Pan African Marxist-Leninism and chill ✨
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Former neurobiologist, currently a M.S. in computer science and AI 99.9% of your issues with AI are actually issues with capitalism 🤷🏿♀️ Your shill for local, ecologically sustainable AI 👍🏿 (All generations used 100% renewable energy + no water)
In July, the Vatican hosted an assembly on AI and nuclear war. “AI built into nuclear systems leaves little time for, or even replaces, human judgement in a crisis,” the assembly document reads. “This technology changes the context in which nuclear-armed states compete with each other.”
Faith Leaders Collectively Raise Alarm as AI and Nuclear Weapons Systems Merge
As AI complicates nuclear threats, religious groups are doubling down on calls for disarmament.
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I don't believe this until all the activists that I know tell me they have unprecedented access They haven't yet, and there's many indicators to the contrary I.e. Tish James refusing to ban the sale of Palestinian lands by Israelis, Jessica Tisch as police commissioner, etc This is propaganda 🤷🏿♀️
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · yesterdayNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Again, China is proving itself to be the only industrialized country with any stake in a livable future If there is any silver lining to this war crime ridden conflict, its the demand destruction for fossil fuels www.reuters.com/commentary/r...
China's EV export boom is starting to show up in the gasoline market
For years, forecasts of the energy transition followed a familiar script: electric vehicles would gradually dent gasoline demand in Europe and China before eventually spreading elsewhere.
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@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul LGBTQnation Another brick in the wall: new Canadian study of 445 trans kids on GAC finds 97.1% continued identifying as transgender after an average of 2.4 years, with only 2.9% detransitioning. Still more proof the kids are all right.
New study deflates right-wing claim that many trans teens later regret gender-affirming care - LGBTQ Nation
Gender identity among adolescents initiating hormone therapy is "highly stable," the authors write.
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Ceuta migrant disaster death toll rises to 141, Morocco's deadliest in recent history - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ceuta-migrant-disaster-death-toll-rises-morocco-deadliest-recent-history
Ceuta migrant disaster death toll rises to 141, Morocco's deadliest in recent history
Families demand answers over Rabat’s decision to allow tens of thousands of people to enter Spanish enclave
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One of the primary things that non AI folks miss is the difference between content and art AI has already surpassed humans in content generation in every field I've reviewed But AI struggles with taste, which is the basis of all great art Tl;dr: content generation is solved, art will never be
Bo Thompson@gaudipern.bsky.social · 18h agoI hate articles like this. Yes, a model trained to average samples from professional writers is likely to be better than the average of a random sampling of writers. Duh. All you've said is that professional writers aren't accidentally succeeding.
Congratulations to @abdulelsayed.bsky.social for securing the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan! STANDING AGAINST GENOCIDE IS GOOD POLICY AND GOOD POLITICS!
The US is governed by a racist regime. But you know that. "The State Department is making permanent a program under which citizens from 50 countries, mainly in Africa, are required to post bonds to apply for a U.S. visa, & raising the cost as well, to as much as $20,000." www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
U.S. will make visa bond program permanent, affecting mostly African countries
A draft notice published Friday in the Federal Register says a nearly year-long review “provided sufficient data” to suggest the bond program effectively enforces compliance with visa conditions, and ...
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Israeli army launches large-scale assault in East Jerusalem refugee camp - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-army-launches-large-scale-assault-east-jerusalem-refugee-camp
Israeli army launches large-scale assault in East Jerusalem refugee camp
Soldiers storm homes, arrest Palestinians and prevent dawn prayer across Qalandiya refugee camp's mosques
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“Unlike KOSA and many of the other age verification laws that have spread across the country, the SCREEN Act does not have bipartisan support. It’s the latest in Lee’s repeated attempts to criminalize content he and his co-sponsors personally consider immoral.”
The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare
Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the arc...
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Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS
...so how long until insurance companies compel customers to provide this data so that the company can raise your rates or just drop your coverage entirely?
Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social · yesterdayAccurately predicting an individual's health arc is a dream that has not been previously possible. Now we're headed there, thanks to a new @nature.com paper by Sarah Urbut and team. Our conversation and annotations in the new Ground Truths erictopol.substack.com/p/predicting...
AI data centers could raise electric rates in Northern Virginia by 25% by 2030. Nationwide, data centers are already helping push power bills up faster than the cost of living.
Poor Communities Are Paying the Price for "Free" AI Tools
AI data centers produce massive noise pollution, use huge amounts of water and keep us hooked on fossil fuels.
inthesetimes.com
So blasé about ethnic cleansing "They declared they would carry out voluntary emigration from Gaza," Cohen said on X, referring to the government's plan to expel Palestinians from the strip. "In the end, the October 7 government encouraged voluntary emigration from the State of Israel."
Middle East Eye (Unofficial)@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 2d agoIsrael suffers record emigration wave, with almost 270,000 leaving since 2023 - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-suffers-record-emigration-wave-almost-270000-leaving-2023
Gaza families bury 112 people recovered nearly three years after Israeli strikes - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-families-bury-112-people-recovered-nearly-three-years-after-0
Gaza families bury 112 people recovered nearly three years after Israeli strikes
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Liberal democracy == white supremacist capitalist oligarchy Regardless of nation, geography, or the illusion of a social state www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Burnham re-appoints former Israeli Supreme Court clerk as justice minister
Burnham's re-appointment of Sarah Sackman as justice minister sends a loud signal to those who thought he might change course on Palestine.
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Every war is a form of upward wealth redistribution
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d agoBP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Israeli strikes on Gaza only intensified in the days following a US-brokered agreement billed as a 'breakthrough' https://aje.news/ucdvq6
A reminder that the Western world is built on genocide, rather than a defender against it
Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 2d agoTech giant Palantir posts ‘otherworldly’ growth despite criticism over Gaza https://aje.news/zg3yf8
How Morocco's Gaza deployment is reshaping its ties with Israel - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-moroccos-gaza-deployment-reshaping-its-ties-us-and-israel
How Morocco's Gaza deployment is reshaping its ties with Israel
Rabat frames joining stabilisation force as humanitarian mission, but activists decry move as 'complicity in post-war occupation'
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A Salvadoran man held for the past six weeks at Delaney Hall, the largest ICE detention center in the New York metro area, has died, his mother and attorneys say. It is the second death at the facility since it opened a year and a half ago.
Salvadoran Man Held at Delaney Hall Dies in ICE Custody
The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.
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Crazy.
Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 2d ago@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul Advocate Michigan Civil Rights Comsn ruls Studio 8 Hair Lab owner Christine Geiger violated MI civil rights laws when she posted on social media that the salon would not serve trans people, who should instead "seek services at a local pet groomer."
