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Alex Monea

@alex_monea

Assoc Prof @GeorgeMasonU | Book: Digital Closet https://t.co/0UN3tdqjEp | LGBTQ+ Content moderation, platform studies, critical AI, data ethics | he/him

Washington, DC Katılım Haziran 2019
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Ken Klippenstein
Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein·
🚨 White House unveils pre-crime strategy to target the left, including pro-Palestinian protesters, "anti-Fascists," and "anti-American, radically pro-transgender ideologies." Full document: kenklippenstein.com/p/insane-pre-c…
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Mapping AI
Mapping AI@mapping_ai·
Who actually shapes AI policy in the U.S.? We mapped 1,812 entities: 745 people, 918 organizations, 2,925 relationships. Frontier Labs, AI Safety orgs, Think Tanks, Government, VCs, and more. mapping-ai.org
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sarah
sarah@sahouraxo·
Israel is blowing up entire civilian homes and residential blocks in Bint Jbeil, South Lebanon, and proudly sharing the footage itself. Cheerfully broadcasting its war crimes to the world. No global outrage. No condemnation. No accountability.
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Prem Thakker
Prem Thakker@prem_thakker·
42 Democrats just joined 192 Republicans to reauthorize FISA Section 702 – a warrantless surveillance law that's been used to access Americans' data. Democratic leadership did not whip their members, enabling them to vote with Republicans and give Trump the surveillance powers.
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Jason Bassler
Jason Bassler@JasonBassler1·
If Alex Karp had to say the quiet part out loud...
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Evil Man
Evil Man@evilhooperninja·
It’s illegal to pay a guy to join the Klan so you can figure out who’s in the Klan. We must respect the Klan’s privacy. Also policemen have science fiction glasses that give them all of your information if they see your face
The Associated Press@AP

BREAKING: The Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces investigation by Justice Department over past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups. apnews.com/article/southe…

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More Perfect University
More Perfect University@MPUniversityUS·
NEW: More Perfect Union is opening up our newsroom, connecting with students everywhere, and equipping them with the tools needed to unrig our broken economic system.
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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed@AbdulElSayed·
@grok how many Americans have died of opioid overdoses and what was Mike Rogers’s role in leading the legislation that kicked off the opioid epidemic? How much money did the industry pay him? Kind of gives a new definition to narco-terrorist, doesn’t it?
Mike Rogers@MikeRogersForMI

Abdul and the Democrats' newest surrogate supporting Hamas while calling Republicans the terrorists. The left have lost their minds.

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Saikat Chakrabarti for Congress
Israel has been committing a genocide in Gaza and is now committing ethnic cleansing in Lebanon. Ending funding isn't enough — we need sanctions.
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Kim Kelly
Kim Kelly@GrimKim·
For @Playboy, I spoke to adult content creators about the hours of labor their subscribers *don’t* see. The discrimination online sex workers face for doing their jobs is a labor issue and an occupational hazard. Success isn’t guaranteed, and the work isn’t easy. Link below:
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Gary Marcus
Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus·
Americans are right. Unless we change the ways in which we are building and regulating AI, the net impact here will be negative. It’s not a narrative problem; it’s an unfettered corporate greed problem.
Brad Gerstner@altcap

AI is deeply unpopular. According to Pew, sadly only 17% of Americans think AI will have a positive impact. In China, 83% believe AI will be positive. A token tax & political backlash is coming unless the narrative changes. 🇺🇸👀🧐

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Eric Andre
Eric Andre@ericandre·
Shit sucks
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Drop Site
Drop Site@DropSiteNews·
Peter Beinart: If the United States and Israel had not launched an attack on a country that poses no serious threat to them, those 180 school girls would be alive today. Matt Schlapp (interjecting): “They’d be alive in a burka… This is a barbaric society.” (Schlapp is a Republican political activist and lobbyist, best known as the chairman of the American Conservative Union. That is the group that runs the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, one of the largest gatherings of conservative politicians and activists in the U.S.) @PeterBeinart | @mschlapp
jasper nathaniel@infinite_jaz

Hey @AmitSegal @IngrahamAngle @marklevinshow @EWErickson @Kasparov63 you guys planning on unretweeting this straight up disinformation about the bombing of a school, or are you cool with being known as peddlers of murderous lies and propaganda?

