Bildkachel mit drei Bildern von den Flutkatastrophen im Ahrtal, Valencia und Texas. Unten links steht auf schwarzem Hintergrund “EU-Gedenktag: In Gedenken an die Opfer der Klimakrise”

Ahrtal, Valencia, Texas. Fluten folgen auf Hitzewellen. Das sind keine Wetterphänomene. Das ist die Klimakrise. Sie fordert schon jetzt hunderttausende Menschenleben. Heute ist der EU-Gedenktag an die Opfer der Klimakrise. Wir setzen uns dafür ein, dass der politischen Symbolik auch Taten folgen!

Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreesen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI Tech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen in a private group chat attacked colleges for promoting diversity, saying they had discriminated against “native born kids.”

New from me. Hope you’ll give it a read www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Now would be a really good time for the American Pope to chime in.

This story got me. A few tears might’ve slipped out… okay, probably more than a few.

No telling how many of these stories played out across Central Texas that horrible night.

Just when you think they can't possibly destroy public education any more than they already have, Oklahoma goes "hold my beer!"

PragerU? Are you kidding me?

I can’t believe this is real.

This is true, and as much as Americans are comfortable and eager to avoid confrontation with their own government, it doesn't matter if their government wants a confrontation with them

Devastating. The quantities of water that came down the past few days are just unimaginable.

Honestly, I think this Venn diagram should be all the cover letter I need! 😆

KXAN in AUSTIN, TX gets specific on which NWS jobs remain vacant after the Trump cuts — including “WARNING COORDINATION METEOROLOGIST”

“Ensuring ample and timely warning to Central Texas counties was among the chief responsibilities.”

www.kxan.com/investigatio...

The GOP tax bill is an "extinction-level event for higher education"

my wife (and her entire team) were fired from her nonproifit Seattle-area hospital two months ago because the Trump administration froze medicaid reimbursements, driving the hospital toward financial ruin

this will finish the job.

a lot of people are going to die. it's not going to be subtle

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"

Social Security - "That's socialism!"

Debt free education - "That's socialism!"

Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"

$1 trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy...

"That's just how it is."

Which European countries have laws against deepfakes? People in Denmark will soon have the copyright to their own likenesses as a way to fight against deepfakes. What other countries have laws that govern the use of fake or AI-generated videos?

People in Denmark will soon have the copyright to their own likenesses as a way to fight against deepfakes. What other countries have laws that govern the use of fake or AI-generated videos?

We're living in a sci-fi movie - we're destroying our own life support system to feed the robots.

ACCENTURE REPORT: "The exponential rise of AI is having a dramatic & unsustainable impact on the planet’s energy use, carbon emissions & water consumption."

www.accenture.com/us-en/insigh...

Ok, no more G.I. Joe action figures for these guys.

And Then They Came for the Intellectuals, II Jim Ryan and UVA become latest casualties in war on Higher Education

“What’s at stake is far more than one presidency or one institution: it’s the role of our public universities as bastions of intellectual freedom, diversity of thought, and innovation in a democratic society.”

A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.

“A.I. is a technology of averages: large language models are trained to spot patterns across vast tracts of data; the answers they produce tend toward consensus, both in the quality of the writing, which is often riddled with clichés and banalities, and in the calibre of the ideas.”

You’re Being Alienated From Your Own Attention Every single aspect of human life is being reoriented around the pursuit of attention.

Excellent article in @theatlantic.com
In the 19th century the 8-hour workday was envisioned as 8 hours for work, 8 hours for sleep, & 8 hours for what we will. In those 8 hours that were supposed to be ours, are we actually free? When did "what we will" become "what the algorithm wills"?

This image is now absolutely everywhere over European media lmao

Ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob Trump mit Aufkündigung des Iran-Deals 2018 wirklich einen großen Plan verfolgt hat, oder ob er einfach nur impulsiv alles niederreißen wollte, was Obama aufgebaut hatte. Letzten Endes egal, es ändert nichts an den Folgen…

There is so much wrong with this, but let’s start with the fact that these men have no apparent federal identification. They could be trafficking.

It's unclear to me why the US Congressmen are not escorted by big armed cops to push through obstacles to them exercising their legal rights, and instead everyone now defers to the guys with no uniforms or badges or name tags to determine what is and is not legal?

Far-Right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag Seen at Jan. 6 Riot Flown Above Government Agency in DC The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

SCOOP: The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

“Everything from social media posts to metadata about phone calls to the purchase information collected by data brokers to location data showing every step taken is available to law enforcement… without a warrant.”

ALERT: The High-Tech Tools Police Use to Surveil Protesters

@themarshallproject.org

. @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com BRAVO!

Thank you for reading the letter sent by Tina Smith's aide Ed Shelleby to his colleagues in Senator Mike Lee's office

I did two tours of duty in the Senate and Shelleby has the integrity I remember colleagues on both sides of the aisle sharing back then

Reminds me of the 'More Than One Story' card game questions (www.morethanonestory.org/en). Good stuff!

The Myth of Automated Learning AI's real threat to education.

Yes! Couldn't agree more: "The real threat AI poses to education isn’t that it encourages cheating. It’s that it discourages learning." substack.com/home/post/p-...