I wrote about what it means to be American from the perspective of someone whose family was here before America was.
I also figured out that a sixth of immigrants in the country last year had been in the U.S. longer than JD "being American is about having roots here" Vance.
https://www.ctinsider.com/columnist/article/philip-bump-family-history-what-makes-american-22326156.php
UN report says Israel's targeting of Palestinian children forms part of "Israel's genocidal intent to destroy the Palestinian group, in whole or in part."
Children represented 30% of those killed in Gaza.
"Even after the Oct 2025 ceasefire, children continue to be killed & seriously injured."
#USPol #EUPol #gazagenocide #UN #news #palestine #IsraeliCrimes .
RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116821765303561457
My fear is that “he” set the precedent that the President can do things unchecked, unopposed and with little consequences.
This would explain why trust is now gone forever and all nations are racing to decouple from US infrastructure and where possible financial reliance.
It doesn’t matter who is President in 5 or 10 years.
#Trump has only accelerated not created the fall of the American Empire.
God I’m glad to be European.
Republicans seem afraid because they know they've committed crimes and also know that unless they manage to stay in power somehow they're going to be arrested for those crimes
TIL James Carville, yes, that guy, is a consultant to Palantir.
Heaven above, he’s (still!) a top Democratic consultant.
My brother in Christ, you are the Nazis.
fucking springer
their plagiarism bot decided Max Planck was self-plagiarising and retracted hundred year old papers
I get a kick outta tRumpanzees with a relative or relatives with disabilities who just don’t believe the regime wants to deal with those relatives in a certain way.
#USpol
Three Indigenous leaders from the Amazon traveled to the EU to meet global leaders face to face.
Not because that’s how it works, but because that’s what it takes.
They came carrying something more valuable than anything being extracted from their land – the truth about what illegal mining, deforestation, and unchecked development are doing to their people, their forests, and the climate.
🌿 Read the full story of their historical journey: https://act.gp/4bfyaKv
As the developer of Pixelfed and Loops, it's not my place to police or prevent AI content, rather it's my responsibility to provide proper content labelling for AI content and leave it up to server admins and users to decide.
Loops already did this, with a "Hide AI content" setting, powered by a `contains_ai` database flag and a "Untagged AI content" report option.
Pixelfed will soon have this AI label feature too!
Fascinated [derogatory] by this AI safety report on an upcoming model of GPT:
- The assessors reported that it is the most cheating-prone model they have ever tested
- In fact, it attempted to cheat so much, so extensively, that their statistics for the overall benchmark are meaningless
(“Cheating” here means, for example, instead of thinking about the answer to a question posed in a benchmark, the model uses its tooling to dig around the hard drive looking for the source code of the benchmark so it can figure out how to mark itself correct)
- Their conclusion is that it’s good actually that it’s so nakedly evil, because it doesn’t know how to hide being evil — and that we should worry far more when the models stop being detectably evil. Which seems to take it for granted that LLMs are in fact intrinsically evil
Philip Bump
DrALJONES
Stefan L. Couper
Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀
GhostOnTheHalfShell
David Gerard
Brian Jopek
Greenpeace International
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