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A recent study found that plants are losing their ability to take up CO2. This is just one out of several existential threats they face. Plants and forests are also dying all over the world due to oxidative stress. The cause—ozone emitted by our modern industrial systems. 🧵 1/

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I can't stop laughing at this man I'm sorry. This is the kind of shit the biggest loser in the world would say to their girlfriend about buying her flowers on Valentine's Day once, and he's doing so in an argument that started because he called her a bitch

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Once again, it’s open season on women and minorities in America—and this time, it’s by design. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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Supporters Praise Trump For Upholding Traditional American Value Of Supporting Murderous Dictators For Political Gain

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Update, via NBC: "The video...appears to have been first spread by a network of pro-Israel social media accounts." www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn... While I liked my sad fanboy theory because it makes everyone involved look like losers, if true this is evil.

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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In "DeepAesthetics," Anna Munster explores aesthetics, artificial intelligence, & machine learning to understand the contours of computational experience and the possibility to artfully use AI to create new futures. Read the intro for free on our website now! #CriticalTheory https://buff.ly/4hIcJmz

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This is what happens when the people in government don’t understand how government works.

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Not a surprise at all, but: “The chatbot suffers from some issues, including one that’s common to all large language models: hallucination.”

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transgender will never go away

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Q: hey, what are you into? A:

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I know things are difficult all over but I beg of you not to forget my friend and brother Mohamed. He is trying to support 13 people in the Al Mawasi camp in Gaza because the Israeli army still occupies his land. www.gofundme.com/f/help-moham...

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More evidence-framing dynamics: "They’re running the ‘Twitter Files’ playbook against the entire U.S. gov't. The claims are a bunch of half-baked conspiracy theories built around idiotic misinterpretations and intentional mischaracterizations of bits of data and out-of-context communications."

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One of the pertinent questions I ask in the conclusion is: Should the money that is invested in predictive policing applications not be invested instead in tackling causes of crime and in problem-oriented responses, (1)

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New work, inspired by the illusion of agency in pollen that gave rise to Einstein’s diffusion equation, which informed the design of diffusion models — to create an illusion of agency. Plus, thoughts on subversion & complicity in art and technology.

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The world is rife with bad ideas but further condensing media ownership and responsibility to companies that are driven by eugenicist ideas and a lust for profit is a reaaaaally bad idea.

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#ICYMI It's now open season on immigrants, gays and trans people on Meta's platforms. Meta got “rid of several restrictions on topics like immigration, gender identity, and gender that are the subject of frequent political discourse and debate.” about.fb.com/news/2025/01...

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Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports. Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

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the computer is the anti-christ

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#zucked

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Rob Horning on the bizarre dystopia of the Salesforce ad for AI agents: "Basic civilities and accommodations will be automated out of existence, so that they can be sold back to atomized individuals as perks or bonuses... necessarily administered by machines" robhorning.substack.com/p/can-we-alr...

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suzanne césaire, 1943: "at no moment during these difficult years of Vichy domination was the image of freedom ever totally extinguished here, and we owe this to surrealism."

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Holy shit. This is fucking nuts.

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From the BBC: "According to a new report from Adalytics, advertising systems run by companies including Google, Amazon and Microsoft have inadvertently funnelled money to the owners of a website hosting illegal images of child sex abuse." I covered this 2 years ago! creativegood.com/blog/23/how-...

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The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

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Watched Kendrick’s performance at the Super Bowl and couldn’t help but laugh at the fact he had to swap out curse words when so many kids in the US are raised in a culture that normalises guns, demonises trans people and actively encourages imperialism. But weirdly saying pussy is the red line

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A fantastic read from @participha.bsky.social Ezequiel di Paolo and @beckety.bsky.social on participatory sensemaking open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

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Reporting on sexual violence for years has at least acclimated me to the reality that laws don’t get enforced unless the crimes threaten the status quo protecting the powerful

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a.i. is just some guy

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How AI generated campaigns operate. Example 🇩🇪: ➡️ The network mimics real German news outlets and promotes nationalist and Eurosceptic narratives, particularly supporting the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party while targeting mainstream politicians. www.euractiv.com/section/poli...

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I’m thrilled to share new work arguing that the research community should stop treating AGI as a North-Star goal! Debates about AGI miss the forest for the trees. 🧵

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This just weeks after a study showed that AI usage, especially among minors, encourages cognitive offloading and hampers critical thought. What a sad day for California higher education. AI is plenty accessible and teachable without this. We do not need massive contracts with OpenAI and big tech.

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Ethnic cleansing and genocide is not a setup for you to dunk on Arab voters, and if you think it is, you’re closer to Trump than you think you are.

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From “We believe that Google should not be in the business of war.” To “Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance” Another 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 clash via the AI Act www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Going on holiday and mostly offline for the next two weeks. Not looking forward to coming back and seeing how demonstrably worse the world and everything to do with AI has gotten when I’m back. Solidarity to everyone who is on the front line of being impacted by these changes

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Um, Google's AI Principles are gone. I spent 5 years working every single day to align our work with the AI Principles as originally written. They were critically important to everything we did, including what we didn't do. #ResponsibleAI #EthicalAI ai.google/responsibili...

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SCOOP: We have full details of changes Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer, is asking government coders to help the administration with. This includes using login.gov as a fraud surveillance system against Americans, which employees told him is an "illegal task" www.404media.co/things-are-g...

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I'm really proud of this article, it should be of interest to anyone thinking about Generative AI, Resistance/Refusal, and the role artists play in hijacking the spectacle of AI.

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