Gregory Foster
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humbled by redwoods Founder + Citizen Observer
@cannabis.observer
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Liz Renzetti
17 days ago
“I feel like I’m going blind,” Farid said, and he worried that A.I. was obscuring the truth, distorting reality, fracturing democracies and slowly breaking him, too. A gift link to an extraordinary story because if he has to see we should too
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...
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The World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai-deepfake-hany-farid.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qFA.Sk4-.tjAz_gd67CKT&smid=url-share
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Well, that's one way to back fill the exodus of DOJ lawyers - and violate posse commitatus while you're at it.
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"Will AI replace us? It’s the wrong question. AI will not simply replace human workers. It will change what human workers are. It is already reshaping how we learn, who we learn from, how we assess our competence... The humans who emerge from this process will not be the same humans who entered it."
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Project Salt Box
2 months ago
ICE's detention capability in four slides. 1. All existing immigration detention centers in operation today 2. Plus all purchased warehouses (minus paused/halted ones) 3. Plus all facilities proposed to be reopened or acquired 4. Plus all hold rooms and check-in sites used for detainee 'staging'
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Seems unusual, filed today, DOJ was apparently convinced Colorado is trying to force Grok to be "woke."
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
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Justice Department Intervenes in xAI lawsuit Challenging Colorado’s ‘Algorithmic Discrimination’ Law
The Justice Department moved to intervene in a lawsuit filed by artificial intelligence company xAI, challenging a new Colorado law that prohibits so-called “algorithmic discrimination.” The Justice D...
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-intervenes-xai-lawsuit-challenging-colorados-algorithmic-discrimination
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Most useful for identifying underutilized pejorative compounds like "scum-wit", "dirt-hat", and "trump-nozzle" which regrettably can only be deployed to describe RFK Jr...
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2 months ago
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If the people united in
#Hungary
can oust the 16y autocracy of
#Orban
🇭🇺 ...we can do it in the United States 🇺🇸 The tide turns this November 🌊
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The Costs of War Project
3 months ago
Trump’s proposed $1.5 trillion military budget is the largest ever — higher than spending during World War II. Graph adapted from
@stephensemler.bsky.social
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www.stephensemler.com/p/trump-prop...
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And then they came for the satellite imagery companies 🚫🛰️
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3 months ago
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Doubles down on
#McLuhan's
derivation that every technology is both an augmentation + amputation, while pragmatically pointing to "positive friction" behavioral design to retain your brain 🧠
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Largely unreported Ukrainian drone offensive coinciding with lifting sanctions on purchase of Russian oil seems to have been a successful response.
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Frank Pasquale
3 months ago
There is a critical difference between holistic, authentic judgment enabled by embodied cognition, and AI's reductive simulation of the language patterns associated with such thought.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Non-Delegable Duty to Think: Judicial Legitimacy and the Limits of Generative AI
<p><span>From a normative perspective, the use of generative AI to automate the justification of judgments is problematic on several levels. A legal opinion is
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6473658
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Uneasy co-existence under siege of
#drone
warfare
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3 months ago
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More like this ✊
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Very informative perspective on contemporary drone warfare.
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Reads a little bit like a diary... ...of a young person of conscience amidst an encircling fascist autocracy. And of course they would defend their community again 👷
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Paige Bailey (webpaige.dev)
4 months ago
if your specific niche is also "bizarre intertwingled anecdotes about 1950s-1990s computer scientists" i have built your holy grail: just took a thousand oral histories from the
@computerhistory.bsky.social
museum and made them fully searchable and deeply interconnected 🎉welcome to
f0lkl0r3.dev
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"um, what was the question again?" 😈
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4 months ago
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Mark Chadbourn
4 months ago
Yemen’s Houthis have announced they’ll be joining the war in support of Iran shortly. Analysts expect them to shut down another strait, Bab El-Mandeb, which will close the Suez Canal. The global economy hangs by a thread.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot
4 months ago
You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.
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There is...a lot...to process in this exhaustive recounting of the network of influence around the (first?) Trump insurrection attempt in 2020, Project 2025, and steady hints that the Insurrection Act has a starring role planned for the 2026 elections
cochiseregionalnews.substack.com/p/insurrecti...
