Birgit Hartoft 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇬🇱🇪🇺
@bhartoft.bsky.social
Retired IT nerd, M.A. English lang/lit, nerdy about literature & history, animal welfare, patient safety. I detest -isms, and do not tolerate discriminating behaviour justified by them.
If the law explicitly says X, and you claim the law says X while I claim the law says Y, then you’re right and I’m wrong. But the current standard in the US is that if the law says X but Republicans feel Y, everyone must pretend the law says Y, or at least that Y is a reasonable interpretation.
TODAY IN 2024: “Their deliberations led them to a unanimous conclusion, beyond a reasonable doubt: That the defendant, Donald J. Trump, is guilty of 34 counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree, to conceal a scheme to corrupt the 2016 election.” manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-de...
D.A. Bragg Delivers Remarks Announcing 34-Count Felony Trial Conviction of Donald J. Trump
Good evening. First and foremost I want to thank the jury for its service. Jurors perform a fundamental civic duty. Their service is literally the cornerstone of our judicial system.
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A pre-AI take on academic cheating (C.S. Lewis).
Just imagine the level of criminality that compels a President who was already personally granted full immunity by Supreme Court for anything related to 'official acts' to think that's not enough, he must *also* have his DOJ release all civil claims against him, two of his kids, and his company.
Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe US ... is hereby FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED from prosecuting or pursuing, any and all claims, counterclaims, causes of action [etc]... whether presently known or unknown, that... have been or could have been asserted [by the US against Trump, his family, and his companies] out of.. Lawfare 1/
An American president sues/extorts his own government, then settles with his own justice department to funnel money to his criminal allies. He will go down in history as the president who came up with forms of corruption never contemplated before.
This is a shocking example of one of the big reasons why, right now, there is no way I’d use AI for any of my historical work. If you don’t look at the documents yourself, and if you don’t know how the AI you’re using was coded, you have no idea what it may be leaving out – or adding in.
Caitlin G. DeAngelis@caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3mo agoRecently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.
"As in an old joke, we thought it was orgasm, but it was asthma. We thought the development of digital technologies advanced humankind through social realignment, but it was the technological imperative funneling human efforts and resources into artificial intelligence" default.blog/p/we-thought...
We Thought the Internet Was For Us. It Turns Out It's For AI.
how AI is liberating intelligence from humans
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“.. jeg er mindre bekymret for dem som datakøbmænd og mere bekymret for dem som ideologisk aktør.” Men en ideologisk aktør med skarpladte våben og en uhyggelig magt.
Tom Skovløkke@tomskovloekke.bsky.social · 3mo agoDet kan dårlig være mere dårlig selskab. Musk virker jo nærmest normal i sammenligning med det persongalleri. Kan vi SÅ komme væk fra det selskab. Eller er det for meget forlangt? Palantir UD af DK.
Muslims don't deserve to be randomly killed because of Hamas actions. Jews don't deserve to be randomly killed because of Israeli govt actions. And the extent to which their communities speak out doesn’t justify violence against them. It's disturbing that I'm having to repeatedly explain that.
Mindes fru Dybkjær, som i en tale om fremtiden ved et nytårsmøde i IBM slut i 90erne forudsagde netop dette. Vi havde muligheden for at gøre noget. Vi gjorde intet. Det blev bare første store konsekvens af klimaændringer og menneskers misbrug af naturen.
Esheru@esherukweku.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis is a question that has never, ever been considered in mainstream discussions. As with the way westerners are taught history, never at the beginning or source, always somewhere in the middle and without context. The context, the north has and still is destroying the south. When will it stop?
Louisiana now makes it a crime for police to refuse ICE cooperation. Florida created a board to punish officials who don't comply with ICE. Texas forced nearly all sheriffs to become immigration enforcers. And the crackdown on resisting ICE is spreading.
How State and Local Leaders Are Responding to ICE: Your Questions Answered - Bolts
The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to... Read More
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congressperson rushes in to meet his colleagues, waving the constitution “hey have you guys SEEN this thing”
Rebecca Fachner@rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 4mo agoRegular (increasingly regular) reminder that CONGRESS CAN STOP THIS AT PRECISELY ANY MOMENT OF THEIR CHOOSING They are the first branch. God forbid they act like it
Reading Was Never Meant to Compete "Reading was never supposed to compete. It is not a faster, quieter version of TikTok. It is not trying to win your attention the way an algorithm does. Reading is its own thing entirely."
Reading Was Never Meant to Compete
We talk about reading as if it is in a race. As if every time a kid picks up a phone instead of a book, reading has lost a point. And I understand why we frame it that way. The competition feels re…
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The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It's incredibly important to understand that Hegseth is part of a movement. He is not some lone sociopath we have the bad luck to have heading our Dept of Defense. He is deeply embedded in a social movement that worked with others to elect DJT and ensure people like Hegseth would be in the cabinet
Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com · 4mo agoso, i wrote up a piece about how Hegseth (calling for religious violence) and Pope Leo (rebuking him) were pulling from the same tradition within Christianity. Unsurprisingly, Leo's is a more subtle, interesting history lesson though... Read and share --> www.ms.now/opinion/pete...
Nu mangler der kun krematorierne, fy for helved et land🤢
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 4mo ago"The Trump administration admits to testing conversion therapy on trans prisoners and implies its policy of forcibly detransitioning trans men in prisons has the aim of preserving their fertility." transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
“They don’t realise the barbaric nature of their language because they live in an aggressor’s bubble: both the US and Israel are failed states because war is their biggest economic sector ..”
Paul Eric@pauleric70.bsky.social · 4mo agoA fifth of the world’s energy and other resources are blocked so that 9 million supremacists in Israel can expand their empire. Pushing billions into hunger and conflict is not a war crime. It is planetary-level genocide. georgetsakraklides.substack.com/p/why-israel...
My irregular reminder. #NeverForhet.
Auschwitz Memorial@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 5mo ago22 March 1922 | A Polish Jew, Berek Fiszman, was born in Radomsko. A carpenter. In #Auschwitz from 11 December 1941. No. 24223 He perished in the camp on 15 March 1942. --- 📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
