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The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?

Trump’s 28-point peace plan with Russia “is misnamed,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues. “It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future.”

Musk Accidentally Proves 70% Of MAGA Accounts On Twitter Live In Russia Whoops!

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Trump's Vendetta Against Wind is Gutting Jobs and Raising Prices Unionized workers are fighting Donald Trump's attacks on wind energy. In Baltimore, they're preparing for the “Green Workforce of the Future."

Trump has been bashing wind power for years. He’s now cracking down on its use in the United States — and it’s costing people jobs and causing energy bills to skyrocket. More:
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1/ A minor, but telling I think!, Trump-era mystery that I can’t believe we don’t have a full read out on: his makeup.

Why is applied so badly?

Why does he not hire a skilled practitioner to do/BLEND

If he does himself (?!?!) how does he not get on shirt collar?

Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.

Screen shot of article text that reads: “Michener is on the board of her local food bank, where they have been grappling with not only how to feed everyone in need but how to address the whole system —how to make the line of people who need food shorter. The bank started a community advocates program to equip those who need food with civic skills: Do you know how to reach out to your elected officials? Do you know how to tell your story? They're getting involved in the political processes that determine what kinds of wages their employers have to pay them or whether they have access to benefits, Michener said. "The most surefire way to strengthen these programs is to strengthen the political power of the people who rely on the programs."

So many things happening, I nearly missed the @newrepublic.com piece I was quoted in last week. It raises the possibility of continued political threats to SNAP, underscoring a point I make often: the best way to politically protect the safety net is to build the power of those who rely on it.

Beyond Misinformation: Understanding and Coping with the“Post-Truth” EraStephan Lewandowsky∗University of Bristol, United KingdomUniversity of Western Australia, AustraliaUllrich K.H. EckerUniversity of Western Australia, AustraliaJohn CookGeorge Mason University, United StatesThe terms “post-truth” and “fake news” have become increasingly prevalent in public discourse over the last year.This article explores the growing abundance of misinformation, how it influences people, and how to counter it.We examine the ways in which misinformation can have an adverse impact on society. We summarize how peoplerespond to corrections of misinformation, and what kinds of corrections are most effective. We argue that to beeffective, scientific research into misinformation must be considered within a larger political, technological, andsocietal context. The post-truth world emerged as a result of societal mega-trends such as a decline in social capital,growing economic inequality, increased polariza

A little retrospective can be helpful at times to work out what has been happening and what was knowable. Let's travel back in time to 2017 (~8 years ago) when I was lead author on a paper about the post-truth world. doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...


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X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.

The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

The thing about DOGE is it accomplished neither its ostensible nor actual goals but did manage to cause a couple of holocausts worth of deaths internationally.

And the media finds none of those three things particularly notable.

An astonishing amount of (mostly pro -Trump) fake news during the 2016 election was created by people just trying to make money in Veles, Macedonia. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

this isn't 1 problem caused by 1 platform/piece of technology. it's many overlapping problems caused by a bunch of systems that were optimized for scale and/or built & rolled out without any real care for how they'd be used and abused. one can only conclude this is the desired use for all this tech

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:

What if the real “great replacement” was the human obsolescence project behind the AI systems produced by the reactionary tech oligarchs who have used their social media platforms to get the public to buy into the racist and Islamophobic “great replacement theory?”

When immigrants read "'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,' and feel that that moral sentiment is the father of all moral principle in them, they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood of the men who wrote that Declaration."

—Lincoln

For the next while I'm gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood.

High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.

Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”

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A quieter, more dispersed version of DOGE began to emerge, its members plugging away at fairly specific policy areas with whatever authority and resources they had left. Forty-five DOGE employees remain as of October, a White House shutdown plan revealed, plus dozens more who have transitioned to working for an agency full-time. Atop the GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, Gruenbaum is striking deals with tech companies for the widespread implementation of AI throughout the federal government. Gruenbaum, who declined to comment on his role, also contributed to the so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Education” that most universities have resisted signing and is now in Israel implementing the administration’s Gaza peace plan.

DOGE is down to about 45 employees, but others have burrowed their way into government agencies as full time employees. Some are helping Vought's efforts to downsize the government. Others are implementing private AI across government.

COP30 overpromised, underdelivered, empowered distractions, backtracked on issues and once again gave big oil and big ag a free pass.

Unfortunately, the suspicions of climate scientists (here in Brazil and abroad) were confirmed again.

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The reason I think Mamdani did well is that he achieved what he needed (a non-hostile Trump) without compromising on principle.

And I think that should be the model across the board: Pragmatic but principled.

I've had conversations with people doing good journalism in places with hostile authoritarian governments. The specifics vary but it very often looks like a kind of "dance with the devil". It's what you have to do in these contexts.

When I was in 7th grade my science teacher had everybody write up the instructions for how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich

Then, he brought in the ingredients and followed the instructions very literally to hilarious effect.

It was an intro to describing methodology, and a good bit

I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world

And by design LLMs destroy shared context

DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.

Wouldn't two Proton users emailing each other be pretty secure? (Asking because I'm not an expert.)

It’s a great story’: Accessible, cheap clean energy could spark a new world order Unshackled from legacy fossil fuel interests, the world’s clean energy future is being forged in the bustling cities of the global south.

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Read this.

Adds to America's shame.

And is a disaster for Ukraine & Europe if if passes.

And eventually a disaster for the USA.

Whatever the Russians have on Trump, it must be big.

I think most legit news outlets have stopped using X as indicative of “what the right/left is saying,” but pols and pundits are still using it to support culture war grievance nonsense.

Let’s hope these revelations make people a little more skeptical.

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This is about the oil and that Venezuela nationalized the oil industry about a decade ago. ExxonMobil is still pissed

The plan was leaked by the Russians and no one in America’s historically inept administration knew what anyone else was doing so people started getting behind it because they thought it was official policy.

Putin totally played the US, knowing full well he was up against incompetents and idiots.