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oh yeah apropos of absolutely nothing at all, and definitely not the new bluesky ceo's comments, i still really really want to start a social media co-op blog.wellssanto.com/i-want-to-ma...
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critical (of) AI, critical race, queer/trans & AsAm studies, algorithmic justice at UMSI all about abolition, transformative justice, free palestine. SSBM (link main), anime, and indie art/zine fan. pan/bi enby 🇹🇼🇮🇩🏳️⚧️ she/her
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oh yeah apropos of absolutely nothing at all, and definitely not the new bluesky ceo's comments, i still really really want to start a social media co-op blog.wellssanto.com/i-want-to-ma...
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Interested in doing a #phd about #vtubers? Then boy do I have the PhD fellowship for you. Join my @erc.europa.eu funded project on the creator economy, based in lovely Aarhus, Denmark. Link to the job description below, deadline 1 November.
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unorganized thoughts i wrote at 3am last night because i literally couldn't stop thinking about the social media app i wish existed docs.google.com/document/d/1...
been telling folks i feel like things are gonna come crashing down around next week & i'm really hoping this gut feeling is wrong
might line up with midterm elections, or folks getting worried before the holiday season, or a consequence of recent big mergers and deregulation (imagine warner-paramount being tied to this somehow).. in any case i think the time is finally here & it won't be AI speculation that blows up first
my best friend just tied for third at trivia night hosted by @minakimes.bsky.social going solo against teams of 4 and i need to just announce this to the world lmao
i mean, to be fair, *a lot* of things got better up until the POS in charge came into office and fucked up a ton of services and funding. the last ten years really messed a lot of things up
Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
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'While there has been plenty of community pushback to data centres and much focus on government regulation, there hasn’t been enough scrutiny at the level of purportedly clean higher education institutions doing dirty deals with methane-slurping chatslop peddlers.' www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/22/u...
this has to be satire and social commentary, right..? ...right...?
The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...
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Reading this really fucked me up last night. I suppose rape profiteering has been around as long as war profiteering. They’re siblings. That said, there’s something about the unapologetic attitude of betting on the implications of gang rape that bruised the inside of my soul last night.
Polymarket allowed users to bet on whether any one of the 7 defendants in the Cornell rape case will be charged with a felony sex crime and the market did almost HALF A MILLION DOLLARS IN VOLUME