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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 10m

Roger McNamee part is here (about 4h52 into the livestream)

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 1h

Super interesting analysis:

- Two-thirds of Nigerian IMO alumni (2006-2021) now live and work outside Nigeria
- 60% work in tech/engineering at companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Bloomberg
- Half earned master’s or PhD degrees, mostly in STEM fields

thecondia.com/nigeria-imo-...

How IMO talent is fueling Nigeria’s tech diaspora

Nigeria's brightest STEM students compete in the International Mathematical Olympiad, but where do they end up? This 15-year analysis reveals.

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 1h

the peter thiel way: cajole and flatter while you're young and influençable

ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 1h

I need this polishing cloth for The Verge

The Verge @theverge.com · 2h

Confirmed: Apple's polishing cloth is compatible with the new M5 MacBook Pro

the apple polishing cloth, folded over itself in a way that's elegant but also effortlessly casual

ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 1h

And that was in France, the land of « Liberté, Égalité, Fraternity »,
We should probably add a footnote to this motto « [*] for white people preferably » in t

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 1h

I remember the surprise of a young whity when I went to Paris to pass the tests for a "Grande Ecole", he was like "Oh, you have the right to be here?"
Or the head of sales at my 1st work party drunkenly telling me "Hey, I don't like black people, but I like you because you do good work"

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

I don’t know how to approach “Republicans weren’t racist in the early aughts” as someone who went to Texas during the early aughts and had to debate whether or not Black students were “stealing” people’s spots in class.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2h

I‘m staring at this post like I was a Black student in the 90s and 2000s and had to share a campus with racist Young Republicans

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 7h

My parents' generation was super racist, but they took pains to hide it from us. So a lot of young conservatives in the 90s and early aughts were earnest small government and/or evangelical types.

As I said, the overt racists and radicals had to form their own orgs.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

I don’t know how to approach “Republicans weren’t racist in the early aughts” as someone who went to Texas during the early aughts and had to debate whether or not Black students were “stealing” people’s spots in class.

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 2h

Important work here

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3h

Hey we have a timeline on this @unbreaking.org

unbreaking.org/issues/data-...

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 3h

history stuttering (bis)...

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 4h

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 5h

"AI is just big tech trying to continue its own monopoly." — @moonalice.com

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 5h

"Big tech know that they're stoking a bubble that will end in a crash. They are not concerned. The crash will wipe out smaller rivals and weaken the governments that they want to control." — @moonalice.com

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 3h

de rien, c'est un très bon panel de discussion
j'essaie de poster un autre lien mais ma connection internet fait la grêve

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 3h

history stuttering...

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 4h

Report can also be found in the Democrat press release page

ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 4h

Sounds bad because it is...

[Link to the Minority press release (report is linked there)]

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 4h

Here's the YT version (report is linked as 1st comment)

Senate investigation reveals every American's SSN at risk 🚨

YouTube video by Jess Craven 101

www.youtube.com

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 4h

Sounds bad because it is...

[Link to the Minority press release (report is linked there)]

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5h

This is unbelievably bad.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13h

"The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else"

DoD sources tell Zeteo that staff there have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 16h

Must-watch piece from @karenhao.bsky.social about the mental health risks of chatbots --- especially as Altman is going around having claimed to have "mitigated" them.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkGk...

He Lost His Mind Using ChatGPT. Then It Told Him to Contact Me

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

www.youtube.com

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juststeller.bsky.social @juststeller.bsky.social · 17h

COME ON JOYCE. Tell people how it works in real life. Admit your privilege.

What the court should do and what the court will do are miles apart.

Joyce is an older white woman who is educated, wealthy and has *all* of the connections. Local LEO likely recognize her. No one thinks she’s a threat.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 22h

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

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Craig 'VI' Slee: VALIS, right? @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 1d

The rhetoric and writing of Peter Thiel, Yarvin, Yudkowsky etc is, apart from anything else? Just Bad Writing. It has no rhythm except for a monotonous downbeat.

Persuasive only to those who have been inculcated by and crave, that downbeat. All the rest is just Shit Flooding The Zone. Total crap.

Voyages to the End of the World - First Things

Francis Bacon dreamed of abolishing disease, natural disasters, and chance itself. He also dreamed of abolishing God.

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 16h

Merkins', they have the petrol, the ideas and the pumkins

Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 18h

how happy we’d all be if this was all the internet was for

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