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Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social |
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Historian of technology and dad joke aficionado who lives with a tiny, spotlight-stealing rabbit. One of those they/thems.
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"
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Shannon K. Supple
@mazarine.bsky.social
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This made me laugh so much harder than it should have.
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Mar Hicks
@histoftech.bsky.social
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Degenerative AI
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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an entire movement of wicked people who celebrate wickedness
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Kwisatz Sazerac š¤ ššš
@acekatana.bsky.social
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I think this is one of the more important interventions Iāve seen on the topic recently
defector.com/journalism-i...
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helen, gender goblin
@gendergoblinhelen.bsky.social
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there is a certain amount of inconsistency between 'we in the media are vital to democracy' and 'our coverage has no influence on anything anyone thinks' which will never be resolved until the legacy media come to terms with the concept of responsibility.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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one of the most dishonest things people in my profession do is pretend as if āthe storyā and āthe narrativeā isnāt something they have direct control over
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Don Zeko
@donzeko.bsky.social
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Say what you will about the various Democratic party actors in the fight over whether Biden stays on the ticket, but I can understand all of their behavior much better than I can the journalists who are trying to write their way into the camps
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Mar Hicks
@histoftech.bsky.social
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āNice new rug ya got there. Be a shame if anythingā¦ happened to it.āš°
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Angus Johnston
@angus.bsky.social
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Just to be really explicit about whatās happening here, the cover conflates age, physical disability, and cognitive disability, and goes on to conflate disability with unfitness for office. Itās utter bullshit.
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Ashley Shew | Against Technoableism
@ashleyshoo.bsky.social
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I'm 40. I'm laying next to my wheeled walker (rollator) right now. It's the mobility aid I use when I'm not wearing my prosthesis. It's an absolute banger of a technology - a classic, so simple and elegant for its task, one of the cheapest, most effective mobillity aids you can get.
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Ashley Shew | Against Technoableism
@ashleyshoo.bsky.social
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None of those dudes use walkers. But disabled people do. Maybe we should think more carefully about how we represent disability technologies, esp when framed as the only image next to the words "No way to run a country."
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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
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A boy and his emotional support grass
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Iron Spike
@ironspike.bsky.social
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Pretty much every move Iāve ever made in comics since age 25 has been inspired by the 70-year-olds I saw in comic con Artist Alleys, cranking out sketches of characters they created but donāt own, to pay their doctor bills and nursing home fees.
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Mar Hicks
@histoftech.bsky.social
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(I feel the need to put a follow up here just for folks who read only this thread and donāt know me in general. Iām not a big fan of this candidate. Not at all. But this is a whole mess the way the media have decided that he āhas to goā a few months before the election.)
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Mar Hicks
@histoftech.bsky.social
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I sure hope soššš
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Mar Hicks
@histoftech.bsky.social
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I hadnāt seen that. Wow, it really does put the hatred of disabled people on full display as well, in addition to being just a mess contextually given everything that has been excused & encouraged (and continues to be) with the GOPš„²
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Prof. Kevin J. Kircher
@kevinjkircher.com
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Like remembering that before unions, a lot of folks worked 6 or 7 days a week, it's worth remembering that before environmental movements, the air and water in a lot of places were fucking gross. Left to their own devices, companies just straight-up poisoned people. They will again if we let them.
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Alex Blechman
@alexblechman.bsky.social
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July 4th is very rough on my dog (he is a royalist and considers George Washington a traitor)
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Mar Hicks
@histoftech.bsky.social
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āMars University: Knowledge Brings Fearā is still one of the best college mottos everš„²
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Mar Hicks
@histoftech.bsky.social
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I thought/was concerned that he was going to lose anyway, long before the debate, but itās like these papers want the Democrats to basically concede the election. Itās really something.
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Mar Hicks
@histoftech.bsky.social
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Looking at the front pages of CNN and the major āleft leaning/moderateā papers and I gotta say: fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuiiuuu
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Liam Hogan
@liamhogan.bsky.social
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We have learned so much about how viruses transmit over the past four years & yet none of the passive yet effective measures (better ventilation, HEPA filtration) have been adopted as new standards. An opportunity to future proof our buildings & workplaces let slip away. www.rte.ie/news/2024/07...
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Mar Hicks
@histoftech.bsky.social
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Itās a game on Netflix, itās like bubble bobble sort of
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Mar Hicks
@histoftech.bsky.social
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Anyone else lost 3 hours to underwatermelon?
