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Technology writer for The Associated Press focusing on the internet and social media. bortutay(at)ap.org barbaraortutay(at) protonmail.com Signal 646-378-8843
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"There was a genuine panic within the corporate elite that talented workers suddenly had a degree of power, and this was also a convenient way to put themselves back on top."
They say effective altruism’s overwhelming maleness, its professional incestuousness, its subculture of polyamory and its overlap with tech-bro dominated “rationalist” groups have combined to create an environment where sexual misconduct can be tolerated, excused or rationalized
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My jaw hit the floor shock and surprise.
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For all material purposes, the antivaxxers won. Their decades-long goal to seed their lies into the mainstream and get moderates to bothsides a hate campaign on the backs of people grieving unrelated death has been an unbridled success. This will become apparent in the primaries.
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A growing number of people in the U.S. are flocking to churches that center their practice around a bitter psychedelic tea known as ayahuasca. They seek a spiritual and physical life change. apne.ws/6tqGvxD
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"While the content included hate speech targeting Black, Latino and LGBTQ people, too, the largest increase was seen in reviews denigrating Asian Americans and Asian American-owned businesses, according to Yelp" apnews.com/article/techno by
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"The College Board purged the names of many Black writers and scholars associated with critical race theory, the queer experience and Black feminism. It ushered out some fraught topics like Black Lives Matter...and added something new: “Black conservatism”
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‘Can’t make this stuff up’: California sinkhole devours cars despite warning signs theguardian.com/us-news/2023/j
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Went from white noise to pink noise to brown noise and now...green noise?! (they just get better and better!)
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The method for detecting AI-written text “is imperfect and it will be wrong sometimes,” said Jan Leike, head of OpenAI’s alignment team. “Because of that, it shouldn’t be solely relied upon when making decisions."
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"Is there a hard limit on the number of people who deserve care? How many patients is the DEA willing to refuse treatment before it considers revising its quotas?"
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Who should decide who deserves Adderall?
In this longread, I examine the role of the DEA in creating the most severe ADHD medication shortage in history:
theguardian.com/society/2023/j
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If only there was a team at Twitter who would put some context around why things are trending...oh wait...
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WHY IS COSTCO TRENDING IS EVERYTHING OK?????
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For 7 months hasn't reimbursed routine therapy for my son who has special needs. For 7 months, they have stonewalled me about why, even though the therapy is clearly covered in my policy. For 7 months, I have sat on hold, shuttled from operator to operator. At my wit's end
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Your annual reminder to credit, lift up, listen to Latino reporters and producers in your newsrooms. Hiring is not enough. The real DEI comes in practice. #morelatinosinthenews
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The Justice Department and eight states sued Google on Tuesday, alleging that its dominance in digital advertising harms competition as well as consumers and advertisers — including the U.S. government. bit.ly/3R5Ew3Y
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boys or not this is genius
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"When Elon Musk wants to make a point, it can be pretty blunt. On the day he took over Twitter last fall, he walked in to the San Francisco company's headquarters carrying a sink. He tweeted “let that sink in.” Get it?"
I keep responding to the amazing loan offers I get by email from various dying heirs and heiresses that I need forty-four billion dollars and sad to report so far no takers.
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These are MOOD RINGS respect your ELDERS
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I this entire thread so, so much. Thank you. There is SO much judgment (including on this website) about parenting differences. Your kid is fed, clothed and happy? Good! That's it. That's all that matters.
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Your kid eats the same thing at dinner as you? Sure, that makes sense. Your kid gets their own special meal? Great, that's fine too. Does he have 600 toys? That's great. Does he play with kitchen utensils most of the time? Excellent!
It's all good, folks! Truly!
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To be fair Twitter makes me depressed AND angry. Instagram just makes me want more cats. :P
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YES I KNOW WE NEED THE RAIN DON'T COME AT ME I'LL CUT YOU
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This rain is doing WONDERS to my mood. Everything is horrible and we're all gonna die AMA
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The only real parenting hack is to live close to the grandparents
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Ok it is done. It actually took way less time than the divorce. And the agents were very nice unlike.. well nevermind that ;)
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This is more uncomfortable than any breakup I have ever had. twitter.com/BarbaraOrtutay…
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Everyone is mad about stoves and I don’t know what side I’m supposed to be on
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This is more uncomfortable than any breakup I have ever had.
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Hahaha trying to cancel [redacted] large internet and cable provider is hell. The lengths they go to keep my 50 bucks/month is fascinating.
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I honestly did not think this was STILL a thing in 2023.
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Hahaha trying to cancel [redacted] large internet and cable provider is hell. The lengths they go to keep my 50 bucks/month is fascinating.
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Just heard someone turn down after-work plans because they have an avocado at home that’s about to go bad
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This is so fucking weird who does this?? I WANT NAMES!
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Turns out one of our biggest sales last month was for the person to stage their home for the holidays and now they want to return them all.
Please don’t do this to a small business, people. That one sale was a third of our rent.
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8 January 1943 | Hungarian Jewish girl Lea Sherman was born in Nagyvárad (Oradea).
In June 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz, where she was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
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The kids are all right
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We provided mental health support to about 4,000 people — using GPT-3. Here’s what happened 👇
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There is a false narrative that since the Idaho murder investigation used cellphone pings to place the suspect near the crime scene, geospatial tracking used in the film "2,000 Mules" must be legitimate. That's wrong -- and there's actually a good opportunity here to explain why.
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Here’s the original 10,000 word piece that tells the whole story.
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17 years at the same company and I have not and will never figure out how to correctly do time sheets when holidays fall on a weekend.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Supreme Court rules state abortion ban after cardiac activity, typically around 6 weeks, unconstitutional.
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