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@europeandaughter.bsky.social
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a weltanschauung. based in chicago. mainly sharing stuff i think is interesting/important. media studies, russian/eastern european media, sports, whatever. #insulin4all

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18h
we keep telling football teams to hire a twelve year old madden player for clock management and they keep not doing it
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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 18h
Hooray, a source link. Some context: - Bot traffic from the whole of the Russian Federation is basically unchanged. - The specific AS13238 YANDEX — Yandex LLC source is mostly web scraping search engine indexing. - People's jokes about influence campaign effects are being read as factual statements
All Russian bots. They are still out there.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is wild: scammers are hijacking real artists' official Spotify pages with AI slop to make $$$. We know this because we did it. We made AI music and put it on a real band's page. It was shockingly easy. There is a gaping hole in how music is digitally distributed www.404media.co/spotify-ai-m...
404media.co
I Hijacked a Real Artist's Spotify with AI Music. It Was Disturbingly Easy
A glaring loophole in digital music distribution makes it very easy to piggyback on the talent of real artists with AI generated music.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What could possibly go wrong? For one, bias propagation, reflecting clinicians' habit of copying forward notes in EHR, which may contain stereotypes based on race, ethnicity, gender, etc
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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Man with a Movie Camera is a 1929 Soviet experimental documentary that posits that the purest form of cinema - real cinema- is basketball footage
sublime shot of soviet bball
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
wait have people finally discovered this, is this a thing
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We are all dogs locked in god’s hot car
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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
'Compliant Technologies' ffs was Human Cattle Industries taken
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Christopher Cwynar @cwynar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This @bostonreview.bsky.social piece offers a number of informed perspectives on what we've long taken for granted, and now may be losing, w/r/t the Internet and web. www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...
bostonreview.net
What Was the Internet?
As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Harvard gets rid of its writing center and not two weeks later Zuckerberg starts submitting essays. cruel times
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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A post online that got a bunch of traction teased a christian nationalist militia that's growing, but hid all of the info and group name behind a substack paywall. The group is called Ozark Christian Initiative, with chapters in MO, AK, TX, OK, and NE. Fuck people who gatekeep info on the far-right.
Photos of white men in tactical gear holding a flag with text over it that reads "join the ozark christian initiative" and a crusader cross. two white dudes intactical gear standing in the woods holding a red and white flag with a cross in the middle and holding up three fingers to symbolize the holy trinity.some white dude in tactical gear looking like a complete fucking dork kneeling on the ground while someone stands over him with a sword.A dozen white people in tactical gear with faces redacted standing in the woods giving the holy trinity hand gesture.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"The litigation has revealed a clear pattern: Uber’s lawyers scour women’s private communications, medical records, therapy notes …They grill the women about those issues, their sex lives and their behavior on the night of the incident." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...
nytimes.com
Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?’
The ride-hailing giant promised to handle legal claims “in a way that is best for the survivor.” Its lawyers are pursuing a far more aggressive strategy.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"Artificial intelligence is not just a market product or a scientific achievement. It is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy." connect the dots! Dr. McMillan Cottom has homework! go to the library, host a reading group, organize your neighbors www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | A Reading List for Our Age of A.I. (Gift Article)
A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.
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jade is okay @europeandaughter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
belew is one of my favorite writers; this is going to be excellent.
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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I’ve now seen two GOP reps—Burchett and Self—call for either banning Flock or calling for heavier regulation in the past two days. Any others?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/07/2026
the corruption number here makes me want to turn into the joker and then, as the joker, turn into a significantly more unhinged joker
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
read theory
Wealth Concentration, Corruption, and Democratic Backsliding:
A Theory of Media and Common Ownership*
Jacob M. Grumbacht
July 15, 2026
Abstract
I develop a model of how extreme wealth concentration harms democracy through a common ownership problem. A media firm can extract rents by producing pro-regime content that curries favor with a corrupt or authoritarian leader, but this pro-regime content drives away audience and advertisers. However, a common owner, who controls both a media firm and other large firms, can use the media firm to extract rents and reduce regulatory exposure for her entire business portfolio, not just the media firm. The common owner thus has a greater incentive to use the media firm for pro-regime content, which reduces the profitability of the media firm but increases the profitability of the overall business portfolio. Concentrated wealth, which increases cross-holding, increases the total amount of pro-regime content in the system.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Huh. Dovetails nicely with the point that "AI" is a labor issue, actually.
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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
ICE has killed another person. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
miamiherald.com
Man killed by truck as he fled immigration agents in St. Augustine
Third ICE-involved death in a week confirmed after fatal St. Augustine crash. National outrage grows over enforcement and deaths
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13/07/2026
these people love to mock anything that smacks of gender studies but then in turn in these wide-eyed and empty takes and expect to be taken seriously
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Policymakers treat critical infrastructure as physical: power grids, communications networks, transportation systems, and satellites. In the age of generative AI, writes Rachel A. George, another kind deserves equal attention: the institutions that determine what governments believe to be true.
