Okay Gugu
@guguspeaks.bsky.social
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Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
Hoping that @molly.wiki can help explain.
Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others
January 15, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
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“The real question is not whether labor is anti-market. It is why a labor-dependent business pushes a large share of risk onto workers and society while retaining most of the control..” - Santosh Desai
“The real question is not whether labor is anti-market. It is why a labor-dependent business pushes a large share of risk onto workers and society while retaining most of the control..” - Santosh Desai
Whose Gig is it anyway?
Is the gig economy all that different from the informal economy? The question matters because labels smuggle in theories. ‘Gig economy’ arrives with a particular story: flexibility, choice, entreprene...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:31 AM
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“The real question is not whether labor is anti-market. It is why a labor-dependent business pushes a large share of risk onto workers and society while retaining most of the control..” - Santosh Desai
“The real question is not whether labor is anti-market. It is why a labor-dependent business pushes a large share of risk onto workers and society while retaining most of the control..” - Santosh Desai
Helpful articles on Venezuela I’ve read in the past day:
hegemon.substack.com/p/venezuela-... “After all, great power competition implies rivalry, zero-sum conflict, strategic maneuvering against other great powers. What’s emerging instead looks more like a hegemonic carve-up.” @seva.bsky.social
hegemon.substack.com/p/venezuela-... “After all, great power competition implies rivalry, zero-sum conflict, strategic maneuvering against other great powers. What’s emerging instead looks more like a hegemonic carve-up.” @seva.bsky.social
Venezuela Is a Gift to Putin
and a harbinger of more Russian aggression in Europe
hegemon.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Helpful articles on Venezuela I’ve read in the past day:
hegemon.substack.com/p/venezuela-... “After all, great power competition implies rivalry, zero-sum conflict, strategic maneuvering against other great powers. What’s emerging instead looks more like a hegemonic carve-up.” @seva.bsky.social
hegemon.substack.com/p/venezuela-... “After all, great power competition implies rivalry, zero-sum conflict, strategic maneuvering against other great powers. What’s emerging instead looks more like a hegemonic carve-up.” @seva.bsky.social
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This has been the default imperialist position for centuries, so really the oddity was that brief period of comfortable unipolar hegemony where it seemed gauche to say it out loud. No clearer sign of late imperial anxiety than the contemporary return of this old ass monocle and pith helmet blather
On X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇
January 5, 2026 at 1:34 AM
This has been the default imperialist position for centuries, so really the oddity was that brief period of comfortable unipolar hegemony where it seemed gauche to say it out loud. No clearer sign of late imperial anxiety than the contemporary return of this old ass monocle and pith helmet blather
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really tired of seeing claims that our illegal kidnapping of the Venezuelan president is to "distract" us from the Epstein files. Trump and the men around him have wanted this for a long time. this is a bad thing in its own right, not some attempt to hide from accountability
January 5, 2026 at 3:26 AM
really tired of seeing claims that our illegal kidnapping of the Venezuelan president is to "distract" us from the Epstein files. Trump and the men around him have wanted this for a long time. this is a bad thing in its own right, not some attempt to hide from accountability
“Epstein responded that Modi’s visit to Washington, which was to be his first meeting with Trump, was “a part of Israel strategy”.. Epstein later continued, “...what i am told is that discussions re Israel strategy were dominating modi dates.”
@dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com/p/modi-epste...
@dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com/p/modi-epste...
“Modi on board”: Jeffrey Epstein Pressed Steve Bannon to Meet With Indian PM Shortly Before His Death
Records of emails and text messages reveal previously unknown details about Epstein’s efforts to broker influence on Indian geopolitics and his interactions with a senior leader of Modi’s party.
www.dropsitenews.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“Epstein responded that Modi’s visit to Washington, which was to be his first meeting with Trump, was “a part of Israel strategy”.. Epstein later continued, “...what i am told is that discussions re Israel strategy were dominating modi dates.”
@dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com/p/modi-epste...
@dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com/p/modi-epste...
“One might ask if difficult, essential work might be well paid, at this moment in history, regardless of a person’s sex. But then much of the centrist manosphere’s rhetoric is predicated on refusing to see half of what’s in front of you.” Writes @winterjessica.bsky.social
It’s become conventional wisdom that America’s young men are in crisis. The reality is more complicated than that. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-did-men-do-to-deserve-this
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“One might ask if difficult, essential work might be well paid, at this moment in history, regardless of a person’s sex. But then much of the centrist manosphere’s rhetoric is predicated on refusing to see half of what’s in front of you.” Writes @winterjessica.bsky.social
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COMPLICITY NOT COWARDICE. COMPLICITY.
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
COMPLICITY NOT COWARDICE. COMPLICITY.
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”
Despite his U.S. legal exposure, Adani’s star remains undimmed in India because he was with Modi “long before” he came to power and is trusted by the government…”He is someone … they can rely on to carry out their wishes,” @pranshuverma.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
India’s $3.9 billion plan to help Modi’s mogul ally after U.S. charges
Internal documents detail how Indian officials oversaw a plan to steer billions in investments to Gautam Adani’s businesses from the state life insurance agency.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Despite his U.S. legal exposure, Adani’s star remains undimmed in India because he was with Modi “long before” he came to power and is trusted by the government…”He is someone … they can rely on to carry out their wishes,” @pranshuverma.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
“The singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist born Michael Archer got to us when he was ready; fans waited because any chance to hear from him, whether it was an interview, a record, or a performance, offered a window into mystic, molting, and encyclopedic brilliance.”
hello, here are frazzled d'angelo thoughts www.vulture.com/article/dang...
