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In a high tech career with political views to the left of most Democrat politicians. I focus on facts worth basing decisions on.

@alexlubertozzi @heidilifeldman

Just an FYI...

Krishnamoorthy, in the lead for Durbin's current seat, is one of the 75 Democrats that voted to praise ICE last year.

Please tell everyone in Illinois!

https://jonathancohn.medium.com/a-tale-of-two-resolutions-75-dems-join-gop-in-resolution-praising-trumps-mass-deportation-regime-15cf590770ea

A Tale of Two Resolutions: 75 Dems Join GOP in Resolution Praising Trump’s Mass Deportation Regime

Yesterday, the US House voted on two resolutions that both claimed to be about condemning antisemitism, but only one truly was. HRES 481, which condemns the recent attack in Boulder and urges elected…

Medium

🚨⏳One week left to prevent Microsoft from using your LinkedIn data to train AI.

Act now 👉🏼 You have until November 3, 2025.

Remember, you're opted in automatically, unless you take action and turn it off.

Here's how:

Go to your account → Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement & toggle the switch off to opt out.

Find out more: https://tuta.com/blog/linkedin-ai-user-data

#LinkedInAI #MicrosoftAI #BigTech

"AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say" - Guardian

The "research paper" was a tweet by an AI company

The "experiment" was asking the LLM to shut down

A model is ~not~ shutdown ~ever~ by asking a model to shut itself down

*The only possible response is a hallucination*

You shut down a model by turning off the deterministic software running it; so works every time w/o fail

Yet Guardian's shill tech writers just report AI industry tweets as if it was fact

Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation

Last night, my wife looks up from her computer, troubled. She tells me she can't log into her computer running Windows 11, as every time she enters the PIN code to her account, the login screen throws up a cryptic error: "Your credentials could not be verified". She's using the correct PIN code, so that surely isn't it. We opt

https://www.osnews.com/story/143376/dark-patterns-killed-my-wifes-windows-11-installation/

#Windows

Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews

If you look at the iPhone 17 Pro on the Apple store, they have a drop-down that lets you compare it to phones as far back as the iPhone 13. But you *can't* compare it to any variant of last year's iPhone 16. A minor issue in comparison to all the orange on Tim Cook's lips, but still telling.
noticed ICE activity in his neighborhood. he called 911 and
reported several armed men without identification were in
unmarked cars in the area. BPD sent a SWAT team and ICE
booked it. ® © @
I wonder if Vladimir was the one who suggested the name "Golden Dome". He's gotten quite a lot of it from Donald over the years.

It doesn’t get more Dear Leader fascist than this. If we accept this, we’re the most spineless culture of the modern era and deserve to lose our freedoms.

Oklahoma will teach high schoolers ‘Big Lie’ about 2020 election

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/22/oklahoma-schools-teach-2020-election-big-lie-trump/83731606007/

Oklahoma to require schools to teach Trump's 2020 election conspiracy theories

The Republican-led state's new high school history curriculum says students must learn about Donald Trump's baseless claims of voting irregularities.

USA TODAY

Under cover of darkness, House Republicans are trying to ram through a bill that would result in a massive transfer of wealth to the top. Take a look at what’s inside…

Progressives are targeting 14 vulnerable Republicans — demanding they vote “no” on the emerging package. If you live in any of their districts, please call them and tell them you’re one of their constituents and that you want them to vote no on the so-called “big beautiful” package.