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Martin Ruskov

This is how a US federal employee comments on their out-of-office signature being hijacked for political gains:
"Nobody follows the law anymore, so why does it matter? It seems like laws are dotted lines now, not solid lines. It seems there’s no one to hold this administration accountable to laws"
nbcnews.com/politics/trump-adm

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Katharine Hayhoe

I may have found my defining quote. Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

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The Japan Times

In presenting a Gaza plan as an ultimatum to Hamas, U.S. President Donald Trump has given Israel the advantage diplomatically, along with even freer rein on the ground if a deal fails. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/ #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu #us #donaldtrump #republicans

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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"LLMs were touted as a digital panacea, and the companies building them offered traditional software companies the chance to plug these models into their software using an API, thus allowing them to ride the same generative AI wave that every other company was riding.

The model companies similarly started going after individual and business customers, offering software and subscriptions that promised the world, though this mostly boiled down to chatbots that could generate stuff, and then doubled down with the promise of “agents” — a marketing term that’s meant to make you think “autonomous digital worker” but really means “broken digital product.”

Throughout this era, investors and the media spoke with a sense of inevitability that they never really backed up with data. It was an era based on confidently-asserted “vibes.” Everything was always getting better and more powerful, even though there was never much proof that this was truly disruptive technology, other than in its ability to disrupt apps you were using with AI — making them worse by, for example, suggesting questions on every Facebook post that you could ask Meta AI, but which Meta AI couldn’t answer.

“AI” was omnipresent, and it eventually grew to mean everything and nothing."

wheresyoured.at/the-case-again

#AI #GenerativeAI #AIBubble #AIHype #LLMs #Chatbots #BigTech

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

Law should encourage the creation of AI tools that digest and identify facts for researchers. That’s why we asked an appeals court to find that ROSS Intelligence’s legal research tool was a fair use and didn’t violate copyright when it used Westlaw headnotes in its training process. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/prot

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Lucile Olympe Haute

Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires
by @diagram_studies & @luh2203
is exhibited at MFRU Esoteric Ecotechinic
Curated by @dvd and Lara Mejač, the festival focuses on underground and secret connections between media technologies, users, knowledge and information circulation.

mfru.org/
26. SEP – 05. OCT 2025, 
Maribor, Slovenia

🪄〽️✨🔮🟣🫧

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Martin Ruskov

If they were after the causes of whistleblowing, they certainly were on the right track:
“The NSA has some of the brightest minds in the country,” I began. “They’re honestly there to make a difference. Yet there’s no outlet for people who no longer feel like they’re on the right side. You’re requesting blind loyalty from some of the most nuanced and analytical individuals—individuals, not soldiers—to process your intelligence and make predictions. Furthermore, in 2017, and likely until 2021—you know more than I do about those four years—you had a unique situation in which the NSA was completely ignored. So now these individuals who already wondered if they were doing any good were left wondering if they were doing anything at all. The culture of the NSA doesn’t allow for anyone to question that aloud, or at least not without FBI agents showing up at their house. Your analysts need an outlet, and the director owes it to the agency to address historically unprecedented times, like those four years in which the NSA was completely disparaged publicly. We felt like we were alone in 2017, and it left me trying to single-handedly fix something far above my pay grade.”
texasobserver.org/reality-winn

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il Post

L'Italia è in finale ai Mondiali maschili di pallavolo - Il Post
ilpost.it/2025/09/27/italia-po

Pubblicato su News @news-ilPost

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Randahl Fink

While Denmark is experiencing continued drone attacks against airports, Danish medium EB flies a helicopter south between the islands of Lolland and Langeland, and discovers the Russian Navy vessel Aleksandr Shabalin 110 covertly sailing near the Danish seas with its AIS transponder turned off.

