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It’s time for the first game of the 2026 MLB season From now till October my mental health will be tied to grown men playing a kids game
LET’S GO YANKEES⚾️
Something shifted quietly in AI governance.
Colorado's AI Act gives organizations an affirmative defense if they can show compliance with the NIST AI Risk Management Framework or ISO 42001 — meaning a voluntary framework now reduces legal liability.
For nonprofits and small teams, this reframes the question. It's not "do we have capacity for AI governance." It's "what does a defensible posture actually require."
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/carlosrmunozjr_aigovernance-aireadiness-grc-share-7437218111625490433-RQ90
#AIPolicy #GRC #Compliance
Voluntary frameworks just became legal armor. That changes the math for every organization still treating AI governance as optional. Colorado's AI Act includes an affirmative defense clause. Organizations that can demonstrate compliance with the NIST AI Risk Management Framework — a structured, government-developed tool for identifying and managing AI-related risks — or ISO 42001, its international counterpart, can use that compliance to reduce liability exposure when a violation is discovered. That is not a policy recommendation. That is a statute. For years, the pitch for AI governance frameworks was built around trust, maturity, and "responsible AI." Legitimate arguments. But not urgent ones for a team of twelve running a nonprofit or a compliance lead at a regional SME already stretched thin. Here's what changes when a framework becomes a legal safe harbor: it stops being aspirational and starts being actuarial. The practical question isn't whether to implement. It's what a defensible posture actually requires — documented controls, an AI impact assessment on record, clear human oversight responsibilities, evidence of continuous review. Not perfection. Defensibility. Colorado set this precedent. Other states are watching. What does your organization's AI governance posture look like if a regulator — or a plaintiff's attorney — asked to see it today? #AIGovernance #AIReadiness #GRC #RiskManagement #Compliance
I mean, this would work better for me.
✨Addendum: this apparently made up and not attributable to Trent but I’ll stand by it being something I wanted to say. ✨
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Oil prices have jumped past $100 a barrel as the Iran war disrupts oil production and shipping in the Middle East. The price for a barrel of Brent crude, was at $107.97 shortly after trading resumed Sunday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. That's 16.5% higher than the international benchmark's Friday closing price of $92.69. The light crude oil produced in the United States sold for about $106.22 a barrel, or 16.9% more. Crude prices haven’t gotten that high in more than three and a half years. Supply concerns have driven crude and gasoline higher as the war ensnares major oil-producing countries and hinders exports from the Persian Gulf.
New piece on DemocraTrend worth reading if you want to understand the theological engine behind evangelical support for Israel.
A large portion of that support isn’t rooted in geopolitics — it’s rooted in dispensational end-times theology. The belief that Israel must exist for the apocalypse to occur. That Christ can’t return until the prophetic sequence is complete.
Full piece here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/carlosrmunoz/p/armageddon-politics-the-apocalyptic
#ChristianZionism #Politics #Democracy #Religion #Evangelicals #Substack
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