At Risk in the USA

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Author: (novel, sci-fi, fantasy, adventure, comedy) Writes about #Empathy #AIAlignment #Ethics Occasionally funny. #Antifascist #UofBath #UoPeople #MSc in #AI, #MBA, BS in CS America is a Police State

Tesla's defective self-driving software will still illegally blow past a stopped school bus and run down a child crossing the road! We warned Tesla of this danger 4 years ago and the safety defect hasn't been fixed in FSD v14 Lite. Why is this product allowed on public roads?

Any sweeping systemic change you want to make in the United States has to begin with adding seats to the Supreme Court in 2029. No major reform bill will survive the current court. No civil rights law, no anti-corruption law, no wealth tax, nothing.

One direct request from the White House, and Apple folds instantly. By quietly altering Apple Maps to read "Lake America," Tim Cook's legacy finishes not with innovation, but with corporate capitulation to authoritarian vanity… 🎥 Darren Barany

Gloria Steinem's essays, organizing, and institutions like Ms. magazine reshaped American life for women. She understood that progress would provoke resistance, because, as she so eloquently put it... "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."

Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Feminist Movement, Dies at 92

She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.

nytimes.com

Sheila E., 69 years young, and still the Queen of percussion! Marched onto the Hollywood Bowl stage this week to a 5 minute video of Obama and MLK speeches and proceeded to drum her heart out 👑💕🥁💫 What an inspiration! #pinks #humansofbluesky

Johnny White, a 71-year-old Black man, should have been able to feel safe around his own home. Instead, prosecutors say his neighbor repeatedly targeted him with racial slurs before allegedly attacking him from behind with a piece of lumber-leaving him with fractures to his nose, jaw and eye socket.

Not all Republicans are pedophiles But all pedophiles seem to be voting Republican Not all Republicans are racist kkk But all racist kkk members vote Republican Not all Republicans are greedy corporate raiders But All Greedy corporate raiders vote Republican The worse in our society are Republicans

The first brain surgery using live artificial intelligence assistance was performed successfully last week in London. “It's a really big milestone,” says researcher Shreya Johri, who studies the benefits of using AI in medicine.

I am grateful to have gotten to meet her, and to attend live events where she was a spokesperson. I appreciate that she regularly claimed that "black women invented feminism" and focused on everyone carrying a torch rather than passing it on. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...

Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)

She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.

nytimes.com

Steinem “passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her,” a post on her official Instagram page said Thursday. It added that she died on Wednesday, although it did not give a cause of death. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Gloria Steinem, fierce feminist trailblazer, dies

A pioneering activist and journalist, Steinem was one of the women’s liberation movement’s most outspoken advocates.

nbcnews.com

“Women have a special opportunity to live the revolution. By refusing to play their traditional role, they upset and displace the social structure around them…” — Gloria Steinem 1934-2026

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Gloria Steinem has passed away. Long ago, my parents used to force me to go to church each Sunday. One time the pastor made a comment about "people who were destroying America, like Carl Sagan and Gloria Steinem." I liked Carl Sagan. Gloria Steinem was new to me. I took it as a recommendation.

My original trade paperback of Gloria Steinem's "Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions" (1st edition, 1983).

Lutnick: "The way the president is playing Iran -- there haven't been American deaths, it's really just an economic choke-out ... " (There have been 18 American deaths!)

Chicago Public Health announced today that we have a confirmed case of West Nile Virus. Please take it seriously! Might be oversharing but my grandfather died from complications from the 2013 Dallas WNV outbreak. Wear insect repellent and if you’re old / immunocompromised, stay in at dawn and dusk!