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Weasel 2h ago

Transgender World 4h ago

Idaho’s bathroom bill isn’t just about bathrooms. It never was

https://www.advocate.com/opinion/idaho-bathroom-bill-oped

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Idaho bathroom bill threatens everyone’s privacy

In this op-ed, HB 752 is revealed as more than a transgender bathroom bill—it’s a law that invites public suspicion, polices gender expression, and puts everyone at risk.

Advocate.com

Weasel 3h ago

spaf 4h ago

I avoid X-twitter. Someone sent me the text of a post there, and it is hysterical (and sadly, has an element of truth). I can't find it posted elsewhere, so I guess I need to share the link here:
https://x.com/gothburz/status/2039690059947901243?s=61

FYI/FYA

Peter Girnus 🦅 (@gothburz) on X

I am the Vice President of Output Accountability at Microsoft. I report to nobody with that title because the title did not exist until I created it. The title is necessary. The outputs are not accountable to anyone. Someone should be. Our Terms of Service for Copilot include

X (formerly Twitter)

Weasel 3h ago

Metin Seven 🎨6h ago

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

https://browsergate.eu

#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #enshittification #microslop #microsoft #LinkedIn #social #media #SocialMedia #data #security #safety #InfoSec #internet #web

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm. The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it. Because LinkedIn knows each user’s real name, employer, and job title, it is not searching anonymous visitors. It is searching identified people at identified companies. Millions of companies. Every day. All over the world.

BrowserGate

Weasel 1d ago

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Matt Blaze 1d ago

So in summary, mail-in ballots are secured by mechanisms and processes that replicate all the steps of the check-in process at in-person precinct polling stations, but with the ADDITIONAL safeguard that the voter needs to provide a unique document that was sent to their address for each election.

The idea that mail-in voting invites fraud is simply not supported by reality.

Weasel 1d ago

Jim Stewartson

1d ago

According to a cable from Marco Rubio, the State Dept. wants every embassy & consulate to use U.S. Army psychological warfare personnel to run psyops on Elon Musk’s website “to counter anti-American propaganda.”

This is a very bad sign.
https://www.mind-war.com/p/military-psyops-on-x-now-sanctioned

Military Psyops On X: Now Sanctioned By the State Department

A cable from Marco Rubio is a portent of open psychological warfare—on us.

MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy

Weasel 2d ago

jackhutton 🇺🇸2d ago

Wow. [Financial Times]: Pete Hegseth’s broker looked to buy defence fund before Iran attack By Paul Murphy and Harriet Agnew in London, Joshua Franklin in New York and James Politi in Washington

Morgan Stanley wealth manager approached BlackRock about multimillion-dollar investment on behalf of US defence secretary

https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/ebff2ba5-6582-42cc-a306-f0d20b938065

Pete Hegseth’s broker looked to buy defence fund before Iran attack

Morgan Stanley wealth manager approached BlackRock about multimillion-dollar investment for US defence secretary

Financial Times

Weasel 2d ago

𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"4d ago

CPAC 2026 literally had a white supremacist drag queen for the children.

Weasel 3d ago

Weasel Mar 1

Trump really REALLY wants to drop a nuclear bomb, in his words: "A FORCE THAT HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE!"

Weasel 3d ago

Terence Tao 3d ago

Two recent non-technical pieces on the philosophy and practice of mathematics:

"Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI", by Tanya Klowden and myself: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26524 (also discussed in https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/03/29/mathematical-methods-and-human-thought-in-the-age-of-ai/ ). This was a solicited piece for a forthcoming compendium in the philosophy of mathematics.

"What does it mean to think like a mathematician?", https://terrytao.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/talk-ver-3.pdf . These are slides for a talk I gave during a Pi Day (Mar 14) event at the local Curtis Center. The talk will be posted shortly.

Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the name popularly given to a broad spectrum of computer tools designed to perform increasingly complex cognitive tasks, including many that used to solely be the province of humans. As these tools become exponentially sophisticated and pervasive, the justifications for their rapid development and integration into society are frequently called into question, particularly as they consume finite resources and pose existential risks to the livelihoods of those skilled individuals they appear to replace. In this paper, we consider the rapidly evolving impact of AI to the traditional questions of philosophy with an emphasis on its application in mathematics and on the broader real-world outcomes of its more general use. We assert that artificial intelligence is a natural evolution of human tools developed throughout history to facilitate the creation, organization, and dissemination of ideas, and argue that it is paramount that the development and application of AI remain fundamentally human-centered. With an eye toward innovating solutions to meet human needs, enhancing the human quality of life and expanding the capacity for human thought and understanding, we propose a pathway to integrating AI into our most challenging and intellectually rigorous fields to the benefit of all humankind.

arXiv.org

Weasel 3d ago

Emeritus Prof Christopher May 3d ago

This looks like becoming a defining photo for the Court of the Tangerine Tyrant's attack on democracy

#NoKings #politics #democracy

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