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"Thankfully, Klobuchar and Lujan’s bill went nowhere... Giving a single political official the power to define “misinformation” runs counter to core First Amendment principles. What’s deemed “misinformation” cld change radically from one administration to the next" www.techdirt.com/2024/11/20/d...

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the quickest route to ending this would be for a consortium of states that value their sovereignty to team up use state power against Musk's various commercial properties

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Pitt to pause PhD admissions, following Vanderbilt and USC, because of uncertainty of NIH funding to academic universities. Who will teach and train US scientists for pharma and biotech? Should we import them from countries that do? www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

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This is really good and important, and a model we can point to for what it would mean for the social sciences and humanities to guide AI. A crude version of the argument is: existing approaches to “cultural AI” will model stereotypes (knowing-about-groups) not the sense-making power of culture.

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"Any savings generated by DOGE, may simply result in shifts in spending, rather than reductions unless Congress cuts appropriations to account for DOGE savings," BofA analysts wrote in a note to clients on Friday. "In other words, Congress is still likely to originate any signif deficit reduction."

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here's the link to Mike Martin, MP, talking about the EU Atlantic Treaty Organization (would incl cda) it's about 15 min starting at 14m30s at 16m50s starts discussing european procurement, bc can't buy military kit from a country you don't trust podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/u...

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la veste-cagoule: nouvelle tendance (the balaclava jacket: new trend) (clip at the other site, from BFMTV, Marseilles, x.com/bfmtv/status...)

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Someone tell pmarca they’re making another AI censored and woke.

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"A Ukrainian drone tech firm has unveiled an alternative to GPS navigation. "Sine.Engineering built the system to counter Russia’s electronic warfare, which has wreaked havoc on GPS signals. "To dodge the interference, Sine invented a satellite-free replacement." thenextweb.com/news/ukraini...

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I preferred when civ-mil stuff was one of those important-but-mostly-in-a-quiet-and-steady topics rather than (looks ominously at dumpster on fire) this

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BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

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nicely done

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Good. The Associated Press, one of the world’s oldest and most trusted news orgs, having participated in the White House press pool for more than a century, is suing the White House Press Secretary and Chief of Staff for violating our 1st and 5th Amendments. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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is there a vantage point from which the current desparate behaviour of the administration and the GOP congress makes sense eg is there a vision they have where they think they can utilize the collapse of the republic or that info which others hold against them keeps them in check or ...?

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Merz, saying that the US can't be counted on to honor Article 5, so "We need to have discussions with both the British and the French — the two European nuclear powers — about whether nuclear sharing, or at least nuclear security from the U.K. and France, could also apply to us,” he said." /...

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his thread about proposed EU Atlantic Treaty Organization in screenshots,

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Mike Martin, MP (@ThreshedThought, on the other site) was on the Telegraph's "Ukraine the Latest" talking about an EU Atlantic Treaty Organization it'll be up as a podcast later worth a listen

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While many of you are likely yelling "GO USA" or "GO CANADA!" I'm yelling "GO literally any elected member of congress and the rule of law, please, anyone or a single check or a solitary balance or—

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🤷🏻‍♀️

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🇨🇦🏒🥅🏆!

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Macron has just urged the French to join the military reserve. “We are entering a new era”. France will have to spend more on defence. “The threat that Russia represents imposes choices on us” (Live exchange on social media)

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I really hope Kash Patel doesn’t besmirch the reputation of the agency that assassinated MLk

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Not discrete, not continuous, but a secret third thing

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Some of DOGE is retribution, some is corruption, some is incompetence, some is a mix of those, but this is destruction for destruction's sake. It's undermining American science, industry, and commerce just because they can.

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does the recent revelations from the training of Deepseek and OpenAI's o series of models with pure RL mean even this sort of feedback from humans will be phased out in the near future?

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literally at point where i get nausea have to fight against 🤢🤢🤮when i see musk's image now

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It’s too bad there can’t be some sort of happy pretend-world where these guys can just play quietly by themselves and harmlessly live out their fantasies of towering genius finally getting its just deserts. Like a bigger version of the Hoover Institution or something, off on a nice island somewhere.

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grim

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Here in Illinois, ten years ago we saw the consequences of a rampant ideological gutting of government. It genuinely harmed people. Our citizens hated it. Trust me – I was elected based in part on just how much they hated it.

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Posted this on X earlier. Not kidding, for those of you who work in the press and may have left your account alive over there for DM'ing purposes.

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“In a time of temptation to the bad, or to the worse, association is what lets people find the courage to refuse, and the practical standing to do so. If things get very bad, it is also associational life that helps people circulate information, hide, escape, and travel.”

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When a man with a gun jokes, you pay attention to the gun and not the joke

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strikes me that they are speedrunning the propaganda too much, that the US popln is very diff than the people & info environments where these techniques are usually used, diff history, diff societal beliefs will that matter?🤷🏻‍♀️

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The rabbit in the photocopier, you cannot photocopy the rabbit due to the flattening effects of mimeography. Yet the rabbit famously replicates endlessly Futility in technology fighting to replicate the natural abundance

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"Maybe, to put it more simply: we are living in symbol collapse, in which everything is both literal and symbolic, in equal measure. The planes falling from the sky are symbols of a failed regime, but also…they are literal planes falling from the sky. It is endlessly recursive." - Branton Taylor

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