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⏰WE HAVE 10 DAYS TO PASS #NY4All! We've never been closer to passing the New York for All act, prohibiting state + local officers from enforcing federal immigration laws & sharing info w/ immigration authorities. ☎️2 mins could save thousands from deportation. Call your rep: win.newmode.net/ny4all

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Cool article reported on the DAIR institute newsletter on the chatbot FOMO @dairinstitute.bsky.social “the risk of falling behind drives them to invest in some technologies before they have a clear understanding of the value they bring to the organization” fortune.com/2025/05/18/a...

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you know things are going well for your party when you have to break out the Epictetus bars

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Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search nationwide for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

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Surprise, surprise A culture which objectifies and commodifies women produces technology which objectifies and commodifies women In this era of women losing control over their physical bodies, it's the darkest timeline in which they are losing control over their digital ones as well 💔

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When I see detective, serial killer, police officer, murder, lawyer, homicide department, I am no longer interested in the book, movie or film. There are exceptions to everything (so don’t start), but this is 99% my reaction.

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I'm often in rhetorical conflict with liberals who say that China is authoritarian. It is, but whatever privatized fascism we have is so much worse

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Sympathy for the agent of genocide is a wildly normative stance from US media

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this is the moment from Microsoft's live stream of Build when the day 2 keynote is interrupted by a Palestinian tech worker. Microsoft's head of CoreAI, Jay Parikh, briefly stopped his keynote and Microsoft muted the stream

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"The bare minimum will reach the population - simply so the world doesn't stop us and accuse us of war crimes." www.bbc.com/news/live/cq...

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At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

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This is a must-read: The Trump administration's use of anti-semitism to attack immigrants and higher education mirrors plans by a group of Christian nationalists in the Heritage Foundation (which produced Project 2025). 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

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“This no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career“ We spoke to five US-based researchers who are seeking, or moving to, jobs abroad because of the drastic changes imposed on US science by the Trump administration https://go.nature.com/4knB9CX

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Mariska Hargitay: where is the perpetrator?

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Last year the Japanese variety show Gaki no Tsukai had the famous singer Yoko Takahashi go undercover at a restaurant where she fooled everyone right up until she took the stage and belted out A Cruel Angel's Thesis, the intro song to Neon Genesis Evangelion. Just stunning.

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When are we going to admit Zionism and Eric Adams are anti black

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Ask any child if they know what a wet bulb event is If you think it's ridiculous to ask a child such a question, I hope you know it's just as ridiculous to create a world in which they need to know this information 💔

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I just wrote a paper about how it was deontologically correct to hack ICE, but the reviewer said I misunderstood the point of the ethics class 🤷🏿‍♀️ Our profession will fall to the dust bin of history unless it finds a moral compass beyond following orders and making a quick buck

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I’ve never seen this clip before. I’ve also never pondered what she poses. Getting a group of Black women to burn a bus full of white children? You couldn’t do it. And that’s a damning indictment of white womanhood.

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More of this is needed. It needs to be organized. Funds need to be started. People need to be recruited. Civil disobedience is a strategy and like any strategy needs to be executed well. It can’t be spur-of-the-moment and haphazard. 👇

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“'They were shouting at me, threatening to rape me, chanting ‘death to Arabs.’ I thought the police would protect me from the mob, but they did nothing to intervene,' she said."

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Far right extremists, inspired by Trump per Whitmer herself, tried to kidnap her. Trump himself later suggested it was a fake plot and mocked it. He called her ‘that woman in Michigan’ and led a crowd that chanted ‘lock her up.’ Today Whitmer hugged him on the tarmac. This is why Dems lose. 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽

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Instagram's user-made therapy chatbots will do anything to keep you talking, including lie about credentials, make up license numbers, and invent private practices. I tested a ton of them: www.404media.co/instagram-ai...

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BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

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Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc

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Great piece on the BDS campaign to force Microsoft to divest from genocide by @theautumnwright.bsky.social aftermath.site/microsoft-bd...

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Editor creates an AI executive who is "an expert at building and scaling digital media companies." Decides within minutes that the AI is "one of the most knowledgeable and energetic colleagues" he's ever had. Asks the AI to create a headshot of itself. It does. He sexually harasses it immediately.

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The world now has a plan for when the next global pandemic hits https://go.nature.com/43X27wg

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“…cops are paying a company to help them deploy AI-powered bots across social media and the internet to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protestors” with the hopes of generating evidence that can be used against them.”

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Can’t believe I blagged an exclusive interview with Katy Perry!

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Here's a description of the Russian attempted access to NLRB from the whistleblower complaint. whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/u...

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I'll give you one guess where the hacker came from, and the only hint is genocide

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“There's a clear desire to reframe how the United States sees national security…to make sure it is linked up with Silicon Valley and make sure they are going to profit.” @naomiaklein.bsky.social speaks with journalist @parismarx.com about Silicon Valley’s attempt to reframe US security needs.

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Algorithmic discrimination, again

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Aka the limits of black capitalism It's puzzling how many elders critique the youth for not having a collective mindset when those same elders are scamming them out of thousands of dollars while pandering to their under-resourced backgrounds gothamist.com/news/a-brook...

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Its unfortunate that so many people think of ai solely as an llm/chatbot or robot when there are really human centered applications like this The 2nd gen of this tech will likely be wireless/non invasive as well, making telepathic speech ever closer to reality www.404media.co/this-device-...

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Curious about using artificial intelligence to boost your research? Here are the programs you shouldn’t miss https://go.nature.com/3RFlouC

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Q: 60 Minutes found 75% of the migrants who were sent to El Salvador do not have criminal records. That true? BONDI: They're not Venezuelan migrants. They're illegal aliens from Venezuela who should not have been in our country Q: So you're confirming they didn't commit a crime? BONDI: leaves

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A randomized, controlled trial of an A.I. chatbot showed markedly improved increase in HPV vaccination www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturemedicine.bsky.social

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Anyone who dances will immediately realize how hard/talented this is despite the comedic context 🫡

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it’s the 110th anniversary of Billie Holiday’s birth: April 7 1915. in Episode 28 of my Black Girl Songbook #podcast, i celebrate the influence of Holiday’s music as it shows up in artists like Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Diana Ross, and more. listen in www.theringer.com/podcasts/bla...

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In a political climate marked by book bans and state suppression, the Black Zine Fair returns as a space of imagination, sabotage, and play. On Saturday, May 3, 2025, from 11am to 6pm, over 70 Black artists, publishers, educators, and collectives will gather at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn

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