [AI web] crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."

www.404media.co/email/655871...

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Glaze and Nightshade @theglazeproject.bsky.social · Nov 13

Some artists suggested that we pin a summary of Glaze, Nightshade & other projects here. Instead, I will point them to Melissa Heikkilä's article on our lab and projects. It is the definitive story of who we are, how we got here, and why we do what we do.

www.technologyreview.com/2024/11/13/1...

The AI lab waging a guerrilla war over exploitative AI

The tools Glaze and Nightshade are giving artists hope that they can fight back against AI that hoovers internet data to train. Are they enough?

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Dec 27

"Glaze… adds what’s effectively a secret cloak to images that prevents AI algorithms from picking up on and copying an artist’s style…

Nightshade [adds] an invisible layer of poison to images, which can break AI models…."

It's great that artists have some defenses against AI theft.

Glaze and Nightshade @theglazeproject.bsky.social · Nov 13

Some artists suggested that we pin a summary of Glaze, Nightshade & other projects here. Instead, I will point them to Melissa Heikkilä's article on our lab and projects. It is the definitive story of who we are, how we got here, and why we do what we do.

www.technologyreview.com/2024/11/13/1...

The AI lab waging a guerrilla war over exploitative AI

The tools Glaze and Nightshade are giving artists hope that they can fight back against AI that hoovers internet data to train. Are they enough?

www.technologyreview.com

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 18h

Anyway, today is World Migratory Bird Day, so I invite you to spend a minute contemplating those extraordinary journeys, perhaps by looking at the European Migration Atlas. migrationatlas.org

Bird Migration Atlas

This online Migration Atlas covers the huge geographical area represented by two continents, encompassing the flyways between Eurasia and Africa. Movements in time and space of 300 bird species are ma...

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 18h

Here’s the map for the swallow. Each dot represents a bird, and each line links the places where they were found.

A map of Europe and Africa, with multicoloured dots, and connecting lines leading roughly north to south.

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Caroline Fiennes @carolinefiennes.bsky.social · 14h

TBF, the UK has heads of state who last much longer than that 👇🏼 & who are elected by precisely nobody.
They have - and use - more power than many people realise - yet many people think this 'system' is fine in a notional democracy, and even rather charming 🤷🏽‍♀️

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 17h

Aged 92, Paul Biya has been President of Cameroon for 43 years and has spent much of his time ruling from the same floor of the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva. He was PM in 1975 when Harold Wilson led the UK and Mao Zedong led China. Biya is now ‘running’ for an 8th term
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World’s oldest leader readies for another shot at power

Cameroon’s Paul Biya, aiming to stay in office until nearly 100, has attended only one rally and spent part of the presidential campaign in Switzerland

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 17h

Everyday now there is new information detailing just how economically unviable AI is. Data centers will be the new abandoned Walmarts, but on an even larger scale.

futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

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Anna Landin @annalandin.bsky.social · 17h

Look. I know this doesn't relate *directly* to my thread on the fracturing of institutional memory in pop culture but ALSO

we should all build multi-generational nests to pass on our most precious things

(bearded vultures are my favourite bird)

Living Dead Meer @meerkatsrmammals.bsky.social · 6d

Birbs. Lovers of history.
www.popsci.com/environment/...

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Living Dead Meer @meerkatsrmammals.bsky.social · 6d

Birbs. Lovers of history.
www.popsci.com/environment/...

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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JL Kaufmann @jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 14h

London Pen Show Loot, or, JL Has Impulse Control Issues, or, Retail Therapy.

(See Alt text for details).

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 14h

There's a fiber arts fair in my neighborhood and after yelling "YOU MADE THIS?! AMAZING! HOW?!" at every booth, one booth gave me some knitting needles and another sold me some recycled yarn, and I am so pumped about where this is going for me

(Also one booth had a GOAT, there was a goat!)

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 14h

I love this so much.

Reminds me of Simone Leigh's sculptures which often have parts of the face obscured (eyes, or mouth, or both) or entire face replaced with roses (or shells, or a jug or vessel, etc.).

So many Black women artists occassionally use this device.

Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 14h

"by presenting us with bodies and not faces, Simpson engages in a kind of anti-representation. She remakes, in her masked-nude photographs, the Black woman as an icon of withholding." -- Doreen St. Félix
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

The Erotics of Coreen Simpson

The photographer presents the Black woman as an icon of withholding.

www.newyorker.com

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 14h

"by presenting us with bodies and not faces, Simpson engages in a kind of anti-representation. She remakes, in her masked-nude photographs, the Black woman as an icon of withholding." -- Doreen St. Félix
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

The Erotics of Coreen Simpson

The photographer presents the Black woman as an icon of withholding.

www.newyorker.com

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 21h

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

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Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective

Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18h

The Sudan Solidarity Collective supports organizations led by Sudanese civilians: including emergency response rooms, mutual aid, labor and farmers’ unions. Please give what you can and/or share.

Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 21h

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

sudansolidarity.com

Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective

Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

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WhoKnowsWhatTiger @shonatiger.bsky.social · 13h

Namibian sandgrouse cuter than most of your faves

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 17h

Let's be clear on who Christopher Columbus was, a conquerer who spread disease & slavery who was so sadistic in the ways he treated natives he appalled the architects of the Spanish Inquisition. That's the fact of him there is to reclaim.

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