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31 years old "Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once - you will have to be lucky always."
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PMparismarx.bsky.social

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to think he’s a new man because he wears baggy clothes and gold chains. But the reality is that he’s embracing right-wing politics and spurning critics while presenting himself as a great future builder to distract from the ongoing harms of his platforms.

Mark Zuckerberg’s rebrand is a master class in distraction
Mark Zuckerberg’s rebrand is a master class in distraction

Meta’s platforms are still causing harm, but the CEO has convinced the media to look at the future instead of the present

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Stop whatever you're doing, everyone - it's Fat Bear Week! Vote for the biggest, chonkiest, chubbiest bears of the year. The winners are absolutely ma-hoo-sive. 🧪🦊🌏🐻 explore.org/fat-bear-week

Bear 128 going from slender (on the left) to chonk (on the right).
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This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.

Graph of maternal mortality rate against year for the UK. Rate bounces until and down around 500 deaths per 100,000 births until about 1940, when it falls sharply. It’s been very low (~1–3 per 100,000) ever since.
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Hhypervisible.bsky.social

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the precious iteration.

Welcome to Meta’s future, where everyone wears cameras
Welcome to Meta’s future, where everyone wears cameras

Meta really wants to put cameras on your face.

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Vvaggiterian.bsky.social

From 2021: Glasses provide different social cues than smartphones. We can tell who is on a phone because we can see the phone in people’s hands. www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/15/1...

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RBrobbowley.bsky.social

"I fear tens of thousands of people will lose their jobs, and much of the tech industry will suffer as they realize that the only thing that can grow forever is cancer." Jesus. But likely correct. www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/

The Subprime AI Crisis
The Subprime AI Crisis

None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intel...

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HOhausofdecline.bsky.social

A doctor says "we know shock therapy can be stressful..." to a patient hooked up to some electrical nodes. The doctor continues "which is why we've modified the shock machine to resemble a familiar and comforting pop culture character." The doctor unveils the machine. The patient gleefully says "oh hell yeah, Pikachu, light me up!"
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Scelesse.bsky.social

THE WATER WINGS DO NOTHING

A drawing of anthropomorphized Moo Deng the baby pygmy hippo, wearing a pink floral bathing suit with a frilly skirt and large puffy orange water wings on her outstretched arms while she yells as water is poured on her
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Ssixfeetofcandy.bsky.social

cheer up, maybe the sun exploded less than eight minutes and twenty seconds ago and we just don’t yet know it

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@vaggiterian.bsky.social
31 years old "Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once - you will have to be lucky always."
29 followers48 following89 posts