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Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer
February 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer
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February 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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This is what militant resistance rooted in working class solidarity is capable of. We can change the system if we join together organize against our capitalist oppressors.
January 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is what militant resistance rooted in working class solidarity is capable of. We can change the system if we join together organize against our capitalist oppressors.
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Oh no, the Chinese plagiarism machine might have plagiarized the American plagiarism machine
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Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data
Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI are investigating whether data output from OpenAI’s technology was obtained in an unauthorized manner by a group linked to Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, ...
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January 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Oh no, the Chinese plagiarism machine might have plagiarized the American plagiarism machine
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search.app/gLKPBELL2weQ...
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While the USA builds endless cul-de-sacs with the same looking house over and over again, here's what a new neighborhood in the Netherlands looks like:
(📷 LT Afbouw, Rijnsburg)
(📷 LT Afbouw, Rijnsburg)
January 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
While the USA builds endless cul-de-sacs with the same looking house over and over again, here's what a new neighborhood in the Netherlands looks like:
(📷 LT Afbouw, Rijnsburg)
(📷 LT Afbouw, Rijnsburg)
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The fact that NIH grant-making has been switched off so haphazardly, for reasons that remain unclear, and despite the scope of troubles it creates, suggests that higher ed will be profoundly vulnerable during the second Trump era, writes @ibogost.bsky.social: theatln.tc/e1Ng2ddw
The Chaos in Higher Ed Is Only Getting Started
Grant reviews have been suspended at the NIH. This could be an omen.
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January 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The fact that NIH grant-making has been switched off so haphazardly, for reasons that remain unclear, and despite the scope of troubles it creates, suggests that higher ed will be profoundly vulnerable during the second Trump era, writes @ibogost.bsky.social: theatln.tc/e1Ng2ddw
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Investors Worried AI Could Leave Shred Of Humanity Intact
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January 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Investors Worried AI Could Leave Shred Of Humanity Intact
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January 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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"Kroger has partnered with Microsoft to install facial-recognition technology in stores to identify individual customers, which could allow individual shoppers to see prices calibrated specifically for them.
The next shopper might pay a different amount based on their profile."
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The next shopper might pay a different amount based on their profile."
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Automation in Retail Is Even Worse Than You Thought
New technology is not just making shopping more challenging for workers and consumers—it’s poised to rip off the most vulnerable.
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January 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
"Kroger has partnered with Microsoft to install facial-recognition technology in stores to identify individual customers, which could allow individual shoppers to see prices calibrated specifically for them.
The next shopper might pay a different amount based on their profile."
bit.ly/4gYUoBo
The next shopper might pay a different amount based on their profile."
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our story so far: maga, having planned for this moment for years, consolidates power and stacks the bureaucracy with loyalists. meanwhile, the opposition party seems befuddled by the entire current situation and considers thinking about someday planning a response of some sort.
January 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
our story so far: maga, having planned for this moment for years, consolidates power and stacks the bureaucracy with loyalists. meanwhile, the opposition party seems befuddled by the entire current situation and considers thinking about someday planning a response of some sort.
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Sorry you can't afford to own a home, we had to beat China in the race to develop a better plagiarism app
January 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Sorry you can't afford to own a home, we had to beat China in the race to develop a better plagiarism app
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One way to win the economic competition with China would be to make apps that don't suck shit. Have you considered that
January 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM
One way to win the economic competition with China would be to make apps that don't suck shit. Have you considered that
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So OpenAI are already deeply unprofitable and had to raise one of their sub tiers to $200, then some random Chinese company comes out and releases something that does exactly what their product does for free. Extremely funny shit. Altman is cooked.
January 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
So OpenAI are already deeply unprofitable and had to raise one of their sub tiers to $200, then some random Chinese company comes out and releases something that does exactly what their product does for free. Extremely funny shit. Altman is cooked.
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I've had nearly a dozen State Department officials reach out to me since Trump's volley of executive orders. He's creating an army of leakers
Foreign Service Institute (government office that trains U.S. diplomats) just removed 2,100 courses and suspended others in order to conduct "a comprehensive review of all courses to ensure they align with the Executive Orders" issued by President Trump, per State Department memo leaked to me.
January 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I've had nearly a dozen State Department officials reach out to me since Trump's volley of executive orders. He's creating an army of leakers
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Capitalism didn’t make your Iphone, socializing market risk through the public sector for decades in the form of R&D for telecommunications and the development of internet made your Iphone, capitalists just showed up at the end to take the credit and collect the profits.
January 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Capitalism didn’t make your Iphone, socializing market risk through the public sector for decades in the form of R&D for telecommunications and the development of internet made your Iphone, capitalists just showed up at the end to take the credit and collect the profits.
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i love mystery incorporated
January 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
i love mystery incorporated
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kids used to dream of going to space but now they dream of maximizing shareholder value by utilizing artificial intelligence in marketing
January 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
kids used to dream of going to space but now they dream of maximizing shareholder value by utilizing artificial intelligence in marketing
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UnitedHealthcare just appointed a new CEO after the murder of its previous one by alleged gunman Luigi Mangione. The new CEO fought government regulators' attempts to rein in health insurer use of algorithms to deny care
UnitedHealthcare Appoints New CEO Following Murder
Leaked talking points detail insurer's PR push amid incoming CEO
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January 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
UnitedHealthcare just appointed a new CEO after the murder of its previous one by alleged gunman Luigi Mangione. The new CEO fought government regulators' attempts to rein in health insurer use of algorithms to deny care
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the world they want is one where you're either unemployed or work an almost no wage job, you have almost no political input or self determination and you’re happy about it because you can get a t-shirt off temu for a $1
The plan is to crash the economy to suppress wages.
January 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
the world they want is one where you're either unemployed or work an almost no wage job, you have almost no political input or self determination and you’re happy about it because you can get a t-shirt off temu for a $1
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