Rebecca Zorach

"Our most effective weapons against AI, and the right wing that has adopted it, may not be strikes, boycotts or the power of dialectics. They might be replying “cringe,” “this sucks,” and “this looks like shit.”

did you know jared kushner said in davos that the plan is to build data centers where palestinians lived

End the interview. Ask him why he isn’t resigning. Remind him that NATO is a signed ratified treaty & part of US law. Ask him why he’s so unserious & why he’s endangering our closest alliance. Do your damn job, for G-d’s sake. It’s not a false choice to Americans either.

Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.

“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

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Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.

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THREAD: Viral misinformation on US capture of Nicolas Maduro - 4 January

This video, shared by Alex Jones and others, falsely claims to show millions of Venezuelans in Caracas celebrating Maduro's capture.

In fact, it shows anti-Maduro protests in July 2024 over a highly disputed election.

Dr. Manhattan contemplates eternity: It's 1990, a Republican is president and we are going to war over oil It's 2003, a Republican is president and we are going to war over oil It's 2025, a Republican is president and we are going to war over oil @DeathMetalV

Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

Interesting that they seem to hate "white trash" economic migrants too. Are class/geographic inferiors also part of the 100 million?

Until fairly recently it was standard practice at the elitest Ivies to grant promotion to associate for a 3 or 4 year contract before booting people, or, rarely, tenuring them

Not at Harvard in 1991.

Reasons to retire to a soft gig in Florida
A. You're 70
B. You're a reactionary asshole who thinks liberal education is banning topics you don't like
C. Protecting each other from dying does not conform to your idea of a liberal education

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All right people so literally I downloaded one of the government documents to Books on my iPad. I highlighted some text that was not redacted and it included some that was redacted and I copied it over to notes and I pasted it and you can see everything unredacted.

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"Free press," indeed

Can't wait until Chicago allows the creepy cars that can simultaneously shut down all of the streets

People are rightly upset about the image thing but wtf, "write an essay/chapter. Ask AI to add additional points"?!?!?

The AHA saying historians can use AI to generate fake historical images is pretty crazy.

OK so where are my historians who are quitting the AHA over these hideous AI guidelines

“.. Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles.” 🤡

@rani.bsky.social $TSLA
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Be sure to rest! I made the mistake of not resting enough

This mf destroyed homeless' camps with his own hands.

My electrician is a green card holder who's been here since he was a kid. He got married to a citizen, applied for citizenship, went to court for the papers and when he got there ICE kidnapped him and he's been locked up for a month.

Like MILFs but terrorists

Feel better! It's no fun. I've had something similar for 5+ weeks. Hoping I'm finally seeing the other side of it now....

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

If you're feeling down because you were wrong about something, just remember that, no matter how embarrassing it was, at least you didn't sign the Harper's "Letter on Justice and Open Debate" declaring that the greatest threat to free speech was "censoriousness" among liberal academics. 🫶

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.