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“The work was emotionally exhausting, with chat users confiding intimate details about their real-life relationships, as well as their own emotional trauma, falsely believing they were talking to an unfeeling AI chatbot.”
AI "Companion Bots" Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims
A new testimony from a remote worker in Kenya details the grueling and exploitative work behind romantic AI chatbots.
futurism.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
“The work was emotionally exhausting, with chat users confiding intimate details about their real-life relationships, as well as their own emotional trauma, falsely believing they were talking to an unfeeling AI chatbot.”
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there is a very good book about transatlantic exchange of fascist, eugenicist and racist ideas in the early 20th century and how those ideas shaped the nazi government in its early years. this has been transformed in popular understanding to "the nazis copied jim crow"
If you’ve heard the “the Nazis got their ideas from the US segregationists” I beg you to please stop. This is both false and it minimizes historical European antisemitism in a misguided attempt to emphasize the nature of US anti-Black racism.
It’s horrific without comparison to Nazism.
It’s horrific without comparison to Nazism.
May I politely encourage you to reconsider this framing. It is inaccurately stated and suggests consistent and strong linkages that do not exist.
The Nazis did not “get their ideas” from confederate laws. Antisemitism and anti-Jewish laws existed in Europe long before the Confederacy…
The Nazis did not “get their ideas” from confederate laws. Antisemitism and anti-Jewish laws existed in Europe long before the Confederacy…
December 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
there is a very good book about transatlantic exchange of fascist, eugenicist and racist ideas in the early 20th century and how those ideas shaped the nazi government in its early years. this has been transformed in popular understanding to "the nazis copied jim crow"
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Tech is obsessed with the mass adoption of their product so later they can jack up the prices, but ubiquity has yet to correlate to profits (Lyft, Spotify,Tesla). They’re able to prolong this gambit by promising future innovations’ ability to create profitability, but that remains to be seen.
December 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Tech is obsessed with the mass adoption of their product so later they can jack up the prices, but ubiquity has yet to correlate to profits (Lyft, Spotify,Tesla). They’re able to prolong this gambit by promising future innovations’ ability to create profitability, but that remains to be seen.
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The reason why companies are more enamored with AI as opposed to other tech trends (NFTs, crypto, the Metaverse) is due to the users ability to opt out of those scams. Because of the forced integration of AI into all manner of systems and software users are required to interact with it to a degree.
December 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The reason why companies are more enamored with AI as opposed to other tech trends (NFTs, crypto, the Metaverse) is due to the users ability to opt out of those scams. Because of the forced integration of AI into all manner of systems and software users are required to interact with it to a degree.
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I see this sort of proud posturing a lot and it's really a wonderful way to loudly demonstrate to everyone you have absolutely no idea what's going on
Music Icon Pharrell Criticizes Political Division: “I Don’t Believe In Either Side”
Pharrell Williams is making his feelings about American politics unmistakably clear.
newzsquare.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I see this sort of proud posturing a lot and it's really a wonderful way to loudly demonstrate to everyone you have absolutely no idea what's going on
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
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Tech bros 🤝 eugenics
Silicon Valley sets its sights on building the perfect baby | Fortune
Tech-savvy parents to be are using IVF and screening embryos to build families in ways that were unimaginable a few short years ago.
fortune.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Tech bros 🤝 eugenics
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Here’s the thing about settling to keep the government grant $ flowing: this administration is actively trying to destroy state capacity to fund research at anything close to its current scale. If they’re successful, the entire model of the research university is dead.
Who is supporting these settlements? It’s generally not faculty or even long-time university administrators, it’s university boards and interim administrators who they’ve installed after admins with more of a fighting instinct have been forced out. There’s a playbook here.
@mbkplus.bsky.social and I will have more thoughts on the podcast, but it's no coincidence that the two most draconian settlements were signed by *interim* university presidents.
November 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Here’s the thing about settling to keep the government grant $ flowing: this administration is actively trying to destroy state capacity to fund research at anything close to its current scale. If they’re successful, the entire model of the research university is dead.
