Ban them FFS this isn't hard
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Lynn Smith
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“Where is the money? There is no transparency and the US government does not inform us.” From @financialtimes.com, on Venezuela giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
The US has collected about $13bn of Venezuela’s oil money. Where is it?Washington has given diverging accounts of where the earthquake-shattered country’s funds are goinggiftarticle.ft.com
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companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI SlopISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”www.404media.co
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13 Americans w/o Ebola exposure put in detention when returning from Africa. “Staff even created a map for Bhattacharya that showed the vast distance from Kinshasa to Ituri province, to highlight the low risk. He ordered them to be detained anyway.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump's CDC Is Detaining Americans in Response to Ebola: A 'Wild Misuse' of PowerThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is needlessly detaining Americans as part of a chaotic Ebola response led by Jay Bhattacharya.www.rollingstone.com
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I read through this, and it's remarkably autocratic, almost Soviet-style vision for science in the United States.
OSTP Director Releases Landmark Report and Recommendations for Renewing American Scientific DiscoveryWASHINGTON, DC – Today, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Michael Kratsioswww.whitehouse.govWelp this 'report' is disingenuous
Dan GaristoAhead of a hearing before the House Science, Space and Technology Committee tomorrow, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has released a 120-pg report, "Science: A New Golden Age" www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... Here's the summary from the press release:
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Opinion | "Never have I witnessed such systematic degradation, disrespect and dismantling of the National Park Service as I see today under the thumb of President Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum."
As a park brat growing up at Mesa Verde, I witnessed the ebb and flow of support for public lands. This administration is the worst. (Opinion)www.denverpost.com
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SCOOP: A little over a month ago, the Pentagon was bragging that half its workforce was using AI. Now the army is saying they’re burning through tokens and need to limit use. For @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-ar...
The Army Is Burning Through Its AI TokensMembers of the Army received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens, and needed to limit use.www.wired.com
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NEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...
Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket HomeThe man has been identified as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket to go back to Mexico.newrepublic.com
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🧪 #climate Trump has ordered a probe of the National Academy of Sciences. If the timing on his post is Eastern Time, and he actually types his posts himself, then I guess this was on his mind during the World Cup final.
‘Totally DISCREDITED!’ Trump Orders Probe of National Academy of Sciences Over ‘Bogus’ Climate GuidanceTrump accused the organization of providing "fraudulent, biased, and misleading" climate guidance that he claimed influenced courts and cost billions.www.yahoo.com
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The FDA does not yet have a single positive product test result for Cyclospora as the outbreak continues to grow.
FDA Tests That Found Cyclospora In Taco Bell Supplier’s Lettuce Were A ‘False Positive’The FDA does not yet have a single positive product test result for Cyclospora as the outbreak continues to grow.www.forbes.com
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This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.
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The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
