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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 7h

😍 Ann Messner's "Du Bois: The FBI Files" at the "In Our Time: Eleven Artists + W.E.B. Du Bois" show @ Pratt Manhattan Gallery — making redaction tangible!

(Also in the show: Derrick Adams, Radcliffe Bailey, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Theaster Gates, Mickalene Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, et at)

A long table lined with redacted documents

Close-up of redacted documents, showing that the redactions are moveable black strips and blobs

A stack of printed Du Bois FBI files that visitors can take with them

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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 7h

I cite from this in my new article about redaction! 💜

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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 10h

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YouTube Regrets

Mozilla and 37,380 YouTube users conducted a study to better understand harmful YouTube recommendations. This is what we learned.

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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 10h

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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 10h

Jennifer Rigley did it first: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside the life of a 24/7 streamer: ‘What more do you want?’

A lonely young woman in Texas has streamed every second of her life for three years and counting. Is this life, or a performance of one?

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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 10h

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Jim Lee On Why DC Will Never Use AI: "AI Doesn't Dream, Feel, Or Make Art, It Aggregates It" | Comic Book Club

Jim Lee spoke out about why DC Comics will never use AI at today's Retailer Day at New York Comic Con during an impassioned speech.

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 16h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 18h

You made it halfway through the week *and* we still have free shipping? Sounds like the perfect time to treat yourself to a new book and support indie bookstores in the process. 📚

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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 14h

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SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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Authors Alliance @authorsalliance.bsky.social · 15h

We recently received a question regarding the AI scraping of Institutional Repositories: (1) Do open access Institutional Repositories permit the use of the IR’s materials for AI training? and (2) Are there legal mechanisms that would prevent the use of IR materials in AI training?

Institutional Repositories and AI Scraping

We recently received a question regarding the AI scraping of Institutional Repositories, by which we mean online digital archives that provide access to the intellectual output of scholars, often a…

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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 1d

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Rural township near Saline changes course on AI, computing data center after lawsuit

Saline officials cite legal risks and concerns that land would be developed anyway as reasons for pursuing settlement with Related Digital over 2.2-million-square-foot facility.

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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 1d

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Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 1d

New: Records obtained by the @aclum.bsky.social show police across the state are conducting dragnet surveillance of motorists and sharing their location information with cops in states that have banned abortion and gender affirming care, and those that work w/ICE data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...

Flock Gives Law Enforcement All Over the Country Access to Your Location – The Data for Justice Project | ACLU of Massachusetts

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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 1d

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Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“Google has filed a patent for a face-detection activation system that would eliminate the need for ‘Hey Google’ hotwords by automatically triggering its Gemini AI assistant when a user's phone detects their face nearby.” 😩