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This is what happens when you order delivery in DC right now.
August 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This is what happens when you order delivery in DC right now.
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Recently, EFF was down at the Arizona-Mexico border hunting for surveillance tech. Here's what we found. 🧵(1/14)
April 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Recently, EFF was down at the Arizona-Mexico border hunting for surveillance tech. Here's what we found. 🧵(1/14)
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OK, every year I try to explain to my students how LLMs work, and every year I have to do a big trawl for good resources and activities. Here's this year's haul of *introductory* materials. (In-class activities + visualizations, not so much readings.)
March 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
OK, every year I try to explain to my students how LLMs work, and every year I have to do a big trawl for good resources and activities. Here's this year's haul of *introductory* materials. (In-class activities + visualizations, not so much readings.)
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NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated.
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Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science
Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats
www.science.org
March 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated.
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Libro recomendado a todos en estos momentos que se vienen
#quentinlame
#quentinlame
February 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Libro recomendado a todos en estos momentos que se vienen
#quentinlame
#quentinlame
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A MUST READ from @thenation.com .
Is Musk bringing a neo-apartheid economic agenda to the U.S.?
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Is Musk bringing a neo-apartheid economic agenda to the U.S.?
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Elon Musk’s Vision Is Coming Into Focus—and It Looks a Lot Like Neo-Apartheid
Apartheid was, first and foremost, a business plan—one that the South African–born Musk seems to be reworking for the modern age.
www.thenation.com
February 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
A MUST READ from @thenation.com .
Is Musk bringing a neo-apartheid economic agenda to the U.S.?
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Is Musk bringing a neo-apartheid economic agenda to the U.S.?
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Google has removed its pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance. They have been, and continue to be, on the wrong side of history.
Google is on the Wrong Side of History
Google continues to show us why it chose to abandon its old motto of “Don’t Be Evil,” as it becomes more and more enmeshed with the military-industrial complex. Most recently, Google has removed four ...
www.eff.org
February 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Google has removed its pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance. They have been, and continue to be, on the wrong side of history.