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you literally have to act like a shounen protagonist, okay? never give up, find strength in your friends, keep fighting just because the only other option is to lose and you WON'T lose. you HAVE to act like a shounen protagonist. get mad, get passionate, then wield that passion like a fucking HAMMER
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
you literally have to act like a shounen protagonist, okay? never give up, find strength in your friends, keep fighting just because the only other option is to lose and you WON'T lose. you HAVE to act like a shounen protagonist. get mad, get passionate, then wield that passion like a fucking HAMMER
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Finally finished Careless People and oooof.
Lots to unpack, but what's really sitting with me is Wynn-Williams' insider perspective on what happened with Facebook in Myanmar.
It was both gutting and unsurprising. Bc this is still happening. rampantly. in a *lot* of languages. 🧵
Lots to unpack, but what's really sitting with me is Wynn-Williams' insider perspective on what happened with Facebook in Myanmar.
It was both gutting and unsurprising. Bc this is still happening. rampantly. in a *lot* of languages. 🧵
July 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Finally finished Careless People and oooof.
Lots to unpack, but what's really sitting with me is Wynn-Williams' insider perspective on what happened with Facebook in Myanmar.
It was both gutting and unsurprising. Bc this is still happening. rampantly. in a *lot* of languages. 🧵
Lots to unpack, but what's really sitting with me is Wynn-Williams' insider perspective on what happened with Facebook in Myanmar.
It was both gutting and unsurprising. Bc this is still happening. rampantly. in a *lot* of languages. 🧵
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We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
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this just started and i'm already losing my mind and screaming
Western white folk basically putting an AI avatar on stage and pretending it is a refugee from sudan — literally interacting with it as if it is a “woman that fled to chad from sudan”
just fucking shoot me
Western white folk basically putting an AI avatar on stage and pretending it is a refugee from sudan — literally interacting with it as if it is a “woman that fled to chad from sudan”
just fucking shoot me
May 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
this just started and i'm already losing my mind and screaming
Western white folk basically putting an AI avatar on stage and pretending it is a refugee from sudan — literally interacting with it as if it is a “woman that fled to chad from sudan”
just fucking shoot me
Western white folk basically putting an AI avatar on stage and pretending it is a refugee from sudan — literally interacting with it as if it is a “woman that fled to chad from sudan”
just fucking shoot me
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If you are a cis person *please* take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.
Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans
www.reddit.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
If you are a cis person *please* take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.
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I cannot get this section of @abeba.bsky.social reflections out of my mind.
February 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I cannot get this section of @abeba.bsky.social reflections out of my mind.
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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Fantastic piece on 'proptech' companies that help landlords raise rents, screen tenants, and even evict people: www.techpolicy.press/proptechs-di...
These monopolies are price-fixing across the housing market and discriminating against renters. All of this has massive impacts across the US.
These monopolies are price-fixing across the housing market and discriminating against renters. All of this has massive impacts across the US.
PropTech's Digital Pipeline to Prison | TechPolicy.Press
The rapid rise of technologies used by landlords may transform a US housing crisis into a pipeline to prison, writes Alec Bacon and Sean McDonald.
www.techpolicy.press
January 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Fantastic piece on 'proptech' companies that help landlords raise rents, screen tenants, and even evict people: www.techpolicy.press/proptechs-di...
These monopolies are price-fixing across the housing market and discriminating against renters. All of this has massive impacts across the US.
These monopolies are price-fixing across the housing market and discriminating against renters. All of this has massive impacts across the US.
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Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
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Dear computer vision researchers, students & practitioners🔇🔇🔇
Remi Denton & I have written what I consider to be a comprehensive paper on the harms of computer vision systems reported to date & how people have proposed addressing them, from different angles.
PDF: cdn.sanity.io/files/wc2kmx...
Remi Denton & I have written what I consider to be a comprehensive paper on the harms of computer vision systems reported to date & how people have proposed addressing them, from different angles.
PDF: cdn.sanity.io/files/wc2kmx...
December 16, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Dear computer vision researchers, students & practitioners🔇🔇🔇
Remi Denton & I have written what I consider to be a comprehensive paper on the harms of computer vision systems reported to date & how people have proposed addressing them, from different angles.
PDF: cdn.sanity.io/files/wc2kmx...
Remi Denton & I have written what I consider to be a comprehensive paper on the harms of computer vision systems reported to date & how people have proposed addressing them, from different angles.
PDF: cdn.sanity.io/files/wc2kmx...