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Insurrectionist Brunch
2020 election plot conspirators, Project 2025, and the plan to deploy military within the United States-- in the name of “border security”
https://cochiseregionalnews.substack.com/p/insurrectionist-brunch?open=false
4 months ago
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"We are moving from an era where our worth was defined by our capacity to build and discover, to an era where our survival depends on our capacity to steer, understand, and stand behind the meaning of what is created." "Some Simple Economics of
#AGI
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arxiv.org/abs/2602.20946
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Some Simple Economics of AGI
For millennia, human cognition was the primary engine of progress on Earth. As AI decouples cognition from biology, the marginal cost of measurable execution falls to zero, absorbing any labor captura...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20946
4 months ago
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Seems to track with the irrationality of this whole debacle.
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4 months ago
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Seamus Blackley
4 months ago
The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.
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“Since a very common delusion is the feeling of being watched or monitored by malignant forces or entities, this pathological state unfortunately merges with the growing reality that we are all being tracked and monitored...it's a rational perception of reality, and not delusional at all...”
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Amidst a pattern of lying which reveals the projections beneath, this is the most frightening thing he could have uttered about himself. Congress must impeach and remove the Mad King 👑 before it's too late 🕚
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4 months ago
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot
4 months ago
He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.
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Who brags about "punching them while they are down"?
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4 months ago
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Philip Bump
4 months ago
Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.
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#ICE
#AbolishICE
#FuckICE
#MeltICE
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The current U.S. Director of National Intelligence 🇺🇸
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#ICE
#AbolishICE
#FuckICE
#MeltICE
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Matthew Sheffield
4 months ago
In case you were wondering, Polymarket had yet another spate of likely inside traders betting that the US would strike Iran by February 28. Per the due diligence investigation service Bubblemaps, the wallets used were created 24 hours earlier. The Pentagon Pizza Index has been replaced.
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Max Read
4 months ago
one way of seeing anthropic vs. the pentagon is as a fissure between the two silicon valley tribes most enthusiastic about ai: "rationalists" and "accelerationists"
maxread.substack.com/p/what-anthr...
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Mythic 🦊
4 months ago
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
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"As far as Iran is concerned, with the US and Israel firing the first shot in this latest go-round, everything is now probably fair game." -- Oman Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi, now former peace liaison between Iran and US✌️
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Andy Carvin
4 months ago
Direct hit in Abu Dhabi.
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Geoff Brumfiel
4 months ago
This appears to show a drone strike on Naval Support Activity Bahrain. Souce:
t.me/kianmeli1/80...
Geoconfirmed: 26.2071, 50.6099
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Benjamin Wittes
4 months ago
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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David Corn
4 months ago
I am sure JD Vance will resign in protest, right?
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Melanie D’Arrigo
4 months ago
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So let me get this straight. DHS shot down a party balloon with a laser outside El Paso less than a month ago🎈 Now DOD shot down a DHS CBP drone outside El Paso? 🔫 I mean if that was a DOD birthday party, that's quite the escalation 🎂
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Statement today by Dario Amodei, CEO of
@anthropic.com
, re: DOD, mass domestic surveillance, and fully autonomous weapons.
www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...
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Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
4 months ago
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A must-read synthesis around this technological moment.
#AI
#ML
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I'm not sure "move fast and break things" to engineer small nuclear reactors to power AI data centers is a winning strategy,
#nukebros
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4 months ago
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Here's how you ensure voters of an entire state never elect a member of your party for any local, state, or federal office ever again. Never again✅ for👏 a👏 generation👏 👍
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Alan Rozenshtein
4 months ago
The Pentagon is threatening to use the Defense Production Act against Anthropic. It's a terrible policy, but legally it depends on whether they're seeking to avoid Anthropic's terms of service or have Anthropic retrain Claude. My latest for
@lawfaremedia.org
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www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
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What the Defense Production Act Can and Can’t Do to Anthropic
The legal answer depends on what the government is actually demanding—and the statute's ambiguities cut both ways.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what-the-defense-production-act-can-and-can't-do-to-anthropic
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"reserving “understanding” for humans elides the fact that nobody agrees on what it or “intelligence” or “meaning” actually mean. If yr arguing for human uniqueness, you need to show that the trillions of neuron-connections in the brain aren’t also doing next-token prediction, or something like it."
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