Ben Rosengart
@fivetonsflax.myatproto.social
Eh, you can probably guess.
TIL that the French set up a separate and unequal high school for poor immigrant kids in Seine-St.-Denis and named it Rosa Parks. Has there ever been a better emblem of the French tendency to point at American racism while ignoring their own?
October 2, 2026 at 7:00 PM
TIL that the French set up a separate and unequal high school for poor immigrant kids in Seine-St.-Denis and named it Rosa Parks. Has there ever been a better emblem of the French tendency to point at American racism while ignoring their own?
It’s hard to understand what the next phase of my career should look like when the big trends out there are austerity and ‘AI’ hype.
What is the equivalent, for a UNIX-at-scale nerd, to shorting nVidia? Can I profitably teach organizations how to recover from their encounters with “AI” footguns?
What is the equivalent, for a UNIX-at-scale nerd, to shorting nVidia? Can I profitably teach organizations how to recover from their encounters with “AI” footguns?
September 29, 2026 at 9:06 PM
It’s hard to understand what the next phase of my career should look like when the big trends out there are austerity and ‘AI’ hype.
What is the equivalent, for a UNIX-at-scale nerd, to shorting nVidia? Can I profitably teach organizations how to recover from their encounters with “AI” footguns?
What is the equivalent, for a UNIX-at-scale nerd, to shorting nVidia? Can I profitably teach organizations how to recover from their encounters with “AI” footguns?
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Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
nyti.ms
September 27, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement
@moiradonegan.bsky.social Shitty Media Men, Silicon Valley edition.
A hidden list of 100 abusers in Silicon Valley.
Left unstated: some are abusing *men*
Sam Altman used to date Peter Thiel, known for recruiting young men for sex (one died of suicide).
Sam's sex parties are notorious for how hard they go, and the abuse. Three sources told me about this:
Left unstated: some are abusing *men*
Sam Altman used to date Peter Thiel, known for recruiting young men for sex (one died of suicide).
Sam's sex parties are notorious for how hard they go, and the abuse. Three sources told me about this:
Silicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100 ‘ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid
“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene”
nypost.com
September 25, 2026 at 9:02 PM
@moiradonegan.bsky.social Shitty Media Men, Silicon Valley edition.
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Anyone who wants to understand how policing works in the U.S. needs to read this incredible local investigation about what Minneapolis police did after feds killed Renee Good.
September 21, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Anyone who wants to understand how policing works in the U.S. needs to read this incredible local investigation about what Minneapolis police did after feds killed Renee Good.
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“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
www.orlandosentinel.com
September 17, 2026 at 9:17 PM
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
New Gallup polling finds that 71% of Americans approve of labor unions and 56 million Americans would join a union tomrorow if they could.
We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power.
If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.
We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power.
If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.
Unions are extremely popular: 56 million workers would join a union if they could
New Gallup polling finds that 71% of people in the U.S. approve of unions, continuing the highest period of favorability in over 60 years. This coincides with the greatest number of workers represente...
www.epi.org
September 9, 2026 at 12:43 AM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Not being a mark is praxis
if your instinct is to go "this person [that I have never heard of before today and whose words are being presented to me by nazis] is a Problem for the Left" you're either a mark or a wrecker
September 7, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Not being a mark is praxis
Using my passport for the first time in a long time. I’m going to a place with an actively enforced lèse-majesté law yet I’m looking forward to breathing free air. What a time to be alive in the US.
August 31, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Using my passport for the first time in a long time. I’m going to a place with an actively enforced lèse-majesté law yet I’m looking forward to breathing free air. What a time to be alive in the US.
Stay winning, @karenattiah.bsky.social! And I appreciate the solidarity in your post for Felicia Sonmez and others!
More thoughts from me--- and a breakdown of the arbitrator's decision.
The Washington Post Fired Me. I Fought—and Won My Job Back.
karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...
The Washington Post Fired Me. I Fought—and Won My Job Back.
karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...
The Washington Post Fired Me. I Fought—and Won My Job Back.
Nearly a year after being wrongfully fired for my comments on race, gender and violence, an arbitrator has ordered my immediate reinstatement.
karenattiah.substack.com
August 24, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Stay winning, @karenattiah.bsky.social! And I appreciate the solidarity in your post for Felicia Sonmez and others!
Beat this if you can. www.imdb.com/title/tt0108...
July 31, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Beat this if you can. www.imdb.com/title/tt0108...