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@christianerobb.bsky.social
Perpetually enamored w/the complexities of it all: culture/tech/climate/sentience - it just keeps going, no?
Post-Disciplinary:
Director/Producer; Fmr. Professor_Media Studies/Director-Digital Interarts, Curator/Programmer.
My views are my own.
Post-Disciplinary:
Director/Producer; Fmr. Professor_Media Studies/Director-Digital Interarts, Curator/Programmer.
My views are my own.
Of course, we recognize the swell of hypocritical exploitation at play, but the degree of moral bankruptcy underpinning the “do no harm” mantra is hard to stomach.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Of course, we recognize the swell of hypocritical exploitation at play, but the degree of moral bankruptcy underpinning the “do no harm” mantra is hard to stomach.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...
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It's a new day, and that means a new batch of Verge articles are completely free to read (until tomorow).
First up, from @joshdzieza.bsky.social: The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack.
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
First up, from @joshdzieza.bsky.social: The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack.
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
December 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
It's a new day, and that means a new batch of Verge articles are completely free to read (until tomorow).
First up, from @joshdzieza.bsky.social: The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack.
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
First up, from @joshdzieza.bsky.social: The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack.
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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Could state laws of incorporation hold the key to campaign finance reform?
“States don’t have to grant corporations the power to spend in politics. In fact, they could decide not to give corporations that power.”
“States don’t have to grant corporations the power to spend in politics. In fact, they could decide not to give corporations that power.”
The Citizens United decision has corrupted our government and is destroying our democracy. Here's a way to get rid of it. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.
robertreich.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Could state laws of incorporation hold the key to campaign finance reform?
“States don’t have to grant corporations the power to spend in politics. In fact, they could decide not to give corporations that power.”
“States don’t have to grant corporations the power to spend in politics. In fact, they could decide not to give corporations that power.”
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I was told everyone was leaving.
@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...
@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...
December 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I was told everyone was leaving.
@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...
@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...
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Another huge issue, and I don't think people even know this is a thing, is that just about everything is done with smart phones now. And many (most?) seniors literally cannot work their phones. Signing things, texting, dealing with spam and fraud or even using the basic functions? They're often lost
December 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Another huge issue, and I don't think people even know this is a thing, is that just about everything is done with smart phones now. And many (most?) seniors literally cannot work their phones. Signing things, texting, dealing with spam and fraud or even using the basic functions? They're often lost
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
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My annual Christmas trivia: Frank Capra was a Caltech graduate and lifelong science guy who told a biographer that had he not gone into film, he might have wanted to be an astronomer. When Capra was Academy president in 1937, he invited Edwin and Grace Hubble to be special guests at the Oscars.
December 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My annual Christmas trivia: Frank Capra was a Caltech graduate and lifelong science guy who told a biographer that had he not gone into film, he might have wanted to be an astronomer. When Capra was Academy president in 1937, he invited Edwin and Grace Hubble to be special guests at the Oscars.
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Context:
Kennedy has suggested letting bird flu spread for herd immunity (Great Barrington Declaration style).
Right-wing groups and operatives have been laying the groundwork, downplaying concerns about the virus and pre-politicizing government efforts to control it (like they did with COVID).
Kennedy has suggested letting bird flu spread for herd immunity (Great Barrington Declaration style).
Right-wing groups and operatives have been laying the groundwork, downplaying concerns about the virus and pre-politicizing government efforts to control it (like they did with COVID).
December 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Context:
Kennedy has suggested letting bird flu spread for herd immunity (Great Barrington Declaration style).
Right-wing groups and operatives have been laying the groundwork, downplaying concerns about the virus and pre-politicizing government efforts to control it (like they did with COVID).
Kennedy has suggested letting bird flu spread for herd immunity (Great Barrington Declaration style).
Right-wing groups and operatives have been laying the groundwork, downplaying concerns about the virus and pre-politicizing government efforts to control it (like they did with COVID).
A knee-capped article offering the least egregious example of attempts to defund & deregulate expertise, public safety, culture, ie the proposal also incl. architecture, engineering - both fields requiring licensing, w/the arts retreating more into indulgent elitism:
apple.news/AUCLKPP2JTJu...
apple.news/AUCLKPP2JTJu...
What Trump’s plan to exclude nursing from ‘professional’ degrees actually means — The Washington Post
The Education Department's definition of professional degrees has been criticized for excluding some fields, with industry groups urging reconsideration.
apple.news
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
A knee-capped article offering the least egregious example of attempts to defund & deregulate expertise, public safety, culture, ie the proposal also incl. architecture, engineering - both fields requiring licensing, w/the arts retreating more into indulgent elitism:
apple.news/AUCLKPP2JTJu...
apple.news/AUCLKPP2JTJu...
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Electric bills are up 11% this year, and shutoffs are spiking across the country.
