Sarah T Roberts, PhD
@ubiquity75.xyz
Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady. Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
The conclusions presented here are the precise opposite of what I keep hearing from business leaders in New York. I guess the folks that Rupert Murdoch thinks of as "business leaders" are not the same as those identified by either Mamdani or me. www.wsj.com/us-news/mamd...
Mamdani Is Shunning New York Business Leaders Who Are Used to Calling the Shots
The mayor fired corporate leaders from a city fund’s advisory board in the latest sign that he is changing the way such power brokers access City Hall.
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Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.
Just got one of those recorded “Great News! Your loan has been approved!” recorded calls. So I pressed 2 to speak to “an agent.” Then I pressed 1; I guess they don’t want their time wasted as they do mine. One “Adam” answered and I told him to stop fucking calling me twenty times a day. He hung up.
What’s the point of a foolish headline like this? At best, it’s mocking without doing so for all to know. At worst, it’s a tacit endorsement.
I just read that Newsom released four years of tax returns because of some fed investigation into his wife. Can someone remind me how many we’ve seen from Orange?
The Metro NY Library Council is hiring a Library Field Ranger for our Library Field experimental outdoor library in Westchester County!
Library Field Ranger
About the Library Field The Library Field is a project of the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO). METRO’s mission is to create a sustainable culture of creativity, collaboration, and open e...
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Starting to think it was a bad idea to have my password be "password123"
Just so painfully dumb. "Once being wrong counts as evidence that you’re right, there’s nothing left in the world that could talk you out of it." www.readtpa.com/p/imagining-...
Imagining a Guy: Names Edition
The Post found a progressive who doesn’t exist and caught her betraying a belief she doesn’t hold.
readtpa.com
NB: I have a phone running this OS. A U.S. Citizen Deleted His Phone’s Data. Now He Faces a Felony Charge.
A U.S. Citizen Deleted His Phone’s Data. Now He Faces a Felony Charge. (Gift Article)
Federal prosecutors charged a man returning to the United States with obstruction because he gave them a passcode that erased his smartphone during a customs search.
nytimes.com
Normal stuff. “Dr. Fauci’s lawyer, David Schertler, tried to speak on his client’s behalf. ‘Another word and you’re gone,’ Mr. Paul warned him. Moments later, after Mr. Schertler spoke out again, the chairman ordered a security officer to escort him from the hearing room.”
Trump Live Updates: Fauci Refuses to Answer Senators’ Questions on Covid Origins
nytimes.com
The whole thing is vile. Trump and his ilk hate women. All women. But especially women whom they rightly perceive they could never have.
The Punchline
Dylan Mulvaney did nothing wrong. That's the point.
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I am in the dumbest argument on Reddit and I have no idea why I am like this. In the professors subreddit, of all places. 🙄
remember this: bsky.app/profile/quin...
Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 6mo agoTwo years ago, a secret meeting by some AfD members with Sellner rocked the party because ”remigration” was discussed. Today, Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, calls for remigration regularly on his social media platform. That’s how quickly the normalization has happened.
Today on @indicator.media: A handful of anonymous bots have taken over fact-checking on X. This isn’t hyperbole. In the first three weeks of May, just eight AI contributors wrote 50.3% of all visible Community Notes on the platform.
8 AI bots now write 50% of X’s Community Notes
The crowdsourced moderation project faces a choice between scale and legitimacy
indicator.media
Conservatives in 2016: TRIGGERED LIB???? Conservatives in 2026: We are installing trigger warnings in the Smithsonian
Basic b Coke Zero, from the can, on ice.
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2w agoName your fav soft-drink.
No honor among thieves. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/u...
The Tate Brothers Are Losing Right-Wing Allies After Their Arrest
After Andrew and Tristan Tate, prominent leaders of the so-called manosphere, were arrested in Miami, many of their onetime allies on the American right pulled back support.
nytimes.com
I literally cannot understand anyone who says he is not directly responsible for the deaths that come of this. The money wasn’t withdrawn for some higher purpose or because of impossible circumstances. He owns those graves for the rest of his days
Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 2w agoMusk did not just decide not to provide people with life saving aid. He *broke the law* in order to *deny promised aid*. 1
Well, this seems unconstitutional, at best.
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
nytimes.com