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"Freedom from fear is a central goal of the system of separation of powers."
@casssunstein.bsky.socials explains the separation of powers in an excerpt via @bigthink.com:
They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175
Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...
The March 15, 2025, killing of Ruben Ray Martinez drew almost no public attention.
But Martinez is now the first known American citizen shot to death by federal immigration agents during President Trump’s second term. https://wapo.st/4lbpGYC
If you want to win on the left, just run Mamdani's campaign.
IE. Have values you don't compromise on, and have plans for making things better and stick to them.
Be authentically a person who is trying to do well.
Spotted in Nashville this week…
This data consolidation is in flagrant violation of the Privacy Act of 1974, and the way ICE is using it for political and racial repression is the nightmare scenario of the people who drafted that law 5 decades ago.
Page One in Miami:
@miamiherald.com
Iran regime change advocates got what they spent decades pushing for—the US to launch a big war to collapse Iran’s government—and they’re still not happy.
Because what they pushed for years was a fantasy of a smooth, easy regime change war that gets everyone to tell them they were right all along.
I hope he’s right. ⏳
So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right
Every time an AI CEO hints their system might be conscious, it helps sell the AGI myth. This piece explains why that narrative exists and who benefits from it (no paywall or ads): jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl... (ETA: direct link)
Spoiler from an expert in the field (me): Claude is not conscious.
🔥 Free Privacy Activist Toolbox from @privacyguides.org for people already doing advocacy work and for anyone who wants to start.
Lawmakers raise questions about security of health data shared with AI tools www.nextgov.com/policy/2026/...
"A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible – and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying."
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
Understanding one of the world's oldest civilizations can't be achieved through a single film or book. But recent works of literature, journalism, music and film by Iranians are a powerful starting point.
Wrote about the central lie of prediction markets. How they are the perfect technology for a low-trust society, simultaneously exploiting and reifying an environment in which believing the motives behind any person or action becomes harder. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Look, when the day comes, it's going to be very hard to get some people to get off the "norms/turn the page" bandwagon, but the least, and already established, thing we can do is prosecute the fuck out of everyone for perjury. All these people have lied under oath. Start there, at the lowest bar.
Most of the footage should never leave the user’s device. But of course the worst company doesn’t do privacy.
Meta Workers Say They’re Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users’ Smart Glasses
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I’m positive whoever wrote this hasn’t gone through the process themselves. :)
never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.
When it comes to Internet privacy, there’s surprisingly little daylight between the UK and China.
“The price of being an ordinary member of society should not be having all of your online activity tracked, assembled and used to manipulate you.”
“The sky will not fall if we get the reasonable privacy rules we deserve.”
Probably both. Nobody fails up like middle aged white men.
JUST IN: Democrat Alex Holladay has flipped a GOP-held seat in *Arkansas*.
Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried hard to delay this race and wanted the seat to stay vacant for 8+ months, but the courts told her to hold it today. If she was worried, she was right to be.
Our full recap:
When Bluesky was down today I went back to Twitter and was punched in the face by the stench of abandoned aquarium. Milo Yiannopoulos, who I honestly thought was dead, stanning Hillary Clinton. Dem flaks earnestly retweeting Nick Fuentes. It’s time to cordon off anyone left and introduce alligators.
Dawg if I was a cookie-cutter shark and found out that my species could have been known as the "demon whale-biter" instead I'd be fuckin' *pissed*. Absolute nomenclatural humiliation.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Democrats lost young men because we want regulation that protects consumers from scams????
Young men are looking for get rich quick schemes because their parents & grandparents pulled up the ladder behind them, robbing the next generation of the same opportunities they enjoyed.
This is 100% how Emil ran operations at Uber — there was never any consideration for what would happen after a launch. All that mattered was the day 1 “splash.”
The DoD is now operating like an illegal, over-leveraged tech startup.
Please let me be there when the Pope finds out about this shit.
