That and the Atreides chants are just great. I actually think that act of the first movie is the strongest part of the Villeneuve stuff overall. The imperial decree scene is arguably the best scene in either movie
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jon ben-menachem
Профиль Vivelycriminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociology phd candidate @ columbia. @swcolumbia.bsky.social
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Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.
Baltimore BannerICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests
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whoops we ALSO recklessly failed to adequately secure our own hacking software the only conclusion possible is that the singularity has arrived
Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three companies during cyber testsAnthropic said on Thursday its AI model Claude hacked into the systems of three companies during testing after a configuration error gave it internet access, days after rival OpenAI disclosed a rogue...www.reuters.com
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jon ben-menachemNew job market paper 🚨 Local newsrooms are cutting crime coverage—but not homicide, which nearly every journalist I interviewed considers too important to skip. So why did so many journalists recount open newsroom disagreements over homicide coverage? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: In this piece I critique a recent piece from @edzitron.com comparing the AI(LLM) boom to the "Subprime" Mortgage Crisis (and implicitly the GFC of 2007-2009). The ? is:"How big of a macrofinancial threat is the AI(LLM) Boom?" www.crisesnotes.com/sigh-no-ed-z...
*Sigh* No Ed Zitron, AI bond issuance is not AI’s "Subprime Mortgage Crisis”EDITORIAL NOTE: Given the importance of this issue, and in a desire to be fair when writing such a critical piece, I sent a draft of this article to Ed Zitron to review and give his response to. I've ...www.crisesnotes.com
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ai-powered cameras are the latest “solution” to the problems of incarceration
Cook County Sheriff’s Office pitches expanded surveillance networkSheriff Tom Dart is quietly lobbying the Cook County board for an AI jail security system and nearly $1 million for license plate readers.chicagoreader.comHypervisible“Officials say AI-powered cameras could monitor inmate activity in real time, identify potential threats and alert staff to medical emergencies or other situations requiring immediate attention.”
As a reviewer I keep having to send authors this paper over and over academic.oup.com/esr/article-...
Logistic Regression: Why We Cannot Do What We Think We Can Do, and What We Can Do About ItAbstract. Logistic regression estimates do not behave like linear regression estimates in one important respect: They are affected by omitted variables, evacademic.oup.com
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-Called for the unconditional and immediate release of Marwan Barghouti -Said that Palestinians have the legal right to armed resistance under international law, although he says he does not think it is effective and prefers diplomacy. -Said the State of Palestine ought to have a full military.
