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"Writing your idea down is not starting the damn game. Writing a design document is not starting the damn game. Assembling a team is not starting the damn game. Even doing graphics or music is not starting the damn game. It’s easy to confuse “preparing to start the damn game” with “starting the damn game”. Just remember: a damn game can be played, and if you have not created something that can be played, it’s not a damn game!"

Photojournalist Dave Decker was arrested in November while documenting a protest in Miami, Florida.
A coalition of 23 press organizations spoke out against the charges
— and this week the prosecutor agreed❗️
The following statement can be attributed to Adam Rose, deputy director of advocacy for Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):
“I hope law enforcement officers take this to heart: Swearing an oath to protect the community means protecting everyone — including pre…

Florida prosecutor agrees: Photography is not a crime
A coalition of 23 press organizations spoke out against the charges — the prosecutor agreed

One manifestation of AI-enabled government, is that the government will start publishing documents that are intended as much for RAG processes as they are humans.
This has that feel:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mitigation-…

Mitigation strategy for avian influenza in wild birds
What we are doing to reduce the risks from avian influenza (bird flu) in wild birds in England and Wales.

tante.cc is again protected by the most recent iocaine version.
It's gotten really easy to set up and it's already capturing (and poisoning with Luddite writings) boatloads of "AI" bots
https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/documentation/3/

Short-range kamikaze drones are one of the fastest moving facets of the defense sector today —
The Marine Corps "Organic Precision Fires-Light" (OPF-L) program, is designed to provide dismounted Marine infantry rifle squads with a man-packable, easy-to-operate precision strike drone to engage adversaries beyond line of sight.
A recent announcement of a $23.9-million contract to provide the U.S. Marine Corps with more than 600 "Bolt-M" drones is the next phas…

Inside Anduril’s Bolt-M Kamikaze Drone Program
We go in-depth with Anduril on their machine learning-infused loitering munition that the USMC just ordered, including how they intend to produce it at scale.

Documents: OpenAI is asking contractors to upload their work from current or previous jobs to evaluate its models, leaving it to them to scrub confidential info (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-contractor-upload-real-work-documents-ai-agents/

OpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents
To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs, leaving it to them to strip out confidential and personally identifiable information.

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Een sleutel opmerking in de documentaire is misschien wel deze:
'Maccabi Yep Aviv speelde sportief gezien een uitwedstrijd, maar het Israëlische regime speelde pr-technisch een thuiswedstrijd te spelen. Ze wisten precies op welke knoppen ze moesten gebruiken om de ophef machine te laten draaien.'
#medialogica #Maccabi

Climate scientists and meteorologists
are sounding the alarm
after White House budget director Russell Vought announced
the Trump administration will
❌break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, known as NCAR.
“He is executing the playbook of Project 2025,” says Michael Mann,
scientist and co-author of
"Science Under Siege".
Without NCAR, “we will not have the sorts of observational data and climate m…

“Destroying Knowledge”: Michael Mann on Trump’s Dismantling of Key Climate Center in Colorado
Climate scientists and meteorologists are sounding the alarm after White House budget director Russell Vought announced the Trump administration will break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, known as NCAR. “He is executing the playbook of Project 2025,” says Michael Mann, scientist and co-author of Science Under Siege. Without NCAR, “we will not have the sorts of observational data and climate models that we need to inform climate policy.”

The U.S. attorney in Miami, who is running a sprawling investigation into former officials who investigated President Trump,
has been granted an unusual request to convene an extra grand jury at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Fla.
The location ensures that just one judge can oversee it: Aileen M. Cannon.
That raises a question with intriguing political and legal overtones.
Judge Cannon could again end up as a key player in a Trump-centric case,
this one…

As Trump’s Inquisitors Face Scrutiny, a Divisive Figure Could Play a New Role
The prosecutor running an inquiry into those who investigated President Trump has established a grand jury under Judge Aileen M. Cannon, whose scuttling of the documents case made her a White House favorite.

The Trump administration is reportedly trying to strongarm the International Criminal Court (ICC) into changing its founding document
to carve out an exception for Donald Trump and his top officials
ensuring that they are never prosecuted by the court for potential war crimes.
The administration is threatening the ICC with yet more sanctions
if they do not amend the Rome Statute, which established the court in 2002,
to ensure Trump and his administration’s top …

Trump Administration Reportedly Pushing ICC to Exempt Trump From War Crimes Prosecution
“This is rogue state behavior,” one expert said.