Sarah T Roberts, PhD

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Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (Yale 2019), and Meta used it to train its LLM.

Professor, researcher, author, VP of AoIR, fan of many things, gay lady.

“This heaven gives me migraine.”

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Okay I guess I don’t know how to work that thing but, as always, I’m some kind of magic user.

@bskyttrpg.bsky.social reroll

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It’s amazing the extent to which our billionaire tech bro overlords are just telling us out loud that they are rooting for fascism. Makes me slightly nostalgic for the days when American plutocrats plotted against democracy in secret.

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Le changement entre le 1er tour et le 2ème est quand même assez frappant suite au Front républicain.

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Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too

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This is a gigantic federal crime btw

Way to go, France! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

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It held

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If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again. anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...

I don’t know if it would be possible for me to give less of a fuck about Hunter Biden if I tried…

Okay, I just saw an anti-vaping ad aimed at kids, which, yes, okay…but they made it seem like these kids were strung out on china white and I’m just not sure what I just witnessed.

I love Grand Slam tennis.

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New York Times editor: I bet that young man would bring a fresh new perspective to the editorial page!

This is the tradcath weirdo whom the @nytimes.com is publishing to tell you not to vote. You should not listen to him. Instead, you should shove his ass into a locker and burn the entire campus containing said locker to the ground. (The campus is Hillsdale)

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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •www.blackpast.org On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the D...

I ordered a candle that looks like a deli pickle. No questions at this time.

I can’t believe the computers still need me to tell them what a traffic light is.

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Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...

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You're really putting my meme folder to work tonight

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Saw a lady on the street today wearing an Nvidia shirt that said "I am AI", that's going to be haunting me for a while

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also I will never get my head round Nvidia being at the center of this bullshit. I fully understand the hows and whys it’s them - in more detail then you can imagine - but every time I see their branding it’s like finding out Logitech or MadKatz are suddenly the most powerful company in the world

Saw a lady on the street today wearing an Nvidia shirt that said "I am AI", that's going to be haunting me for a while

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Seems important idk

Maybe we should be talking about credible allegations of Trump sexually assaulting twelve year olds with the assistance of Epstein!

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JFK: Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country. RFK: Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. RFK Jr.:

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Signs your campaign is going well: You go on Fox News to squelch rumors you’d eat a guy.

That sounds suspiciously like something someone who would eat a human would say. (screenshot via @acyn.bsky.social on Twitter)

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I normally wouldn't bother sharing a story based on a survey of 7,500 NY Times readers, but in this specific case I'd say it's probably a pretty well-selected bellwether. Elon Musk's Politics May Be Pushing Some Buyers Away From Tesla [GIFT LINK🎁] www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/b...

Elon Musk’s Politics May Be Pushing Some Buyers Away From Teslawww.nytimes.com The Tesla chief executive’s polarizing statements have alienated some potential customers and may be partly responsible for a recent slump in sales.

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This is my Roman empire. Given the daily news, I think about that constantly. And how they made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm. (Well, blind trust, but still).

Marketplace this morning discussing the likely price hikes on virtually anything under Trump and his tariffs. Hope the MAGA boomers living on social security love that. Any price to have carte blanche to be vile and hateful to others.

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The mainstream’s collective refusal to respond to Heritage inciting anti-queer violence last summer showed them that they have free rein to threaten and commit violence. We’ve had so many chances to stop this but so many people didn’t bother to notice because the first victims were queer.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

You know, Pierre Salinger was a key Democratic political operative in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, was a Senator, etc., a news correspondent and largely widely respected by establishment politics. Toward the end of his life, he died in disgrace after he peddled a conspiracy theory…

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The Epstein grand jury records that were unsealed today contain some entirely unsurprising revelations