John A. Wojtowicz

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I am a 74 year-old, retired biologist. I am a firm believer that our freedoms must be protected for all people regardless of race, color, religion, country of origin, sexual orientation, political beliefs, disabilities, environmental leanings, views on reproductive rights and any other categories that might be a basis for discrimination. We are all in this world together and must work together to make this world the best we can for everyone.
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We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have *thoughts* or *stances* that they are *trying* to *communicate*. ChatGPT can't *admit* anything, nor *self-report*. Gah.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-chatbot-psychology-manic-episodes-57452d14

One thing that the current exorbitant investments in "AI" show is that the investor class and big tech corporations do not pay enough taxes: If you have billions to set on fire for spicy autocomplete we should take some or all of those to do something useful with.
The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family. That horror etched itself into my life and forged my belief in the urgency of disarmament. I’ve heard this horror reflected over and over again in the stories of other hibakusha—survivors of these unimaginable attacks.

There’s an eye opening article in FT quoting Morgan Stanley about the size of the generative AI bubble developing.

https://www.ft.com/content/7052c560-4f31-4f45-bed0-cbc84453b3ce

“Hyperscaler funding of $300bn to $400bn a year compares with annual capex last year for all S&P 500 companies of about $950bn.”

Paywallless: https://archive.ph/2025.07.30-135255/https://www.ft.com/content/7052c560-4f31-4f45-bed0-cbc84453b3ce

Tl;dr - if GenAI doesn’t pay off - as Morgan Stanley point out, it may not meet expectations - it will be 10 times higher than any previous bubble pop. 🥤 🍿

Well here's a weird one...

Key sections from the U.S. Constitution have gone missing from the U.S. government's official website, including sections 8 through 10, which include legal provisions like habeas corpus (aka due process). The White House hasn't commented.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/key-sections-of-the-us-constitution-deleted-from-governments-website/

Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government's website | TechCrunch

Internet sleuths say the U.S. Constitution's website is now missing key sections from its website, including a key legal provision relating to habeas corpus, which protects citizens from unlawful detention.

TechCrunch

Article 1, Section 9 and 10 have been removed from the official government website on the US Constitution. This better be some kind of joke.

Among numerous points:
•Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
•Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws

Removing these two would absolutely mean full blown dictatorship. Genuinely hoping this is some sort of prank or joke, but you never know with this fascist regime.

"Embrace AI or get out"

Welcome to the out club.

Did I miss something? I understand that recently it was the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Post Office. Was there no parade? The American people have been served well by the U.S. Post Office through periods of Peace and War.

Maybe it is just that it is no one "special's" birthday, or perhaps it's because the ultimate plan for the U.S. Post Office by this administration is to destroy it by privatization for the sake of trump's cronies?

Please support the P. O.

Peace

"Born at the height of the Holocaust, I know the wickedness & cruelty meted out to Jews. I cannot bear to think that my people are doing the same thing to another nation. … My heart is broken. ...Hitler won. He changed us, & made us like him."

#MiriamMargolyes 👏👏

https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/07/31/miriam-margolyes-hitler-comments/

#FreePalestine

Massive support for Miriam Margolyes as pro-Israel lobby tries to cancel her

As the Zionist lobby comes for Miriam Margolyes, it exposes itself as the cynical, colonialist operation it really is. Disgraceful.

Canary

The Walrus

Your Country Didn’t Change Overnight. You Just Weren’t Paying Attention.
Authoritarianism doesn’t begin with a dictator. It starts when the idea of justice quietly disappears
by Ece Temelkuran

" . . the . . inheritance our generation has been handed over from the rubble of the twentieth century is . . Putin . . Le Pen and . . Erdoğan as models of leadership . . "

https://thewalrus.ca/this-is-not-my-country/

#democracy #justice

Your Country Didn’t Change Overnight. You Just Weren’t Paying Attention | The Walrus

Authoritarianism doesn’t begin with a dictator. It starts when the idea of justice quietly disappears

The Walrus