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Public man-made death: The dismantling of USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day.
hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day.
hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Public man-made death: The dismantling of USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day.
hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
That’s 1000+ excess dead children every day. Every day.
hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
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Well over HALF of the students losing their schools under the plan to close Louisville’s public schools are Black. If you’ve read even 20 minutes of honest American history this won’t surprise you.
November 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Well over HALF of the students losing their schools under the plan to close Louisville’s public schools are Black. If you’ve read even 20 minutes of honest American history this won’t surprise you.
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I see some responses here from yt people saying that so and so are “just as American as me.” And, while I appreciate that sentiment probably comes from a good place, I’d like to gently suggest changing your own orientation so that you recognize YOU do not represent the standard of “Americanness”
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I see some responses here from yt people saying that so and so are “just as American as me.” And, while I appreciate that sentiment probably comes from a good place, I’d like to gently suggest changing your own orientation so that you recognize YOU do not represent the standard of “Americanness”
Post something random or you’ll have an awful December:
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Post something random or you’ll have an awful December
November 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Post something random or you’ll have an awful December:
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Happy Thanksgiving! How many different ways can 6 people sit at a table?
November 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! How many different ways can 6 people sit at a table?
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This is what you do when you want to raise your children right. You teach them community service and let them understand that privilege is not something to be owned
Princess Lilibet and Prince Archie Make Surprise Outing with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Ahead of Thanksgiving - People
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Princess Lilibet and Prince Archie Make Surprise Outing with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Ahead of Thanksgiving — People
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex brought their children along to give back ahead of the holidays
apple.news
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
This is what you do when you want to raise your children right. You teach them community service and let them understand that privilege is not something to be owned
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spanish flu was 1918........ the great wall street crash was 1929........... very cool stuff, history, very cool and not stressful
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
spanish flu was 1918........ the great wall street crash was 1929........... very cool stuff, history, very cool and not stressful
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My stance on AI-generated music is that if other humans couldn’t be bothered to write, play*, and mix it, I am not wasting my limited human time listening to it.
*I’ve seen how much creative work goes into good electronic music. It counts; I am just very tired and couldn’t find a better verb.
*I’ve seen how much creative work goes into good electronic music. It counts; I am just very tired and couldn’t find a better verb.
November 27, 2025 at 3:39 AM
My stance on AI-generated music is that if other humans couldn’t be bothered to write, play*, and mix it, I am not wasting my limited human time listening to it.
*I’ve seen how much creative work goes into good electronic music. It counts; I am just very tired and couldn’t find a better verb.
*I’ve seen how much creative work goes into good electronic music. It counts; I am just very tired and couldn’t find a better verb.
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URGENT: Cheese Recall - Listeria
Walmart & Sam’s Club pecorino romano recalled for possible Listeria. Brands: Locatelli, Boar’s Head, Member’s Mark, Ambriola, Pinna Dates: Expires Feb-May 2026DO NOT EAT. Throw out or return. Dangerous for pregnant women, elderly, immunocomp. flip.it/nqYAxK%E2%80...
Walmart & Sam’s Club pecorino romano recalled for possible Listeria. Brands: Locatelli, Boar’s Head, Member’s Mark, Ambriola, Pinna Dates: Expires Feb-May 2026DO NOT EAT. Throw out or return. Dangerous for pregnant women, elderly, immunocomp. flip.it/nqYAxK%E2%80...
Walmart and Sam’s Club Just Recalled Cheese in a Total of 31 States and Washington, D.C.
The recall effort seems to be growing rapidly amid Listeria bacteria concerns as other retailers also alert customers.
flip.it
November 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
URGENT: Cheese Recall - Listeria
Walmart & Sam’s Club pecorino romano recalled for possible Listeria. Brands: Locatelli, Boar’s Head, Member’s Mark, Ambriola, Pinna Dates: Expires Feb-May 2026DO NOT EAT. Throw out or return. Dangerous for pregnant women, elderly, immunocomp. flip.it/nqYAxK%E2%80...
Walmart & Sam’s Club pecorino romano recalled for possible Listeria. Brands: Locatelli, Boar’s Head, Member’s Mark, Ambriola, Pinna Dates: Expires Feb-May 2026DO NOT EAT. Throw out or return. Dangerous for pregnant women, elderly, immunocomp. flip.it/nqYAxK%E2%80...
