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Buried in the regime's political takeover letter of the Smithsonian is the worst bit. Unlike exhibits, which are non-destructive towards primary materials, temporary in nature, and reversible, the foundational collections are irreplacable. They want to be able to throw stuff out.

Inside the Right’s War on the Homeless How one Trumpist tech mogul pushed a crackdown on the unhoused all the way to the Supreme Court.

A shocking investigation, published in August 2024, revealed a well-funded, right-wing campaign to criminalize homelessness across the country. It’s a cruel and counterproductive effort, and looking at where we are today, it’s working. 1/10

For the record, our division commander BANNED things called “presence patrols” in Iraq.

“If you don’t have a specific task & purpose, your ‘presence’ doesn’t do anything.”

National Guard stating they are now doing presence patrols in DC.

A complete waste of soldier’s time & effort.

"Until they can make it look the way we want it to."

That's gonna be kind of hard (if you'll pardon the expression) for Joe and Danny, isn't it?

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And They Will Know Us By the Trail Of Our Empties

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

this is absolutely correct

I don't know if we can put this country back together but the best and maybe only hope we have is for full, salt the earth Reconstruction-era politics - and this time don't stop before the job is done

there can be no "moving forward"

the person our president is taking national security advice from, everyone

Although what's really fascinating about all this, from a purely historical standpoint, is that Trump is in the Epstein files.

So, just to clarify, the choice for homeless people is concentration camps or prison, where the cost of either one is around $4,000-$10,000 a month. Meanwhile, a $500/mo basic income in SF reduced homelessness by two-thirds.

It should be considered cruel and unusual to not do Universal Basic Income

I don’t want to be governed by vibes. I want to be governed by data, and I want the methods which generated that data to be peer-reviewed so aggressively that bias is recognized and mitigated.

I want to do nothing *but* trust experts, so I can spend my time as an expert in my own tiny field.

‘I Feel Like I’m Going Crazy’: ChatGPT Fuels Delusional Spirals An online trove of archived conversations shows the artificial-intelligence model sending users down a rabbit hole of theories about physics, aliens and the apocalypse.

Look, there's a chance AI will be a psychologically destructive, addictive technology that may never produce the results promised for the price of the financial, environmental, and social upheaval it will cause, so the important thing is to get it into as many hands as possible as fast as possible.

Robert Heinlein once wrote of his experience as a young naval lieutenant. His ship docked in Bremerton, where it was overcast and foggy for the first three days. On the fourth, he emerged from his bunk to find that overnight, "someone had put up the biggest goddamn mountain I'd ever seen."

Not to mention the entirety of Kapowsin, Electron, and Orting, and substantial portions of Enumclaw, Buckley, Sumner, and Puyallup (also everything around Lake Tapps, so the older core of Bonney Lake).

Oh my god, we're re-inventing Weizenbaum and the ELIZA Effect from first principles!

Quote below is from "Computer Power and Human Reason, From Judgement To Calculation" (1976)

Two entries on a timeline. One shows that on May 15, 1994 Trump flew with Tiffany on Jeffrey Epstein's plane. The next shows a lawsuit allegation that as a 14-year old, Trump smiled when asked by Epstein whether the 14-year old he was with was "a good one."

CNN has a timeline showing that in the period when Trump was allegedly joking about Epstein raping girls, he still exposed his own girls to the predator.

edition.cnn.com/2025/08/12/p...

Please, I beg you, STOP USING CHATGPT FOR YOUR COURT CASES.

Today I saw someone get themselves *held in contempt and arrested* because ChatGPT spit out sovcit bullshit *on a case they could have won.*

I thought this was a joke. It's not.

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

“Once you get troops on the streets, it’s only a matter of time before it goes bad. Some kid throws a stone, next minute there’s houses on fire and people getting killed.”

Weirdly this doesn't mention that the woman Trump put in charge of reviewing the Smithsonian is his Florida criminal defense attorney who didn't like some of the museum's exhibits when she visited after the inauguration so she convinced Trump to sign an executive order putting her in charge

Anyone who fails to see that we are careening toward fascism is not paying attention.

now we're locking up political enemies. is anyone - anyone at all - still unclear on the fascism question

Judge rejects DOJ's post-sentencing dismissal request in police civil rights case Ex-Deputy Trevor Kirk is to report to prison in Aug. 28 after U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson said dismissing his criminal case is "contrary to the public interest."

Calling the U.S. Department of Justice’s request “contrary to the public interest,” a judge has declined to dismiss a criminal case against a former sheriff’s deputy already convicted and sentenced to prison for violating a woman’s civil rights. www.legalaffairsandtrials.com/p/judge-reje...

The propagandists running the @DHSgov account are deliberately pushing thinly-veiled neo-Nazi material through the official communications channels of the U.S. government. Their goal is stirring outrage (to which they will express fake outrage) and signaling to their followers where they're going.

Hillary has been right about everything.

They actually started doing that during the same news conference announcing the occupation of DC.

Exclusive | White House to Vet Smithsonian Museums to Fit Trump’s Historical Vision Top White House officials will scrutinize exhibitions, internal processes, collections and artist grants ahead of America’s 250th anniversary.

BREAKING WSJ:

The Trump White House plans to conduct a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions, materials and operations ahead of America's 250th anniversary to ensure the museums align with "Trump's interpretation of American history." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump has no interpretation of American history that an educated person is bound to respect