Tootfinder

A lot of arguments in community chats broke out about who was supposed to be where, about what community was asking for people to show up or steer clear, about age-old militant vs. pacifist debates that have basically been stuck on loop since the 1960s (and are, IMO, just •incredibly• boring at this point, sorry).
But that’s organizing. It’s messy. People argue. People find consensus. People chaotically self-organize despite lack of consensus. People make good things happen.
And in the end, the people who believe in inclusion and reaching across differences and •building• community instead of destroying it — they have an intrinsic advantage.
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Hillbilly state cancels PBS:
https://apnews.com/article/arkansas-public-television-sever-ties-56ec111ffcc4de431d6fd06ba0df8e40

Arizona attorney general sues Chinese online retailer Temu over data theft claims
https://apnews.com/article/arizona-temu-lawsuit-14615cec4bb7927493a7208f9d23431b

Arizona targets Chinese retailer Temu in data privacy lawsuit
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing online retailer Temu and its parent company PDD Holdings Inc., claiming the Chinese company is stealing customers' data and violating state consumer protection laws. She announced the lawsuit during a news conference Tuesday. Arkansas, Nebraska and Kentucky have outlined similar allegations in separate lawsuits filed in those states. Mayes is calling for Arizonans to delete their Temu accounts and scan their devices for malware.

Arizona AG Kris Mayes sues Temu for allegedly stealing customers' data, including their physical location, and counterfeiting local brands (Sejal Govindarao/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/arizona-temu-lawsuit-14615cec4bb7927493a7208f9d23431b…

Arizona targets Chinese retailer Temu in data privacy lawsuit
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing online retailer Temu and its parent company PDD Holdings Inc., claiming the Chinese company is stealing customers' data and violating state consumer protection laws. She announced the lawsuit during a news conference Tuesday. Arkansas, Nebraska and Kentucky have outlined similar allegations in separate lawsuits filed in those states. Mayes is calling for Arizonans to delete their Temu accounts and scan their devices for malware.

Iberia
1) Convincing victory of united left in second round as António José Seguro elected president of Portugal with 67% of second round vote, a rout for far right Chega.
2) In the Bourbon monarchy next door, right PP wins regional election in Aragon but will depend on far right Vox doubled representation. Centre left PSOE diminishes, left Sumar hangs on to 1 seat while Podemos vanishes.
Broad left unity defeats the right in these PR systems.

El socialista Seguro arrasa al ultra Ventura en las presidenciales de Portugal, según los sondeos
La situación catastrófica provocada por el tren de borrascas ha impedido votar a casi 37.000 personas que acudirán a las urnas el próximo 15 de febrero ya conociendo el resultado electoral, un 0,3% de electores que apenas modificarán los porcentajes de voto

Maravilloso...
@… https://mastodon.social/@eeamalaga/115881709959826068

AGI is Our Generation's Alchemy, And We're Too Arrogant to Admit It
The AI industry has a dirty secret: we're building toward Artificial General Intelligence without the faintest consensus on what intelligence actually is.
https://ocrampal.com/from-sophi…

From Sophists to Alchemists to AI Coders: The Technique Without Understanding
We believe we are at the cutting edge of history, but we may just be repeating its oldest mistakes. From the Sophists’ empty rhetoric to the Alchemists’ blind experimentation, humanity has a long history of mastering technique without possessing understanding. This dialogue explores how today’s AI-driven world is creating

Mick Shots: This Is About Us https://www.dallascowboys.com/podcast/mick-shots-12-11-25

Manipulating voters:
"AI models needn’t be more powerful, more personalized, or more skilled in advanced rhetorical techniques to be more convincing. Instead, chatbots were most effective when they threw fact-like claims at the user; the most persuasive AI models were those that provided the most “evidence” in support of their argument, regardless of whether that evidence had any bearing on reality. In fact, the most persuasive chatbots were also the least accurate."

Four years ago, the conservative justices on the Supreme Court decided that gun laws must be rooted in history in order to comply with the Second Amendment.
But they are not always comfortable with the reality this analysis unearths.
The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in
"Wolford v. Lopez",
a case about whether states can ban people from carrying concealed firearms on private property without getting the owner’s consent.
Under the Hawai…

The Supreme Court’s “History and Tradition” Test Just Ran Into America’s History and Tradition of Anti-Black Racism
Requiring "historical analogues" for modern gun laws eventually turns up some history that makes even the conservative justices uncomfortable.