The 10 hours of erecting scaffolding wasn’t to strip the letters (something that 30 minutes in a boom lift could accomplish), it was to conceal the view with a curtain because Trump couldn’t handle the optics of the letters of his name being plucked off the building.
“One of the key obstacles in fighting the existence of a concentration camp system in any given society is how difficult it is for most institutional powerholders to acknowledge what’s happening in real time.”
Content creators & influencers beware of the U.S. regime.
Last I saw last night, nearly 100,000 MSNow viewers eagerly were waiting to see the cleansing. Thanks go out to Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), who sued to make it happen.
Looks like Kansas City, Mo., was expecting to round up masses of people during the World Cup.
So, the city spent $25 million for a temporary World Cup jail while it builds a $151 million detention facility slated for the same location.
Unbelievable.
Part of the reason intelligent people are so worried about how tomorrow’s tech will be used is that our government is using today’s tech to blow up school kids. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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When you ask ChatGPT or any popular LLM to tell you a story, one name keeps coming up: "Elias Thorne." Depending which chatbot you ask, he's a lighthousekeeper, clockmaker or explorer.
His stories are also flooding Amazon's AI-generated book market, YouTube slop, and fake news.
Who is he?
New: I wrote about everyone intently watching the long process of removing Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center and how it revealed our insatiable thirst for accountability — and for his humiliation.
This is not a news segment, but a good clip from and by Australia.
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The Friday roundup is here, with links to the podcast! Also, I wrote about one example from my ten-year campaign to try to get editors to understand that yes, these are concentration camps. (Spoiler: there *is* a shift currently underway—hooray! But it needs to expand mightily.)
LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...
A marathon livestream of Trump's name being removed from the Kennedy Center was a rare moment of monoculture.
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Six months ago, at least 12 people, including eight children, died during a US attack. The US has never admitted the civilian deaths. Here, the Guardian pieces together what happened that day
City officials now say the $25 million facility won’t be used during the international soccer tournament at all.
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I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +
