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Exclusive: Chief Justice “Stonewalls Congress" on PACER Hack, Senator Says The Courts sidestep a congressional request for independent review. Post-hack procedures have significantly reduced transparency in the judicial system.

Did you know that the federal court system is hacked by the Russians? To the point that the courts are afraid to put documents into their own computer systems.

So did NWA

Antifa is now what we used to call “soccer moms”

Wanted to hear this original conversation so I looked it up. I didn't realize it's from 2023. Also I think the above transcription is a little off. Here's the NPR transcript – sounds more correct to my ear & less combative. Apologies for reposting without first checking.

www.npr.org/transcripts/...

I’ve had similar conversations with people about writing my book.

… They went in similar directions.

Is there a date that reviews will start or should applicants send materials in immediately? Thanks

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So the legacy of this regime will not be "many as one" or anything like that, but instead a motto we'll all look back on as the order he attempted to issue to the body politic. It might as well say "WAGE CIVIL WAR"

“Cartography of Generative AI (2024)” shows a sprawling, diagrammatic ecosystem of how generative AI is produced and maintained. The background is light pink with turquoise and yellow highlights. The left side has a turquoise vertical sidebar with labeled sections such as AI imaginaries, Critical expertise, Data sciences, Silicon Valley, and AI harms. The main diagram maps the flow of generative AI development from top to bottom: Top left: A globe icon with arrows represents global energy consumption, linked to servers and calculation power (chips, GPUs, and companies like TSMC). Top center: Rows of red server racks show data centers, connected to big data platforms and pipelines of training data (shown as orange blocks). Top right: Yellow stacks and schematic diagrams depict the supply chain of raw materials (e.g., cobalt, lithium) and scenes of mining. Upper right corner: A vignette labeled digital colonialism shows resource extraction sites and cables crossing oceans. Middle section: Blue isometric office-like spaces labeled AI start-ups and Silicon Valley venture capital, with tiny illustrated workers at desks, computers, and whiteboards. Orange and yellow arrows and blocks represent the movement of datasets, training, and alignment processes. A section labeled human labour shows rows of workers annotating data. Lower section: Gridded platforms in orange and yellow depict data extraction from the internet—social media, images, sound, text—and web scraping from sources like Wikipedia, Reddit, Flickr, YouTube. Groups of small figures interact with large wireframe cube models labeled generative AI engines. Other vignettes show AI products (like chatbots), digital gig work, and consumer use. Far right: Layers of stacked chips show advanced chip production and global supply chains. A blue network node diagram illustrates the infrastructure economy behind AI technologies. Boxes at the bottom describe research and governance structures.

Hadn't seen this "Cartography of Generative AI" before. From Estampa, a collective of programmers, filmmakers and researchers working in the fields of audiovisual media and digital environments: cartography-of-generative-ai.net

This is incredible! Thanks for sharing

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Thanks for the shoutout, Shannon! I'm very excited to be able to offer this class, and thrilled that it will be taught by incredible @codeatlang.bsky.social faculty member Dan Moore!
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Some people see splotches of e-ink, others see new tools for domination and political consolidation of the ruling class?

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell' A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE official sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi says the DOJ requested its removal (Ashley Oliver/Fox Business)

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ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

‘It feels cool to be a cog in change’: how doughnut economics is reshaping a Swedish town A casual mention of Kate Raworth’s theory has grown into the basis for decision making in Tomelilla

"Tomelilla is the first local government to attempt to deliver infrastructure and education using doughnut economics" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I get the point of this & agree. But

I actually think shattering norms is the most consequential of these three things. The Constitution sets up a legal framework & laws codify our values. But norms dictate whether we (individuals & institutions) even follow laws. We once did - atm not so much

Oh I didn’t catch that! That’s embarrassing. Is it in the video? I only watched the video. Maybe it’s edited out

Does he?? If you know when let me know. Maybe I’ll try to listen again

Ta-Nahisi Coates was so careful, so gentle, so sympathetic and still Ezra Klein comes out of that conversation looking so completely clueless. So embarrassing for him.

I just wish once Coates would’ve simply asked him to explain who he means by the “we” he kept referring to.

Someday people will start noticing that the most eminent roboticist in the world has an uninterrupted multi-decade record of deep skepticism about almost all uses of robotics and “AI” that has been proven uniformly correct

This makes me so mad I'm going to resubscribe to Hulu just so I can cancel again with a new angry note

YouTube video by Common - Topic A Song For Assata

Rest in power, Assata. May her memory be a blessing

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaqX...

What the fuck.

Powerful 3-part piece from back in June/July about the war in Israel-Palestine by @matthewcassel.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/world/series...

It was as great as the write up makes it sound :) 🍏🍯✨

We should have a lot of debates about whether this a good idea but it’s also important to be 100% clear this was not a chatbot but a purpose built model. ”AI” models are incredibly powerful but chatbots are an intellectual and societal dead end and a whole lot of provosts are distracted by them

Portrait of John Unsworth in a suit, standing in sunlight with a shadowed background.

"I think the advice I would offer is to remember that leadership is a service role. Your job as a leader is to support the people who work for you, to protect them, to listen to them, & prioritize them."

ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025

www.arl.org/blog/john-un...

This piece is abundantly moronic