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"When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest." --Mon Mothma, Andor, S2, E9.

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Can we do this, please?!?🙏🏼 substack.com/@morgaan/not...

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Happening now!

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“Now it feels like it was all just a game to them.” -- a fired and rehired FDA staffer wapo.st/4kumlCM

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The function of an academic department Chair: Make sure faculty in your department are happy. That's it. And if you can't always reach that goal, make sure faculty know that's the endgame and that absolute practicalities are standing in the way.

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this but it’s humans drawing attention to automated fake scholarship (and it’s good)

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Modern autocrats don’t always wear uniforms or rule by fear. They use elections, media control and polished images. Understanding this “spin dictatorship” is key to protecting democracy, especially in the U.S, writes an expert on authoritarian regimes:

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Highlights from THE AI CON publicity tour -- @alexhanna.bsky.social and I have had a busy few weeks! buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

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#AI is #shit. www.404media.co/teachers-are...

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www.404media.co/pro-ai-subre... Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions

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For years, the TSA published complaint reports in its FOIA Electronic Reading Room. But in January, they stopped publishing these reports for the public. These reports have now been preserved by the Data Liberation Project. www.muckrock.com/news/archive...

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Remember that they only call it class war when you fight back. (Paraphrase of a sign from Occupy Dallas 2011)

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This is so great to hear that work is still being done to combat this! They linked the article here for anyone interested: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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In 1965, the mathematical physicist Roger Penrose proved that, given two simple assumptions, space-time must end at points called singularities. The paper has been called “the most important paper in general relativity” since Einstein’s. www.quantamagazine.org/singularitie...

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Great reminder that we already have a framework for "Abundance," and it was called the New Deal. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

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A radical transformation of our way of life is underway. Don’t let anyone gaslight you into thinking this administration is normal.

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Habits and patterns of following: 1) following impressive accounts; 2) following accounts that do not indulge in pedantry, a form of trollishness on a *micro*blogging site.

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Many of our billionaires are richer than any pharaoh or king in the history of the world, while a family lifestyle that could be comfortably supported by a single income in 1980 takes two people working full-time to maintain today. https://trib.al/X9l4PzM

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Investors are worried about the ongoing trade war — and rethinking the safety and soundness of U.S. government debt.

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Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally #news #worldnews

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What if mad cow, but for the internet.

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This paper looks like a refreshing perspective on how to understand LLMs “Rather than asking whether these models “think” or “understand” in human-like ways, a more productive direction lies in analyzing how they participate in processes of meaning-making.” arxiv.org/abs/2505.17080

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