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When people say "AI" with no further specification, 99% of the time the obvious implication is they're referring to LLMs and image, video and audio generators.
Replying "yet you play single-player videogames and use spam filters" to anyone saying they dislike AI is a deliberately obtuse misreading.
Replying "yet you play single-player videogames and use spam filters" to anyone saying they dislike AI is a deliberately obtuse misreading.
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
When people say "AI" with no further specification, 99% of the time the obvious implication is they're referring to LLMs and image, video and audio generators.
Replying "yet you play single-player videogames and use spam filters" to anyone saying they dislike AI is a deliberately obtuse misreading.
Replying "yet you play single-player videogames and use spam filters" to anyone saying they dislike AI is a deliberately obtuse misreading.
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Once again; you can't moderate your way to neutralizing an issue like immigration.
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Once again; you can't moderate your way to neutralizing an issue like immigration.
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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In 2024 I investigated many similar accounts that posted very similar types of content, claiming to be ‘Trump supporting women’ from the US, but they were fake accounts using images stolen from European influencers.
The findings were reported here 👇 edition.cnn.com/2024/08/28/e...
The findings were reported here 👇 edition.cnn.com/2024/08/28/e...
Stolen photos of European influencers used to push Trump propaganda on X | CNN
A phony campaign on X backing Trump ahead of the US election is using stolen or manipulated photos of real women in Europe to push its agenda.
edition.cnn.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
In 2024 I investigated many similar accounts that posted very similar types of content, claiming to be ‘Trump supporting women’ from the US, but they were fake accounts using images stolen from European influencers.
The findings were reported here 👇 edition.cnn.com/2024/08/28/e...
The findings were reported here 👇 edition.cnn.com/2024/08/28/e...
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So a big part of the Project 2025 goals hinges on forcing women out of the workforce. The Heritage Foundation knows that women voters hold the most power in terms of sheer numbers. If they can push you out of the workforce, they can push you out of your voting rights.
Digging into the data of what's taking place with Black women unemployment and this graph is pretty damning.
You can see the EXACT month Black women's unemployment begins to splinter and that what hit us FIRST is now coming for all other women. This is #TheDoubleTax.
#blacksky #news #econsky
You can see the EXACT month Black women's unemployment begins to splinter and that what hit us FIRST is now coming for all other women. This is #TheDoubleTax.
#blacksky #news #econsky
November 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
So a big part of the Project 2025 goals hinges on forcing women out of the workforce. The Heritage Foundation knows that women voters hold the most power in terms of sheer numbers. If they can push you out of the workforce, they can push you out of your voting rights.
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Narrator: After Nebraska voted for trump 59.5% vs Harris 38.8%, they are in the "find out" phase of fucking around.
#MAGAMorons
#MAGAMorons
Tyson Foods to close Nebraska plant as it faces $600 million loss in beef business
Tyson's announcement to close a Nebraska plant comes as beef prices surge in cost.
finance.yahoo.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Narrator: After Nebraska voted for trump 59.5% vs Harris 38.8%, they are in the "find out" phase of fucking around.
#MAGAMorons
#MAGAMorons
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That list is made by somebody who doesn’t know wtf those jobs are. Nurses need to be board certified. Nurses administer medication. Insurance classifies them as professions because they need to be certified. Accounting aint going to work either.
November 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
That list is made by somebody who doesn’t know wtf those jobs are. Nurses need to be board certified. Nurses administer medication. Insurance classifies them as professions because they need to be certified. Accounting aint going to work either.
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The beautiful bird has settled at the Battery in downtown New York following a lengthy stay in the quiet gardens of Roosevelt Island and a brief, chaotic stint in Midtown Manhattan. She's the only wild turkey in Manhattan.
https://cnn.it/3X9C7ct
https://cnn.it/3X9C7ct
November 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The beautiful bird has settled at the Battery in downtown New York following a lengthy stay in the quiet gardens of Roosevelt Island and a brief, chaotic stint in Midtown Manhattan. She's the only wild turkey in Manhattan.
https://cnn.it/3X9C7ct
https://cnn.it/3X9C7ct