We’ve reached the opposite pole of the post-Covid scramble for workers.
“.. Nearly two million people in the U.S. have been without a job for 27 weeks or more ..”
@wsj.com
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Understatement to be sure.
What a wonderful interview with the woman who described techno-fascism as it emerged, and who was pretty much cancelled for it. Thanks Paulina Borsook and @gilduran.com ↘️
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Thx for this great chat! Connor Leahy does an excellent job illustrating ideas that are hard to grapple with. Your questions were on 🎯. The quagmire of capitalistic society barelling through amidst, at the cost of many externalities that are hidden, ignored is just 🤯. Pls invite Karen Hao next!!
Inside the British lab growing a biological computer https://on.ft.com/46hbhoj
Not to mention the 10 year moratorium on state regulation of AI, which aims to prevent states from enforcing their own AI laws, allowing for a more unified federal approach to AI regulation. Then converge this with the military weapons, as mentioned, also budgeted. The race to the bottom ensues smh
Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights
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Nothing but the best people.
Don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give into fear. Never. Ever. 🇺🇸
Reopening Alcatraz is trolling. We all know it's not going to happen, a smoke screen to what's really happening
An international trucking logistics firm is buying as much as *** $20 MILLION *** worth of President Donald Trump’s crypto coins to influence the administration’s trade policy.
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Then the White House doubled down on it
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Bravo!
Among other reasons why this study is important, “There are people that are taken away from life-support intervention because they are deemed as not being ‘there,’” Chis-Ciure says. “The stakes are too high to not tackle the problem head-on.”
"And IIT says that conscious experience would emerge more toward the back of the brain, where nearby networks of neurons are more closely connected, Koch explains."
GNWT vs IIT:
"GNWT says that frontal regions of the brain such as the prefrontal cortex turn the “spotlight” on information when one first becomes conscious of it, a phenomenon called ignition that should be detectable in an imaging study when an individual has a conscious experience
#consciousness
GOP Senators Mike Lee & Tommy Tuberville “have introduced a bill to abolish the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) & establish private security at US airports.” (Sure, let’s let the MAGAs who supported Pete Hegseth & Trump decide what’s best for airport security. How bad cld it be? 🙄) 1/
This thought-provoking set of original suggestions for ways state prosecutors could push back strongly against some of the cruelest forms of criminality by Trump’s underlings doesn’t violate federal supremacy and would be well worth putting into effect:
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Our new research confirms it: digital media literacy education works! Canadians who watched our #BreakTheFake videos were more likely to fact-check and less likely to share misinformation. Check out the key findings: ow.ly/XPXa50VKxa8 #DigitalMediaLiteracy
A Philosopher Released an Acclaimed Book About Digital Manipulation. The Author Ended Up Being AI
Italian essayist Andrea Colamedici tells WIRED Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk, and the New Architecture of Reality was a “philosophical experiment and a performance.” The book’s Chinese author does not exist.
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This important piece,by @semaforben.bsky.social, starring Marc Andreessen and other SV vcs, needs more attention. It's about the powerful machinery hidden from public and media scrutiny that is, has been actively, operationally funding, controling the levers of the Trump Administration.
Anthropic sent a takedown notice to a dev trying to reverse-engineer its coding tool
“Kennedy, who has no scientific or medical training himself, also seems confused about what a scientifically rigorous investigation would entail—and how long it might take.” www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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As with DOGE's supposed "efficiency" mission, it's become clear that it's another front for collecting private, convidential, sensitive data that isn't readily available in the public sphere, for building and later powering their AGI
