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Sociotechnical gremlin. Swarm intelligence egregore. Magitek knight. Combat librarian. Bearer of the cursed knowledge.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS. Opinions my own.
Rogue information scientist, researcher, & technologist. MLIS. Opinions my own.
The flying monkeys have been all over the place today
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 AM
The flying monkeys have been all over the place today
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It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
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Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
Half of the country regularly spends time on and gets their news about the world from the social informational equivalent of one of those real life murder houses, designed specifically to either kill them or make them insane.
US adults who use sites daily
Facebook 52%
YouTube 48%
TikTok 24%
X (Twitter) 10%
Facebook 52%
YouTube 48%
TikTok 24%
X (Twitter) 10%
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Half of the country regularly spends time on and gets their news about the world from the social informational equivalent of one of those real life murder houses, designed specifically to either kill them or make them insane.
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one response (true, funny) to the twitter location thing is "lol twitter/the gop/vc is cooked" and another response (true, less funny) is that a massive amount of the traffic on ALL public social media is money-making scams lying about national origin
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
one response (true, funny) to the twitter location thing is "lol twitter/the gop/vc is cooked" and another response (true, less funny) is that a massive amount of the traffic on ALL public social media is money-making scams lying about national origin
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Ultimately, what I think we need is patience: The patience to explain from first principles, to meet people where they are at, to untangle webs of lies, to refuse the hoarding of wisdom. And this is much harder than shame because you must fundamentally reject that erring is a personal flaw
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Ultimately, what I think we need is patience: The patience to explain from first principles, to meet people where they are at, to untangle webs of lies, to refuse the hoarding of wisdom. And this is much harder than shame because you must fundamentally reject that erring is a personal flaw
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It's very easy to fall into the trap of believing that truth is self-enforcing which is the foundation of liberal thought. But fascism shows that truth relies on people taking for granted that expertise, particularly in the form of credentials, is self-justifying, and people can simply reject that
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
It's very easy to fall into the trap of believing that truth is self-enforcing which is the foundation of liberal thought. But fascism shows that truth relies on people taking for granted that expertise, particularly in the form of credentials, is self-justifying, and people can simply reject that
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
Moooom. Grampa is Imperium posting again
Things are going well over on Truth Social, where Trump just reposted AI Slop of himself as what I can only describe as imperial Lannister cosplay, with prominent Democrats kneeling at his feet
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Moooom. Grampa is Imperium posting again
Unlinked non-sharing of information resources on social media is such a fascinating (and unhelpful) information behavior. I suspect there are a variety of motivations, social factors, and platform logics/folklores that drive people to do this (but you really should share links to resources).
People on here are constantly sharing screenshots of stories they think are important without linking to the original work, and then wondering why the media ecosystem is so broken. If you can't be bothered to even link to the work you're sharing, you're part of the problem!
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Unlinked non-sharing of information resources on social media is such a fascinating (and unhelpful) information behavior. I suspect there are a variety of motivations, social factors, and platform logics/folklores that drive people to do this (but you really should share links to resources).
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People on here are constantly sharing screenshots of stories they think are important without linking to the original work, and then wondering why the media ecosystem is so broken. If you can't be bothered to even link to the work you're sharing, you're part of the problem!
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
People on here are constantly sharing screenshots of stories they think are important without linking to the original work, and then wondering why the media ecosystem is so broken. If you can't be bothered to even link to the work you're sharing, you're part of the problem!
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Some tools are glass hammers.
November 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Some tools are glass hammers.
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My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
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bluesky checked the IP addresses of pro-turkey posters and they're all posting from hungry
November 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
bluesky checked the IP addresses of pro-turkey posters and they're all posting from hungry
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“Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.”
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
November 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
“Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.”
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Tell me you’ve never worked on a production software system without telling me you’ve never worked on a production software system
LLM-generated code runs or it doesn't—what truth do you need?
November 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Tell me you’ve never worked on a production software system without telling me you’ve never worked on a production software system
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the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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Economists define “good” VERY differently from the rest of life on earth
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Economists define “good” VERY differently from the rest of life on earth
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This is a great point. People are just not in control of how they are influenced as they like to believe.
November 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This is a great point. People are just not in control of how they are influenced as they like to believe.
The idea that we can know things about the social world and collective beliefs by measuring activity on social media got turned in to a propaganda vehicle for fascism.
November 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The idea that we can know things about the social world and collective beliefs by measuring activity on social media got turned in to a propaganda vehicle for fascism.
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times
Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...
m.economictimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
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November 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The goal of the propaganda, media manipulation, fake accounts, restricting access to APIs, synthetic content, betting markets, etc etc is all to convince people that everybody is doing fascism, it’s fine, we’re going all in on it—by confusing our public knowledge about people’s collective beliefs.
November 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The goal of the propaganda, media manipulation, fake accounts, restricting access to APIs, synthetic content, betting markets, etc etc is all to convince people that everybody is doing fascism, it’s fine, we’re going all in on it—by confusing our public knowledge about people’s collective beliefs.