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It's not a contradiction to be opposed to the Online Safety Act, and to also think that this is Clown World nonsense
> Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida said [...] “If Starmer is successful in banning X in Britain, I will move forward with legislation that is currently being drafted to sanction not only Starmer, but Britain as a whole."

Elon Musk’s Grok curbs AI image editing usage after deepfakes backlash
The tool is now limited to paying users.

I have been made aware of a #Grokepedia entry about a relative of mine. The text is elaborate and sounds ok, except for some repetitions. Knowing a few things about my relative, I can attest that the Grokepedia entry contains numerous errors and some contradiction already in the first half. It is so long that I couldn't read the second half.
To wit, it is inadvisable to rely on Grok…

From David Suzuki
For the past 30 years, global representatives have gathered for United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP) climate summits, promising solutions. But political inaction continues to drive worsening climate disasters.
It’s hard not to be cynical. The COP process has become a theatre of contradiction. Recent summits have been hosted by petrostates & financed by polluters. Fossil fuel lobbyists attended COP28 & COP29 [en masse]

DOJ admits it has still not released 99% of Epstein files, violating law (Popular Information)
https://popular.info/p/the-contradiction-at-the-heart-of
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p15#a260107p15

this week on substack I'm sharing some thoughts about how accepting contradiction or paradox in our lives can allow us to grow our impact.
https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-gift-of-contradiction?r=1o5n19&utm_campaign=post&ut…

The Gift of Contradiction
How embracing our messy tensions can widen movements and deepen integrity. You can care deeply about climate and still live with contradiction. Perfection isn’t integrity. What matters is the direction of your compass.

läser om vad som måste vara en av decenniets mest välslipade kulturessäer https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/

Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny - Blood Knife
The human body has become a strange contradiction at the heart of the modern blockbuster. Sexy, yes. But sexual? No.

Sharing some thoughts about the complexities of living in alignment with your values! https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-gift-of-contradiction?r=1o5n19&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShar…

The Gift of Contradiction
How embracing our messy tensions can widen movements and deepen integrity. You can care deeply about climate and still live with contradiction. Perfection isn’t integrity. What matters is the direction of your compass.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
-- Groucho Marx

Politico ends its print edition after 19 years, as its early reliance on print ad revenue fades and its audience relies more on digital platforms (Ken Vogel/@kenvogel.bsky.social)
https://bsky.app/profile/kenvogel.bsky.social/post/3maej6u6jls22

Ken Vogel (@kenvogel.bsky.social)
Politico's print paper was always something of a contradiction for an outlet that set out to prove that political journalism could thrive in the digital world. As the digital reach grew, the paper became less important, leading to the decision to end the print edition. Still, I am sad to see it go

Denmark Begins its Exit from Microsoft — and This is Just the Beginning
https://itsfoss.com/news/denmark-road-traffic-authority-ditches-microsoft/
'The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning.'
Microsoft: 'We welcome competition, and there need not be a contradiction between open source and what Microsoft delivers.'
Microsoft could have avoided vendor lock ins for decades and datagrabbing. 😇🙃
(Via @… & @… )

I keep coming back to the mirror dualities of the oppressed and oppressor under authoritarianism.
The oppressed is portrayed as both weak and godlike. The stereotypes are always some variation on sloth and incompetence, but yet somehow also a menace capable of destroying the "pure" society. To use the most relevant current example, Antifa being both little femme soy boys who would always get beat up by "real men" while also being an international terrorist organization on the brink of overthrowing the US government, the unarmed presence of whom makes the heavily armed agents of ICE flee for their lives. Antifa is both having absolutely no impact on ICE, and also having such an impact on ICE that the military needs to come in to protect them. The contradiction is obvious but never seems to occur to those who hold both to be true at the same time.
But few talk about the duality of the oppressor. The sovereign throughout history has always been both a ruler above the law, sometimes even the representative or incarnation of a divine force. Yet, this same superhuman/god-man is also a baby who needs constant care. This is absolutely a through line from the very earliest records of sovereign cults to modern cult leaders, CEOs, and Trump today. Power, for these people, is expressed both as the ability to force others to enact their will and in the ability to compel others to care for them. Can any of these "men" cook? Can they fix anything themselves? They are driven everywhere, cooked for all the time, constantly protected from danger. Kings are still dressed, at least for rituals. I could dissect masculinity here, but that's a whole thing.
It is as though the drive to care for our children, who must be taught to behave within acceptable norms, is hijacked by "leaders" who demand our care and attention... even at the expense of our literal children. And recently we've seen some of those very CEOs, with LLMs and return to office demands, show that their judgment is also little better than children, making decisions while pretending to understand a subject.
The oppressed are portrayed as both god-like and impotent and are, in fact, neither. Meanwhile the rulers portray themselves only as invulnerable and are, in fact, childish in their ability to survive without constant support. Their greatest fear from the collapse of society is figuring out how to make sure people keep taking care of them.
It just keeps rattling around in my head.
#USPol

Beyond Surface Reasoning: Unveiling the True Long Chain-of-Thought Capacity of Diffusion Large Language Models
Qiguang Chen, Hanjing Li, Libo Qin, Dengyun Peng, Jinhao Liu, Jiangyi Wang, Chengyue Wu, Xie Chen, Yantao Du, Wanxiang Che
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09544

Beyond Surface Reasoning: Unveiling the True Long Chain-of-Thought Capacity of Diffusion Large Language Models
Recently, Diffusion Large Language Models (DLLMs) have offered high throughput and effective sequential reasoning, making them a competitive alternative to autoregressive LLMs (ALLMs). However, parallel decoding, which enables simultaneous token updates, conflicts with the causal order often required for rigorous reasoning. We first identify this conflict as the core Parallel-Sequential Contradiction (PSC). Behavioral analyses in both simple and complex reasoning tasks show that DLLMs exhibit g…