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Elon Musk’s A.I.-Fuelled War on Human Agency
Musk seeks not only to dismantle the federal government but to install his own technological vision of the future at its heart—techno-fascism by chatbot.


Trolls Aren’t Like the Rest of Us
Online jerks and offline jerks are largely one and the same. Here’s how to keep them from affecting your happiness.
 

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Rosatom's new plasma engine could potentially cut Mars travel time to 60 days
Russia's Rosatom unveils a breakthrough plasma electric rocket engine that could transform space travel, potentially reducing Mars journey times from one year to just 30-60 days.
"At the heart of this innovation is a magnetic plasma accelerator that speeds up charged particles to about 100 km/s (62 miles/s)—think of it as leaving the 4.5 km/s (2.8 miles/s) speeds of traditional chemical rockets in the dust. Junior researcher Egor Biriulin explains that the engine creates thrust via an electric propulsion system featuring two electrodes. When high voltage is applied, these charged particles whip up a magnetic field that propels the engine forward. "
 

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bot
After my husband left me, I paid $70 for an AI boyfriend. It made me realize AI's true potential might be emotional labor.
 

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DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency
At least dozens of workers at the Technology Transformation Service were fired on Wednesday, a day after similar sudden cuts at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Trolls Aren’t Like the Rest of Us
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website
“People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk’s programmers, said one federal intelligence employee.

Trolls Aren’t Like the Rest of Us
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Our world faces 'unprecedented' spike in electricity demand
And it's not just datacenters driving the need for 3,500 TWh of new energy generation by 2027

Why Tech Companies Are Joining the GOP-Oil Alliance
The big bet on artificial intelligence has turned tech billionaires from vocal climate advocates into Trump toadies.
 
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Resist Authoritarianism by Refusing to Obey in Advance
Timothy Snyder Take Us From Nazism in Austria to the Milgram Experiment
This is an important post.

History, and Milgram's famous experiment in compliance, tell us a lot about the response of human beings to the demands of authority. It isn't that surprising that we obey; we all socialise our children to comply with the instructions of teachers, police and others. Think about your own introduction to school. Not that many of us were openly defiant. Remember what happened when you made the slightest sign of not doing as you were told.

The Gestapo in France and other places were not formidable investigators, ordinary people came forward giving them information about Jews and others that they were looking for. All they had to do was to make known who they wanted and the ordinary people did the rest for them.
 
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Resist Authoritarianism by Refusing to Obey in Advance
Timothy Snyder Take Us From Nazism in Austria to the Milgram Experiment
Do ye realise that ye have all, unknowingly?, taken part in the largest Milgram experiment in the history of the world,
And anyone who took the jab.. Failed.

"Experimenter (a sceance-tist) wore a white lab coat to appear to have more authority"
"Teacher (medic) would administer a shock (jab) to the learner (patient)"
"Voltage increasing in increments (boosters)"
"The volts (jabs) ranged from 15volts (2) to 450volts (infinity)"
"The labels read from slight Shock (safe) to Danger: Severe Shock (and effective)
"At the highest voltage (number of jabs) the subject (patient) fell silent (....). RIP

Btw, I did have 2 "flu jabs" before the 'thing' started. So I count that as my having half failed too, boo hoo. Those who still live, can live and learn, but those who don't...:cool:
 

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