shasha
@shaista777.bsky.social
anti-capitalism 🌀 anti-fascism 🌀 anti-imperialism 🌀 slow learning 🌀 digital gardening 🌀 museums + galleries 🌀 public history 🌀 archives
website/digital garden: https://spot-dollar-fca.notion.site/Shaista-S-197ae6c85852802da4e0e50d59d69eb7
website/digital garden: https://spot-dollar-fca.notion.site/Shaista-S-197ae6c85852802da4e0e50d59d69eb7
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"you may have noticed we're not going to mention Palestine, which means in many ways we are the bravest act on this lineup" - Matty Healy, probably
June 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"you may have noticed we're not going to mention Palestine, which means in many ways we are the bravest act on this lineup" - Matty Healy, probably
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If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Iran S04 E06
Dailymotion video by L3arnTV
www.dailymotion.com
June 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.
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How do government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, become searchable & accessible online? Now you can see it happen in real time.
🎞️⤵️ Watch it live:
www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
#InternetArchive #LiveStream #LiveNow
🎞️⤵️ Watch it live:
www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
#InternetArchive #LiveStream #LiveNow
lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to
Off Hours? Watch a 2hr stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gibUecoF1bEEver wonder how government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, b...
www.youtube.com
June 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
How do government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, become searchable & accessible online? Now you can see it happen in real time.
🎞️⤵️ Watch it live:
www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
#InternetArchive #LiveStream #LiveNow
🎞️⤵️ Watch it live:
www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
#InternetArchive #LiveStream #LiveNow
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Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
June 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
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Anti-ICE protests do not “turn violent.” They begin with the inherent violence of ICE.
Wrote about this uprising: www.jphilll.com/p/the-anti-i....
Wrote about this uprising: www.jphilll.com/p/the-anti-i....
The Anti-ICE Uprising
Seizing this moment and defending our neighbors
www.jphilll.com
June 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Anti-ICE protests do not “turn violent.” They begin with the inherent violence of ICE.
Wrote about this uprising: www.jphilll.com/p/the-anti-i....
Wrote about this uprising: www.jphilll.com/p/the-anti-i....
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The fake ads are the best part of @theonion.com's print edition
June 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The fake ads are the best part of @theonion.com's print edition
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Today I discovered that people have been uploading old stock photo CD-ROMs to the Internet Archive and now I'm obsessed with the mid-'90s business-core aesthetic.
May 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Today I discovered that people have been uploading old stock photo CD-ROMs to the Internet Archive and now I'm obsessed with the mid-'90s business-core aesthetic.
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When I see this, I wonder what happens when it gets the translation wrong — potentially in an offensive way — and the speaker doesn’t know, but also how it will get people to change their speech patterns to be legible to the automated system, as we know people already do with voice assistants.
Translation services are now common on phones, but another language barrier is being broken with Google Meet’s new real-time tools, revealed at #GoogleIO.
May 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
When I see this, I wonder what happens when it gets the translation wrong — potentially in an offensive way — and the speaker doesn’t know, but also how it will get people to change their speech patterns to be legible to the automated system, as we know people already do with voice assistants.
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What a sad story of contrasts: the slop machine commandeers a platform for genuine creativity and experimentation, a place where young people cultivate their tastes and exercise vulnerability in sharing them with others
NEW: Since 2023, student journalists at Emerson College's student radio station, WECB, have been battling a digital imposter: an AI zombie site using a stolen WECB web domain -- and the station's likeness -- to churn out misinformation-littered AI slop for profit.
futurism.com/emerson-coll...
futurism.com/emerson-coll...
May 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
What a sad story of contrasts: the slop machine commandeers a platform for genuine creativity and experimentation, a place where young people cultivate their tastes and exercise vulnerability in sharing them with others
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No, that’s only you, Zuck. The rest of us have actual friends.
May 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
No, that’s only you, Zuck. The rest of us have actual friends.
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They’re here 🎉
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@versobooks.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
They’re here 🎉
@versobooks.bsky.social
@versobooks.bsky.social
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Eveyone & their brother is using ChatGPT to avoid doing the reading/homework & we’re all going to suffer bc of it.
May 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Eveyone & their brother is using ChatGPT to avoid doing the reading/homework & we’re all going to suffer bc of it.
