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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
Joined June 2009

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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. time.com/6252617/effect
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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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"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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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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"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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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! 13/
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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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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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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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