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“If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner."
-R B Fuller
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If you're a service member being ordered to prep for deployment for the War in Iran and you have moral and/or ethical misgivings on all this, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status.

Call the G.I. Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

Agentic #ai writing publishable #research papers, apparently solving outstanding problems in #mathematics

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Io_GqmbNBbY

#twominutepapers

DeepMind’s New AI Just Changed Science Forever

YouTube

"When a public administration archives a document in ODF format, it can be certain that any future government, any future open-source or proprietary application, and any future platform will be able to read, manage, process and transform that document, because the format specifications are publicly available, and are clear, complete and free from restrictions."

#ODF is the future, #OOXML is the past - TDF Community Blog
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/27/odf-is-the-future-ooxml-is-the-past/

ODF is the future, OOXML is the past - TDF Community Blog

Whenever a user, a government, a school or a business chooses the format in which to store and exchange its digital documents, it is not merely making a technical decision, but is placing a bet on the kind of digital infrastructure on which it will depend in the future. In this sense, ODF and OOXML are not two equivalent options on the same shelf, but two radically different solutions: one geared towards a future of openness, interoperability and digital sovereignty, and the other towards a past of defending a vendor’s dominant market position through user lock-in. ODF: designed to be open and transparent Open Document Format was conceived from the outset to be an open standard. It was designed and developed by the community under the auspices of OASIS, and subsequently ratified by ISO, to be implemented by anyone, on any platform, without royalties, without hidden dependencies and without the permission of any single company. These are not trivial technical details, but a statement of political and economic strategy embedded within the format itself. ODF is based on a clean XML schema, easy to read even by non-technical users and reusable. Colour naming follows standard web conventions, and its architecture

TDF Community Blog

I work in Big Tech. This news hurts my pocketbook today.
But I am so, **so** grateful for this ruling.

I am surprised and relieved that average people sitting on juries understand that allowing corporate algorithms to shape growing minds is insanely dangerous.

Especially in the middle of a worldwide information war.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/technology/social-media-verdicts-child-safety.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WFA.PzEY.dHskOd9IIPgE&smid=url-share

#facebook #meta #youtube

Juries Take the Lead in the Push for Child Online Safety

A pair of verdicts held social media companies accountable for harming young users, highlighting a growing backlash as Congress struggles to pass legislation.

The New York Times

If there is going to be a talking filibuster over the save act, the Dems need to read Epstein files that mention Trump into the record for the entire time.

#USPolitics #EpsteinFiles #filibuster

"'Sentience' is knowing how screwed you are."
-Dr. Vincent Racaniello, PhD, #TWiV 1305
"THE COURT: How did the screw up happen? Was it your office, the U.S. Attorneys Office, the FBI, or both? How did you execute a plea agreement without knowing all the evidence on the device only later to find out, Oh, my God. There's babies and prepubescent children and bestiality. It's so egregious, Judge, but we didn't address any of that. Who screwed it up? Your office, the FBI, or both?" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/judge-eviscerates-trump-doj-over-us-attorney-fiasco
Judge Eviscerates Trump DOJ Over US Attorney Fiasco

Presumption of Irregularity Attorney General Pam Bondi’s elaborate attempts to bypass Senate...

TPM - Talking Points Memo

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1. Iran had been a monarchy since antiquity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monarchs_of_Iran

2. And then the last Shah of Iran was at minimum deeply divisive : secret police, repression, unpopular economic & social changes rapid-fired from the top (sound familiar)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi

3. He tried to nationalize Iran's oil infrastructure, which led to the CIA giving the theocratic, brutally repressive Islamic Revolution its victory in 1979
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution

List of monarchs of Iran - Wikipedia

5 years ago, I was subscribing to and closely following This Week in Virology.

I recently subscribed to This Week in Shipping for similar reasons (smh)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0SELRtaciaI

#iran #hormuz