University of Virginia's Maximilian Brichta discussed disinformation and deception in decentralized finance (DeFi) and crypto at the Cambridge Disinformation Summit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgjW...
07:10:20 // CAM 0241 // scans her ticket to section 102, Row 8, Seat 5 07:11:14 // CAM 1434 // goes up terrace escalators on level 3 to level 6 concourse 07:12:52 // CAM AC10 // hugs usher Appendix A of the report has a screenshot of the embrace, with Richards circled in red. 08:08:58 // CAM 1093 // talking with F&B worker at the Draft Kings Bar 08:10:49 // CAM 0512 // pays for the drinks 08:31:19 // CAM 0485 // eating at a table It goes on and on. At 8:48 pm, camera 0489 spots another quick hug with an MSG “membership experience executive” (there's a grainy photo in the report's Appendix N). Two minutes and two seconds later, the same camera captures her heading into the women's bathroom. Her exit is noted after precisely two minutes and five seconds
Killer story from @noahshachtman.bsky.social @robertsilverman.bsky.social on the Madison Square panopticon. This guy's not an outlier, he's the start of a trend as surveillance tech commodifies and we get watched more and more. "We're in a time of private armies now"
www.wired.com/story/madiso...
🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/
God, great piece from @damemagazine.bsky.social about living with institutional failure. I'll freely admit I'm furious at times just thinking about the institutions that should have at least tried to do something and instead contented themselves with the sidelines or outright collaboration.
To acknowledge the ways AI systems are changing does not buy into hype, it sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts. To make sense of what AI does to people, you also need to understand what it does for them, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
This very smart post leaders to a much broader point: if the identitarian right is going to invent an exclusionary racist American heritage and history, then its opponents will need to their own positive, full throated statement of American heritage and history.
This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.
The article says the students received 68 donations so far - I'm surprised the number isn't higher.
FRANKLIN, TN pastor Kevin Riggs changes his profile pic to “ABOLISH ICE” and challenges other Evanglical pastors to do the same.
www.facebook.com/share/p/1HZh...
MEMPHIS — TN-9 candidate Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social joins the @sbworkersunited.org Starbucks strike picket line
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
"Practice being brave now, don’t wait for some special moment at the end to be a hero."
This is excellent. open.substack.com/pub/peaceful...
This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left.
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...
We're joining the Davidson County Dems every Monday and Wednesday for phone banks to make sure EVERY Democrat in TN Congressional District 7 know about the special election. Please help us increase voter turnout so we can flip this seat! 🦞🟦
shit ain’t over til it’s over
This piece from @joshtpm.bsky.social is really good, has some great points about how all of us in opposition should think about respond to the Kimmel suspension:
On Monday, Peter Thiel begins a secret four-part Antichrist lecture series in San Francisco.
What the hell is going on? Why all this bible doom talk?
I talked to an Antichrist historian & a theologian about this outbreak of tech apocalypse hype:
www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...
We all need joy to function, and we need to find it wherever we can. Especially while we're fighting with everything we've got.
Here's some joy for your Monday. 🦉
owlsintowels.org
Hero shit
Discussions like this are key to understanding what the hell is going on. Required reading for anyone NOT in the charismatic non-denominational movement.
Love to see a military town coming out for #NoKings
Ok, historians have an opportunity to explain to Brent Taylor how authoritarianism in 1930s Germany didn't start off with extermination camps, but with ever-increasing persecutions and legal harrassments of minorities and of those who held opposing political views.
Scott Pelley—American author and reporter for CBS News for more than 31 years, did not hold back
This whole thread, but especially this post on the dehumanization by electeds of their own constituents. TNGOP in a nutshell.
This is not an isolated incident. It’s systemic. The political class no longer sees itself as accountable to all constituents, only to the symbolic community they perform for. Everyone else becomes an enemy. Even students.
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
Group photo of Sesame Street workers holding their firsts high with graphics showing the logo of their new union and the winning vote tally, 55-19
Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social
Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”
'[Learning occurs, wrote Herbert Simon,] "only as a result of what the student does and thinks." The assignment itself is a MacGuffin, with the shelf life of sour cream and an economic value that rounds to zero dollars. It is valuable only as a way to compel student effort and thought.'
