Trump ally Infantino to award first Fifa Peace Prize at World Cup draw in DC Fifa unveils a new Peace Prize to be awarded at the 2026 World Cup draw in Washington, citing a mission to honor efforts to end conflict

If you can’t get a Nobel Peace Prize… Now we have to wait for Hobby Lobby and Four Seasons Landscaping to name their winner.🤣
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Francesco Lacapra (@francescolacapra) Well, the discussion on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is everywhere. The CEOs involved in this are big believers because they drank there own Kool Aid, or, much more likely, they are just push...

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Here’s How the AI Crash Happens The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
And of course:
1. I am highly skeptical of getting to any form of superintelligence with the current technology.
2. IF it happens, it’s not happening tomorrow.

How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise (Gift Article) Here are seven unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

RFK, Jr., Cites ‘Truly Appalling’ Studies to Tie Autism to Circumcision and Tylenol Studies suggesting circumcision rates are linked with autism are “riddled with flaws”

www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...
I am sure that the few scientists left at HHS, FDA, NIH, and CDC are having real field days to find out whether:
- Tylenol causes circumcision, or
- circumcision cause Tylenol, or
- autism causes circumcision and Tylenol.

YouTube video by Christopher Hitchens Resurrected Trump's UN Speech Went Full DEMENTIA! - ft. Christopher Hitchens

Brilliant!
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Startup Campus by Mike Alvarez Cohen - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

www.ucpress.edu/books/startu...

So Mr. T wants to rebrand the Defense Department as the Department of War. But wait, wasn’t he trying to also win a Nobel peace prize???

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak’s Response to a Troll Is the Most Delightful Thing I’ve Heard Yet Woz has a different kind of math.

Great guy, indeed!

www.inc.com/jason-aten/a...

A Better Way to Think About AI AI can be used to automate tasks—and entire jobs. But it could also be designed to collaborate with humans. David Autor and James Manyika on why we should focus on the latter:

Excellent points, considering that “AI” is NOT AGI (nor it will be any time soon, in my humble opinion). Helping human users to improve their own capabilities through cooperation rather than automation will also allow the professional growth of these individuals.
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More Everything Forever This "smart and wonderfully readable" (New York Times) exposé shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death...

This is the book that anybody interested in AI, hype and our future should read.
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Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech's help The initiative will focus on diabetes and weight management, conversational artificial intelligence that helps patients, and digital tools such as QR codes and apps that register patients for check-in...

Quote of the day

“Patients across America should be very worried that their medical records are going to be used in ways that harm them and their families.”

Associated Press reports.

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This Is the Presidency John Roberts Has Built The country is witnessing the creation of an all-powerful institution, and one man is responsible.

Shameful behavior!
Shameful individual!
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Opinion | The Ruthless Ambition of Stephen Miller

No comment!
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...

YouTube video by Universal Pictures Back to the Future | Marty McFly Plays "Johnny B. Goode" and "Earth Angel"

Happy birthday to Michael J. Fox who is 64 today. 🎂🍾🥂🎆
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ℚ𝕦𝕠𝕥𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕕𝕒𝕪
“Elon finally found a way to make Twitter fun again.”

—𝘋𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘧𝘦𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳, 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘰𝘥 𝘚𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢, 𝘫𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘌𝘭𝘰𝘯 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱’𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘦𝘶𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘟.

Hypervelocity Stars Hint at a Supermassive Black Hole Just outside the Milky Way Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black hole in a neighboring galaxy

Quite interesting!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/hype...

I have subscriptions to a number of papers and magazines I read on the web. I wonder why the authors nearly always feel compelled to write so many words when they could convey the same information in far more concise fashion.

The Coming Democratic Civil War A seemingly wonky debate about the “abundance agenda” is really about power.

Definitely worth reading.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

OpenAI’s Ambitions Just Became Crystal Clear But when you promise the world a revolutionary new product, it helps to have actually built one.

“… but Jobs had an actual product to share and sell. Altman, for now, is marketing his imagination."

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The Trade War Isn’t Over Look at the numbers, not the vibes

“The interesting question is why so many pundits and reporters have been sounding the all clear on Trump’s tariffs, when the reality is that all we’ve seen is a modest retreat from complete, destructive insanity to seriously harmful madness."

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A US court just put ownership of CRISPR back in play At stake in the ongoing patent dispute over the gene-editing tool are rights to the most important new biotechnology of the age and credit for inventing it.

Go Prof Doudna! Go CAL!

www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/13/1...

The Ultimate Bait and Switch of Trump’s Tariffs How to understand the phony trade deals with Britain and China

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Criminal AI is Here—And Anyone Can Subscribe A new AI platform called Xanthorox markets itself as a tool for cybercrime, but its real danger may lie in how easily such systems can be built—and sold—by anyone

This is exactly what we were sorely lacking… 😬
www.scientificamerican.com/article/xant...

ℚ𝕦𝕠𝕥𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕕𝕒𝕪
“𝗜𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲.”

—𝘒𝘢𝘵𝘫𝘢 𝘉𝘦𝘨𝘰, 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘵 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘮 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦, 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 145% 𝘵𝘰 30% 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘬𝘺.

China Called Trump’s Bluff There is a lesson here for anyone Trump threatens.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Trump’s scattered brain creates havoc The economy is at the mercy of the least informed president in history

open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Did solar power cause Spain’s blackout? Renewable energy is changing the grid. How can we keep it reliable?

Interesting.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/08/1...