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✊ Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “We Need a New Civic Morality”
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “We Need a New Civic Morality”
As he visits the US for the first time, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France Insoumise, writes about the collapse of triumphal capitalist narratives and sets out an alternative vision for humanity that can save us from a dystopian future.

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"Seeking Joy"
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Seeking Joy #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The Trump administration has terminated National Science Foundation grants for more than 100 research projects related to climate change
amid a widening campaign to slash federal funding for scientists and institutions studying the rising risks of a warming world.
The move will cut off what’s likely to amount to tens of millions of dollars for studies that were previously approved and, in most cases, already in the works. 
Affected projects include efforts to develop cleaner …

The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies
Tens of millions of dollars in NSF grants have been slashed, and scientists fear the US is about to lose a generation of climate researchers.

Getty Images CEO Craig Peters says Getty is spending "millions and millions" on its Stability AI lawsuit in the UK and the US, accusing it of copying 12M images (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/28/getty-ceo-

Getty Images spending millions to battle a 'world of rhetoric' in AI suit, CEO says
Getty Images is spending "millions and millions of dollars" on its legal case against Stability AI, the photo licensing company's CEO Craig Peters told CNBC.

Last boost, related #uspol take:
"Here's RFK's plan:
1. Claim vaccines cause autism
2. Push vaccine skepticism, lower vax rates
3. Create autism registry - people avoid getting a diagnosis to stay off it
4. Point to the decrease in autism diagnoses as "proof" vaccines cause autism"
via a screenshot of a tweet by a Skyler Johnson @Skylerfo…

Tient Bull n'est toujours pas mort https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2025/06/02/l-etat-achete-les-supercalculateurs-d-atos_6610190_3234.html

L’Etat achète les supercalculateurs d’Atos
L’Agence des participations de l’Etat achète pour 410 millions d’euros ces activités stratégiques, notamment pour la dissuasion nucléaire.

We can say this at least:
Musk is one of the most malignant people ever to hold a position of influence in American politics.
His actions, without exaggeration, have devastated the health and security of American society
and directly caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people all over the world, with millions more to follow given the course that he has set.
Musk’s DOGE, which is more or less a conspiracy to destroy constitutional government in this country, has …

Go, Elon, and Never Darken Our Doors Again
The worst ultra-billionaire on Earth says he’s leaving government. Let’s hope he actually does it.

1984 on steroids.
"Needless to say, putting American data in the hands of a company whose CEO boasts about his company’s capacity to kill and intimidate doesn’t inspire confidence that the data will be handled responsibly."
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stor…

Trump appears to be building an unprecedented spy machine that could track Americans
As Donald Trump and his administration pursue crippling austerity measures across the country, they’re plunging millions into a company that’s expanding the government’s ability to spy on its own citizens.

USB: A Comprehensive and Unified Safety Evaluation Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models
Baolin Zheng, Guanlin Chen, Hongqiong Zhong, Qingyang Teng, Yingshui Tan, Zhendong Liu, Weixun Wang, Jiaheng Liu, Jian Yang, Huiyun Jing, Jincheng Wei, Wenbo Su, Xiaoyong Zhu, Bo Zheng, Kaifu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23793…

USB: A Comprehensive and Unified Safety Evaluation Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models
Despite their remarkable achievements and widespread adoption, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have revealed significant security vulnerabilities, highlighting the urgent need for robust safety evaluation benchmarks. Existing MLLM safety benchmarks, however, fall short in terms of data quality and coverge, and modal risk combinations, resulting in inflated and contradictory evaluation results, which hinders the discovery and governance of security concerns. Besides, we argue that vulne…

If people taking care of our elders get deported, will anyone take their place?
At a time where it seems fewer and fewer of us want to work in long-term care, the need has never been greater
So how will millions of aging Americans be able to afford care for physical and cognitive decline,
especially given Trump’s proposed cuts to Medicaid, which covers about two-thirds of nursing home residents?
And who will take care of those who don’t have family members who can …

Commentary: If people taking care of our elders get deported, will anyone take their place?
How will millions of seniors get healthcare, especially with Trump's policies on immigration and proposed cuts to Medicaid?