@beccalew

assistant prof of comparative media studies @MIT, researching cultural histories of silicon valley and the internet

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Joined January 2009
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Osita Nwanevu@OsitaNwanevu12h
The naysayers are getting embarrassing. Every day, people are using AI to make incredible breakthroughs and answer some of the toughest questions around, like "what do I like about my child?"
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this is so bleak
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Girth Vader II
@lovvewolfOct 24
Elon Musk found us here. We’re indigenous to this land.
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If people dislike Elon Musk so much, why do they still use the platform he owns?
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What we all knew was coming has finally begun semafor.com/article/10/22/20…

Exclusive: Elon Musk makes $1 billion investment in Ellison’s Skydance

Skydance has tapped equity investments from an array of sources, including Middle East sovereign wealth funds.

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daniel 🐌@escargotpro_Oct 22
I think You Can See Everything is freaking ppl out cause they cant hold multiple things in their head at once: 1. Both the ppl in the couple are evil 2. The guy is evil in immediately recognizable ways 3. Theyre both actually fully in love 3. Nate is also kinda evil
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I already did it before it was cool (aka last year)
rapha
@rapha_glOct 21
can’t wait to see an infinite stream of nathan, liz, and billy costumes in a week and a half
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At this point we're all inured to the ascendancy of right-wing politics, but it is remarkable that this is now respectable opinion within the Atlantic set.
James Kirchick
@jkirchickOct 20
The Mehdi Hasan Test for immigration to the United States: People with the views and associations of Mehdi Hasan should be barred from American citizenship. My latest in @Commentary commentary.org/articles/jame…

The Mehdi Hasan Test

On October 3, 2013, the nominally left-wing British political journalist Mehdi Hasan appeared on Question Time, the United Kingdom’s flagship current events discussion show. The panel wa...

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I loved YCSE but this is correct. Housewives is operating on a whole other plane
kyndall@kyndallreneOct 19
i also think nathan fielder’s schtick is like years behind what the average woman is doing on real housewives
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kyndall@kyndallreneOct 19
i also think nathan fielder’s schtick is like years behind what the average woman is doing on real housewives
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I find it interesting how the bulk of YCSE discourse is NOT interested in deconstructing the idea of the unknowable singular genius, but rather in transferring it onto nathan fielder himself
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I loved the movie, but also, what if auteur theory and entrepreneur worship were part of the same phenomenon..............
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Mosab Abu Toha
@MosabAbuTohaOct 14
Her name is Mariam Ghanem. She is two and a half years old. At 4 a.m. today, she watched her mother being consumed by flames following an Israeli strike. Mariam miraculously survived the strike. Her father was slaughtered by Israel just a few months ago.
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Mosab Abu Toha
@MosabAbuTohaOct 15
Latest photo showing Mariam’s face. A reminder that Israel burned Mariam’s mother alive before her very eyes. Mariam miraculously survived the strike, but sustained injuries and burns.
Mosab Abu Toha
@MosabAbuTohaOct 14
Her name is Mariam Ghanem. She is two and a half years old. At 4 a.m. today, she watched her mother being consumed by flames following an Israeli strike. Mariam miraculously survived the strike. Her father was slaughtered by Israel just a few months ago.
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🦢@ZainabSana2622Oct 13
Women are expected to prevent male violence, anticipate male violence, survive male violence, explain male violence, and then comfort men about male violence.
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Sophie Sherry@SophiePSherryOct 13
A group of men cheered as a woman was sexually assaulted at a University of Chicago frat house, according to a police report obtained by @Suntimes. The woman told CPD the assault happened during a party at AEPi. Her account was backed up by friends. bit.ly/4AWDb5Y

Group cheered as woman was sexually assaulted at University of Chicago frat house, police report...

The 21-year-old woman told police the assault happened during a party at the Alpha Epsilon Pi house, according to the report. Her account was backed up by two friends, who stated they intervened by...

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Foucault failed to consider the simultaneous ubiquity of sovereign AND disciplinary power
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Do media companies know there are topics for narrative fiction other than tech assholes?
Netflix
@netflixOct 8
All in. Every time. Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle star as Caroline Ellison and Sam Bankman-Fried in this limited series about the love scorned prodigies behind the FTX scandal. The Altruists premieres November 19.
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Moira Donegan@MoiraDoneganOct 8
Women who resist rape are punished so disproportionately because men understand that rape is the lynchpin of their social power, and they will go to any lengths to defend it.
TMZ
@TMZOct 8
Cornell Jane Doe swatted by someone who called 911 to report fake shooting. 🎥: CNN
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🚨BREAKING: Israeli forces killed Palestinian academic and Head of the Multimedia Department at the University of Palestine, Dr. Yasmine Khamis Al-Boubou, alongside three other Palestinian women in an Israeli strike on a residential building in western Gaza City.
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Bitter Tea Tor@write_torOct 5
i feel like in all the time I’ve been writing about rape and rape culture—which is what, over 15 years now—I’m continuously astounded that the concept that rapists LIE always never seems occur to people
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rayne fisher-quann@raynefqOct 1
rest of this aside, continues to be a fascinating sleight of hand how rape is constantly reframed as a "middle-class" problem, as if working class women do not go to college, as if rape is not a driver of downward mobility, as if poor women dont face even more barriers to justice
Suffragent
@Suffragent_Oct 1
The eternally-validated Camille Paglia on the Cornell case. "The sexual revolution must be undone because middle-class women can't handle it. They cannot take responsibility for their own actions."
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