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Guy who liked computers and computer games reluctantly turning hobby of computer science into a career.
Academic freedom has deteriorated in 50 countries over the past decade — and the erosion has been especially steep in the US. https://academic-freedom-index.net/
Academic Freedom Index

The Academic Freedom Index (AFI) assesses de facto levels of academic freedom across the world. It is a collaborative effort between researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), and the V-Dem Institute.

Academic Freedom Index

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/116250404645592330

This! There is as much disinformation about heat pumps as there is about EVs!

If you leave the infrastructure of surveillance in place, people in power will inevitably find an excuse to resume using it. You have to take that shit down.

https://boltsmag.org/verona-wisconsin-ends-contract-flock-ai-surveillance-cameras/

This Wisconsin City Ditched AI Surveillance Cameras. Now Activists Want to Keep Going. - Bolts

Last November, the city of Verona, Wisconsin, voted to pull out of the sprawling surveillance network run by tech company Flock Safety in hopes of protecting residents’ privacy and preventing... Read More

Bolts
The response from ROW to Trump's Iran debacle: Double down on renewable investments. The response from Trump: Make taxpayers pay $3/person and double down on fossil fuel. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/c...
Afghan asylum-seeker dies after less than 24 hours in ICE custody

An Afghan immigrant who worked with the U.S. military in Afghanistan died less than 24 hours after being detained in Texas by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a U.S. advocacy group and a family friend said Sunday

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Latest comic on the ever-expanding meaning of the insult "PC"

#language #war #cartoon #comic #humanrights

Got an AI-written reply from a vendor we pay tens of millions of dollars a year to, and it doesn't feel good.

Three people spent enormous
deliberative effort for a whole day in very expensive company time to make every word of that.

You put it in an answer shredder and spit it at me with some editing.

Feels bad.

Anyone else find it odd that the #DOGE guys are referred to as "kids" despite all being full grown adults, but the victims of #epstein are called "young women" despite being thirteen?
This is an important story. So is the likely sourcing (to Marc Caputo, VERY well sourced in the WH) and Barak Ravid (who was closely covering Russian negotiations when Ukraine made the offer). Trump is about to lift sanctions on Russia to get out of strategic morass he caused.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f6avy7jkujdhusski5n64joj/post/3mgpcpcksb225