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Not to mention how entwined #opusDei was in the regimes of Francisco Franco AND Augusto Pinochet...
Ukraine outshoots Russia in cross-border drone war for 1st time, March data suggests.
@abc reports: "Long-range drone and missile strikes have been a key element of the conflict as both Kyiv and Moscow seek to degrade the other's economy and undermine their ability to prosecute and fund the ongoing war."
Remember the cyberattacks on the U.S. government in the early 2020s? The Biden admin asked tech companies to help and got some “free” upgrades.
The Trump admin is doing similarly with AI. But our reporting shows there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-government-ai-cautionary-tales?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Cybersecurity #Government #Trump #Microsoft #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology
We’ve been reporting on cybersecurity for years. As President Donald Trump and his Cabinet say artificial intelligence will transform the nation, the messaging isn’t new. It follows a familiar pattern.
It looks like we’re living too long, consuming too much and procreating too frequently for the benefit of the planet, according to a new study. Researchers out of Flinders University in Australia have found that humanity is living well beyond the bounds of what Earth can support long-term. One example: water bankruptcy. Read more from @ScienceAlert:
#opusDei is one of the pre-eminent forces in #Maga. Several very high-ranking figures inside the White House & the Maga ecosystem are members of Opus Dei or big supporters. kevin roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation [behind #Project2025], is a regularl at Opus Dei & gets his spiritual direction from them. #leonardLeo, who orchestrated the takeover of the #supremeCourt, sits on the board of the Opus Dei. The list goes on.
Hope #PopeLeo excommunicates the lot!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/06/opus-dei-gareth-gore-pope-leo
(This is why the tech industry is so horny for AI - tech bosses can't *wait* to fire a ton of programmers and use the resulting terror to force down the wages of the remaining tech workers:)
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/fisher-price-steering-wheel/#billionaire-solipsism
Which means that the very programmers who write and maintain the surveillance wage software used on the rest of us are especially likely to have the tools they created turned on *them*.
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But this isn't just about lowering wages at the bottom of the employment market. In recent history, the employers *most* eager to illegally lower their workers' wages are tech bosses, who had to pay *massive* fines for illegally colluding on "no poach" agreements to suppress the earning power of high-paid computer programmers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation
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