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Fifty Shades of Whey
@fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social
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a cop shot himself and this is the headline they went with
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Catbus
@catbus.bsky.social
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capitalism is that thought experiment where pushing a button gets you $10,000 but kills a stranger and every CEO on earth is mashing that shit like they're someone's kid brother playing Street Fighter
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Will Oremus
@oremus.bsky.social
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Threads turns 1 this week. We interviewed Meta's Adam Mosseri and wrote about how far it has come (175m users), how far it still has to go to catch X (pretty far!), and whether its refusal to embrace hard news, politics or even "social issues" will help or hinder it in getting there. wapo.st/4btdz2L
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Mar Hicks
@histoftech.bsky.social
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This extremely mild post brought to you by the eyetwitch levels of rage I experienced from āhotā covid takes over on that other site this morning.
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Mar Hicks
@histoftech.bsky.social
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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social
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Students who enrolled at a fake university in Michigan set up by ICE have the right to sue the U.S. government, a federal court has ruled
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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"They're not inevitable; they're not insurmountable. They didn't have to be like this. But in order to actually change them, the main thing we have to do is understand the facts of what they are, what they do, how they work, & to theorize what they Could Be Differently." From "On Bullshit Engines"
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Sam Altman failed ever philosophy class he ever took and decided to make that everyone else's problem. Not by making philosophy or any of the humanities "obsolete" or w/etf but by making our work just an unimaginable nightmare slog we just explode with rage. Just typical basic bitch troll bullshit
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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social
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Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, anti-settlement watchdog says.
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Atrios
@eschatonblog.com
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The worst ones are like political science profs who spend years lecturing The Left about how Republicans are Fine and Good Actually and people should be Civil and Not Shrill and Engage In The Marketplace of Ideas then one day wake up and demand everyone is outraged as they suddenly are
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Mar Hicks
@histoftech.bsky.social
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Wow great photo! Where is this?
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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So. Google just released an internal paper about the epistemic, ethical, and sociopolitical threats of generative "AI," and golly gee whiz if that doesn't sure as shit sound familiar. š¤š§šš
www.404media.co/google-ai-po...
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)
@shengokai.bsky.social
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I mention this because I was teaching that course almost a decade ago in graduate school and even then, I had about a decadeās worth of material on this very issue. And still my predominantly white students pitched fits about it.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)
@shengokai.bsky.social
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*deep existential sigh* Did you know that the one time I was summoned to meet with a dean and a chair over the content of my syllabus it was for teaching the history of legal challenges to affirmative action and diversity in admissions. The class was called Diversity in Education.
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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
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It's important to note that this single-post analysis above is entirely consistent with a much more comprehensive analysis by @ketanjoshi.co showing that changes in the X algorithm and moderation policies that began in Oct 2022 have massively favoured trolls and penalized climate scientists.
See:
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.
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Andrea Grimes
@andreagrimes.bsky.social
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Thanks to everyone who recommended comfort reads, watches, and listens. I assembled a whole bunch of your suggestions in a big-ass blog post! If you're looking for something nice to put your brain, there are a ton of great ideas here:
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e.w. niedermeyer
@niedermeyer.io
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this would absolutely work on Teslas, because they don't have radar or lidar to bounce off the picture of the tunnel in order to confirm that it is in fact extremely solid
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it's gita time
@xoxogossipgita.bsky.social
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Being really annoying is praxis. Phone, email, fax, show up in person if thatās an option. Just donāt let up until youāre too irritating to ignore.
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Simon Bisson
@sbisson.com
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As always @markrussinovich.bsky.social's #msbuild Azure infrastructure session was a dive into how cloud data centers operate. This year he looked at the changes needed to support at-scale AI training and, more importantly, inference. Here's my InfoWorld write up.
www.infoworld.com/article/3715...
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Mar Hicks
@histoftech.bsky.social
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Dinosaur Safety Tips #dadjoke
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Jeanine Finn
@jftitone.bsky.social
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This. Absolutely. The faculty and staff will know.
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Mar Hicks
@histoftech.bsky.social
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Monday āØvibescapeāØ
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QM_UCU
@qmucu.bsky.social
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Same in the UK. Those rankings are purely gamed, money thrown at consultancies to play the game of rankings, not to do the meaningful work improving the university and making it more stable.
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Shaily Patel
@vox-magica.bsky.social
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āA survey published by the Associated Press on Thursday found that 70 percent of Americans believe that Supreme Court justices are more likely to try to shape the law to fit their own ideologies, while only 28 percent expect the court to be fair and impartial.ā
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