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If you purportedly care about the environment start reading about generative AI's impact on climate. And until you have educated yourself STOP USING AI-GENERATED IMAGES. You may not care about intellectual property theft, but you care about the planet, right?

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"This exploitation of purported stateless zones was the main line of the history of the Holocaust. (...) The idea that the United States can send you to places from which it cannot bring you back is the theoretical basis for a doctrine of statelessness."

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The past couple of months have been incredibly busy at the Network Science Institute, so we've decided to share some updates with you right away instead of waiting for our usual quarterly edition of "Notes from NetSI". Stay connected & sign up to join the NetSI community! mailchi.mp/neu/news-fro...

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The Canadian Association of University Teachers is warning its members against non-essential travel to the United States. CAUT is wise. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Here the latest news from @nunetsi.bsky.social mailchi.mp/neu/news-fro...

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Big Journalism is still doing stenography instead of showing the reality of the Trump regime's headlong race into fascism. At TechDirt, @mmasnick shows how journalism could work if it located a spine. www.techdirt.com/202... 1/2

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No point in sugarcoating the truth open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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Supreme Court also granted immunity for official acts last July in Trump v. United States

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Also, this kind of murder is totally legal if Trump makes the order an official act as the Supreme Court gave Trump immunity from all acts done in an official capacity. Americans are fully not understanding how deep this goes and how much fascist infrastructure is already in place.

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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

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Yup. They'll send a legitimately awful US citizen to CECOT, and anyone who criticizes it will be accused of supporting the awful person... and then they'll send someone slightly less awful. Eventually, they'll have established that they can send anyone.

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Again, <no one> knows the right amount of “viewpoint diversity” at universities, but it simply can’t include “all views on the political spectrum” at a serious institution, when one of our two parties traffics in complete lies & outright rejection of all empirical evidence: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Viewpoint diversity (as demanded by an authoritarian government to universities) is nothing more than affirmative action for the far-right. And yes, it sounds like fascism, smells like fascism, and looks like it too. And Florida test-drove it.

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Fascism and the unreality state it needs to exist are going to really accelerate their attacks on sensemaking and history. More specifically our ability to understand the past and its consequences on our present and future. Ai and digitization are knowledge destruction and monetization engines.

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I hate to be that guy, but this is the five-alarm fire, and every elected Democrat and frankly, every Washington reporter should be ringing the bell. If it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone. Nobody with a voice should give this administration a moment’s peace about it.

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now THIS is the cyber dystopia i was promised

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Friends don’t let friends participate in AI “art” trends without giving them at least a little shit. If your friend had spinach in their teeth you’d tell them. This is the spinach-in-teeth of art. Also? AI art is BAD for the environment, in terms of energy use, water use, and other resources!!

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Being denied entry is at the better-end of the possible outcomes. Think about that. By @brucearthur.bsky.social

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Absurd. Of note: ‘15-minute cities’ is a politically charged “guardrail”. "I can't edit the background of that photo to include politically charged terms like '15-minute cities' or 'globalism' when paired with identifiable real individuals, as it can imply unintended associations."

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“Leased space near Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle will be used as a processing centre for refugee claimants, while trailers will be rented for the Stanstead port of entry, near Highway 55 at the Quebec-Vermont border, to serve as waiting rooms during processing.”

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On a recent flight my seatmates learned I was a writer and asked my opinion on AI. They didn't understand genAI is based on work stolen from authors, and they DEFINITELY didn't know about the energy costs. Both shocked them. People just don't know.

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My mom is an independent insurance broker and while warning her to disable AI functions in all her software, had to explain that integrated chatbot functions that read/write pdfs, for example, are scraping her clients’ sensitive health information that is otherwise strictly regulated.

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Watch this. Listen to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social She’s bravery personified.

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How to Survive the Broligarchy

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1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

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The un-cropped version is gold.

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Some good writing I refuse to share just because it uses AI images. Totally unnecessary.

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I'm pinning this just so they stop and all be clear that there's no "red wave." 💙🦋 #BlueWave

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This is still going around. From 5 months ago. Before all of this.

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When Elon Musk “donated” Starlink service to the White House, it immediately struck our reporters as the potential Trump-era iteration of a tried-and-true business maneuver they’d spent months reporting on last year. By @reneedudley.bsky.social

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