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The Next National Security Challenge Is Research Integrity
In the age of AI, research integrity has become critical infrastructure, writes Stanford Law School's Rachel A. George.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 12/07/2026
Is that gratitude why you voted to confirm Kristi Noem at DHS while she was promising to send people into camps
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Roberto Baldwin @strngwys.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I grew up on Food Stamps, the stigma was fucking horrible. I have so much to say about this ghoulish piece of shit, Stitt and his desire to shame people. "making it so easy..." Fuck you dude. I'm vibrating with anger right now over this. Being poor is expensive, traumatizing, and anything but easy
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 10/07/2026
In the new TMK, we get into the growing market for humanoid robots. What are the financial incentives and social ideologies driving the creation of technologies designed to directly mimic humans? What makes these androids attractive—and doomed to fail as solutions for real problems? Full episode:
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465. Malcolm X1 Technologies | This Machine Kills
We chat all about the growing market for humanoid robots. What are the financial incentives and social ideologies driving the creation of te
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.
adweek.com
Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/07/2026
“University of Chicago Law School announced it will ban phones and laptops in the classroom for first-year students in its new AI strategy.”
abc7chicago.com
University of Chicago Law to ban phones, laptops in classroom for first-year students in new AI plan
University of Chicago Law School announced it will ban phones and laptops in the classroom for first-year students in its new AI strategy.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Me Too did not go far enough.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
One thing I don’t think men understand is that rape and assault are so ubiquitous—and so perpetually immune from consequence or recognition—that many women learn to talk about these incidents as of they’re mere inconveniences. We are not allowed to treat them with more gravity.
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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Not lost on me that the high profile "they were right, and i fucked up" apologies have come from women (goldberg, klein) and not from the podbros who are arguably more responsible for this bugfuck mess than anyone else other than the candidate himself.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
IT DIDN'T FAIL. CHRIST ALMIGHTY
nymag.com
Why the Vetting of Graham Platner Failed
Platner was shielded by his genuine grassroots appeal, missteps by his opponents, and the understandable reticence of his alleged victims — until now.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026
there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.
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NYU Center for Data Science @nyudatascience.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"Institutional influence": how governments shape AI chatbots through the training data they ingest — with measurable effects on what the models actually say. A new Nature study by CDS-affiliated Prof. @jatucker.bsky.social and CSMAP's @solmg.bsky.social. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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State media control influences large language models - Nature
Government-controlled media influences the output of large language models via their training data, and models queried in the languages of countries with lower media freedom show a stronger ...
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 07/07/2026
The ‘we told you so’s are less about Being Right than hoping to be listened to next time & reaffirming that ourselves that we were being gaslit & should continue trusting our judgment. But being right? Every time we’re right about this stuff our lives get worse. Nobody would sign up for that deal.
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 07/07/2026
Behind the World Cup's real-time data and automated offside calls is a vast network of manual laborers who turn every pass and tackle into structured analytics to fuel the sports betting industry restofworld.org/2026/fifa-world-cup…
restofworld.org
The AI-powered World Cup runs on thousands of data workers
Human annotators in Brazil, Cambodia, and the Philippines are tracking every movement in the football tournament for teams, broadcasters, and the betting industry.
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jessica BONEStown @newfoundgloryhole.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
THE ACKROOMS
Cathy in the backrooms
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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
get to work racking up five dollar donations from leaded gasoline spirochete brain old dumbass loyal to cable tv news host losers addicted to eating james carvilles poop. now! go now!!!
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Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The Falklands War but soccer would absolutely break this site in the dumbest possible way so I’m here for it.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
like the terminator evaluating enemy combatants, their 4chan groyper transvestigating audience automatically superimposes lines over their torsos to determine that grant is a beta cuck submitting to the alpha chad lee this is the white house saying the confederacy won
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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
remarkable how many people will go on record and tell people they are marks
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j @lowercase.name · 24/06/2026
the official explanation given for why the rayban branding was dropped is nonsense (trying to say it's about luxury pricing when the cheapest of these is still more than a pair of normal raybans) so i'm going with the more likely explanation of "they finally noticed the pr disaster in the distance"
“For us, it’s just about continuing to expand the choice that people have in the marketplace of what to pursue,” Bosworth said in a Q&A. “Reaching people isn’t just about even design or style, it’s also about the price point that you can reach. So, if you’re going to be wearing the Ray-Ban Wayfarer, it’s the most popular style, and most frequently worn style of glasses in the world, and it’s iconic; you pay a premium for that.”
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 24/06/2026
also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers
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jade is okay @europeandaughter.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
this article is circulating with a COMPLETELY bullshit framing and clickbait lie about it, the "ai cybersecurity" firm is actually training AGAINST AI and the conan series is about helping people spot deepfakes and other gen-ai material, beginning with the famous robert smigel video mouth sketches
variety.com
Conan O’Brien Partners With AI Cybersecurity Firm for 15-Part Training Series
Cybersecurity AI firm Adaptive Security enlisted Conan O'Brien to star in a 15-part training series.
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jade is okay @europeandaughter.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The elimination of shared governance at universities is directly connected to the consolidation of power and degradation of democratic institutions that we’re seeing at the national level
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