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A few weeks ago, Malcolm Gladwell made the media rounds arguing the U.S. should double its number of police officers. In interviews with Oprah, the New Yorker, Fox News Radio, and elsewhere, he cited a study by two Harvard professors to support his claim.
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wrt my question for Maes & Shneiderman at #UIST2026, i should cite @maxkreminski who has been critically considering AI anthropomorphism (and xenopomorphism) for years (see: this excellent meme they made in 2018)
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In an interview with @WIRED, @ZohranKMamdani just came out in favor of restricting facial recognition and biometric surveillance at places like Madison Square Garden. It's his first statement to that effect as @NYCMayor.
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THE MOMENT THEY'VE BEEN WAITING FOR
VISA @KRUesports BLAZE ARE YOUR #VCTGameChangers CHAMPIONS!
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When I worked in nuclear, I gave talks on bugs I found with a slide titled "How are we all not dead yet?" where I gave an example of a device that has been running on the field for decades with no issues, but had 6,000 data races (that weren't false pos) to explain resilience 1/2
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Understanding this type of person is of much greater social import than understanding Elizabeth Holmes as an individual, which would require a different set of tools anyway. People like her are still doing a lot of stuff rn. More than ever, even!
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Stanford University has been trying to turn teenagers into celebrated high-tech executives — via the stock market in particular — for over 100 years, for a set of bizarre but very specific reasons.
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Why is the film so aggressively uninterested in exploring Holmes as a *type* of person? Her relationship to the truth is not original, that's what they sound like. It's specifically modeled on Steve Jobs. The movie thinks she fell out of a coconut tree.
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No, you cannot walk 10,000 steps daily, get 8 hours of sleep, cook every night, clean every day, take care of a family, make time for your own hobbies, and still be productive at work every day. This is not just propaganda, it is nonsense. Free yourself from it.
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im crying this form my uncle sent out to ask what I want for christmas is like a scholarship application
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the mathematicians do not pull punches
Well worth reading: proofsandprompts.com/2026/10…
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If your kids are in school they’re constantly being prompted to “relate” to some text… listen to Anne
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“We have, unfortunately, a lot of examples that point to why the death penalty should be ended once and for all," the head of the Catholic Mobilizing Network said.
americamagazine.org/politics…
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“Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” The judge asked.
“I don’t know,” Angel, 13, replied before bursting into tears. He stared ahead stoically and continued to cry, eventually saying: “I have no one. I have nothing.”
