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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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Generative AI (GenAI) is to digital technology what Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are to industrial agriculture. Their primary innovations? Iterative re-entrenchments of technology and capitalism as the primary frames for understanding life itself… plantgoodseed.blog #noai #stopgenai #🌱
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Generative AI (GenAI) is to digital technology what Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are to industrial agriculture. Their primary innovations? Iterative re-entrenchments of technology and capitalism as the primary frames for understanding life itself… plantgoodseed.blog #noai #stopgenai #🌱
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"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside."
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
November 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside."
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
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What does a leaderboard of AI metrics really represent?
-degradation of the information environment
-continued ramping of climate consequences
-a history of eugenics
-stripping critical capacities from young people just as they most need it to combat the return of the far right
-degradation of the information environment
-continued ramping of climate consequences
-a history of eugenics
-stripping critical capacities from young people just as they most need it to combat the return of the far right
November 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
What does a leaderboard of AI metrics really represent?
-degradation of the information environment
-continued ramping of climate consequences
-a history of eugenics
-stripping critical capacities from young people just as they most need it to combat the return of the far right
-degradation of the information environment
-continued ramping of climate consequences
-a history of eugenics
-stripping critical capacities from young people just as they most need it to combat the return of the far right
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Us: AI is a wage depression technology, and the industrialization of language
Them: The median fine-tuning and inference cost of $81 per author represents a dramatic 99.7% reduction compared to typical professional writer compensation
Them: The median fine-tuning and inference cost of $81 per author represents a dramatic 99.7% reduction compared to typical professional writer compensation
Put writing high quality literary text on the list of things that AIs used to not be able to do but now can do
With fine-tuning, now outperforming MFA-trained expert writers at emulating award-winning authors when rated blindly by MFA-trained experts papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
With fine-tuning, now outperforming MFA-trained expert writers at emulating award-winning authors when rated blindly by MFA-trained experts papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Us: AI is a wage depression technology, and the industrialization of language
Them: The median fine-tuning and inference cost of $81 per author represents a dramatic 99.7% reduction compared to typical professional writer compensation
Them: The median fine-tuning and inference cost of $81 per author represents a dramatic 99.7% reduction compared to typical professional writer compensation
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If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
there are earlier uses of the concept “dark enlightenment” that have nothing to do with yarvin and land or their goofy monarchist white supremicist capitalist friendly “theories” that focus on a certain slice of western civilization at the behest of the rest of history.
November 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
there are earlier uses of the concept “dark enlightenment” that have nothing to do with yarvin and land or their goofy monarchist white supremicist capitalist friendly “theories” that focus on a certain slice of western civilization at the behest of the rest of history.
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u lean on me, i lean on u
November 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
u lean on me, i lean on u
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I do, of course, have a paragraph from "Why We Fear AI" for this
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I do, of course, have a paragraph from "Why We Fear AI" for this
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AI companies like "our product will convince you to kill yourself, then monetize your spouse's grief with microtransactions while it also sexts with both them and your child. We lose billions of dollars a month btw"
And almost half the US stock market is now inextricably tied up in them.
And almost half the US stock market is now inextricably tied up in them.
November 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
AI companies like "our product will convince you to kill yourself, then monetize your spouse's grief with microtransactions while it also sexts with both them and your child. We lose billions of dollars a month btw"
And almost half the US stock market is now inextricably tied up in them.
And almost half the US stock market is now inextricably tied up in them.
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Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
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"Opposition is growing toward data center projects, which frequently require massive amounts of electricity and often win tax breaks from state and local officials."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Microsoft Warns Investors About Local Opposition to Data Centers
Microsoft Corp. is warning investors about a new risk to its expansive data center plans: local backlash.
www.bloomberg.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"Opposition is growing toward data center projects, which frequently require massive amounts of electricity and often win tax breaks from state and local officials."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
cat bonds? “this complex financial instrument is sold as the silver bullet for climate finance. In reality they have given institutions like the World Bank the perfect neoliberal policy for climate (in)action / provided extremely lucrative windfalls for hedge funds” on.soundcloud.com/LOCZIovQCLrI...
October 31, 2025 at 11:04 AM
cat bonds? “this complex financial instrument is sold as the silver bullet for climate finance. In reality they have given institutions like the World Bank the perfect neoliberal policy for climate (in)action / provided extremely lucrative windfalls for hedge funds” on.soundcloud.com/LOCZIovQCLrI...
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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So the $20,000 humanoid robot housekeeper actually just webcams your house to a random person in a call center with an Xbox controller www.wsj.com/tech/persona... @joannastern.bsky.social
I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human.
1X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?
www.wsj.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:49 AM
So the $20,000 humanoid robot housekeeper actually just webcams your house to a random person in a call center with an Xbox controller www.wsj.com/tech/persona... @joannastern.bsky.social
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tbh AI makes me wish I was 61 and closer to escaping from it
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
www.npr.org
October 24, 2025 at 3:12 AM
tbh AI makes me wish I was 61 and closer to escaping from it
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thinking about My Father's Camry Filled With Leaves again
October 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
thinking about My Father's Camry Filled With Leaves again