Walter Mayne

As Davos & India Celebrated AI, Paris Sounded The Alarm On AI Safety Davos celebrated AI. Paris confronted it. 800 researchers named US absence, a Pentagon power grab, 4,000 jobs erased, and a governance gap every board must act on.

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One more thing for society to fix before it’s too late. Let’s hope democracy start leading by electing statesman instead of demagogues.

1953 Iranian coup d'état - Wikipedia

The US-UK coup (1953) was much closer in time to the embassy takeover (1979) than that takeover is to this week’s US attack on Iran en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Ir...

‘They don’t even pretend to comply’: Mass. agencies, cities, and towns openly flout open record law - The Boston Globe When requests are fought or ignored by agencies, enforcement of Massachusetts' public records law often falls to those who requested the documents.

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We should be doing better. If the government knows their records and internal communication can easily become public, they'll probably start doing a better job.

Hillary Destroys the Republicans They’d soon regret sending her a subpoena.

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Dear Bob, Advice Please Knowing your shit.

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Republicans are still trying to pass the SAVE Act—a bill that would make it harder to vote and disenfranchise millions of Americans. Join @redistrictingaction.org and tell your member of Congress to vote no: act.redistrictingaction.org/a/natl-saveact-cte

Hampshire College ‘hopes to live.’ Can it survive? - The Boston Globe Supporters of the beloved, iconoclastic school are hoping for the best while bracing for the worst.

#HampshireCollege

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Sophisticated discourse, yes, that's what comes to mind when I think of the communication ability of President Trump.

It's less direct but you can take the Minuteman to Lexington Center then Hancock Street to Adams Street before you have to deal with Lowell Street/Middlesex Turnpike. Or Grant Street with a little more navigating.

Except in the cases where it’s the end of a human life.

Kash Patel’s FBI Is Making America Less Safe, Current and Former Employees Say (Gift Article) Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe.

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Such destruction in only one year

While new technologies are transforming crimefighting and our national security, the president fired the Assistant Director of the Science and Technology Branch. Jacqueline Maguire joined the FBI as a special agent in 2000.

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels.

Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.

Money Talks: Saving Lives Without USAID Mary Childs learned about how places like ALIMA and Givewell are moving forward now that USAID is done.

Money Talks looks at what happens after USAID disappears. Mary Childs and Felix Salmon examine how charities scramble to fill the gap, the real cost of saving lives, and how to give wisely this holiday.

YouTube video by Holly Berkley Fletcher ICE ICE Bootlicks

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Yes. I don't know about the specific small business letters she's talking about but the amount of paper arriving in my mailbox that to one degree or another lies about an apparent affiliation with the government.

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Babson student’s deportation exposes the lie of Trump’s immigration policy - The Boston Globe The deportation of a Babson College student exposes the lie of the Trump administration’s immigration policy.

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Yes it is bad.

Suburban Boston no Service

Donn Denman is a friend of mine. He was quite professionally upset by the Microsoft suppression of his work product.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.

I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Five years ago today, we named specific Coloradans who stoked election rigging claims and tried to overthrow the election.

“What those Coloradans did, leading up to today’s insurrection, is on them. Whether the rest of us on Colorado remember what they did, is on us.”

This aired Jan 6, 2021.

The erasure of January 6 Five years later, MAGA World is still engaging in its Orwellian rewriting of history.

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Apparently, some of us can't remember what we all saw.

Yes, no thought about anything beyond the White House press release.

“AI Learning Curve” - new cartoon and post marketoonist.com/2025/01/ai-l...

#AI #marketing #cartoon #marketoon

Opinion | This Is the Damage Kennedy Has Done in Less Than a Year

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So even this isn't enough to get the Republican Party to question its choices?

Dyslexia and the Reading Wars Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

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This story is part of the same strategy.

5 Hard Truths Democrats Must Face on Education Test scores are down, learning loss is real, and inequality is growing. Here are 5 truths Democrats must face on education.

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This should be addressed by the Democrats, not just to regain power, but most importantly to improve education.

You’re Comparing Trump to the Wrong Fascist Dictator The “Is Trump Hitler?” debate misses his sinister parallels to another 20th-century European tyrant.

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