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Jüngere können sich kaum vorstellen, was die damals sogenannte "AIDS-Krise" bedeutet hat. Hier ein kurzer Beitrag auf Englisch, der das einordnet -vor allem, was wir daraus für heute lernen können.
https://hachyderm.io/@vintagetech/116720737524664537
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Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim plans to debut an agentic AI avatar of himself in the coming days, which aims to help the public use government services (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

It's also important to recognize that tech oligarchs won't let this die. It's too important to them. This is part of the boss fight right here. They will take everything from us to coerce us into making LLMs profitable, to deskilling our labor and selling (skewed) human knowledge back to us at a premium. They will take away every benefit the state has, kill as many people as it takes to funnel every penny of government subsidy into this. They will burn every drop of subsidized oil. Those ICE camps are gonna be used for something. If it takes right wing death squads, they'll do it.
They will kill every last one of us to realize total domination. We have to be ready for that, and prepare accordingly. As many lives as have been taken by people with similar ideologies, those ideologies have always lost. If we know what's coming and prepare for it then they will lose faster, and at a lower cost.

I'd missed the "Whata Bod, Idaho" story in Jan, where the US National Weather Service used gen AI and it make up town names.
https://oecd.ai/en/incidents/2026-01-07-1ff3

AI-Generated Weather Maps Invent Fake Idaho Towns, Raising Trust Concerns
The U.S. National Weather Service used generative AI to create weather maps that included fictional town names in Idaho, such as "Whata Bod" and "Orangeotild." The incident, which led to public misinformation and eroded trust, highlights the risks of unsupervised AI in critical government communications. The errors were later corrected.

The US House Judiciary Committee is coming down hard on the S. Korean government for its actions against online retailer Coupang following a massive breach.
New Report Exposes South Korea's Discriminatory Attacks on American-owned Businesses
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New Report Exposes South Korea's Discriminatory Attacks on American-owned Businesses
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Judiciary Committee released an interim staff report titled, "Closed for Competition: South Korea's Discriminatory Attacks on American-owned Businesses." The report details South Korea's history of discriminatory treatment against American-owned businesses and the ways in which it has escalated over the past sever

Republicans are all abuzz about socialism because the party’s political prospects look dire this fall.
Donald Trump’s approval ratings are in the thirties,
Americans are experiencing surging energy prices,
and Trump and other Republicans are engaged in open corruption while cutting vital government programs.
They need something, and in a pinch, socialism has always been the go-to emergency button for the right to push.

Why the GOP loves to use ‘communism’ as an attack
Explaining the Right this week explores why Republicans keep trying to scare people into thinking Democrats want communism.

Maybe, as part of reviewing the UK government use of WhatsApp, there'll be a recommendation to adopt something based on [matrix] ?
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/independent-review-of-the-use-of-non-corporate-com…

Independent Review of the Use of Non-corporate Communications Channels in Government
The appointment of an Independent Reviewer of the Use of Non-corporate Communications Channels in Government

Looking forward to the first prompt injection via Parliamentary process
https://www.publictechnology.net/2026/06/02/government-and-politics/parliament-taps-ai-to-help-process-mps-questions/

Parliament taps AI to help process MPs’ questions
When a member submits an enquiry to be answered by departmental ministers, automated technology tools now help assess whether a substantively similar query has already been tabled and dealt with The House of Commons has deployed artificial intelligence technology to help process written parli