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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2h

GOP’s labor market policy is market protectionism for white men.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 3h

"For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row...with women earning 80.9 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2024. That compares to women earning 84 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2022."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

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no earthquake (cultural tutor) @noearthquake.bsky.social · 10h

LLMs have convincingly demonstrated that coding is the easiest activity, maths is medium hard, and having taste is the hardest

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 13h

Anime’s like the ark of the covenant. Blesses everyone normal, fries the brains of Nazis

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12h

You may have noticed that folks who are from Chicago love this city. There's a reason for that. I walked to the lake with friends yesterday, and when I saw the waves rolling in, I felt something shift back into place inside of me. So many parts of this city are part of me. We will defend this place.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 12h

And I don't think anything we have currently meets those criteria. But mostly, for me as a disabled person, my convenience doesn't outweigh destroying the planet. GenAI doesn't currently solve any disability related problems better than other less harmful tools.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 12h

There could be good use cases for it, but I think they'd need to be developed specifically for disabled people with specific needs and with input from those communities (and done in a way that works with copyright and tries to mitigate environmental and labor disasters).

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 12h

That’s where I’m at with it. Automation can’t make up the gap in support and resources that communities and governments can and should provide to disabled people. It’s a systemic failure, I think, to even resort to it.

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 12h

Right! for most of us, the transcription is a shortcut. But I, fully sighted and not hard of hearing, can still access the original. But if the person relying on it can’t verify it due to disability, that error rate is absolutely egregious and is not really accessibility!

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 12h

so I’m asking in good faith here, can people say what ways LLMs actually help the disabled community? I’m willing to be wrong here, but on its face, as a chronically ill individual, I honestly find the statement kinda offensive.

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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 17h

my current take is that LLMs are great to automate bullshit labor but do we really need to spend money on automating bullshit labor when we could just do away with it? the eternal question

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 16h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 16h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah weird line to draw which native populations “count” here given Christopher Columbus was active in the Caribbean/central/South America and never made landfall in what is now the US mainland.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 23h

Yesterday, California adopted a law to raise the pay received by incarcerated firefighters when they’re fighting a fire from $1 to $7.25 per hour—meeting the federal minimum wage. Four other new laws also give new rights to incarcerated firefighters.

California's incarcerated firefighters to see a ‘historic’ pay increase in laws Newsom signed

Hundreds of California state prisoners worked to put out this year's deadly Los Angeles wildfires, inspiring new laws that will improve their pay and open other opportunities.

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 23h

people (Stancil and his coterie again) argue that supporting two adults off $60k is not living in poverty because it’s above the federal poverty line as if the same government that set a minimum wage that low can also be counted to accurately index poverty.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 1d

What's funny — unbearably sad and pathetic — is they mostly seem (these days and since recently, circa 2019) totally bought out by the tech industry. theintercept.com/2019/12/20/m...

How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation

“AI ethics” is a field that barely existed before 2017. It’s become a Silicon Valley-led lobby to avoid legal restrictions of controversial technologies.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 1d

Also: "This paper reflects on the tech industry’s colonization of the AI ethics research field and addresses conflicts of interest in public policymaking concerning AI." — Gerdes. The tech industry hijacking of the AI ethics research agenda and why we should reclaim it. doi.org/10.1007/s441...

Client Challenge

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1d

It’s how obsessed with optimization we’ve become as a culture. Surely there should be an empirical answer to most held up author!

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1d

Robert Smalls as one of the POV characters? Commandeering the Planter? That's way more interesting than the drama in Turn I'm sorry.

Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1d

We can stop being sensitive to the confederates feelings when telling stories about them now too, because they already hate our media for being woke.

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1d

(this is me pitching a netflix prestige drama if anybody wants to hop on with this and make it happen for me?)

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1d

Every state that seceded also raised unionist regiments except South Carolina. So I guess they win most confederate more than competitors Georgia and Virginia. Still seems to be true of current electoral trends ahem.

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1d

Also? Union and Imperial Russia fought on the same side and where is the story about that?

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1d

We love an aggrandizing tale of white supremacist woe in this country! Where is my movie?!?

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1d

A ship built and sailed out of Maine with more accurate gunnery bc they believed in science, named for a mountain in New Hampshire, adapted from a native word — the USS Kearsarge sank the CSS Alabama

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1d

The union ran the confederacy all the way to France and was like well do you want your racists back and France said nah, but Great Britain was like WE’LL TAKE EM

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