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Internet Archive @archive.org · 1d

This week, join Sir Tim Berners-Lee & Brewster Kahle for a conversation on the past, present & future of the Web.

📅 Thurs Oct 9, 7:30 PM PT
🎟️ In-person
➡️ blog.archive.org/event/buildi...

Headshots of Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Brewster Kahle.

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 1d

So since I'm annoyed let me say a few things today.Some folks have been writing about Christian Nationalism and apocalyptic right wing movements for YEARS here in the US. YEARS. Do we get to have a platform in major mags and newspapers... rarely.

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d

Some advertising you just can't buy

MAGA Congresswoman: Bad Bunnys super bowl halftime show a demonic sexual performance

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 2d

This year's annual Title IX training no longer has "Title IX" in its name. And its emphases are notably different. The scale of compliance is kind of mind-blowing.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 5d

I made an extremely belated return to @flaminghydra.com with this bit about my long winter of depressing '70s cinema and the righteous and unreasonable defiance of One Battle After Another. flaminghydra.com/issue-416/

Struggle cinema

David Roth on 'One Battle After Another'

flaminghydra.com

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 3d

I recommend "One Battle After Another"

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Truthout @truthout.org · 4d

Why I’m Leaving Academia after a Decade of Contingent Labor

Roughly 70 percent of faculty are contingent. This exploitative hustle is driving dedicated teachers out of academia.

buff.ly

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 6d

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 6d

Wait, who's been a "pain in their butt"?

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 7d

RTO

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 7d

Employees listening to managers talking about all the innovation that will come from hallway conversations now that they have to come into the office five days a week.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 7d

christopher walken in works of art: thread

Christopher Walken in The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh.

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 7d

For real. Not unlike social media platforms.

WIRED @wired.com · 7d

A Harvard Business School study shows that several AI companions use various tricks to keep a conversation from ending. www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

Chatbots Play With Your Emotions to Avoid Saying Goodbye

A Harvard Business School study shows that several AI companions use various tricks to keep a conversation from ending.

www.wired.com

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10d

How Ruby went off the rails: A deep dive into the ownership and governance drama of some of the most important open source projects in the world

www.404media.co/how-ruby-wen...

How Ruby Went Off the Rails

What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure.

www.404media.co

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 11d

Really touching tribute from @lukeoneil47.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/life-is-a-pr...

Life is a problem that can’t be solved

Remembering Kaleb Horton

www.welcometohellworld.com

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 14d

I love when a software dev is asked about their trajectory into the career and they say, "well, it's weird. I was an English major."

Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 16d

Ridiculous. Wasn't GitHub recently moved to Microsoft's 'CoreAI' group, where it's probably now languishing?

Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 16d

Genuinely fascinated a single bot can do this without getting instantly taken down.

github.com/gitcoincoact...

Screenshot of dozens of identical “Gitcoin Announcement | $15M Github Developer Fund” spam issues in the same repo

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 16d

can we get colbert back instead

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 16d

In addition to skepticism about the publication's bias (as Katelyn says here) all these studies do nothing for parents. As a parent, the problem we face everyday isn't "is this real or naw" but "how do i love my child and do what is best in a hostile environment."

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 17d

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum.

This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

The Economist @economist.com · 18d

A recent study found that children who transitioned young retained stable gender identities over time. But the fact that nearly a fifth of those in the group did not ought to give advocates of irreversible medical interventions pause

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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 18d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 18d

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18d

ICE crackdowns are sparking tension in Washington D.C.'s Hispanic neighborhoods

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19d

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 19d

Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) is chair of the Progressive Caucus. Folks here raised over $53k for him last week through our Human Rights Campaign fundraiser! So glad to see him in front of cameras and making the case.

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Richard Higgins @zen0effect.com · 20d

Love this groove

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Live in London 2018

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