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Hawaii just passed the first state law in the country banning corporations from making political donations in state elections.
Now a Koch-backed legal group is suing to overturn it.
Big Money won't get out of our politics without a fight — one that we the people must win.
(via @levernews.com)
Robert Reich
I mean, there *are* sometimes protests and violent actions in Belfast that are about something like "All they want to be is Irish. They want Ireland back," but.
Ah yes, the famously Pravda-esque, socialist paper of record the Globe and Mail
Jacob T. Levy
A piece of good news in the middle of the darkness we live in:
"SpaceX will not gain accelerated access to potentially billions more dollars through passive investment funds that automatically purchase shares of S&P 500 companies."
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Had a good, constructively rambling, conversation with Rick Zamperin about Canada’s AI strategy, skills, trust, data centres, etc.
Emphasized that getting Canadians to trust AI depends on AI being trustworthy - but the strategy seems to kick that can down the road.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=CJvr...
"Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. This is not a serious person, but his abuse of the world is deadly serious. ..."
The world’s first trillionaire is a killer www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...
This blew my mind.
Some of the largest data centers can require up to 5 million gallons of water per day, equivalent to the water use of 50,000 people.
Why are we selling out the survival of our planet to enrich a handful of Big Tech CEOs?
Obviously this is a terrible idea but also I think we need an immediate moratorium on LLMs using bi flag colors as they are not worthy of the aesthetic
“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.”
What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors.
Kilmeade to an agreeing Markwayne Mullin: "In Belfast they're standing up because their leaders have let them down. They're trying to take their country back. They want to label them as racist. All they want to be is Irish. They want Ireland back. I see a lot of the same fights here."
Luke LeBrun
Visa is embedding its payment network into ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to shop and complete transactions for users.
