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Politicians are being sold AI-powered 'digital fighters' A new app gets around bot bans by recruiting real people to post political messages generated by AI.

Here is one reason to care

www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/24/i...

Federal parties exempt themselves from privacy laws — despite Senate warnings Every national party except the Greens chose on Thursday to grant themselves an indefinite exemption from laws protecting the privacy of Canadians, rejecting Senate concerns about Bill C-4.

New article from me. Bill C-4 is now law, granting federal political parties immunity from privacy laws retroactively to the year 2000. The exemptions were "buried" at the end of the Making Life More Affordable for Canadians Act.

Dingusi?

My favourite part of accelerationism aka: billionaire's cheese-rolling competition, is how they've fundamentally underestimated the variables of sown entropy, how accelerated entropy is very unlikely to deliver outcomes in their favour, and how they've lost the ability to stop or slow it. Dinguses.

"A tidal wave of hostile messaging:" The billions spent each year by fossil fuel industry demonising renewables Head of energy policy in world's fourth biggest economy says scale and pace of energy transition is unprecedented, but the fossil fuel industry is fighting back.

"In the United States, the fossil fuel industry budget for Communications and Public Affairs is $4 billion a year. The entire renewable energy industry is $150 million... and so we have a lot of work just to get the message out about the basic facts."

No Attention Deficit in ADHD—Stimulants Promote Wakefulness
by Peter Simons on the Mad in America Substack

This could blow apart the whole diagnosis of ADHD, according to the senior author. In a Medscape interview, he asked: “Do kids with ADHD even have an attention deficit?”
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Meet the ultimate gatekeeper of the nucleus. This molecular machine determines what compounds are welcome inside and which shall not pass. The mechanism behind its selectivity remains a mystery. www.quantamagazine.org/disorder-dri...

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

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"Artificial intelligence represents a fundamental epistemic shift: from variables to patterns, from rules to associations, from surveys to sensors. This transition may transform... the very meanings of concepts such as citizenship, democracy, and population." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A google maps view of the area around the Strait of Hormuz, with crude markup showing the 4 steps to successfully clearing the strait: 1. Build up speed 2. Hit Trampoline 3. Cool backflip 4. Nail the landing The boat is illustrated using a clip art yacht, and the trampoline is also just kind of floating there.

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

Can this be a solution?

This felt more lighthearted than it reads lol

Def has something to do with my narcissist dad taking me to auditions my whole childhood whomp whomp therapyyyy

Last month of winter too lol like ok yay for aging too I guess

Does anyone remember that Kids in The Hall sketch where there's a small dog that refuses to do tricks and Kevin McDonald points at its face and says "JUSTIFY YOUR EXISTENCE"?
That's what my birthday month feels like

(Me flossing and thinking about something) I'm filossophizing

Like how many times can a person be love bombed before we stop trusting gestures of interest or affection. Then we're bitches for ignoring bait tactics 🙃. Can't win, stopped trying

People certainly believe crazier things, and I'm not gonna start a cult about it or anything, but this train of thought is soothing and fun to explore. I'm turning 47 this month and am ready for my kooky middle-aged dgaf lady phase

Which *could* mean that in those states our thoughts *could* exist outside of linear time, which *could* mean the signals we receive, those "nudges from the universe", could just be from ourselves, the result of our minds resonating in a delinearized state, accessing impressions of our future

If our minds resonate with quantum fields – which a diverse range of research supports – it follows that in those states we function outside of time. Zero-point fields exist beyond classical mechanics, beyond time – think unconscious "dream time", where temporal linearity no longer applies

Anyway, as I'm reading I've been holding ideas of confluence and the feeling of being "nudged by the universe". Over the past few years I've felt it a lot, at first thinking it was my partner, and maybe he was part of it (I'm not religious), but I have fun casual theory forming...

Reading Roger Penrose now, "one of the greatest mathematical physicists alive", who since the 80s has theorized around quantum states of consciousness, and whose theories are now being heavily explored re: AI

I zoom all the way out sometimes to give my mind a break from the horrors, mostly becoming preoccupied with concepts of time and theoretical physics (started when my husband died because it helped me grieve, BEFORE such topics were considered slop hype)

Also "markets bet the war will end soon" - we're living in a world that bets on war so that's cool but also does it just end with Iran getting buried while taking out whoever they can on the way down?
The Middle East isn't known for short wars and this is literally a hornet's nest. What is happening

Iran signs $700 million arms deal with Russia, reports say Iran has reportedly signed a secret arms deal with Russia to acquire thousands of advanced shoulder-fired missiles to help boost its air defences.

And this
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Iran agreed secret shoulder-fired missile deal with Russia, FT reports Iran agreed a secret 500 million euro ($589 million) arms deal with Russia to acquire thousands of advanced shoulder-fired missiles, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.

And this
www.reuters.com/world/middle...

China Arms Iran With Kamikaze Drones, HQ-16 Air Defences and Hypersonic Talks as US Strike Looms Over Persian Gulf Power Balance - Defence Security Asia China’s reported delivery of kamikaze drones, HQ-16 and HQ-17AE air defence systems to Iran — alongside talks on CM-302 anti-ship missiles and DF-17 hypersonic weapons — could dramatically alter US mi...

And this
defencesecurityasia.com/en/china-arm...

China has sent attack drones to Iran, as it discusses ballistic missile sales China is stepping up support for Iran as US strikes loom, and warning the US's Arab partners

And while there have been plenty of pieces out about China and Russia "staying out of it", just last month there was this
www.middleeasteye.net/news/china-h...

Feed isn't showing much about it but everyone is aware Iran is attacking every US ally in the Gulf, yeah? Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, UAE, Egypt, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Oman...

Hey what about a post-apocalypse garden economy? I was raised Mormon, and though I left the church and distanced myself from organized religion in my early twenties, the doomprepper in me never really died. I was brought up with large gardens and co...

My blog post images are chaotic and I have no shame about it. This one is an "apoppolypse" poster I made way back in 2008.

If the AI bubble bursts and takes the entire capitalist structure with it, I think a ground-up garden economy would be pretty nice.
she-what.ghost.io/hey-what-abo...