This ship can carry 340 soldiers, 10 main battle tanks, and a crew of 98 sailors, and the speculation now is that the vessel could have had a coordinating role in the attacks.

ekstrabladet.dk/krimi/afsloere

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The Japan Times

A bipartisan group of former Treasury secretaries, Federal Reserve chairs and other experts urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to let President Donald Trump fire Fed Gov. Lisa Cook. japantimes.co.jp/business/2025 #business #economy #federalreserve #economicindicators #us #lisacook #donaldtrump

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Erik 📻🪐🚲

After #spotify donated millions to Trump I can no longer stay on that platform. I want my subscription money to go to the artists, not to any politician.

I realized the change was a good thing for several reasons. The other streaming services available are so much better. They have superior sound quality, uncluttered UI. And maybe the best of all, they pay the artists better.

If you really love music, give #tidal , #qobuz or any other service a try. Just #quitspotify

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Axios

Democrats in Congress are breaking with Israel like never before t.co/DqcmejYH6Q

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Alfie Kohn

"Defending democracy requires a collective refusal to acquiesce to lawless behavior from many different sectors of society. All these powerful people trying to save their own skin have multiplied Trump’s attacks on constitutional government, by enhancing a false sense of inevitability and invincibility":
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

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ScienceAlert

Musicians Don't Feel Pain Like The Rest of Us, Surprising Study Reveals
sciencealert.com/musicians-don

Posted into ScienceAlert @sciencealert-ScienceAlert

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Martin Ruskov

Feeding the AI bubble are circular investments by BigTech

"The financial structure of these deals between OpenAI, Oracle, and Nvidia has drawn scrutiny from industry observers. Earlier this week, Nvidia announced it would invest up to $100 billion as OpenAI deploys Nvidia systems. As Bryn Talkington of Requisite Capital Management told CNBC: "Nvidia invests $100 billion in OpenAI, which then OpenAI turns back and gives it back to Nvidia."

Oracle's arrangement follows a similar pattern, with a reported $30 billion-per-year deal where Oracle builds facilities that OpenAI pays to use. This circular flow, which involves infrastructure providers investing in AI companies that become their biggest customers, has raised eyebrows about whether these represent genuine economic investments or elaborate accounting maneuvers.

The arrangements are becoming even more convoluted. The Information reported this week that Nvidia is discussing leasing its chips to OpenAI rather than selling them outright. Under this structure, Nvidia would create a separate entity to purchase its own GPUs, then lease them to OpenAI, which adds yet another layer of circular financial engineering to this complicated relationship."
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/why
@techtakes

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mapto

According to the agency, “more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards” were discovered at multiple locations within the New York City area. Photos of the seized gear show what appear to be “SIM boxes” bristling with antennas and stuffed with SIM cards, then stacked on six-shelf racks. (SIM boxes are often used for fraud.) One photo even shows neatly stacked towers of punched-out SIM card packaging, suggesting that whoever assembled the system invested some quality time in just getting the whole thing set up.

The gear was identified as part of a Secret Service investigation into “anonymous telephonic threats” made against several high-ranking US government officials, but the setup seems designed for something larger than just making a few threats. The Secret Service believes that the system could have been capable of activities like “disabling cell phone towers, enabling denial of services attacks, and facilitating anonymous, encrypted communication between potential threat actors and criminal enterprises.”

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The New Republic

Joe Biden Accuser Thanks Russian Spy in Bonkers Announcement
newrepublic.com/post/200814/jo

Posted into Breaking News @breaking-news-thenewrepublic

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Yuu

#tokyocameraclub

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Martin Ruskov

Trump is not the actual problem. The problem are all those people that enable him. And John Roberts stands out as someone that has the pretence of integrity (which nobody in MAGA or TESCREAL has), yet is going at great lengths to destroy the checks and balances of American democracy.

newrepublic.com/article/199773

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The New Republic

Elena Kagan Tears Into Supreme Court for Letting Trump Run Amok
newrepublic.com/post/200761/el

Posted into Breaking News @breaking-news-thenewrepublic

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