D’Angelo Saw His Future in the Past
To understand the late musician’s originality, look to his covers of the greats.
www.vulture.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“The singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist born Michael Archer got to us when he was ready; fans waited because any chance to hear from him, whether it was an interview, a record, or a performance, offered a window into mystic, molting, and encyclopedic brilliance.”
“When you say something questionable, others will challenge you…Truth is intersubjective, meaning that we need other people—their testimony, their experiences, their rationality—to be well informed. And chatbots are not people.They don’t have experience.They are not witness.They are fancy wordplay.”
This is the biggest, toughest article I’ve done about so-called “AI psychosis.” It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.
He Grew Obsessed With an AI Chatbot. Then He Vanished in the Ozarks
Jon Ganz committed a terrible crime in his youth, but he survived prison, fell in love, and started over. His new life unraveled in a way nobody could have predicted.
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October 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“When you say something questionable, others will challenge you…Truth is intersubjective, meaning that we need other people—their testimony, their experiences, their rationality—to be well informed. And chatbots are not people.They don’t have experience.They are not witness.They are fancy wordplay.”
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“As creation gets conflated with entrepreneurship, making art becomes an experience, a lifestyle, to be bought and sold.” Dani Offline
“As creation gets conflated with entrepreneurship, making art becomes an experience, a lifestyle, to be bought and sold.” Dani Offline
everyone wants to be a DJ, no one wants to dance
This is not an essay about nightlife, not exclusively.
danioffline.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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“As creation gets conflated with entrepreneurship, making art becomes an experience, a lifestyle, to be bought and sold.” Dani Offline
“As creation gets conflated with entrepreneurship, making art becomes an experience, a lifestyle, to be bought and sold.” Dani Offline
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The Washington Post’s decision to fire a Black opinion journalist for accurately quoting Charlie Kirke’s racism is a fitting tribute to “free speech” as Kirke and his hagiographers practiced it: whites only, flattering to the powerful, and in furtherance of a fascist agenda.
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
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I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The Washington Post’s decision to fire a Black opinion journalist for accurately quoting Charlie Kirke’s racism is a fitting tribute to “free speech” as Kirke and his hagiographers practiced it: whites only, flattering to the powerful, and in furtherance of a fascist agenda.
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It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.
September 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.
“"Putting the Infidels biker club in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Gaza is like putting the KKK in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Sudan. It makes no sense whatsoever," said Edward Ahmed Mitchell, deputy director of CAIR”
Absolutely Horrifying.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Absolutely Horrifying.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites
BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.
www.bbc.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“"Putting the Infidels biker club in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Gaza is like putting the KKK in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Sudan. It makes no sense whatsoever," said Edward Ahmed Mitchell, deputy director of CAIR”
Absolutely Horrifying.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Absolutely Horrifying.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Walker’s project is an artist’s experiment. Rather than preserve the Confederate memorial or expunge it from the record — the default binary in a polarized politics — she proposes its artistic transformation as a third option." @siddharthamitter.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...
Kara Walker Deconstructs a Statue, and a Myth
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"Walker’s project is an artist’s experiment. Rather than preserve the Confederate memorial or expunge it from the record — the default binary in a polarized politics — she proposes its artistic transformation as a third option." @siddharthamitter.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...
"Setting forms of identity, such as race, against class as fundamentally opposed bases of politics misrepresents how building working-class power works on the ground, both today and throughout history." - @itsmccarthy.bsky.social
hammerandhope.org/article/iden...
hammerandhope.org/article/iden...
The False Choice Between Identity Politics and Economic Populism
A left that ignores the differences within the working class will never build power.
hammerandhope.org
September 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
"Setting forms of identity, such as race, against class as fundamentally opposed bases of politics misrepresents how building working-class power works on the ground, both today and throughout history." - @itsmccarthy.bsky.social
hammerandhope.org/article/iden...
hammerandhope.org/article/iden...
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The people who got everyone here simply aren't going to be the ones to get us out.
August 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The people who got everyone here simply aren't going to be the ones to get us out.
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Today's reminder that the reason all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics is bc there are never any actual legal, personal, or political consequences for all of the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics.
There were no consequences at all for GWB & co., & here we are.
There were no consequences at all for GWB & co., & here we are.
He literally cheated an election i'm losing my mind. And the patriot act resulted in the largest loss of rights in US history.
August 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Today's reminder that the reason all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics is bc there are never any actual legal, personal, or political consequences for all of the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics.
There were no consequences at all for GWB & co., & here we are.
There were no consequences at all for GWB & co., & here we are.
“Among his voters, 62% said his support for Palestinian rights swayed their decision, and 46% said the same about his willingness to criticize the Israeli government.”
Post-primary poll by Data for Progress suggests Mamdani’s criticism of Israel, support for Palestinians attracted voters
78% of Dem voters agreed with Mamdani’s belief that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza and 63% back his pledge to arrest Netanyahu. forward.com/fast-forward...
78% of Dem voters agreed with Mamdani’s belief that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza and 63% back his pledge to arrest Netanyahu. forward.com/fast-forward...
Mamdani’s criticism of Israel and support for Palestinians attracted voters, new poll shows
Zohran Mamdani's support of Palestinian rights and criticism of Israel swayed voters in the Democratic mayoral primary, a new poll finds.
forward.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
“Among his voters, 62% said his support for Palestinian rights swayed their decision, and 46% said the same about his willingness to criticize the Israeli government.”