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Why not an early morning thread using this data to explore the concept of "identity-protective cognition," and why understanding how it operates may be vital to understanding the role of misinformation in our digital age? This will get two likes, surely, but here goes...

Donald Trump’s support for pro-AI proposal fuels Maga backlash US president endorses move to restrict regulation by states after lobbying from Silicon Valley

"A plan backed by Donald Trump to restrict US states from regulating AI companies has provoked a backlash from prominent Republicans and Maga supporters, and accusations that he has caved to Big Tech donors."

Meta opens flagship store in West Hollywood to showcase AI glasses, VR headsets The new flagship store in West Hollywood highlights Los Angeles skate culture and allows people to try out Meta's smart glasses and VR headsets.

In order for this wave of ai stuffed surveillance to gain a foothold, it must be seen as aspirational.

Dartmouth’s response to the Trump admin’s corrupt contract, short and sweet: “You have often heard me say that higher education is not perfect and that we can do better. At the same time, we will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves.”

This stuff is basically propaganda, and probably more dangerous than more obvious propaganda, because it performs the overcoming of objections to AI in a way educated readers are meant to find aspirationally sophisticated

Advanced AI video generation may lead to a new era of dangerous deepfakes What safeguards should be put in place to ensure people can control their image and likeness?

Denmark is strengthening its protections against digital imitations of people’s identities.

Read @juulsm.bsky.social's blog post on the need for technical and policy safeguards to ensure people can control their image and likeness.

www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/ai-vide...

If I were the owner of the @washingtonpost.com, I would not do a deal with the people who dismembered my columnist. Seems like a low bar, but Bezos managed to not clear yet another one. The world is awash in capital and that this is the choice should tell you all.
He’s so poor, all he has is money.

What we talk about when we talk about AI — Careful Industries Can AI really do all of the things people want it to do — and what exactly are people actually talking about when they talk about AI? Yutong Liu & The Bigger Picture   / https://betterim...

Re-upping this blog post, because it took me freakin' ages to write.

What do we talk about when we talk about AI? Is it a field of technology or an extractive social process that makes a few people rich and powerful? And why is it so hard to define? www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...

Indiana, Ohio, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Iowa. Wow, we see you 💚! Huge thanks to local law enforcement for helping keep everyone safe. With their support, four MAGA individuals have already been arrested for assault.

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

Data being extracted by DOGE staff could have included "sensitive information on unions, ongoing legal cases and corporate secrets — data that should almost never leave the National Labor Relations Board and that has nothing to do with making the government more efficient or cutting spending."

DOGE was never about savings. It was always about surveillance.

Over the weekend, we released new details—and now whistleblowers are coming forward too. What’s becoming clearer by the day: DOGE isn’t a government efficiency program. It’s a data weapon aimed at the American people.

A screenshot of a tweet by Harvard University that reads "The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government".

Subtweeting Columbia

Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.

That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.

So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

From FB dialogue about TARIFFS

www.facebook.com/share/1AHgw2...

Chart showing global stocks plunging because of Trump tariffs

Remember: Republicans in Congress can put a stop to this at any time.

Exclusive: Germany funds Eutelsat internet in Ukraine as Musk tensions rise Berlin has been paying for Ukraine's access to a satellite-internet network operated by France's Eutelsat , as Europe seeks alternatives to Elon Musk’s Starlink.

took a while, but Europe is finally figuring out they should find alternatives to low-earth-orbit satellite communications systems run by a fascist billionaire sociopath with a head full of mashed potatoes

My favorite French commercial

Perfect 🤣🎯

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Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

"Putin owns Trump"
www.facebook.com/share/1LKzqH...

I’m so proud of the @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social action today at the Dept of HHS! We hosted a rally with impacted workers against DOGE in such a short time this week, thank you all for participating ✊

28th February, Economic Blackout

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

This remains, and I say this advisedly, one of the best exchanges I have ever seen on social media

And then there’s Weizenbaum on the false comforts of deploying technology in schools instead of addressing structural social inequities.

A 9th telecoms firm has been hit by a massive Chinese espionage campaign, the White House says A top White House official says a ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private tex...

"A ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans, a top White House official said Friday."
apnews.com/article/unit...

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth.

The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.

Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.