Claire M
@cmmullen.bsky.social
worker of/with texts, sounds, and images //
current masters student of film preservation
current masters student of film preservation
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Harto de aceptar cookies, harto. Como diez años en esta majadería.🙃
December 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Harto de aceptar cookies, harto. Como diez años en esta majadería.🙃
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"Since January, Mr. Sacks, 53, has occupied one of the most advantageous moonlighting roles in the federal government, influencing policy for Silicon Valley in Washington while simultaneously working in Silicon Valley as an investor."
Stare into the abyss/read this article:
Stare into the abyss/read this article:
We just published a deep look into David Sacks, the White House's AI and Crypto czar. The story examines how he has been able keep hundreds of stakes in AI-related and crypto companies as he influences gov policy in those very industries.
Here's what we found:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Here's what we found:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
"Since January, Mr. Sacks, 53, has occupied one of the most advantageous moonlighting roles in the federal government, influencing policy for Silicon Valley in Washington while simultaneously working in Silicon Valley as an investor."
Stare into the abyss/read this article:
Stare into the abyss/read this article:
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"Interpassivity is so dominant that doing+making are referred to as obstacles to pleasure. You don't read a book because reading is work, LLMs can summarize. You don't learn an instrument because practice is work. Skillsets distract from the time we might set aside for passive consumption."
This week I reach back to the 1990s and the concept of “interpassivity,” a critique of the widespread idea that “interaction” was inherently liberating for an audience. But to think in nuanced and critical ways about creativity with generative AI, the “gesture of disappearance” has new salience.
From Interactive to Interpassive
Where AI Art Meets Cognitive Offloading
There is the joke about AI: we wanted robots to do our dishes so we could have time to make art, but we got robots that make art while we do the dishes. We can...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Interpassivity is so dominant that doing+making are referred to as obstacles to pleasure. You don't read a book because reading is work, LLMs can summarize. You don't learn an instrument because practice is work. Skillsets distract from the time we might set aside for passive consumption."
My brother and I have been taking care of my father with dementia for 2 years (mom passed 4 years ago) and so much about this article hits home.
The US is completely unprepared to support its aging population, or to lessen the psychological and financial burdens of those caring for them.
The US is completely unprepared to support its aging population, or to lessen the psychological and financial burdens of those caring for them.
Very hard eldercare and logistics is a subject I have extensive experience with. This article nails why it's so hard, including logistics, $, coordination w/ family, $ again, & no one wants to hear you talk about it. The author acknowledges she had a lot of resources others won't. Gift link:
Opinion | The People Holding Everyone Together Are Coming Apart
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
My brother and I have been taking care of my father with dementia for 2 years (mom passed 4 years ago) and so much about this article hits home.
The US is completely unprepared to support its aging population, or to lessen the psychological and financial burdens of those caring for them.
The US is completely unprepared to support its aging population, or to lessen the psychological and financial burdens of those caring for them.
¿No vale un hombre, cualquier hombre, más que una bandera, que cualquier bandera?
- notas y formas del escultor vasco Eduardo Chillida
- notas y formas del escultor vasco Eduardo Chillida
November 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
¿No vale un hombre, cualquier hombre, más que una bandera, que cualquier bandera?
- notas y formas del escultor vasco Eduardo Chillida
- notas y formas del escultor vasco Eduardo Chillida
notes and forms of Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida
November 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
notes and forms of Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida
this is me/goals.
Discussing an unimportant purchase, my now-deceased aunt said, at around age 95, "well, it's not a staple, like food or books."
November 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
this is me/goals.
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Authors win discovery ruling in lawsuit against Open AI that could help prove willful copyright infringement (over the use of pirated datasets for AI training)
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Authors win discovery ruling in lawsuit against Open AI that could help prove willful copyright infringement (over the use of pirated datasets for AI training)
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bsky.app
November 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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The Harper's letter signature labeller is clutch. Contextualizes posts in a way I find useful.
November 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The Harper's letter signature labeller is clutch. Contextualizes posts in a way I find useful.
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From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things.
November 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things.
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"Mustafa served alongside the United States military in Afghanistan. Like so many other Afghans who helped American forces, he later came to the US for its promise of refuge. When I met him recently, though, he had only just left an ICE detention center after months behind bars."
The US Let Afghanistan Fall. Now It's Deporting Afghans.
As the Trump administration escalates deportations, tens of thousands of Afghans are in the US without permanent legal protections.
inkstickmedia.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"Mustafa served alongside the United States military in Afghanistan. Like so many other Afghans who helped American forces, he later came to the US for its promise of refuge. When I met him recently, though, he had only just left an ICE detention center after months behind bars."
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if the press does not rain down a unrelenting hellfire of questions about this upon her, so help me...
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
if the press does not rain down a unrelenting hellfire of questions about this upon her, so help me...
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Bruna Caroline Ferreira, a Brazil native and the mother of Leavitt's nephew, was arrested near Boston on November 12, her attorney, Todd Pomerleau, told CNN. https://cnn.it/49FElI3
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Bruna Caroline Ferreira, a Brazil native and the mother of Leavitt's nephew, was arrested near Boston on November 12, her attorney, Todd Pomerleau, told CNN. https://cnn.it/49FElI3
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Here’s Bruna’s gofundme: gofund.me/8a5203a75
Donate to Support Bruna's Fight to Stay Home, organized by Graziela Dos Santos Rodrigues
My family is going through one of the most difficult moments of our l… Graziela Dos Santos Rodrigues needs your support for Support Bruna's Fight to Stay Home
gofund.me
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Here’s Bruna’s gofundme: gofund.me/8a5203a75
just got to see a screening of Czech animated short films and it was soo good
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
just got to see a screening of Czech animated short films and it was soo good
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The numbers are in: new foreign student enrollment dropped by 17 percent this year. 60+ former sr State Dept officials and ambassadors (both D& R) explain why this is bad for America & Americans: drive.google.com/file/d/1GIq2...
Letter to Rubio - 11.17.2025
drive.google.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The numbers are in: new foreign student enrollment dropped by 17 percent this year. 60+ former sr State Dept officials and ambassadors (both D& R) explain why this is bad for America & Americans: drive.google.com/file/d/1GIq2...
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Everyone Kidnapped by ICE and Border Patrol In Southern California Since August
lataco.com/everyone-kid...
lataco.com/everyone-kid...
Everyone Kidnapped by ICE and Border Patrol In Southern California Since August ~ L.A. TACO
Immigration raids by the numbers, broken down by month, week, and city.
lataco.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Everyone Kidnapped by ICE and Border Patrol In Southern California Since August
lataco.com/everyone-kid...
lataco.com/everyone-kid...
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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"The US Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, AP has found. The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some cases arrested."
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"The US Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, AP has found. The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some cases arrested."
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Send me an email that flies from Montgomery
November 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Send me an email that flies from Montgomery
last night I saw the film "The Silences of the Palace" (1994), the first film by Tunisian filmmaker Moufida Tlatli, and it was so beautiful, haunting, with a plot that unspools slowly, guarding the power at the heart of it. Easily entering the top-ten list of my favorite feminist films.
November 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
last night I saw the film "The Silences of the Palace" (1994), the first film by Tunisian filmmaker Moufida Tlatli, and it was so beautiful, haunting, with a plot that unspools slowly, guarding the power at the heart of it. Easily entering the top-ten list of my favorite feminist films.