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Some important reporting on data work.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Surprising but telling to see Google flat-out denying the contribution of data workers to their products:

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September 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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This sounds wacky but it is backed up by science.
3. If you see content that disturbs you, immediately (or as fast as possible) go and play 20-30 minutes of Tetris (or any other fast-paced game with your eyes sweeping over the visual field that has caused visual artifacts to linger when you close your eyes for you in the past).
September 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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this whole fraud is going to be really funny years from now, in hindsight, but it's mostly just infuriating now
Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn.
www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...
There Is No AI Revolution
Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei hav...
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February 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
i have a hippo-shaped postcard of the lil hippo guy on my fridge but i absolutely want a reproduction
Every museum should have a Little Guys Tour, and at the end of the tour you can buy reproductions of all the little guys
December 12, 2024 at 2:08 PM
how i feel this week about people expressing hope re: trump and co. being ineffective
From 1932
December 1, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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tressie mcmillan cottom is so good (🎁) www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
Opinion | How Trump Tapped Into America’s Online Spaces and Took Control
Trump excelled at tapping into the information ecosystems where minority and young voters express their identity.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 1:52 PM
putting in requests at brooklyn and queens public libraries for the books from @soniasulaiman.bsky.social list of palestinian speculative fiction instead of fixing my tub... sometimes procrastination is good, actually?
#ReadPalestinianSpecFic Reading List
The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…
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October 16, 2023 at 6:13 PM