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Sarah T Roberts, PhD

@ubiquity75.bsky.social

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Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (Yale 2019), and Meta used it to train its LLM. Professor, researcher, author, VP of AoIR, fan of many things, gay lady. “This heaven gives me migraine.”


Sarah T Roberts, PhD's avatar Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.bsky.social
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So fragile.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow's avatar Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social
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New York Times editor: I bet that young man would bring a fresh new perspective to the editorial page!

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That guy is such a fucking weirdo.

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(I bought my little buddy used in 2013. It was so awesome.)

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Love those! When I got my A3 the neighbors had one. Imported theirs from Sweden! They weren’t available yet here.

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I had a 2008 Audi A3 S-Line and drove it till it literally fell apart (from rust; it was from the lands of snow). I loved it. What a fun, fun car.

This is also one of my all-time faves:

www.z3coupebuyersguide.com

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I wish they wouldn’t have taken the Volt off the market. That car seemed to make sense.

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I love little hatchbacks. Wish there were more of them in the US.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)'s avatar Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.bsky.social
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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

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I ordered a candle that looks like a deli pickle. No questions at this time.

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I can’t believe the computers still need me to tell them what a traffic light is.

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Colossal's avatar Colossal @thisiscolossal.com
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Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...

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ChatGPTom's avatar ChatGPTom @siropsalot.bsky.social
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You're really putting my meme folder to work tonight

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Like what the FUCK IS GOING ON where this is billions of dollars as expressed in passion for graphic design and a guy who is running for president who is also a Kennedy says he _won’t_ eat a human…am I high? Literally all the time?

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Ingrid Burrington's avatar Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com
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Saw a lady on the street today wearing an Nvidia shirt that said "I am AI", that's going to be haunting me for a while

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Tim Maughan's avatar Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social
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also I will never get my head round Nvidia being at the center of this bullshit. I fully understand the hows and whys it’s them - in more detail then you can imagine - but every time I see their branding it’s like finding out Logitech or MadKatz are suddenly the most powerful company in the world

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Jesus, this is real. I never put a fine point on it, but there it is.

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The Almighty Tallest 's avatar The Almighty Tallest @spooknine.bsky.social
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Seems important idk

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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JFK: Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country. RFK: Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. RFK Jr.:

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Signs your campaign is going well: You go on Fox News to squelch rumors you’d eat a guy.

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e.w. niedermeyer's avatar e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.io
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I normally wouldn't bother sharing a story based on a survey of 7,500 NY Times readers, but in this specific case I'd say it's probably a pretty well-selected bellwether.

Elon Musk's Politics May Be Pushing Some Buyers Away From Tesla [GIFT LINK🎁]

www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/b...

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I can’t wait to play that.

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M.A.'s avatar M.A. @maxamari.bsky.social
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This is my Roman empire. Given the daily news, I think about that constantly. And how they made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm. (Well, blind trust, but still).

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Marketplace this morning discussing the likely price hikes on virtually anything under Trump and his tariffs. Hope the MAGA boomers living on social security love that. Any price to have carte blanche to be vile and hateful to others.

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Joshua Foust  🪖🎮's avatar Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com
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The mainstream’s collective refusal to respond to Heritage inciting anti-queer violence last summer showed them that they have free rein to threaten and commit violence. We’ve had so many chances to stop this but so many people didn’t bother to notice because the first victims were queer.

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Oh. Yeah. Try not to do that.

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Remember when they were all obsessed with “Q?”

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…in disgrace after peddling a (benign, by today’s standards) conspiracy theory about the crash of TWA flight 800. We now have people in Congress who question the most basic laws of nature and believe in the most absurd conspiracy theories that one could imagine. What the fuck.

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You know, Pierre Salinger was a key Democratic political operative in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, was a Senator, etc., a news correspondent and largely widely respected by establishment politics. Toward the end of his life, he died in disgrace after he peddled a conspiracy theory…

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Maybe they’ll reach the end of the earth disc and fall off.

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luke the myoclonic jerk's avatar luke the myoclonic jerk @coolhand.bsky.social
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The Epstein grand jury records that were unsealed today contain some entirely unsurprising revelations

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Free cat boy-girl couple names: Jeanne Teasdale Hubby Rick

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I’d just like to let everyone know that the headphones have been located. We’d ask that you respect our privacy at this time as we work to repair the trauma caused by our separation, but thank you all for your support during this most difficult time. (They were in the bedside drawer. —Ed.)

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I’ll probably find yours before I find mine.

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I am more like you and they are absolutely here. Somewhere. Taunting me.

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I’ve been through ‘em all.

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Most likely a Zoom meeting. I’m going to look under the bed next.

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Where in eff are they?! I have tossed this joint.

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Anyone know where my headphones are?

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Thank goodness for the moderation and decorum of the Dems.

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I want to thank RBG again, too.

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Laura Helmuth's avatar Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social
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A tragically common cause of death before pasteurization was food poisoning in children who were being weaned and starting to drink cow's milk. Pasteurization is one of the greatest public health successes in the history of the world, and now it's protecting us from H5N1 bird flu 🧪

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