leafiaye.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto 🍁 | PhD from UW-Madison 🦡 | Immigration, aging, and health www.leafiaye.com
👤 Joined on 06 October 2023
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@leafiaye.bsky.socialRepublican candidate’s campaign website accidentally publishes AI prompt: “The president is not popular, so all messaging should be focused on local politics and needs." www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
Show PostPlease, sir, put your hands up and step away from the produce aisle. The supermarket is no place to enact your
Show Postobviously that's big, not bit. As recently as the 1990s it was very expensive to make an international phone call, and the cost of airfare was higher relative to incomes. Even if you wanted to keep in touch with distant family it was objectively harder. Ease of phone/video makes "cut off" visible.
Show PostIronic, maybe hilarious, in long-term perspective when you consider that until maybe 50-60 years ago it was quite common to move to the other side of the country (in bit countries like the US) or world, and with the technology and prices of the time have infrequent contact with your family.
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