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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.

I have long felt that liberal/progressive messaging often tended towards not merely hyperbole, but hyperbole that carried far more than the intended message.
Consider the phrase "Defund the police". That carries a clear message that implies near elimination of police based law enforcement. Few of us want that. Police are an important element of an ordered society.
But pretty much all of us see that police are doing too much and that it is better to restructure police…

Because I do not see it repeated on my TL nearly enough:
To hell with the Trump regime for sending National Guard into DC for absolutely • no • reason • whatsoever • except inflaming the situation. They’ve been desperately waiting this whole time for something to blow up and some troops to get harmed so they’d have an excuse for more escalation. Hurting troops was the goal. The •goal•.
And now Epstein’s off the front page. They’ve got to be over the moon.

https://restofworld.org/2025/chatgpt-india-alternative-ai-llms/
Thanks @… for sharing!

ChatGPT is huge in India. These locally focused startups found a way to compete
Indian founders are building digital data sets for low-resource languages by involving the community, and count on local relevance to go against big tech platforms.

The EU could “respond swiftly and decisively” against th
“unjustified” US visa bans on five Europeans involved in combating online hate and disinformation,
a European Commission spokesperson has said.
European leaders including Emmanuel Macron accused Washington of
“coercion and intimidation”,
after the visa ban on the figures who have been at the heart of campaigns to introduce laws regulating American tech companies.
Justifying the visa bans, the US secr…

How pro-Trump influencers and others on social media used misdirection and fabricated content to muddle the evidence of ICE agents killing a man in Minneapolis (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/us/minnesota-shooting-false-posts.html

False Posts and Altered Images Distort Views of Minnesota Shooting
Some social media posts tried to warp the evidence of the killing of a nurse in Minneapolis, including in ways intended to support the Trump administration’s narrative about it.

A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/chatgpt-india-alternative-ai-llms/

ChatGPT is huge in India. These locally focused startups found a way to compete
Indian founders are building digital data sets for low-resource languages by involving the community, and count on local relevance to go against big tech platforms.

Erste Meldungen zum H3N2-#Grippevirus gab es bereits im September. Zich Millionen Patienten in #Indien.

H3N2-Grippevirus verbreitet sich rasant in Nordindien
Eine aggressive H3N2-Virusfieber-Welle hat Nordindien erfasst. Zwei Drittel der Familien sind betroffen. Experten warnen vor einem lokalem Epidemie-Risiko. Wer ist besonders gefährdet, wie kann man sich schützen?

There’s another shooting in Minneapolis this morning involving ICE.
I have no further info except location, which is not helpful to post publicly at this time. Let the trained observers get there first.
Dammit.

My inability to get a handle on the size of the crowd from inside the crowd is a metaphor for today writ large. In addition to the big downtown protest, there were multiple protests at the airport, clergy arrested for blocking the airport access road, at least two impromptu neighborhood protests I’m aware of near my house. There were food drives. There were street parties. Many businesses that were “closed” kept their doors open and offered free coffee, pancakes, warming spaces. Nobody really knows everything that happened.
#GeneralStrike #MInneapolis