MIKE STEYELS
@iswayski
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Still on this trash fire site apparently. Recent words: @Dazed @ComplexMusic @TheWireMagazine @ResidentAdvisor @Bandcamp @Highsnobiety @Neocha @OkayAfrica
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Joined November 2009
RIP Sacha Jenkins A huge influence on me and someone who accomplished so much in Hip-Hop journalism, TV and elsewhere. Thank you for everything.
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An urgent fundraiser has been launched to help with budots pioneer DJ Love’s heart surgery costs ⬇️ https://t.co/sQAIbJ2OtG
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🚨What the hell is going on? Another PUERTO RICAN family detained, a man tells Telemundo his sister, mother in law, & a child were taken by ICE in Milwaukee & driven to facility where his sister explained that they’re US CITIZENS. ICE response to this flagrant violation? “Sorry”
Puerto Rican family detained by ICE in Milwaukee after being observed speaking Spanish
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Duckworth: How many nations are in ASEAN? Hegseth: We have allies in South Korea, Japan, and Australia Duckworth: None of those countries are in ASEAN
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This is exciting, a real concerted effort to take back social media and create open alternatives #FreeOurFeeds
https://t.co/HzZrhNOEQk
washingtonpost.com
Nonprofits are spinning up to oversee the tech behind Bluesky and Mastodon.
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Exclusive: A Washington Post investigation found that law enforcement agencies nationwide are using facial recognition software in a way it was never intended to be used: as a shortcut to finding and arresting suspects without other evidence.
washingtonpost.com
Confident in unproven facial recognition technology, sometimes investigators skip steps; at least eight Americans have been wrongfully arrested.
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More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence” https://t.co/y9HupcwkHY
theguardian.com
DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence’
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The world just experienced the first full year in which global temperatures exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial times, scientists at the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service confirmed https://t.co/0fruZKVFOx
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Thirty years ago today, Smif-N-Wessun released Dah Shinin'.
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BITE THE BITTERNESS AND GROW UP, Fandi Angga Saputra, 2024
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Thai authorities should promptly & thoroughly investigate and prosecute those responsible for the killing of former opposition Cambodian politician Lim Kimya,. On January 7, an unidentified gunman on foot fatally shot Kimya in downtown Bangkok.
khaosodenglish.com
A Cambodian-French political activist was fatally shot in Bangkok's historic city area on Tuesday evening, marking a shocking incident of violence in the Thai capital.
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Instagram begins randomly showing users AI-generated images of themselves 🔗 https://t.co/0UrNAwQ3xF
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this kind of article is like what if you saw covid coming in 2018 or 2019
kffhealthnews.org
Exclusive reporting reveals how the United States lost track of a virus that could cause the next pandemic. Problems like the sluggish pace of federal action, a deference to industry, and neglect for...
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The Gannett-Reuters deal aims to supplant The Associated Press, which has resisted journalism's financialization through its longstanding cooperative model (@mattdpearce) https://t.co/2arii3SqN6
https://t.co/pTtTZGKobz
mediagazer.com
Matt Pearce: The Gannett-Reuters deal aims to supplant The Associated Press, which has resisted journalism's financialization through its longstanding cooperative model
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Meta has already started rolling out its AI profiles to users' feeds. It's a nightmare.
gizmodo.com
Hollow-eyed insincere robot posters are already flooding Meta's sites and they're everything we dreaded.
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Meta envisages social media filled with AI-generated users
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Years before the Gaza war, Israel transformed its intelligence unit into an AI testing ground. Critics charge overhaul has fueled the death count in Gaza.
washingtonpost.com
Years before the Gaza war, Israel transformed its intelligence unit into an AI testing ground. Critics charge that the overhaul has fueled the death count in Gaza.
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