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Writer. Prof at SFSU. Tomorrow in Shanghai & Other Stories; Useful Phrases for Immigrants; The Girl from Purple Mountain, etc. Board member of NBCC @bookcritics. Web: https://may-leechai.com/

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Exclusive: Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations, potentially exposing sensitive user data Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search results.

Well this is bad. Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations exposing sensitive user data

I tried a few quick searches. I found someone's chat where I can see their api key

I found some building their resume. Their name, email and phone numbers are exposed.

www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo...

31.07.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2529    πŸ” 1752    πŸ’¬ 76    πŸ“Œ 244

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

04.08.2025 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3170    πŸ” 1029    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 16
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Get to know one of our #AugustAuteurs, Jia Zhangke, a leading Chinese filmmaker known for capturing China’s remarkable modernization by turning the camera toward those left behind, displaced, or disoriented by the country’s breakneck transformation. kinofilmcollection.com/news/spotlig...

01.08.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Riefenstahl’ Trailer: Disturbing Documentary Portrait of Hitler’s Favorite Filmmaker Resonates in the Present Moment 'Riefenstahl' trailer: Documentary portrait of Nazi director Leni Riefenstahl by Andres Veiel debunks many of her claims that she wasn't a true Nazi.

Head to @indiewire.com to watch our new trailer for Andres Veiel's fascinating and chilling documentary RIEFENSTAHL, which draws on over 700 newly released boxes from the controversial filmmaker's personal archive. www.indiewire.com/news/trailer...

16.07.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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04.08.2025 07:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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At least 68 African migrants killed after boat capsizes off Yemen coast, U.N. says More than 150 Ethiopian migrants were on board the boat when it sank in the Gulf of Aden off the southern Yemeni province of Abyan, the International Organization for Migration in Yemen said.

More than 150 Ethiopian migrants were on board the boat when it sank in the Gulf of Aden off the southern Yemeni province of Abyan, the International Organization for Migration in Yemen said.

04.08.2025 05:27 β€” πŸ‘ 177    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 9
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how is pritzker the only one who seems to remember that he's the governor of a sovereign entity too

04.08.2025 03:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1860    πŸ” 286    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 10
LIVE: Governor Pritzker issues ANNOUNCEMENT amid Texas walkout
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen LIVE: Governor Pritzker issues ANNOUNCEMENT amid Texas walkout

"America we have a problem. The largest democracy in the world and yet a Texas governor would bend a knee to Donald Trump because he's afraid to lose an election fair and square."

04.08.2025 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4011    πŸ” 1122    πŸ’¬ 91    πŸ“Œ 31

The elite colleges concession to the Trump administration, which is broadly unpopular, is also morally reprehensible and will cost them more than they pay in bribes to the White House. There’s no up side.

03.08.2025 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 221    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trump’s redistricting power grab.

Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first he’ll have to come through us.

It’s time to fight back.

03.08.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5506    πŸ” 1575    πŸ’¬ 245    πŸ“Œ 244
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JUST IN: Most Texas House Democrats have left the state to prevent a vote on an unusual, GOP-backed effort to redraw congressional maps cnn.it/4ol5wfQ

03.08.2025 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 339    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 16

In the first six+ months of his second term, Trump has already spent ~twice the amount of taxpayer funds *just on golf trips to his own properties* (and not any other trips, and for which he charges the taxpayers, too)β€”than Joe Biden spent on all of his vacations during his entire four-year term.

03.08.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Hmm, interesting read.

03.08.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On Native Land, a New Push to Expand Voting Meets the Long Tail of State Violence Ongoing negotiations between tribal leaders and Colorado officials may chart a new path for automatically registering Native voters and growing voter rolls nationwide. But first the state is having to confront a legacy of mistrust.

In Colorado, representatives of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe are negotiating with elections officials to work out a new program to register more Native people. The idea is running into a legacy of violence and mistrust.

boltsmag.org/automat...

03.08.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

From the current Guardian piece: "Globally a woman or girl is murdered by her partner or family member every 10 minutes." That's more than 87,00 a year, or a death toll equivalent to the casualties of a significant war. Plus all the injuries, traumas, and losses of freedom....

03.08.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 194    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

03.08.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 6773    πŸ” 2635    πŸ’¬ 141    πŸ“Œ 210

Wow! Glad it was only a small one.

03.08.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | The Trump Economy Stumbles The President has his new world tariff order in place, but jobs and growth don’t look so good.

In which the WSJ Editorial Board screams into its pillow about Trump's fucked-up economy and tariffs "among the largest tax increases in recent history."
Gift link.
Murdoch tears would be Schadenfreude if it weren't all of us who are fucked.
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

02.08.2025 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 120    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia

A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia

For a medieval monastic chronicler, a headline to die for

02.08.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3401    πŸ” 809    πŸ’¬ 73    πŸ“Œ 77
American Eagle relaxed jeans.

American Eagle relaxed jeans.

The specs show these are $50, but have been discounted to $30.

The specs show these are $50, but have been discounted to $30.

Sometimes manufacturers add elastane to skinny jeans to make them more comfy (common in womenswear). But AE even uses it in relaxed cuts.

Why? Because their jeans are cheap and thus require low-quality materials. Recycled fibers are shorter and weaker. Elastane helps them not fall apart.

03.08.2025 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1048    πŸ” 72    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 8

it's a good thread.

03.08.2025 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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03.08.2025 11:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Let’s take the joy out of learning … and out of life.”
β€œOkay, sure!”

03.08.2025 11:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The thing i don't understand is like what do they think life is for?

Even if AI could do this a huge part of university life is connecting with other humans and this just seems designed to make college more isolating

03.08.2025 11:12 β€” πŸ‘ 516    πŸ” 99    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 8

The only Dems to *not* have voted to confirm one of Trump's nominees today:

Blumenthal (D-CT)
Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
Booker (D-NJ)
Lujan (D-NM)
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Padilla (D-CA)
Sanders (I-VT)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warren (D-MA)
Wyden (D-OR)

03.08.2025 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 482    πŸ” 131    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 52

the way you actually fight fascism is by locking up as many of their leaders as you can as quickly as you can, and identifying all their sources of power and influence and breaking those. they control the courts? break their control of the courts. crush fox news. destroy the federalist society. etc

31.07.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2902    πŸ” 694    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 21
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It's really starting to look this way

03.08.2025 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 455    πŸ” 166    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 10

He got a luxury plane as a gift.

He's building a gold-plated ballroom.

Do we really think he has no plans to enjoy them as president?

He's not going to leave office under any circumstances, unless we forcibly remove him.

Let's start thinking about how we're going to do that.

02.08.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1564    πŸ” 484    πŸ’¬ 149    πŸ“Œ 38

I personally think it rules that the Sun King is taxing and starving us to turn his hunting lodge at Versailles into a 2,300 room fuck palace

03.08.2025 05:59 β€” πŸ‘ 409    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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