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Scoop: RFK Jr.'s PAC stirs, fueling speculation on a 2028 campaign (Brittany Gibson/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/16/rfk-jr-pac-2028-speculation
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p9#a250716p9

To the genocide-loving German from mastodon.social who reported @… for being antisemitic:
Fuck you, you genocide-loving piece of shit, opposing genocide isn’t antisemitism. What you’re doing – conflating being anti-genocide with being antisemitic – is the greatest antisemitism as you’re de facto stating that all Jews are pro-genocide.

Artificial Intelligence and Journalism: A Systematic Bibliometric and Thematic Analysis of Global Research
Mohammad Al Masum Molla, Md Manjurul Ahsan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10891

Artificial Intelligence and Journalism: A Systematic Bibliometric and Thematic Analysis of Global Research
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping journalistic practices across the globe, offering new opportunities while raising ethical, professional, and societal concerns. This study presents a comprehensive systematic review of published articles on AI in journalism from 2010 to 2025. Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) 2020 guidelines, a total of 72 peer-reviewed articles were selected from Scopus and Web of Science databases. The analysis c…

Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Films We Can See - Jonathan Rosenbaum
> Ebert reviews a good many film books, and to my knowledge Siskel never did; if he ever read any books about film on his own, it would have surprised me.
#films #movies

YES!
GDP growth is effectively dead.The motor is broken.
Now it's time to face reality and share the wealth that is so evidently present.
An economy for life!
#degrowth
Blow to Chancellor as UK economy shrank unexpectedly in May

Blow to Chancellor as UK economy shrank unexpectedly in May
The UK economy contracted unexpectedly in May, marking the second month in a row of falling output and heaping further pressure on Chancellor Rachel Reeves. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.1% in May, following a 0.3% drop in April. Most economists had expected the economy to rebound […]

I've spent most of today trying (and failing) to do something which seems as though it should be inherently simple: I've been trying to open an new popup window from #Clojurescript running in a browser, and give that window dynamically generated content.
My mental health really is rubbish today, but I'm not sure to what extent that's the problem and to what extent this …

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC

Superstudent intelligence in thermodynamics
Rebecca Loubet, Pascal Zittlau, Marco Hoffmann, Luisa Vollmer, Sophie Fellenz, Heike Leitte, Fabian Jirasek, Johannes Lenhard, Hans Hasse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09822

Superstudent intelligence in thermodynamics
In this short note, we report and analyze a striking event: OpenAI's large language model o3 has outwitted all students in a university exam on thermodynamics. The thermodynamics exam is a difficult hurdle for most students, where they must show that they have mastered the fundamentals of this important topic. Consequently, the failure rates are very high, A-grades are rare - and they are considered proof of the students' exceptional intellectual abilities. This is because pattern learning does…

Before this #LetterboxdFriday ends, I share my #LastFourWatched
The Greatest Hits (3½★)
Despicable Me 2 (3★)
Despicable Me (3½★)
Sing (1½★)
🔗 https://…

Top CDC COVID vaccine adviser resigns following RFK Jr. recommendation change (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5333478-cdc-covid-vaccine-official-resigns/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p167#a250604p167