NJF Porter

Public charter school teacher, former Public Health research assistant at UofAZ & sex educator. Parent alongside the magnificent @wlfgng1616.
Pronouns: He/Him.

[NJF Porter @njflatport]

@SarahCAndersen I’m about to teach my students about levels of organization in organisms, I’m going to show this to my chill classes when we speak about the organ level.

[clara / casey ☘︎ @capy_clara]

genuinely my only frame of reference for lindsay graham is cole escolas impression of if he got cast in Oh Mary

[Roxy @RoxyTall]

I’ve watched this like 10 times

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

happy birthday to the 2000s redhead TV actress we love so much

[K. @IbaraEleven]

I’m so used to US politicians pretending to be powerless that this feels like a headline from another universe

[AFTER HOW MANY CHILDREN @tomisin_ms]

Lush taking the lead

[Tommy Siegel @TommySiegel]

the types of podcasts: a guide

[bitchuneedsoap @bitchuneedsoap]

In 2015, Disney called 250 IT workers into a meeting.

They thought they were getting bonuses.

Disney told them they were being replaced by workers flown in from India on H-1B visas, and if they didn't spend the next 90 days training those replacements, they'd lose their severance.

Leo Perrero testified before Congress about it. Appeared on 60 Minutes.

"Someone was flown in from another country to sit at my same desk and take over what I was doing. It was the most humiliating thing I've ever gone through in my life."

Two workers sued Disney, HCL, and Cognizant for colluding to illegally displace American workers.

Courts dismissed it. Disney Magic.

[最多情報局 @tyomateee]

毎日見る度に寝相が変わってる娘達、これは見飽きない🤣

[alxndr @alexaldente]

The egg I’m poaching:

[Carrie Coon @carriecoon]

Anne Applebaum nails it:

[Sunk Cost Pharisee @Liamjsm]

Unions work

[davey @jerseyh0mo]

I forgot about this stupid shit but imagine if they poured $80 billion into feeding the hungry instead of this failed cartoon universe that nobody wanted

[zoë rose bryant @zoerosebryant]

FIRST WOMAN TO WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN 98 YEARS!!! 🥹❤️

[Mark Gadala-Maria @markgadala]

This is wild.

143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history.

Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots.

Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, storefronts, parks, and sidewalks from every angle, at every time of day, in lighting and weather conditions that staged photography would never capture. They documented the physical world at a scale no mapping company with a fleet of vehicles could have replicated on the same timeline or budget.

Niantic collected this systematically, data point by data point, across eight years, while users thought the only thing at stake was catching a rare Charizard.

The most valuable AI training datasets in the world aren't being assembled in data centers. They're being built by people who have no idea they're building them.

[Akilah Hughes @AkilahObviously]

So I have a new podcast called “How is This Better” and we went scorched earth on the AI slop from bots on here about the war in Iran. Listen and watch wherever you get your pods.