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@GiddensVision

Activist. Artist. Leftist. Instagram & Music: @THACAPITALG.

Boston | Los Angeles Katılım Ocak 2014
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One of the reasons that both Neoliberals and fascists hate people like Mamdani is because he proves they are all liars who have effectively sold out their constituents to billionaire interests. All of the pain we have been told to endure has been a choice to sate the wealthy
Lazzyyyyyy@em_Lazzy

Mamdani closed a $12B deficit in 132 days, fixed 100K+ potholes, secured millions for gig workers, fined corrupt landlords millions, raised snow workers to $30/hr, and violent crime hit historic lows. THIS IS WHAT A LEADER DOES!!

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Chris Evangelista
Chris Evangelista@cevangelista413·
It’s so painfully clear all these people went to some stupid pro-AI luncheon recently and were fed bullshit talking points. Depressing stuff.
Variety@Variety

Demi Moore at #Cannes says Hollywood must "find ways" to work with AI and "to fight it is a battle we will lose..." "There really isn’t anything to fear because what it can never replace is what true art comes from, which is not the physical. It comes from the soul. It comes from the spirit of each and every one of us sitting here, to each and every one of us who creates every day. And that they can never recreate through something that is technical.” variety.com/2026/film/fest…

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🔻🟩🇰🇵Jamahiriya al-Juche🇰🇵🟩🔻
Calling Eileen Wang a Chinese spy for running a news site that publishes articles sympathetic to China is hilarious because if she were doing it for Israel, we would’ve given her a Pulitzer.
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Rachel True
Rachel True@RachelTrue·
One of these people is me 👩🏽‍🦱back when we had Black TV shows on air I used to opine that all the Black comedy shows were segregated on one night, but now there’s no nights & that sucks more 🫠
Amunet@freakoutsideofx

Half & Half (2002-2006)

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Pubity
Pubity@pubity·
A data center in Georgia used 30 million gallons of water illegally, and locals only noticed when their water pressure was abnormally low. The data center claimed it was an honest mistake, but locals were told by the town to conserve water while the data center kept running.
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Giddens@GiddensVision·
I retract all of my Caitlin Clark defense. She clearly is who y’all said she was. I gave her the benefit of the doubt but she has been working overtime to erase that doubt. Not being anti-racist is the same as being racist. It sucks because I was rooting for her. Welp. Moving on.
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Anish Moonka
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka·
A 17-year-old in Iowa boiled beets in her chemistry class and turned them into stitches that change color when your wound gets infected. Her name is Dasia Taylor. It started as a science fair project. She wanted a low-tech version of the "smart stitches" Tufts researchers built in 2016. Those used thread wired up with sensors and a tiny chip that pinged your phone if something went wrong. Cool, but useless without a phone or a hospital that can afford it. Her version doesn't need any of that. Healthy skin is slightly acidic, like lemon juice but much milder. When bacteria grow in a wound, the chemistry flips and turns more like soap or baking soda. Beet juice has a quirk. The same red pigment that stains your fingers when you cook it shifts color based on what it touches. Bright red on healthy skin. Dark purple on infected skin. The switch lines up with infection almost exactly. She tested ten threads before finding a cotton-polyester blend that soaked up the dye and changed color within five minutes. That was the prototype. Around 1 in 40 American surgeries end in an infection at the cut, costing hospitals more than $3 billion a year. In poorer countries the rate is closer to 1 in 9. In parts of Africa it's 1 in 6. In some Ethiopian hospitals, up to a quarter of surgery patients leave with an infection. The whole game is catching it early. Spot it in time and antibiotics handle it. Miss the window and the patient is back on the operating table. Dasia filed a patent in 2021 and started a medical device company called VariegateHealth in 2022. The stitches haven't been tested on real patients yet. New medical device patents can take a decade. She's also looking into a side benefit: the beet pigment kills bugs like E. coli and Klebsiella in lab tests. Smart stitches need a phone to read them. Hers just need eyes.
All day Astronomy@forallcurious

🚨: Dasia Taylor, a 17-year-old, created surgical threads that change color upon detecting infections.

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Jacqualine ❤️
Jacqualine ❤️@JaeHasABlackJob·
May he win it all! Bring Workday to their knees!
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta

Derek Mobley applied to over 100 jobs. He was rejected from every single one. Several rejections came at 1am, within minutes of submitting. He just became the lead plaintiff in the largest AI lawsuit ever certified. May 2025, Judge Rita Lin granted preliminary certification of a nationwide ADEA collective in Mobley v. Workday. Workday's own court filings represent that 1.1 billion job applications were rejected through its software in the relevant period. The court discussed potential class size in the hundreds of millions. If you're over 40 and you applied to a Fortune 500 in the last 7 years, your application was probably processed by Workday. You may be in the class. The legal precedent matters more than the headline number. For decades, the vendor screening applicants for an employer was not directly liable under Title VII. The employer was the only defendant. In July 2024, Judge Lin ruled the AI vendor itself qualifies as an "agent" of the employer and can be sued directly. First time. The "we're just the tools" defense evaporated in a single ruling. Same precedent now extends to every HR tech AI vendor in the pipeline. Greenhouse. Eightfold. HireVue. Paradox. None of it is priced into any of their valuations. Combine that with the rest of 2024. Air Canada lost in February for $812 because its chatbot hallucinated a refund policy, killing the chatbot-as-separate-entity defense. iTutorGroup paid $365K to the EEOC, confirming the algorithm doing the discriminating moves liability nowhere. Gemini cost Alphabet roughly $90B in market cap in days for one weekend of bad image generation. Every legal shield around AI in production got tested in court and lost. The AI PMs interviewing for foundation model roles can recite all four by month. Most engineers shipping AI at work cannot.

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