Wait, so did Claude tell them to bomb a girl’s school?!

U.S. Strikes in Middle East Use Anthropic, Hours After Trump Ban

Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the hel...

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Internet connectivity in Iran is now in a near-complete shutdown, down about 98% vs the previous week. The disruption began around 07:00 UTC, following reports of military strikes — and in past incidents the government has responded with nationwide Internet shutdowns.

The American bombardment of Iran has been launched without explanation, without Congress, without public support. Above all it has been launched without a coherent strategy for the Iranian people, and without a plan to let them build a legitimate Iranian state. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People

The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime.

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in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

200+ UU colleagues are in #Minneapolis protesting ICE www.uuworld.org/articles/min...

The Day of Truth and Freedom: UU Clergy and Laypeople Join Multifaith March in Minneapolis Against ICE

Developing story: Follow UU World’s live updates, including dispatches from Minneapolis.

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The new directive asks USDA workers in the agency’s research arm to use Google to check the backgrounds of all foreign nationals collaborating with its scientists. The names of flagged scientists are being sent to national security experts at the agency, according to records reviewed by ProPublica.

Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With

The new directive asks workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” Their names are being sen...

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Omg. Iran killed 16,500 protesters and injured 330,000 in two days.

Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’

Witnesses tell of the brutality inflicted on those taking part in anti-regime protests

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San Francisco is going to give families making under $230k free child care for kids under 5. It is nice to see that good things can still happen. www.sf.gov/news-mayor-l...

Almost 15,000 New York City nurses go on strike. "Staffing levels are a top issue for striking nurses. The union says nurses are dealing with unmanageable workloads. Nurses also want improved security in hospitals, better pay, and fully-funded benefits." abc7ny.com/post/nyc-nur...

Nurses' union alleges illegal firings, union busting amid their biggest strike in NYC history

The largest nurse strike in city history continues, with nearly 15,000 nurses striking after no agreement was reached ahead of deadline.

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Why does life explore so few of the forms it could possibly take? Using fractal descriptors, this #scienceadvances paper shows that Earth’s biosphere clusters around simple shapes, reflecting deep evolutionary constraints. @artemyte.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Please everyone stop writing articles about "defense" or "economic" reasons to occupy Greenland, that's all irrelevant

www.thenation.com/article/acti... Hit them where it hurts them - boycotts can work

Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators.

ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.

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Immigrants are welcome here! Stand up against ICE Terror! Prosecute ICE. ICE murdered Renee Nicole Good!

The French government is building open-source office software lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/en

Work with LaSuite

LaSuite brings all agents and professionals together in the public sphere

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We've heard people like Starter Packs, so we just begun putting one together for open source organizations. It could be an OSPO like us, a Foundation that supports projects and the ecosystem or accounts for OSS events. Take a look and tell us who else should be there. go.bsky.app/Te7sTt9

Open Source Organizations

Join the conversation

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The conversation on Threads

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is officially mayor of New York City

As the year comes to an end, may I interest you in my favorite book of 2025? It's @adapalmer.bsky.social's Inventing the Renaissance: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... You think you don't need a 700+ page romp through mostly Renaissance Italy, but you do.

Inventing the Renaissance

A New Yorker Best Book of 2025An irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe’s golden age.From the darkness of a plagued and war-torn Middle Ages, the Renaissance (...

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Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? https://youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXskvutjF

The Biggest Economic Lies We’re Told | Robert Reich

Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based

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JUST IN: Federal health agencies have to slash their spending by more than a third, on top of the 10,000-person staffing cuts.

On top of layoffs, HHS ordered to cut 35% of spending on contracts

Federal health agencies have to slash their spending by more than a third, on top of the 10,000-person staffing cuts.

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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Elon Musk receives $8 MILLION a day from the federal government. Social security recipients receive $65 dollars a day after paying in their whole lives.

🚀 Fully funded PhD in Neurosymbolic AI for Finance 💰🤖 🔍 Work at Imperial College London on cutting-edge AI for financial applications! [1/3]

#AI helps researchers read ancient scroll burned to a crisp in #Vesuvius eruption - www.theguardian.com/science/2025... "Writing on PHerc. 172 papyrus, found at Roman mansion in Herculaneum, revealed after 3D X-rays and software competition" fab use of tech

AI helps researchers read ancient scroll burned to a crisp in Vesuvius eruption

Writing on PHerc. 172 papyrus, found at Roman mansion in Herculaneum, revealed after 3D X-rays and software competition

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My student's work on synthetic CT generation using StarGAN. He's been exploring multi-domain image generation across CT, CBCT, and MR. ro-journal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Synthetic CT generation from CBCT and MRI using StarGAN in the Pelvic Region - Radiation Oncology

Rationale and objectives This study evaluated StarGAN, a deep learning model designed to generate synthetic computed tomography (sCT) images from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and cone-beam compute...

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#Anthropic dares you to jailbreak its new AI model - arstechnica.com/ai/2025/02/a... "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? "

Anthropic dares you to jailbreak its new AI model

Week-long public test follows 3,000+ hours of unsuccessful bug bounty claim attempts.

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Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability arxiv.org/abs/2501.16496

Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability

Mechanistic interpretability aims to understand the computational mechanisms underlying neural networks' capabilities in order to accomplish concrete scientific and engineering goals. Progress in this...

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

If I were hardcore-MAGA I would love NYT coverage: they make Trump seem like a badass leader working hard, getting job done! (when he, in fact, doing very illegal things to undermine democracy, enrich himself/cronies, weaken our security, cause unspeakable pain & suffering to 10's of millions)

Wikipedia is one of the last major bastions of verified information. Which, of course, is why the oligarchs want to destroy it. You can donate to them here. donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

Molly White@molly.wiki · 2y ago

having succeeded in purchasing positions of influence inside the White House, the billionaires and tech VCs have now set their sights back on Wikipedia