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Weird neighbor that makes killer guac. Slightly less
annoying than making it yourself.
"AI is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world" www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

'AI Is African Intelligence': ...
'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

404 Media

HEEHEEHEEEEEE 🤪

I LIKE these folks!

šŸ–• age verification laws!

"Software for humans of indeterminate age. We don't know how old you are. We don't want to know. We are legally required to ask. We won't."

https://agelesslinux.org

#Linux #AgeVerification #Discord #Mastadon

Ageless Linux — Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age

Mr Trump, Let's stop this new war ... you can even take credit for stopping a real 9th war.

On average USAID spent $120.5 million per day ($44 billion per year) & saved 11,780 lives per day (4.3 million lives per year) —- 1/3 were children. Thanks to USAID we saw reductions in mortality from causes like HIV/AIDS, malaria, & neglected tropical diseases.

The war on Iran is costing $2 billion per day. Or over 16 times the cost of USAID & is costing lives on both sides … not saving lives.

This is a good thread. I’ve seen way too many otherwise level-headed and competent people slide into AI fascination, rationalization, normalization, evangelization, and eventually harmful self-delusion; and that shit is rapid and most definitely not something that a ā€œnormalā€ automation technology does. To claim at #ai is a ā€œnormalā€ technology is absurd. https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116220202738664759 https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116220202738664759 https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116220202738664759

Rep. Neguse Calls For Inspector General Investigation Into OMB, National Science Foundation & Allegations of Potential Sale of NCAR to For-Profit Corporation
March 9, 2026
Press Release

Washington, D.C. — Today, Colorado Congressman Joe Neguse wrote to the Inspector General of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and demanded an independent investigation into allegations of potential conflicts of interest and regulatory improprieties related to the Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.

According to new allegations reported by a whistleblower to Rep. Neguse’s office, there have been troubling reports that one or more Office of Management and Budget (OMB) officials allegedly proposed or negotiated an arrangement whereby components of NCAR’s space weather program would be transferred to a private, for-profit company.

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https://neguse.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-neguse-calls-inspector-general-investigation-omb-national-science

#oligarchs #NCAR #wx #weather #NSF #NOAA #Plundering

Rep. Neguse Calls For Inspector General Investigation Into OMB, National Science Foundation & Allegations of Potential Sale of NCAR to For-Profit Corporation

Washington, D.C. — Today, Colorado Congressman Joe Neguse wrote to the Inspector General of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and demanded an independent investigation into allegations of potential conflicts of interest and regulatory improprieties related to the Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.

Congressman Joe Neguse

@q66 @peterhuene Yes exactly. Technologists are making the same mistake we have always made: Engaging with new shiny tools on the level of capabilities and technical curiosity rather than on an ideological level. This is a grave mistake when the people behind the modern AI industry have made it very clear that THEY think of AI ideologically, and have made it very clear what that ideology is.

I am once again once again asking everyone to read the Toolmen essay, by @aworkinglibrary : https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toolmen

Toolmen

Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool.

A Working Library

ā€œKarp’s message is loud and clear: My technology will take political capital away from one of your greatest enemies—liberal women with degrees—and give one of your favorite demographics to patronize—working-class men—more political power to transfer to you.ā€

These fucking women-hating weirdo assholes.

I used to think my nemesis was the finance bro. My mistake. It's the Tech Bro. Specifically, this kind.

https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

The New Republic

DHS Contracts Explorer – Hacked data from the Office of Industry Partnership

https://micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/

#github

DHS Contracts Explorer

"Trump Threatens to Kill Iran’s New Supreme Leader Too"
| The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/post/207545/trump-threatens-kill-iran-new-supreme-leader

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I don't know if the reported statement is true. I do know that it is intolerable to hear that POTUS is verbalizing a desire to murder the leader of a foreign country

He should not still be in office

It is intolerable to be expected to just endure overt, murderous, criminality "until the mid-terms".

We are living in an insanity.

Trump Threatens to Kill Iran’s New Supreme Leader Too

President Trump says he’s open to killing Mojtaba Khamenei next.

The New Republic

"We must endure the spectacle of women like Kristi Noem and Nancy Mace, doctored to fit a ghoulish notion of femininity, as they parade bodies for our scorn and entertainment.

It is a fitting culmination for Trumpism."

Trump, MAGA, white Christian nationalism are, put starkly, an eroticized death cult.

#Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war #wargasm
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