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Ben Lickly (he/him) retweeted
16 Dec 2022
I guess now URL shorteners are required to get around Twitter censorship if you want to talk about newsworthy things like tinyurl.com/ElonJetLocation
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We’re excited to announce support for GPU-accelerated PyTorch training on Mac! Now you can take advantage of Apple silicon GPUs to perform ML workflows like prototyping and fine-tuning. Learn more: pytorch.org/blog/introducing…
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Ben Lickly (he/him) retweeted
10 Apr 2022
Many tech companies, including GitHub, use their geographically distributed workforce as a way to steal wages from workers. They call it "location-based pay grades" and other such nonsense. But it's wrong. So we've written something you can share:
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We’ve seen lots of photos & videos of rioting, looting, police violence and general unrest in China over the past couple days, as pandemic restrictions in Shanghai, Jilin & other places become unbearable for countless people. A brief roundup here below:
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Ben Lickly (he/him) retweeted
9 Apr 2022
!!! Friday Night Surprise. Plaintiffs just filed their response to Facebook in my favorite case - what I call the mother of all lawsuits - in Delaware where it's incorporated. It's a tight but absolutely delicious 120 pages so I'll break down the allegations here for you. /1
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Ben Lickly (he/him) retweeted
23 Mar 2022
單字：𩚨
羅馬字：khiū
華語：形容食物柔軟而有彈性、韌性。
造句：我上愛食𩚨𩚨的滷腸仔。
我最愛吃彈牙口感的滷腸子。
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Ben Lickly (he/him) retweeted
26 Mar 2022
Unique sports events are held across different islands of Matsu. Runners from around Taiwan gathered here today to attend the Beigan Marathon, which strings together several scenic spots around the island. It features ridiculously steep terrain and military-themed exhibits.
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Ben Lickly (he/him) retweeted
25 Mar 2022
Provincial govts in China are mandating univ teachers to attend "lectures correcting one's thoughts on Ru-Ukr situation", where attendees are told Russian military action is legitimate & it's all NATO/US/Ukr's fault. Meanwhile, univ students are "reporting" their teachers who...
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Ben Lickly (he/him) retweeted
10 Mar 2022
The sweeping pro-Russia disinfo on the Chinese internet isn’t created in a day. Want to recap a tiny bit of what happened in the past decade. As the idiom 草蛇灰线 goes, there’re always traces. All the developments below are intertwined with each other. 1/
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Ben Lickly (he/him) retweeted
26 Feb 2022
statement of some Chinese academics based in Nanjing, Peking, Tsinghua, Fudan & HKU condemning Russian invasion of Ukraine
mp.weixin.qq.com/s/G3CUOvgHw…
archived link
web.archive.org/web/20220226…
(many of the WeChat comments give one brain damage tho)
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Ben Lickly (he/him) retweeted
24 Feb 2022
Ok, after years of warnings were ignored and hearing "Garry, you were right!" all damn day today, I'll repeat what I said in 2014: Stop telling me I was right and listen to what I'm saying now. My recommendations follow: 1/5
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Ben Lickly (he/him) retweeted
25 Feb 2022
Putin's speech tops weibo trends today. Guancha & Huanqiu's posts got millions of likes. Commenters say they're "moved to tears" 🥲
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Ben Lickly (he/him) retweeted
27 Jan 2022
1/ The moment of truth has come for Chinas's Zero-Covid policy.
I learned by coincidence that Xiong'an, "China's City of the future" near Beijing, was put under Wuhan-style lockdown this Monday. What's stunning: 3 days in, almost nobody in China knows about this.
[THREAD 🧵]
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Ben Lickly (he/him) retweeted
13 Nov 2021
Finally watching Shang-Chi, here as a bus operator to rate the SFT transit factors of The Bus Scene:
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Ben Lickly (he/him) retweeted
I would not respond like this to Karen's extensive, well thought out piece. Those of use at the forefront of this field, are not "less motivated" after reading the piece.
The issue is that we have fought hard to convince people in power, such as yourself who...
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Ben Lickly (he/him) retweeted
11 Mar 2021
Reporting this thoroughly convinced me that self-regulation does not, cannot work. Facebook has only ever moved on issues because or in anticipation of external regulation. If we have any hope of fixing FB's problems, we can no longer afford to wait for it to do so itself.
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Ben Lickly (he/him) retweeted
11 Mar 2021
This piece was so incredibly painful to write. It's not about corrupt people do corrupt things. That would be simple. It's about good people genuinely trying to do the right thing. But they're trapped in a rotten system, trying their best to push the status quo that won't budge.
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Ben Lickly (he/him) retweeted
11 Mar 2021
Nine months ago, I learned that Facebook has a Responsible AI team, and has had some form of it since Cambridge Analytica. I began to wonder: what has it been doing these past three years? Nearly four-dozen interviews later, here's what I found. technologyreview.com/2021/03…
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