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Patrick Boehler
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Weird is beautiful
Duolingo Arabic course sentence: New York is a weird city.
November 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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The WSJ journalists build a house of deep reporting and accountability. Then the op-ed page editors spend all day burning it down with toxic, fact-free arson.
Idiotic WSJ headline: Europeans Watch New York’s Mayor’s Race With Fear
October 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Lighthearted pope humor of different flavors before the model training kicks in
Mistral Gemini Claude ChatGPT
May 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Just updated this nerdy social protocols map, because this eternal debate about whether "online life is real life" keeps coming up. Of course it's real.
A diagram showing four models of social media governance: The Absolute Monarchy (traditional platforms), The Federated City States (ActivityPub), The Protocol Commonwealth (AT Protocol), and The Network Confederacy (Decentralized Protocols), each with their core features, economics, scaling, and content persistence characteristics.
November 20, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. - Frederick Douglass​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
November 14, 2024 at 8:33 PM
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If you’re also tired of intellectually bankrupt political punditry that claims to be journalism but destroys everything in its path: meet this senior pug who has the biggest heart.
July 22, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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Here’s Claude 3.5 with DeepL translation
July 13, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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Here’s ChatGPT with DeepL translation
July 13, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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Some slides from Tilde Thurium's presentation "Social Justice and Prompt Engineering: What We Know So Far"
July 13, 2024 at 1:51 AM
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Anyone?
July 12, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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Two striking charts on perceptions of poverty and wealth inequality in China from a 2023 survey.
Report: bigdatachina.csis.org/is-it-me-or-...
Presentation: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
July 10, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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2 key slides from a recent NDI presentation on the future of the internet

docs.google.com/presentation...
June 15, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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Excellent Audiencers' newsletter featuring the team structures and KPIs of 5 publishers.
Le Parisien Die Zeit Die Zeit
June 12, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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May 9, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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A story in two acts
April 20, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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Cartoon on China app ban
April 19, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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“We are and have been in a new era of Media: The User Centric Era. This new age is defined by the ultimate power of the audience, not the gatekeepers.” eshap.substack.com/p/hurt-so-go...
March 10, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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“Philanthropy is not a revenue model” www.localnewsblues.com/untitled/
The whole scene has turned into a case of Chinese water torture. Want to get your $15,000 in NewsMatch money from INN? Take two days you don’t have to fill out the INN Index. Want to get your $20,000 Google News Initiative funds from INN? Sit in endless webinars so you can be told how much Google cares about local news.
February 26, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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Everything will always be political because humanity is inherently political, said Aristotle 2,300 years BZ (Zuck)
February 14, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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2024 began in Belarus with an improbable act of petty censorship.

From 11:45pm to 0:05am, YouTube was inaccessible to non-VPN users in the country.

Radio Svaboda report: www.svaboda.org/a/32756305.h...
January 7, 2024 at 1:57 AM
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Belt and Road summits are gradually becoming more intimate gatherings. (网友投稿)
Photos of Belt and Road summits showing decreasing attendance.
October 18, 2023 at 8:46 PM