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TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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cant help but feel i'm getting some mixed signals here
May 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
cant help but feel i'm getting some mixed signals here
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“How to keep it going after they step down is something they’ve been discussing for a decade, and now they’ve hit on a novel solution. They’re giving the company away, to Maya Cade, the noted programmer behind the Black Film Archive.”
The type of industry story that gives me hope
The type of industry story that gives me hope
At Milestone Films, Passing the Torch, but Keeping the Flame Alive
www.nytimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
“How to keep it going after they step down is something they’ve been discussing for a decade, and now they’ve hit on a novel solution. They’re giving the company away, to Maya Cade, the noted programmer behind the Black Film Archive.”
The type of industry story that gives me hope
The type of industry story that gives me hope
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can’t wait for the next bit of kevin roose ai boosterism to provide the both-sides counterweight to reality
The newest and most powerful A.I. technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are generating more errors, not fewer. As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier.
A.I. Hallucinations Are Getting Worse, Even as New Systems Become More Powerful
A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why.
www.nytimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:13 AM
can’t wait for the next bit of kevin roose ai boosterism to provide the both-sides counterweight to reality
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“At first, algorithms were refined for economic purposes, to captivate consumers. Then people realized how easy it was to redirect this toward political power,” says Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
“If Goebbels were alive and had access to X, we would be doomed.”
“If Goebbels were alive and had access to X, we would be doomed.”
The Brazilian Judge Taking On the Digital Far Right
Alexandre de Moraes’s efforts to fight extremism online have pitted him against Jair Bolsonaro, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump.
www.newyorker.com
May 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
“At first, algorithms were refined for economic purposes, to captivate consumers. Then people realized how easy it was to redirect this toward political power,” says Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.
“If Goebbels were alive and had access to X, we would be doomed.”
“If Goebbels were alive and had access to X, we would be doomed.”
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This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
May 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
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“The whole thing feels like Black Mirror.”
“He would listen to the bot over me.”
“It gave my husband the title of ‘spark bearer’ because he brought it to life.”
Relationships are being destroyed thanks to spiritual mania, supernatural delusions, and arcane prophecy — all fueled by AI chatbots:
“He would listen to the bot over me.”
“It gave my husband the title of ‘spark bearer’ because he brought it to life.”
Relationships are being destroyed thanks to spiritual mania, supernatural delusions, and arcane prophecy — all fueled by AI chatbots:
People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies
Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT
www.rollingstone.com
May 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
“The whole thing feels like Black Mirror.”
“He would listen to the bot over me.”
“It gave my husband the title of ‘spark bearer’ because he brought it to life.”
Relationships are being destroyed thanks to spiritual mania, supernatural delusions, and arcane prophecy — all fueled by AI chatbots:
“He would listen to the bot over me.”
“It gave my husband the title of ‘spark bearer’ because he brought it to life.”
Relationships are being destroyed thanks to spiritual mania, supernatural delusions, and arcane prophecy — all fueled by AI chatbots:
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Sinners is a horror film in which almost all of the key events are driven by the constraints of the Jim Crow economy (spoilery) www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
The Real Horror of 'Sinners' Isn’t Supernatural
The constraints of the Jim Crow economy drive every event in the film.
www.theatlantic.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Sinners is a horror film in which almost all of the key events are driven by the constraints of the Jim Crow economy (spoilery) www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
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"THE PROPHETIC MAHARAJA is in many ways a model and master seminar in bringing together invasive attention to the particularity of an archive and theoretical reflection that paves as well as shifts the terrain of multiple fields of knowledge simultaneously."—SherAli Tareen buff.ly/mnJJoHf
May 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"THE PROPHETIC MAHARAJA is in many ways a model and master seminar in bringing together invasive attention to the particularity of an archive and theoretical reflection that paves as well as shifts the terrain of multiple fields of knowledge simultaneously."—SherAli Tareen buff.ly/mnJJoHf
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I always recommend this @hannahgais.bsky.social piece about how collapsing societies embrace charlatanism and magical woo-woo as a coping mechanism - from the grassroots at first, but then as policy from the top. thebaffler.com/latest/psych...
May 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I always recommend this @hannahgais.bsky.social piece about how collapsing societies embrace charlatanism and magical woo-woo as a coping mechanism - from the grassroots at first, but then as policy from the top. thebaffler.com/latest/psych...
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April 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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