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This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

Kristi Noem: Sen. Padilla Had Even Deadlier Opinion That Failed To Go Off LOS ANGELES—Stressing that she had significant reason to fear for her life during yesterday’s confrontation, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told reporters Friday that she believed Sen. Alex P...

If you'll allow me to say it, The Onion is cooking with gas today.

Do something ffs, you have power. Gtfoh w/ "should"

The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk. The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers a...

New:

The Trump Administration Leaned On Poor African Countries to Give Elon Musk’s Company What It Wants

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As Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver Just 1 in 4 AI investments bring in the ROI they promise—but CEOs just can’t resist the technology.

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Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It. The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and...

NEW: The Great Lakes hold 95% of all the surface freshwater in the United States.

Severe cuts have decimated the NOAA Great Lakes lab.

Scientists worry they’ve lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people.

My story for @propublica.org

Smaller pubs are doing great work on individual bands of looters right now — Wired is all over the Musk stuff, and Rolling Stone has been great with the shit that most closely aligns with formal WH/Miller — but a less subservient press would be mapping out the connections of the heists in real time.

How to monitor your local weather with Grafana (grafana.com)

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The “murder hornet” has been eradicated in the U.S. five years after it was found in Washington State, officials say. A massive mobilization has eliminated the invasive species from that hot spot and the nation, at least for now. nyti.ms/3By69PS

Stanford Webinar - Large Language Models Get the Hype, but Compound Systems Are the Future of AI In recent years AI has taken center stage with the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) that can be used to perform a wide range of tasks, from question answering to coding. There is now a strong focus on large pretrained foundation models as the core of AI application development. But on their own, these models don’t do much besides taking up significant disk space—it’s only when they’re embedded within larger systems that they start to deliver state-of-the-art results. In this webinar, Professor Christopher Potts will discuss how AI systems built with multiple interacting components can achieve superior results compared to standalone models. He will also examine how this systems approach impacts AI research, product development, safety, and regulation. Learn more about the AI Professional Program: https://online.stanford.edu/programs/artificial-intelligence-professional-program

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Thanks for this