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Ryan Grim
Ryan Grim@ryangrim·
An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president. The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo. Breaking with all norms of civilization and warfare, we then refused to rescue the drowning survivors. The Sri Lanka Navy was left to pull the dead bodies from the water. I am hard pressed to think of any other nation throughout history that would do something so cowardly and despicable. We are genuinely in a league of our own, and American media — mostly shrugging off the bombing of a girls school and acting as if carpet bombing Tehran is a normal military tactic — is deeply complicit.
Kanwal Sibal@KanwalSibal

The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise. We were the hosts. I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless. The Iranian naval personnel had paraded before our president . The attack by the US submarine was premeditated as the US was aware of the Iranian ship’s presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute, presumably with this operation in mind. The US has ignored India’s sensitivities as the ship was in these waters because of India’s invitation. We are far from politically or militarily responsible for the US attack. Our“responsibility” is at a moral and human plane. A word of condolence by the Indian Navy ( after political clearance) at the loss of lives of those who were our invitees and saluted our president would be in order.

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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
Everyone’s missing the real story here. Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses need human data annotators to train the AI. When you say “Hey Meta” and ask the glasses to analyze something, that video gets sent to Meta’s servers, then routed to Sama, a subcontractor in Nairobi, Kenya. Workers there manually label objects in your footage. They see everything you recorded, intentionally or not. 7 million pairs sold in 2025 alone. Every single pair generates training data that flows through human eyes in Kenya. Workers told Swedish journalists they see people undressing, using bathrooms, having sex, and accidentally filming bank card details. One worker said “we see everything, from living rooms to naked bodies.” Meta’s automatic face anonymization is supposed to protect people in the footage. Workers say it fails in certain lighting. Faces that should be blurred are sometimes fully visible. The person you recorded without knowing? A stranger in Nairobi can identify them. Buried in Meta’s terms of service is one sentence doing enormous legal work: the company reserves the right to conduct “manual (human) review” of your AI interactions. That’s the legal cover for routing intimate footage from Western homes to a $2/hour labor force operating under NDAs, office surveillance cameras, and a strict no-questions policy. Workers say if you raise concerns about what you’re seeing, you’re fired. This is the same company, Sama, that TIME exposed in 2023 for paying Kenyan workers $2/hour to label graphic content for OpenAI while being billed at $12.50/hour per worker. Workers described the experience as torture. Sama ended that contract, then pivoted to labeling Meta’s glasses footage. Same workforce. Same rates. Meta markets these glasses as “designed with your privacy in mind.” The privacy design is a tiny LED light on the frame that most people don’t notice. The data pipeline behind it routes your bedroom footage to a contractor with a documented history of worker exploitation, failed anonymization, and union-busting lawsuits. And the next generation of these glasses? Meta is planning to add facial recognition. The same system that can’t reliably blur faces in training data wants to start identifying them on purpose. The LED light on the frame is doing about as much for your privacy as the terms of service nobody reads.
Shibetoshi Nakamoto@BillyM2k

why the fuck meta employees watching videos their users are taking

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Ryan Grim
Ryan Grim@ryangrim·
This is practically plagiarized from Jack Nicholson’s monologue in A Few Good Men. Our modern day Colonel Jessup: “People take their safety (in the national security sense) more for granted than I realized, which I think is a good thing on balance but I don’t think shows enough respect to the tremendous work it takes for that to happen.”
Sam Altman@sama

Three general things from this AMA: 1. There is more open debate than I thought ther ewould be, at least in this part of Twitter, about whether we should prefer a democratically elected government or unelected private companies to have more power. I guess this is something people disagree on, but…I don’t. This seems like an important area for more discussion. 2. I think the is a question behind a lot of the questions but I haven’t seen quite articulated: What happens if the government tries to nationalize OpenAI or other AI efforts? I obviously don’t know; I have thought about it of course (it has seemed to me for a long time it might be be better if building AGI were a government project) but it doesn’t seem super likely on the current trajectory. That said, I do think a close partnership between governments and the companies building this technology is super important. 3. People take their safety (in the national security sense) more for granted than I realized, which I think is a good thing on balance but I don’t think shows enough respect to the tremendous work it takes for that to happen. Also, I am on the whole very grateful for the level of reasonable and good-faith engagement here. It was not what I expected.

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Gary Marcus
Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus·
The whole thing was a scam. The fix was in from the start. Per @nytimes, Sam was negotiating with the Pentagon Wednesday - before he announced his support for Dario - before Trump had denounced Anthropic - but after Brockman had donated 25M to Trump’s PAC Dario never had a chance.
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