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valerie
@vfo.northsky.social
Academic librarian @CUNY ~ Web Services + Media Literacy | AuDHD | In my Molly Grue era | GLAMS feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rea3amxwqfkfzhilivubtrib/feed/aaabfz334lr66
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You guys the person whose mom I went to Greece with is Victor. I spent a week in Greece with Victor’s mom
One of the ladies I went to Greece with messaged the group chat to say her son is going to be on Traitors so I guess I actually have to give in and watch this show everyone has been talking about forever
There is an Instagram channel where middle schoolers recommend new music to their teachers based on stuff they liked in the 90s or whatever and I’M OBSESSED I sincerely love this concept #TheKidsAreAlright www.instagram.com/reel/DeRstks...
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What Flock cameras really see - and how | NPR Short Wave
And they were very receptive. I also briefly got into the problem of how choosing words by probability in interdisciplinary research can quickly snowball into a nightmare when the same words can mean very different things across fields. They’ll do what they’ll do, but they have more information now.
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I’m also offering to try to teach their daughters how to fake a certain kind of insanity (that comes naturally to me) that seems to be quite terrifying to men. I swear I put off a certain kind of crazy vibe that kept me a level of safe because I guess no one quite knew what I was capable of, even me
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"What if the computer has feelings" ask the people who write the code used to blow up Palestinian families and Iranian school children, to strip millions of people of their health care, to help the modern-day Gestapo put our immigrant neighbors in concentration camps. Yeah, what if.
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I've been saying for a few years and am now more convinced than ever that the 250th was, in a lot of ways, a "reverse Bicentennial." In '76, we had an early attempt at politicizing the anniversary, which fell apart and led to grassroots celebration. 250 saw last minute takeover. A (possibly long) 🧵:
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I feel like you could make kind of a productive analogy between AI agents where they save the user time by wasting everybody else's time and the American approach to vehicle safety where occupant safety is prioritized at the expense of everybody else's. Prosocial? Never heard of her.
A lot of AI assistants seem to have been built around the assumption that the rest of the world is not actually real nymag.com/intelligence...