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I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis. This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Seems a little outside the remit of a coffee shop

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The new season of #Taskmaster looks shit @taskmaster.tv

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Wow, this is very well done, and frankly terrifying, but I suppose that's where we are in 2025.

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The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has issued a “Red Flag Alert” for the United States: www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...

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The Air Force is stripping Tuskegee Airmen lessons from basic training curriculum because of our White supremacist government. Put that in a headline. www.expressnews.com/news/article...

submitted 29 days ago • 199 comments

This is an incredible article from 1941, with Trump coming in it seems even more relevant than ever

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This is a great post looking at AI, privacy, end to end encryption, unsurprisingly it offers a lot more questions than answers but I think with the current state of the technology these questions are of incredible importance.

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You have to wonder how much of the Executive Order will remain after Trump comes into power? www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

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The BBC needs to have a debate about whether Musk's outbursts should keep leading the news. This isn't about censoring or suppressing his views; it's about whether to amplify them. Most Brits aren't on X, they don't follow Musk & not every raving from a foreign plutocrat should set the news agenda

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Seriously, the fuck are we doing here?! So it's not a diplomatic incident when a foreign regime-connected oligarch is openly trying to undermine our government and judicial system, but it is one if our government quietly stops using his platform?! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Yet another article under playing the impact of Y2K, suggesting millions were wasted on the work, it was the money spent and the enormous effort that ensured that things did work as planned www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers. Science works, y'all. www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...

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Crème egg anyone?

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Me: I'm so tired; we've been fighting the crypto wars since the early 1990s... Them: but isn't Bitcoin from like 2008? Me: ... Me: I'm so tired.

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I do genuinely wonder if there should be something akin to showtrials. A few extremely aggressive prosecutions as a warning to the others.

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Really interesting article about a strange, strange brewery www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...

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Great letter in this morning's @financialtimes.com

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My new piece for the New York Times, where I make the case that we need a lot more education to deal with disinformation, not more censorship and fact checks www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/s...

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

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Well about to head back home after a couple of days at a great conference looking at AI and ML model governance but on the way back found a fantastic bar in Amsterdam, De Pilsener Club, could have happily stayed there all afternoon (pic from Google, it was busier than this 🤣)

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Next stop Amsterdam for two days all things AI governance

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an interesting blog on how the development and use of passwords could have been quite different stuartschechter.org/posts/passwo...

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An interesting report released today from the Financial Stability Board (FSB) on "The Financial Stability Implications of Artificial Intelligence". www.fsb.org/2024/11/the-...

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Disney owns both The Muppets and Star Wars, and the fact they are not making a Muppet version of all nine main-series Star Wars movies is only explained by the fact that they secretly hate making money.

submitted 129 days ago • 121 comments

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are going to be so disappointed when they realise they’ve been given a more meme friendly equivalent of the UK’s National Audit Office to run.

submitted 102 days ago • 19 comments

Cis men truly need to understand the power of saying “that’s fucked up bro why would you say that” to another cis man

submitted 106 days ago • 97 comments

The Republicans, including but not limited to the Federalist Society, are going to drop pretenses to federalism faster than a pregnant au pair just as soon as Trump starts muscling states around. Not that anyone other than the extremely gullible ever bought the pretense before.

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what a nice way to wake up! Harford is one of the writers I've always admired, it is really really pleasant to get such a write up www.ft.com/content/6dd8...

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Wild: iPhones cops confiscated as evidence are suddenly rebooting en masse, making them much harder for police to hack. Cops theorize Apple pushed an update where iPhones communicate w/ each other and tells them to reboot if not connected to a network www.404media.co/police-freak...

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A fascinating study, just a shame the results are so depressing, and frankly expected. arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/s...

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UBI is proof that we do not actually care about evidence when it comes to policy, because I struggle to find a better example of something so consistently shown to be beneficial and yet it’s never even brought up as a serious option outside of endless pilot programs that all tell us the same thing

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Love both the image and the declaration "I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team" very disappointed my careers advisor didn't suggest that was a careers path

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I'm struggling to think of the non fraud use cases... OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology That Recreates Human Voices www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/t...

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This is a really good article on Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) from the cryptography team at Google, it’s well worth a read if this is a subject on your mind: bughunters.google.com/blog/5108747...

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23andMe tells victims it’s their fault that their data was breached techcrunch.com/2024/01/03/2...

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My New Year's resolution is to annoy less grammar pedants.

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I'll admit I didn't have quantum lentils on my buzzword bingo list for 2023 www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

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