@pluralistic : "Trump won office in part by insisting that America's institutions were not fit for purpose. He wasn't lying about that (for a change). The thing he was lying about was his desire to fix them. Trump doesn't want honest refs – he wants *no* refs. To defeat Trumpism, we need to stop pretending that our institutions are just fine – we need to confront their failings head on and articulate a plan to fix them"

Play the right game; keep playing it to the end.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/12/epistemological-void/#do-your-own-research

"Israel blocks entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza"

This is a clear, explicit war crime and violation of international law. The "4th Geneva Convention
Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War" establishes unambiguously that nations have the duty to provide humanitarian aid to the civilian population under their control.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9q4w99je78o

I didn't know this 👇🏼 I appreciate people sharing their expertise with the public.

Jim Sinclair - Retired Navy CMC:

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

https://thebullshitmachines.com

This is not a computer science course.

It’s a humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.

Neither instructor nor students need a technical background. Our instructor guide provides a choice of activities for each lesson that will easily fill an hour-long class.

The entire course is available freely online. Our 18 online lessons each take 5-10 minutes; each illuminates one core principle. They are suitable for self-study, but have been tailored for teaching in a flipped classroom.

The course is a sequel of sorts to our course (and book) Calling Bullshit. We hope that like its predecessor, it will be widely adopted worldwide.

Large language models are both powerful tools, and mindless—even dangerous—bullshit machines. We want students to explore how to resolve this dialectic.

Undocumented immigrants in the US have substantially lower crime rates than US-born citizens. Immigrants are 60% less likely to be incarcerated than US-born citizens.

#Immigration #IllegalAliens #GOPLies #NoRepublicansEverAgain #Crime #USPol

The EU should demand that American Big Tech sell their assets to European companies. They can’t be trusted to not manipulate the data for propaganda reasons.

Not doing so is a national security risk.

Am I doing this right?