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TruthOut 4d ago

Backlash Against Anti-Racism Is a Constant Force Shaping US Politics

by Josh Friedberg

Philosopher George Yancy analyzes the contemporary expression of what W.E.B. Du Bois called the “entrails of whiteness.”

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TruthOut 4d ago

US Declares Palestine Action “Terrorist” Group in Latest McCarthyist Crackdown

by Sharon Zhang

The “clear goal” of the move is “targeting a few to silence the many,” said UN human rights expert Francesca Albanese.

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TruthOut 2d ago

End of Protected Status Puts Thousands of Somali Immigrants at Immediate Risk

by Jamila Osman

“I’m too scared to even walk to the mailbox,” one Somali immigrant said.

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Less Wrong 2d ago

The Probability of an Event under a Simplicity Prior

by Winter Cross

In this short post, I talk about a difficulty we encountered while working on a model of the fragility of value. You can read my post about that work here . The TL;DR is that the…

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Slashdot 2d ago

Roblox Is Cracking Down On Games That Reward Kids For Doomscrolling

by BeauHD

Roblox is restricting games that reward younger players for endlessly consuming autoplaying media feeds. The new restrictions are specifically targeting Roblox experiences like…

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Less Wrong 2d ago

Further public evidence of the OpenAI-HuggingFace attack

by Edward Cant

This post should be understood as a follow up from Public evidence of the OpenAI-HuggingFace AI attack . The huggingface hacking incident left some additional traces exposed to…

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Slashdot 2d ago

Songs Created By AI Banned From Australia's Music Charts

by BeauHD

Australia's official music charts will no longer accept songs that are largely or entirely AI-generated, requiring eligible releases to be "substantially human made." The BBC…

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Ars Technica 16h ago

Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

by Paresh Dave, WIRED.com

The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.

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Less Wrong 2d ago

If you can't trust, then verify!

by dan.parshall

How the "Glass Perimeter" could enable AI treaties Crossposted from canaryinstitute.ai/blog/cant-trust-then-verify . Thanks to Naci Cankaya for reviewing an earlier draft of this…

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Slashdot 2d ago

Gemini Notebook Now Lets You Reference Books, Turn Them Into Different Formats

by BeauHD

Google is adding an "Expert Intelligence" feature to Gemini Notebook (formerly known as NotebookLM) that lets users cite and work directly from more than 100,000 books they own…

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Zeteo 5d ago

🐂 Abdul El-Sayed Went on Fox and Cut Through Jesse Watters's Bullshit

by Martin Pengelly

The Michigan Senate candidate went into the lion’s den. When he got a word in, he held his own. Elsewhere, Trump got on with losing his trade war with Canada and rattled a rusty…

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Zeteo 4d ago

Is Trump’s War Handing Democrats Their Next Win?

by John Harwood

Jon Favreau, ‘Pod Save America’ co-host and Obama speech writer, joins John Harwood to unpack the midterms, Hakeem Jeffries, Hasan Piker, and much more.

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Techdirt 6d ago

Border Czar Tom Homan Says The Glove Tasering Will Continue Until Morale Improves

by Tim Cushing

We’ve moved into a new era where the administration’s constant cruelty, violence, and actual murders simply aren’t enough to keep Trump appeased or entertained. ICE is now goosing…

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Kottke 5d ago

“ At least 1-in-4 of all the people who have played...

by Jason Kottke

“ At least 1-in-4 of all the people who have played in the NFL might expect to end up with chronic traumatic encephalopathy [CTE] , according to a study of hundreds of cases over…

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Tangle 5d ago

The national debt hits $40 trillion.

by Ari Weitzman

Plus, Revolutionary War debt and the first national bank.

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Aaron Parnas 4h ago

NEWS: Fearing Investigations Trump Instructs Lawyers to Protect Him, Google Maps Renames Lake Ontario, Iran War Issues, and More

by Aaron Parnas

Happy Sunday.

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