@x_minus_t @BernieSanders

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#California #USpoli

‘There were studies done in Alberta and they compared several AI companies to the lookout person and the lookout person basically got 100 per cent for discovery and spotting fires and reporting them. And the AI ... the best one did, I think, was around 70 per cent accuracy.’ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/last-b-c-wildfire-lookouts-9.7216837
#bcpoli #cdnpoli #uspoli #AI #wildfires
What it's like staffing one of B.C.'s last 2 fire lookouts | CBC News

Bart Vanderlinde is the subject of the documentary The Last of the Lookouts on CBC Gem, and joined CBC's Daybreak North to talk about the film and his unique job.

CBC
The Arc of the Voting Rights Act

Louisiana Republicans erased a majority-Black congressional district.

The Atlantic

He fucks children. He's our all-powerful dictator-for-life eyeing the children of immigrants as, no doubt, pal Epstein did. Where are all of the kids the Republicans have separated from parents? Do the Democrats give a damn, or do they worry they won't get invites to the new Epstein's parties if the Republican DOJ feels compelled to prosecute their colleagues, whom they adore?

https://newsie.social/@bespacific/116665992319050275

#Epstein #Trump #America #USPoli #Immigrants #fascism #DOJ

#uspoli #uspolitics Old Republican video trashing Ken Paxton, de-listed on YouTube
Also muting or unfollowing everyone that spends all their time posting about #USPoli ... this is also not worth my time. Its very little but performative complaining. Without general strikes, or violence, which would be bad, nothing is going to change and the hard-right fascists who have taken over the US will continue to remain in power.

A concerning read from the US with global implications ...

"It's the End of American Science As We Know It

We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.

How to Make a Dystopia

A few weeks after the 2016 election, I sent an urgent call to fellow theorists of history and science studies in physics and said that we needed to warn scientists about what Donald Trump could mean for them. We organized a (fairly poorly-attended) session at the January 2017 American Physical Society meeting, where I gave a talk about the Nazi takeover of German physics. You can read my slides from that talk here. In them, I explained there was a specific bureaucratic playbook for authoritarian capture of science.
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https://news.chanda.science/archive/its-the-end-of-american-science-as-we-know-it/

#uspoli #uspolitics #science

It's the End of American Science As We Know It

We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.

The Boogie-Woogie Rumble of Space-Time
Why I’m grateful to the Pope for his encyclical on AI

The intelligent and thoughtful encyclical is an important warning of the uses and misuses of a rapidly developing technology. Silicon Valley is wrong to dismiss it

The Guardian
#Bondi to face closed-door questioning from House committee over #EpsteinFiles#USPoli
Lawmakers to have fresh chance to dig for information on the #Trump administration’s handling of issue by grilling former attorney-general
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/may/29/donald-trump-pam-bondi-jeffrey-epstein-iran-redistricting-latest-news-updates
Trump says he has ‘no interest’ in Kennedy Center after judge orders his name removed from memorial – as it happened

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the Guardian