At the same time, corporations are building hundreds of energy-hungry data centers, and working families are being forced to absorb the cost. Higher bills for us, higher profits for them. seiu.co/3M71usW
At the same time, corporations are building hundreds of energy-hungry data centers, and working families are being forced to absorb the cost. Higher bills for us, higher profits for them. seiu.co/3M71usW
More Americans are getting their power shut off, as unpaid bills pile up
Average electricity costs have risen 11 percent since January, more than three times the rate of inflation.
seiu.co
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Electric bills are up 11% this year, and shutoffs are spiking across the country.
At the same time, corporations are building hundreds of energy-hungry data centers, and working families are being forced to absorb the cost. Higher bills for us, higher profits for them. seiu.co/3M71usW
At the same time, corporations are building hundreds of energy-hungry data centers, and working families are being forced to absorb the cost. Higher bills for us, higher profits for them. seiu.co/3M71usW
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NEW! 🦠🦧 We revisited a perplexing paradox: do wildlife really pose less of a risk to human health as they become more endangered? Turns out, it's sampling bias all the way down: conservation risks correlate with disease surveillance blindspots. 🔓 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Viral diversity and zoonotic risk in endangered species
A growing body of evidence links zoonotic disease risk, including pandemic threats, to biodiversity loss and other upstream anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem health. However, there is little current...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
NEW! 🦠🦧 We revisited a perplexing paradox: do wildlife really pose less of a risk to human health as they become more endangered? Turns out, it's sampling bias all the way down: conservation risks correlate with disease surveillance blindspots. 🔓 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
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The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
DOGE no longer has ‘centralized leadership’ under White House tech team, personnel head says
The team that was altered to house DOGE — formerly the U.S. Digital Service — is also still doing its own technology work across agencies.
www.nextgov.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
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Mamdanis charisma needs to be bottled and studied in a lab
November 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Mamdanis charisma needs to be bottled and studied in a lab
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Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
Senior Writer, Culture
WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...
condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
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Emma Thompson, one of Stephen Fry’s best friends since they were undergraduates, at Cambridge University, told Rebecca Mead that she and Fry have long shared a great love of Oscar Wilde. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/oD-CKb
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Emma Thompson, one of Stephen Fry’s best friends since they were undergraduates, at Cambridge University, told Rebecca Mead that she and Fry have long shared a great love of Oscar Wilde. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/oD-CKb
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has told Cop30 delegates that he was ready to fight for his roadmap “to phase out oil, coal and gas in whatever forum was necessary.”
November 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has told Cop30 delegates that he was ready to fight for his roadmap “to phase out oil, coal and gas in whatever forum was necessary.”
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What most people would call corruption, grifting, graft, and criminality gets branded as "blurring of lines "
November 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
What most people would call corruption, grifting, graft, and criminality gets branded as "blurring of lines "
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Meet the 2025 J.M.K. Innovation Prize awardees – ten early stage innovators tackling urgent issues in social justice, the environment, and heritage conservation.
2025 J.M.K. Innovation Prize Awardees | The J.M. Kaplan Fund
The J.M.K. Innovation Prize seeks to identify and support bold problem-solvers leading transformative, early-stage projects in the fields of heritage conservation, the environment, and social justice.
www.jmkfund.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Meet the 2025 J.M.K. Innovation Prize awardees – ten early stage innovators tackling urgent issues in social justice, the environment, and heritage conservation.
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🎶 old mcdonald replaced his farm with an energy intensive data center, a i a i o 🎶
November 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
🎶 old mcdonald replaced his farm with an energy intensive data center, a i a i o 🎶
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#ScienceSunday
#Vaccines
Here is another example where scientists have generated systemic immunity against human papilloma virus using nasal delivery of a cationic nanogel containing the HPV16 E7 protein as an antigen. In addition, an anti-tumor effect was seen. Game-changing!
Vaccines save lives.
#Vaccines
Here is another example where scientists have generated systemic immunity against human papilloma virus using nasal delivery of a cationic nanogel containing the HPV16 E7 protein as an antigen. In addition, an anti-tumor effect was seen. Game-changing!
Vaccines save lives.
Cationic nanogel–based nasal therapeutic HPV vaccine prevents the development of cervical cancer
Cationic nanogel–based nasal therapeutic vaccine induces cancer-specific immune responses and inhibits cancer development in cervical tissue.
www.science.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
#ScienceSunday
#Vaccines
Here is another example where scientists have generated systemic immunity against human papilloma virus using nasal delivery of a cationic nanogel containing the HPV16 E7 protein as an antigen. In addition, an anti-tumor effect was seen. Game-changing!
Vaccines save lives.
#Vaccines
Here is another example where scientists have generated systemic immunity against human papilloma virus using nasal delivery of a cationic nanogel containing the HPV16 E7 protein as an antigen. In addition, an anti-tumor effect was seen. Game-changing!
Vaccines save lives.
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