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Go on then, blame it on the weather

This is your regular reminder that the Citizen app was originally named Vigilante. When an app tells you what it is, believe it the first time.

https://www.404media.co/citizen-is-using-ai-to-generate-crime-alerts-with-no-human-review-its-making-a-lot-of-mistakes/

Citizen Is Using AI to Generate Crime Alerts With No Human Review. It’s Making a Lot of Mistakes

Three sources described how AI is writing alerts for Citizen and broadcasting them without prior human review. In one case AI mistranslated “motor vehicle accident” to “murder vehicle accident.”

404 Media
DOGE put a college student in charge of using AI to rewrite regulations
The DOGE operative has been tasked with rewrites to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/doge-put-a-college-student-in-charge-of-using-ai-to-rewrite-regulations/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
DOGE put a college student in charge of using AI to rewrite regulations

The DOGE operative has been tasked with rewrites to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Ars Technica

Many countries celebrate when their countries were liberated from the Nazis. In Denmark for instance, we celebrate May 5.

But World War II officially ended on September 2, 1945, with Japanese foreign affairs minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri in the presence of US General Sutherland (picture 1).

However, Trump thinks that because countries in Europe celebrate dates in May, that must be when the entire World War II ended (picture 2).

@grammargirl

I say we nationalize Google Search and put librarians in charge of it.

“President Trump’s team is selectively stripping away the public record, reconstructing his preferred vision of America in the negative space of purged history, archivists and historians said. As data and resources are deleted or altered, something foundational is also at risk: Americans’ ability to access and evaluate their past, and with it, their already shaky trust in facts.“

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/technology/trump-history-websites.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U4.9Qpg.66gIzzShCH8G&smid=url-share

#history #histodons #uspol #democracy

The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It

As the Trump administration pulls government websites and data offline, it is selectively stripping away the public record, letting the president declare his own version of history, archivists and historians said.

The New York Times

“We tend to take them for granted, but there’s something quietly radical about even the idea of a library and the intellectual freedom these local institutions inspire.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/librarians-trump-administration-cuts_l_67e59789e4b0455df70b3aa2

#libraries

Librarians Are Mad As Hell At The Trump Administration. They Think You Should Be, Too.

"The public needs to wake up before our libraries are gone," one "livid" librarian said.

HuffPost
We’re at the “and dump” part of the cycle.

Ukrainians are dying every day, and this shit show is what The White House has to offer the world.

What an absolute disgrace.

The world must realize Washington has fallen to the Russians. The sooner we do, the sooner we can defeat Putin.

https://youtu.be/DZ56ibIel1U?si=cBRhtrtVN7xoA2o9

Trump tells Zelenskyy he's 'gambling with World War III' in tense exchange

YouTube
While RFK Jr. is trying to get confirmed as the next US Health Secretary and claiming he is suddenly pro vaccination, the organisation he founded is making money by selling anti-vax clothing for babies.
NPR: Kate Cox was in the middle of a pregnancy emergency when the Texas Supreme Court denied her an abortion. Now, she's a Democratic activist who will speak at the DNC.#news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2024/08/20/nx-s1-5081398/kate-cox-is-one-of-the-people-speaking-about-their-abortion-experiences-at-the-dnc