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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

When I tell him I can’t use my lunch break to help him dig through the floorboards to find out what that noise in the crawlspace is.

Small, cute, gray rabbit, on a rug, looking somewhat disappointed

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Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 1d

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 10h

It is engineering malpractice that this site has not yet implemented an option to allow people to private their accounts, given that they’re a US based company, and the US is going through what it’s going through.

But hey, waffles, amirite.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 10h

A sunrise in the side view mirror of a car

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 12h

Digital humanities friends, @scholarslab.bsky.social regularly collaborates w/our data science school colleagues! & @histoftech.bsky.social @jhereia.bsky.social et al do awesome work there. (If you ever wanted to try letterpress; or do book-adjacent or DHy data sci+making, I'm here too.) Job ad:

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

UVA school of data science is hiring this year—searches are open to folks from all disciplines. We need humanists & social scientists to teach ethics/data & society courses + do research that supports school’s mission to be holistic in the study of data science: datascience.virginia.edu/faculty-jobs

Faculty Jobs — School of Data Science

School of Data Science at the University of Virginia.

datascience.virginia.edu

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 14h

If you’re not on tiktok just know you’re missing one of the best parts of October—Spooky Lake Month; 31 days of haunted hydrology.

If you are on tiktok what’s your favorite so far?

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

every big AI pitch is like “what if we took away your means of survival and devalued all your skills to make stonks go up temporarily? You’d like that wouldn’t you?”

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 14h

Loving the oldies stations🥲

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 19h

This is what he’s telling me too…

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 19h

It’s not but thank you for this info💚

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 23h

So when you see wastewater numbers that indicate covid is rising again, remember that most cases are spread asymptomatically and even a “mild” case that seems like “just a cold” in the acute phase can cause many, many long-term problems for the people you infect and possibly even for yourself.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 23h

When you spread covid you’re spreading misery, even if not death. All those covid infections kids are getting year after year are adding up to shorter lives with lower quality of life. There’s no solution other than getting it less. No one can save you, or your kid, once the damage is done.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 23h

Doctors don’t know how to treat any of this effectively, & US clinical trials that have shown the most promise won’t be available to regular patients for years, if not longer, given the decline of US healthcare. One very promising drug trial was recently suddenly shut down due to funding shortages.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 23h

me:

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😅😅

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

same photo as the quote posted rabbit but I very poorly added a clip art hat monocle fake evil mustache and pipe coming from the mouth. original alt text is as follows: Small, cute, gray rabbit, on a rug, looking somewhat disappointed.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

(It’s a guy doing work on the foundation. Rabbit wants to see for himself.)

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

When I tell him I can’t use my lunch break to help him dig through the floorboards to find out what that noise in the crawlspace is.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

UVA school of data science is hiring this year—searches are open to folks from all disciplines. We need humanists & social scientists to teach ethics/data & society courses + do research that supports school’s mission to be holistic in the study of data science: datascience.virginia.edu/faculty-jobs

Faculty Jobs — School of Data Science

School of Data Science at the University of Virginia.

datascience.virginia.edu

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · Aug 19

I think AI can make a latent class consciousness more easy to activate, and I think a lot of our AI critiques should focus on that

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Aug 19

BLOOD IN THE MACHINE was given early access to survey data pulled from interviews with 1,400 Californians on their thoughts about AI.

Among the findings:

-59% think AI will primarily benefit corporations and the wealthy
-55% are more concerned than excited
-*70%* want strong AI laws

How California feels about AI

Spoiler: Not great. Plus, how AI is raising our electricity bills, the chatbot therapist that failed to intervene in a suicide, and what lays behind Grok's personas.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 1d

Studies are beginning to reveal fissures in the argument that AI boosts productivity, writes Tech Policy Press fellow @eryk.bsky.social. Nonetheless, companies and governments are pouring investments into speculative growth without ample evidence.

Generative AI’s Productivity Myth | TechPolicy.Press

People may be using artificial intelligence, but that doesn’t mean it’s useful, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

www.techpolicy.press

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