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The Enshittification of American Power
First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.
https://www.wired.com/story/enshittification-of-american-power/

The Enshittification of American Power
First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.

A song I think of every time I hear about major flooding from summer storms (as in #Montreal yesterday). The studio version's good, the live one's better.
Blue Meanies, "Pave the World" (live, 1998)
https://youtu.be/bTiRP8qZmUI

Musician, writer, and filmmaker Rachel Brown on having a life outside of your creative world – #CreativeLife https://thecreativeindependent.…

Musician, writer, and filmmaker Rachel Brown on having a life outside of your creative world – The Creative Independent
Musician, writer and filmmaker Rachel Brown discusses how important it is to balance a life outside of artmaking, what it means to work with the right kind of collaborators and how seeking perfection can hold you back

Today, if there is a known vaccine treatment for a disease, the medical establishment considers it unethical to withhold that drug from trial participants, as would happen in a placebo group.
“It remains unclear under which circumstances, if any, a placebo-controlled clinical trial design is ethically justifiable when an efficacious or partially efficacious vaccine already exists,”
experts wrote in a 2013 World Health Organization report.
That means that even if a previou…

RFK Jr. wants all new vaccines tested against a placebo. Doctors say that isn’t good science
Today, if there is a known vaccine treatment for a disease, the medical establishment considers it unethical to withhold that drug from trial participants, as would happen in a placebo group.

American Allies Want to Redraw the World's Trade Map, Minus the U.S. (Jeanna Smialek/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/world/europe/trump-tariffs-trade-europe-us.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WE8.aDgN.OBfPzJhIIPUL&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p28#a250713p28

I love communism because of its vision of a society based on equality, solidarity, and the abolition of class and state oppression. The idea of real communism, as envisioned by thinkers like Peter Kropotkin and Karl Marx, inspires me deeply. It’s a world where people freely associate, manage their own workplaces, and share resources according to need. This ideal has never truly been realized in history, which makes it all the more important to keep striving for it.
At the same time, I …

Sonnet 148 - CXLVIII
O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight;
Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,
That censures falsely what they see aright?
If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,
What means the world to say it is not so?
If it be not, then love doth well denote
Love's eye is not so true as all men's: no,
How can it? O! how can Love's eye be true,
That is so v…

A Comprehensive Evaluation framework of Alignment Techniques for LLMs
Muneeza Azmat, Momin Abbas, Maysa Malfiza Garcia de Macedo, Marcelo Carpinette Grave, Luan Soares de Souza, Tiago Machado, Rogerio A de Paula, Raya Horesh, Yixin Chen, Heloisa Caroline de Souza Pereira Candello, Rebecka Nordenlow, Aminat Adebiyi
https://arxiv.org/abs/250…

A Comprehensive Evaluation framework of Alignment Techniques for LLMs
As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into real-world applications, ensuring their outputs align with human values and safety standards has become critical. The field has developed diverse alignment approaches including traditional fine-tuning methods (RLHF, instruction tuning), post-hoc correction systems, and inference-time interventions, each with distinct advantages and limitations. However, the lack of unified evaluation frameworks makes it difficult to systematica…

Today, if there is a known vaccine treatment for a disease, the medical establishment considers it unethical to withhold that drug from trial participants, as would happen in a placebo group.
“It remains unclear under which circumstances, if any, a placebo-controlled clinical trial design is ethically justifiable when an efficacious or partially efficacious vaccine already exists,”
experts wrote in a 2013 World Health Organization report.
That means that even if a previou…

RFK Jr. wants all new vaccines tested against a placebo. Doctors say that isn’t good science
Today, if there is a known vaccine treatment for a disease, the medical establishment considers it unethical to withhold that drug from trial participants, as would happen in a placebo group.

Sometimes Being Unsigned Means DIY – #IndieMusician #indiemusic #musicianresources #musiciantips

Sometimes Being Unsigned Means DIY - #IndieMusician
Stan Stewart - @muz4now