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Meta plans to spend tens of millions to launch a super PAC that will back candidates for California state offices with a light-touch approach to AI regulation (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/26/exclusive-meta-to-l…

Signal-Messenger: Von der Leyen löscht automatisch, um Speicherplatz zu sparen
Die EU-Kommission verteidigt die aktivierte Auto-Delete-Funktion auf von der Leyens Smartphone, wegen der politisch heikle Mitteilungen einfach gelöscht wurden.

🕯️ Social scientists have long found women tend to be more religious than men – but Gen Z may show a shift
https://theconversation.com/social-scientists-have-long-found-women-tend-to-be-more-religious-th…

Social scientists have long found women tend to be more religious than men – but Gen Z may show a shift
The religion gap between American men and women may be narrowing, a scholar explains – reflecting a seeming ‘God gap’ in US politics.

»Signal-Messenger — Von der Leyen löscht automatisch, um Speicherplatz zu sparen:
Die EU-Kommission verteidigt die aktivierte Auto-Delete-Funktion auf von der Leyens Smartphone, wegen der politisch heikle Mitteilungen einfach gelöscht wurden«
…und die will unsere Chats überwachen da wir anscheinend nichts zu verbergen haben… nun ja was jetzt nun wird angefordert @…

Signal-Messenger: Von der Leyen löscht automatisch, um Speicherplatz zu sparen
Die EU-Kommission verteidigt die aktivierte Auto-Delete-Funktion auf von der Leyens Smartphone, wegen der politisch heikle Mitteilungen einfach gelöscht wurden.

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The Comey indictment came less than a week after Lindsey Halligan was installed as the top federal prosecutor in the eastern district of Virginia,
after Trump fired her predecessor, Erik Siebert,
after he declined to bring charges against Comey over concerns there was insufficient evidence.
Halligan, most recently a White House aide and former Trump lawyer
who has no prosecutorial experience,
was also presented with a memo earlier this week laying out why
…

Political Ideology Shifts in Large Language Models
Pietro Bernardelle, Stefano Civelli, Leon Fr\"ohling, Riccardo Lunardi, Kevin Roitero, Gianluca Demartini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16013

Political Ideology Shifts in Large Language Models
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in politically sensitive settings, raising concerns about their potential to encode, amplify, or be steered toward specific ideologies. We investigate how adopting synthetic personas influences ideological expression in LLMs across seven models (7B-70B+ parameters) from multiple families, using the Political Compass Test as a standardized probe. Our analysis reveals four consistent patterns: (i) larger models display broader and more polari…

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The indictment of former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey
was just two pages long and contained so little detail that it was hard for legal experts to assess its merits.
Some former government lawyers, as well as prominent Democrats, said the case appeared so flimsy that it was likely to fail.
Some Republicans also expressed concerns

Brief Comey Indictment Prompts Questions and Criticism
The two-page indictment of James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, offered little indication of the evidence that would be presented at a trial. Some legal experts called it flimsy and dangerous.

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