🧙‍♀️ Twitter's Most Mysterious Viral Accounts

Plus: Dollars to Megabits, You May Be Paying 400 Times As Much As Your Neighbor for Internet Service. Alex Hanna left Google to try to save AI's future. And more…

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Twitter's Most Mysterious Viral Accounts. Here's a very popular tweet: “ she's a 10 but she cries on her birthday every year.” Solid. Concise. I can see why people would relate to the sentiment. Who doesn't want to think of themselves as hot? And further, who doesn't already… (Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic)

Kaitlyn Tiffany @kait_tiffany

i wrote about "relatable" content and gradient accounts, related to my ongoing fascination with "girl culture" and how all of social media is about girls

theatlantic.comEveryone Wants to Be a Hot, Anxious Girl on TwitterWe’re more predictable than we thought.

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Dollars to Megabits, You May Be Paying 400 Times As Much As Your Neighbor for Internet Service. An investigation by The Markup found that AT&T, Verizon, EarthLink, and CenturyLink disproportionately offered lower-income and least-White neighborhoods slow internet service for the same price as speedy connections they offered in other parts of town. (Leon Yin and Aaron Sankin / The Markup)

Aaron Sankin @ASankin

New investigation from @LeonYin & me in @themarkup reveals 4 major ISPs were charging customers wildly different prices for the same speed internet plans. The worst deals disproportionately went to lower-income, less White and historically redlined areas

themarkup.orgDollars to Megabits, You May Be Paying 400 Times As Much As Your Neighbor for Internet Service – The MarkupAn investigation by The Markup found that AT&T, Verizon, EarthLink, and CenturyLink disproportionately offered lower-income and least-White neighborhoods slow internet service for the same price as speedy connections they offered in other parts of town

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Alex Hanna left Google to try to save AI's future. DAIR, which was founded by Gebru in late 2021 and is funded by various philanthropies, aims to challenge the existing understanding of AI through a community-­focused, bottom-up approach to research. The group works remotely and includes teams… (Anmol Irfan via MIT Technology Review)

Tamara Kneese @tamigraph

Everyone needs this amazing and gigantic image @alexhanna and her Elvis (the cat) pillow as a timeline cleanse

technologyreview.comAlex Hanna left Google to try to save AI’s futureAfter her departure, she joined Timnit Gebru’s Distributed AI Research Institute, and work is well underway.

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Webb Telescope Captures New View of 'Pillars of Creation'. “Pillars of Creation” captured in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared view. The pillars resemble arches and spires rising from a desert, but are filled with semitransparent gas and dust. (Dennis Overbye via The New York Times)

The New York Times @nytimes

The James Webb Space Telescope released on Wednesday a new view of the cosmic landscape called the Pillars of Creation. nyti.ms/3TF6pjz

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Ye's 'Buyout' Of Parler Looks Very Much Like A Failed Company Taking Advantage Of Troubled Rich Guy. Ye, formerly Kanye West, has had quite a week or so. He got locked out of both his Instagram and Twitter accounts for posting anti-semitic nonsense. Immediately following that, he went on the Drink Champs podcast/video show and spouted even more… (Mike Masnick via Techdirt)

Mike Masnick @mmasnick

I think a lot of people are focused on the wrong issues regarding Ye and Parler. This really looks like a case of someone being taken advantage of.

techdirt.comYe’s ‘Buyout’ Of Parler Looks Very Much Like A Failed Company Taking Advantage Of Troubled Rich GuyYe, formerly Kanye West, has had quite a week or so. He got locked out of both his Instagram and Twitter accounts for posting anti-semitic nonsense. Immediately following that, he went on the Drink…

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