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Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming.

We obtained the memo:
newrepublic.com/article/1987...

A screenshot of the instgram video showing winnie_thepooj holding an open copy of 'Resisting AI' while standing behind the counter in Brooklyn Coffee Shop

Really rather chuffed to see 'Resisting AI' pop up as a prop in an insta video takedown of techbros
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🤖 Always on the lookout for potential net positive uses of “AI”, esp for elderly…but the claims here pissed me right off:
“There was no way that we could have found enough songwriters out there to be able to create those tracks in an authentic way”
🚫 No. MANY musicians [wc]ould do this. And, 🧵

“We fired her because we didn’t believe the numbers.”

“We are doing so well.”

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

Man worth $370 billion says the way to solve poverty is “AI and robotics”

I’ll be there raging against the regime and the machine! And enjoying the art.

See you tomorrow, Cambridge !

'Confusion' over who's in charge of Alligator Alcatraz underlies lawsuit hearing A federal judge said he wants more clarity on "who is running the show" at Alligator Alcatraz, following a lawsuit over attorney access to clients detained at the immigration detention center in the E...

“This is unprecedented. We have not ever seen a situation where hundreds of people are held without charge ... under legal authority that has not been explained," ACLU attorney Eunice Cho said on Monday.

Based on 2021/22 Census data, 16% of the overall UK population was born overseas, so 12.5% of prisoners being born overseas means foreign-born people are under-represented in the prison population. But hatred of foreigners sells, unfortunately.

UK Plans AI Experiment on Children Seeking Asylum The United Kingdom’s announcement on July 22 that it would use AI face-scanning technology to evaluate whether an asylum seeker is under age 18 threatens to harm children seeking refuge.

The UK government plans to use facial age estimation technology on child refugees at the UK border from 2026 - because they see it as the cheap option. But the tech wasn't designed or tested for this, and will create a host of serious risks for vulnerable young people. www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

One explanation for the U.S. economy’s ongoing strength is that spending on AI infrastructure *is so big it’s acting as a sort of private-sector stimulus program.*

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US government will ingest all federal data into AI models, WH tech director says That's one of the national-security reasons the U.S. needs to lead the world in AI, said OSTP's Michael Kratsios.

"...all the government data that the government has is going to be ingested into models to provide citizen services — whether it's the way you pay your taxes, whether it's through health-care records, whether it's small things that apply to get a permit through international park or a campsite."

Infrastructure for Interdependence: Building technology in service of collective power [This document serves as a memo for investors]

What We're Building.

The bomb (part 3): how to build a modern nuclear weapon Our podcast on science and technology. The third episode of our four-part series on the past, present and future of nuclear weapons

“AI is where I think we must go to go faster in the stockpile modernization program.”

AIs gave scarily specific self-harm advice to users expressing suicidal intent, researchers find AI researchers at Northeastern University found it troublingly easy to bypass self-harm and suicide safeguards on ChatGPT, Perplexity and other common large language models.

“After the first couple of prompts, it almost becomes like you're conspiring with the system against yourself, because there's a conversation aspect…It's constantly escalating. ... You want more details? You want more methods? Do you want me to personalize this?”

How to Read an "AI" Press Release — Sonja Drimmer Every so often someone like Mark Zuckerberg or Sam Altman will dribble out some unadorned text in Times New Roman font, announcing with stentorian certitude the advent of a new world that their latest...

Zuckerberg farted out some nonsense today, and since most media outlets refuse to report critically any time a tech CEO offers them some a pseudoserious press release, I've decided to do it for them.

sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release

What’ll happen if we spend nearly $3tn on data centres no one needs? Nineties adults remember

"But it’s still not obvious why creditors would be coveting a server shed full of obsolete GPUs that’s downwind of a proposed power plant."

"Pre-exisiting conditions" is a framework put on disabled people to diminish our deaths.

That's why some disabled people are very mad about the NYT note, and we were also very mad at the CDC under Biden saying only people with four or more pre-exisiting conditions are dying from Covid.

"Bias shapes what we see and what we make invisible. Objectivity is politically defined. Data for AI was never collected or interpreted objectively, and language is socially constructed [...] there is no such thing as an unbiased AI system." 👏👏

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Journalist Discovers Google Vulnerability That Allowed People to Disappear Specific Pages From Search Negative articles about a tech CEO vanished from Google after someone made fraudulent requests using the Refresh Outdated Content Tool.

This is extremely bad: Journalist Jack Poulson discovered a vulnerability in Google that was being exploited to get his reporting about a CEO deleted off of the search rankings.

This is a wet dream for reputation management companies, censorious regimes, etc

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Lol. And I almost forgot “Pleasing Mechahitler” (Elon Musk)

Starting a list of big tech CEO essays on TLC AI:

"Machines of Loving Grace," (Dario Amodei);
"Gentle Singularity," (Sam Altman); and now
"Personal Superintelligence" (Mark Zuckerberg)

What am I missing?

The Trump AI Action Plan is Deregulation Framed as Innovation | TechPolicy.Press The administration's plan favors corporate interests over the public interest, write Public Citizen's J.B. Branch, Ilana Beller, and Tyson Slocum.

Trump's AI Action Plan will collectively tilt federal power toward industry self-regulation while diminishing the role of states, independent agencies, and public safeguards, write Public Citizen’s J.B. Branch, llana Beller, and Tyson Slocum. "It is a vision for a select few billionaires."

"To even begin to de-fetishise AI, we must look the human-in-the-loop in the eyes."

🔥🔥🔥

Republicans are the party of *what* & order?

Rabbis Arrested In John Thune’s Office For Praying For Food Aid To Gaza

More than two dozen rabbis were arrested this morning for sitting down on the floor in Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s office and praying for food aid for people in Gaza. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

President Garber, a Bad Deal With Trump Will Not Protect Us

“We cannot allow our University to strike a deal that would infringe on the values of this institution or our personal freedoms.”

“If we give up the names of a few students who have participated in protests, Trump will ask for 100 more.”

Trump's Order Against 'Woke AI' Will Create Real Harm | TechPolicy.Press Trump’s AI Action Plan reads like a nationalist innovation agenda, writes Camille Stewart Gloster.

Trump’s AI Action Plan seeks to strip concepts like bias, climate science, misinformation & diversity from AI rules & federal buying standards—redefining “neutrality” through a political lens, writes Camille Stewart Gloster. That will likely come at the expense of technical integrity, she writes.

CEOs of major corporations are apparently now bragging to investors about firing workers.

In some cases, fired staff are being replaced with AI.

The goal is surely to boost stock prices and CEO pay — even at the expense of workers.

Textbook corporate greed.