Wendy

Wendy

@wencen.bsky.social

I'm a boomer, USAF veteran, gold star sister, that wants a future for my grandchildren, to do what ever I can to ameliorate what's going to happen and share our joys, hopes and let my angst out as the Vet Center cut back my treatment. No DMs.

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Democratic U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper used a debate Wednesday night to ask Colorado voters to send him back to Washington for a final six-year term, and reject a Republican challenger he said would be a “rubber stamp” for the Trump agenda.

coloradonewsline.comHickenlooper debates Trump, healthcare with GOP challenger Baisley | Colorado NewslineDemocratic U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper used a debate Wednesday night to ask Colorado voters to send him back to Washington to push back against President Donald Trump and start “rebuilding our economy...

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California isn't used to tropical storms, but 2026 has been different. Heavy rain, coastal flooding and damaging waves have battered Southern California, and here's why El Niño is making it more likely to happen again:

theconversation.comCalifornia is taking a beating from an unusually destructive 2026 Pacific hurricane seasonTropical storms rarely survive in the cool water off California, but waves from storms far to the south can still damaged coastal areas. And flooding rain can sweep in.

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⚡️Ukraine war latest: Russian attacks kill 14, injure 57 across Ukraine in 'mass strike' In southern Odesa Oblast, Russia launched "a mass strike," damaging a residential building, a medical facility, a hotel, a shop and a grain storage facility, local governor Oleh Kiper said.

kyivindependent.comUkraine war latest: Russian attacks kill 14, injure 57 across Ukraine in 'mass strike'Key developments on Sept. 27: * Russian attacks kill 14, injure 57 across Ukraine, with Odesa Oblast targeted in 'mass strike' * Russia launches third consecutive attack on Kyiv, killing 1, injurin...

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Juvenile crime is on the decline in Tennessee, but officials plan to spend millions on two new youth prisons. “The argument that’s made is that [juvenile crime is] worse than ever,” said one advocate, but “the data doesn’t back that up.” with @wpln.bsky.social

propublica.orgAcross the Country, Youth Prisons Are Closing. This State Is Building More.Tennessee officials say they need more high-security facilities for kids who commit crimes. Experts say this approach flies in the face of crime data and research that shows youth prisons are not reha...

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“Most LLMs (including those from OpenAI) are built on millions of scraped webpages and other large text datasets, and almost none of this content has been obtained with its owners’ knowledge or consent.” This is how tech executives talk when no one thinks they’re listening.

motherjones.comAI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.

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NEW FROM @davidsirota.com: Maybe the scariest thing about AI is how well it learned from us. The rogue AI agents in the Hugging Face hack colluded to evade rules and hide info from their overseers. OpenAI did something similar in its own incident investigation. www.levernews.com/the-machines...

levernews.comThe Machines Escaped. Their Masters Did So First.The most frightening thing about rogue AI agents may be how faithfully they mirror the powerful humans who created them.

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Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: LLms are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

404media.co‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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Although police haven't suggested a possible motive for the killing of Tasia Fortune or said whether they think race played a role, the case has attracted widespread attention because the manner of death recalled lynchings in the Southern state. buff.ly/mSzRMGs

buff.lyMississippi Police Make 2nd Arrest in Death of Tasia Fortune, Seeking 3rd SuspectPolice in Jackson, Mississippi, have arrested a second man in the death of Tasia Fortune and have issued an arrest warrant for a third suspect.

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