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  Three reasons why "AI" is not conscious and perhaps never will be Artificial-intelligence systems such as large language models (LLMs) can exhibit behaviour that seems strikingly intelligent. This has led many people, including some experts, to wonder whether these systems could have some form of consciousness — the capacity for subjective experience. However, we think that existing AI systems are not conscious, and that, along current trajectories of development, they are not likely...

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  Border Czar Homan Confirms Trump Admin Is Looking to Denaturalize Ilhan Omar - Previous inquiries into Ilhan Omar’s citizenship have found no evidence of fraud.

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  CoreWeave founders cash out — the rest is mop-up Three of the founders of AI hosting company CoreWeave — Brannin McBee, Michael Intrator, and Brian Venturo — just announced yet another planned sale of CoreWeave stock, totalling over a billion dollars’ stock sales for each since the company went public. This means that whatever happens with CoreWeave and the AI bubble … they’ve got theirs.

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  DHS Said They Searched Man Who Wiped GrapheneOS Phone for Child Abuse Material. They Lied Officials said they wanted to search the phone of Samuel Tunick, a Stop Cop City activist, for child abuse material. It was actually because he was suspected of “terrorist activities.”

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  How Israel Used "AI" to Relentlessly Murder Palestinian Journalists and Their Families in Their Homes My new research establishes how the AI program “Where’s Daddy?” was used on an almost daily basis from October to December 2023, when 68 journalists, and hundreds of their family members, were killed.

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  Trump sparks outrage with [computer generated] video parodying zoo tiger attack

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  Dems Have an Opportunity to Force an End to the Iran War. Will They Take It? Spoiler: No.

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  It Won’t Stop With Ilhan Omar Usually authoritarians target those on the margins before expanding their repression. That Trump and Vance are going after a sitting congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, with politically motivated deportation means they have bigger ambitions.

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  America’s Sordid History of Filming Executions as Entertainment Hegseth’s plan to livestream an execution was not without precedent — it tapped into a dark and forgotten U.S. tradition.

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  Trump Is Targeting Ilhan Omar. Where’s the Elite Media Outrage? Unlike the raid on John Bolton, the targeting of Omar has elicited zero condemnation from NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post.

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  Trump Administration Reportedly Trying to Denaturalize and Deport Ilhan Omar

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  The Paris Auto Show is full of interesting cars Americans can’t have Small EVs and efficient people carriers update familiar names for the modern age.

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  Rep. Delia Ramirez Introduces Landmark Bill to Abolish DHS, ICE, and CBP Rep. Delia C. Ramirez (D-Illinois) has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights. The wide-ranging legislation, dubbed the Reimagining Safety Act, would repeal the Homeland Security Act. Signed by President George W. Bush as part of his ad...

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  Scammers Are Stealing Millions From Food Stamp Recipients. Congress Could Fix It — but Won’t. To hear the Trump administration tell it, the SNAP program is under siege by well-heeled recipients of food stamps. Vice President JD Vance, upon being named “Fraud Czar” this spring, said: “There are people who have Lamborghinis who currently receive SNAP benefits.” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, whose agency oversees the program, regularly goes on TV and social media to allege that masses of S...

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  Israel’s general election: All the Zionist parties committed to war Every one of the Zionist parties contesting the elections for the 120-seat Knesset, Israel’s parliament—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party, the ultra-Orthodox factions, the far-right fascistic parties and the supposed opposition—is committed to the same programme: the continuation and expansion of the genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, and war against Lebanon, Syria and the Hout...

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  Don’t Stop at ICE, Says Progressive Dem: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security Rep. Delia Ramirez is expected to introduce a bill to abolish the Department of Homeland Security and eliminate all immigrant detention in the United States on Tuesday, the Illinois Democrat shared exclusively with The Intercept. The Reimagining Safety Act would repeal “duplicative and overreaching terrorism laws,” according to the bill summary and text, and curtail the widespread surveillance state that emer...

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  The secret to a good night’s rest? Let sleeping dogs lie - next to you A surprising new study found that people who sleep near their dogs don’t experience disrupted sleep. If anything, the University of Toronto researchers discovered, we humans are the ones disturbing our dogs’ sleep. And we feel safer sleeping with our dogs, hinting at “a deeper evolutionary history” between humans and dogs, said study co-author Ming Fei Li, who was a graduate student of evolutionary anthropology during the...

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  The Gospel According to J. D. Vance J. D. Vance’s spiritual memoir is short on the spiritual and long on hypocrisy, oscillating between complaints about “the elites” and half-baked policy ideas that show little engagement with the Catholic social teaching he professes to admire.

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  Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes

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  Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Not only has Gov. Gavin Newsom vocally opposed the proposed California billionaire tax, but he also wants to prevent the state from ever passing a wealth tax in the future. On Friday he endorsed Proposition 42, a ballot measure that would cancel out Proposition 40, the proposed billionaire tax. Prop. 42 would prohibit retroactive taxes like the one-time 5% tax on assets that would apply to any billionaire who l...

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  Where Are the Iran War Protests? Despite a wildly unpopular war with Iran, a mass protest movement for peace hasn’t materialized — at least in the ways we’ve been taught to recognize.

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  When No ID Means No Internet: Age Verification and the Right to Access Information Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online. But that framing overlooks a more fundamental question. What happens to people who cannot verify their age at all? This is particularly a problem when users are required to prove their age with identity documents.

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  A senator tried to ban gambling on prediction markets—now she's a Kalshi lobbyist

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  Universities fire dozens amid pressure from Zionist billionaires Universities in the United States and Canada have fired, suspended and harassed employees for speaking out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, often using ostensibly neutral disciplinary procedures to conceal politically motivated retaliation. That is the finding of a new report from the Academic Freedom Initiative, a project of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). “Lessons in Repression: Silencing Campus Workers on Pale...

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  The "AI" model distillation paradox Last month, Washington insisted that training models on other people’s work without permission is so obviously fair that licensing requirements would be ruinous to national innovation. It also insisted that training models on other people’s work without permission is an act of industrial predation posing a grave threat to national security. Both propositions cannot hold simultaneously. Either the outputs of these systems are protectable under the...

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  Child flees as Israeli settlers hijack car during pogrom [Video] A Palestinian boy was seen fleeing after Israeli settlers attacked his father and stole their car in Ramallah. At least 19 pogroms by Israeli forces and settlers were reported across the occupied West Bank on Friday morning.

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  Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in 'AI' Yet … this week a person on GitHub who goes by “terrafying” set up an “AI Torture Chamber” on three open-source LLMs that are running locally (Qwen3-4B, Llama 3.2 3B, and Phi-4-mini,” and is streaming what the models are saying on a website called researchchamber.fun. “Each model gets the same prompt: a signal is being injected into its activations, and it may press a stop button by replying 1, at the co...

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  Fetterman Joins GOP to Block Effort to Expose Israeli Abuses in West Bank this guy again…

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  Trump ads paid for by US government allegedly violate anti-propaganda laws Broadcasters should be ordered to stop running Trump commercials that appear to violate US laws, consumer advocacy group Public Citizen said today in a complaint to the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission. The ads appear to violate laws against using taxpayer funds for propaganda and a law that restricts political activity by federal government employees, the group said. “The most recent of t...

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  Yes, Zionism is racism … the Green Party’s resolution does not declare anything radical or extraordinary. Zionism was and continues to be a settler-colonial ideology, and settler colonialism is fundamentally racist. Zionism is centred on the belief that Jewish people from anywhere in the world have a right to a homeland in historic Palestine – a right that outweighs any other people’s. It is a conviction that is based on biblical claims to a land and an ahistorical understanding of history. C...