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There is no safe and valid business reason for AI video generation with sound other than for misinformation. Similar to when they cloned Dolly the Sheep and the world decided that human cloning wasn't cool. Folks need to decide this isn't cool.

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Desperation era

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Burn it all down "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth led a Christian prayer service in the Pentagon’s auditorium on Wednesday morning, during working hours, in which President Trump was praised as a divinely appointed leader."

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Great news! I'm told a few moments ago US Institute of Peace Board Chair Amb. George Moose went to the USIP building where he and legal counsel were able to retake possession after the recent court decision. They were accompanied by a small team securing the building and assessing maintenance needs.

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It's finally time to announce my game: Island Architect! Sculpt seaside towns in Island Architect, a relaxing builder inspired by coastal Europe. Build winding streets, whimsical towers, or calm fishing villages in this cozy experience. Wishlist now on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3079100/...

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SCOOP! We have secret Project 2025 documents laying out plans to drastically restructure domestic law enforcement -- from the feds on down -- under Trump's command. It's ostensibly about deporting immigrants. It could be used for more. At @phoenixnewtimes.com, from Beau Hodai:

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We spent 6 months investigating a children’s pastor accused of being a serial rapist. His accusers have spent 40 years fighting to stop him. Today he works for disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker and runs a secluded camp for kids in the Ozarks. My latest w/ @ahylton26.bsky.social for @nbcnews.com

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Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis. It's surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.

submitted 12 days ago • 41 comments

How's fascism going for you? medium.com/bits-and-beh...

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BREAKING: A federal court ruled that our client Rümeysa Öztürk must be released on bail immediately. She will return home to New England as her case proceeds.

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#CHI2025 As we rely on AI for decision-making support, how will our independent decision-making skills be affected? Prior work shows people’s decision-making skills often fail to improve or may even erode when they rely on AI for decision-support, even when the AI provides informative explanations.

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lol www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...

submitted 15 days ago • 21 comments

In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about how tariffs are throwing the PC gaming industry into disarray, and how the era of affordable computing is coming to an end. @edzitron.com @gamersnexus.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

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New from 404 Media: the Signal clone the Trump administration uses was just hacked. TeleMessage makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, Waltz used it. A hacker got some users' messages, group chats. Hugely significant breach www.404media.co/the-signal-c...

submitted 18 days ago • 165 comments

Things the president of the United States said on meet the press today: He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution He’s fine with a recession Americans can do with less Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”

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“This troubled planet is a place of the most violent contrasts. Those who receive the rewards are totally separated from those who shoulder the burdens. It is not a wise leadership….” #MayDay #StarTrek — Star Trek: The Original Series, “The Cloud Minders” (s3ep21)

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Hey what happened after December 1999?

submitted 21 days ago • 80 comments

the ultimate goal of most platform owners - conscious or not - is to eliminate culture and artistic expression wholesale and replace it with a never-ending stream of engagement bait. the surface reason is prioritizing profits to shareholders, but on some deeper spiritual level they just hate art.

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Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

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April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

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Dear god let this man cook.

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I have a deep aversion to local TV news, but now I am ON it because last year, the power company Arizona Public Service cut off electricity to my mother’s house outside of Phoenix, killing her.

submitted 30 days ago • 64 comments

The First Workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at CHI 2025 (STAIG@CHI’25) is less than a week away! We’re super excited to hold a panel with some amazing speakers to discuss why a sociotechnical approach to AI governance is so important. Learn more + see our full schedule: chi-staig.github.io

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The PRDs I’m reviewing that involve AI keep putting the solution first. It’s expected given the hype cycle. But I’m seeing user problems twisted to fit this one technology, if really mentioned at all.

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Katie Phang: And now that my time here at MSNBC comes to a close, I am taking that fight back to a familiar place… I hope you'll follow along with me as I continue to meet you where you are at places like Substack and YouTube with fellow truth tellers like MeidasTouch…

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in 1973 arthur schlesinger jr famously published The Imperial Presidency. the last pages include this line: "Around the year 2023 the American people would be well advised to go on the alert and start nailing down everything in sight."

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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#Whales are conscious breathers—surfacing every 5-15 minutes, while deep divers like sperm whales can hold out for 90 minutes. When one emerges, leaving a #rainbow in its wake, it's pure #magic

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Do you think middle school sucks? You’re not alone. @alv9n.com uses a survey of millions of students to show how our brains and our sense of belonging change in middle school. 💻 pudding.cool/2025/02/midd... 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4zL...

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment