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Apologies to anyone who chooses to follow me I tend to compile my own newspaper every day in about 100 posts and am just not motivated enought to put all of that into a Substack or other tidy long-form format www.green-umbrella.biz/how-often-to...

The value of a Harvard education just went down, rather like being a Wharton grad (noting this article lumps things normally credited to Persia/Zoroastrism -- like algebra, see the etymology? -- together with Arab/Muslim, prob how RFK Jr sees both). www.arabamerica.com/arab-contrib...

'one of the Student List’s most prominent figures advocated “productive relations with Russia” during the campaign, invoking historical ties and *energy* [emphasis added] needs...energy dependence demands serious efforts to reduce it [rather than using it] as [an[...excuse for giving in to Moscow"

As a former teacher, I never scrubbed in for a gender reassignment surgery, but I did instruct the kids on how to get the window screens off in case of an active shooter…

Anthropic is trying to write its own federal AI regulation law. The major AI firms have all issued feeble proposals for how their AI will serve the public, in anticipation of their pending IPOs. It's all a reminder that we cannot, any under circumstances, let AI firms govern the future.

Elizabeth Holmes’s Weird Science Finds a New Captive Audience www.nysun.com/article/eliz... Me: “She is clearly a fraud. She exploited people. She hurt science. She is not some misunderstood maverick who was just a bit too enthusiastic.”

The lesson from Serbia is that when no party represents the people, you can build your own alternative even if it takes years of community assemblies, organizing and resistance to severe state repression. Democracy and justice are fragile; it takes the utmost strength to keep them alive.

we have a little critical thinking problem

Raskin released a sweeping new Committee staff report, “‘We Have Certain Things in Common, Jeffrey’: The Case Against Donald Trump Emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ’s Desperate Efforts to Cover it Up,” detailing evidence involving 11 women, five of whom directly accuse Trump of rape or sexual...

very good news for Ukraine but lordy the future is going to be awful

actually he's implying he's done everything together with Israel

if a bill passes unanimously -- you know, like a referendum you lose with only 25% of the vote -- what's the premise for repealing it? other than racism and greed.

and get all gov't's off X (but they all "need" to be there)

Tennessee Brando delivers a blistering assessment of Trump's remaining supporters. “It's sad to watch people who are so miserable in their own lives get behind a man who is the king of misery, who just keeps adding more misery to their lives, and they keep cheering it on.”

The Real Story of the Trump-Putin Summit Is a US Oil Deal Hiding in Plain Sight bsky.app/profile/love...

it's all grift and graft there is no other unifying ideology among the authoritarians

Did you know Rosalind Franklin's photograph 49 came before photo 51, that captured the first structure of DNA. She KNEW it was significant. She made extensive notes in photo 49. Photograph 51 was a redo of photograph 49. 51 was pretty enough to get published. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

holy moly openai.com/index/securi...

the failure of society to fix toxic masculinity has pretty much always meant protection and prevention falls to the victims, not the perpetrators (e.g., 40 years ago all female freshmen at my uni were handed a rape prevention handbook Day 1 -- the males, nothing)

THIS and do not for one second think the Canadian gov't's at all levels are not equally complicit "AI at scale" was not some simple slogan -- it's a promise.