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Peter Thiel-backed Objection, initially an AI "tribunal" assessing reporters' articles, rebrands as The Primary to rank journalists "on the rigor" of their work (Gary Baum/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bus…

Peter Thiel’s AI Tribunal Put Journalists on Trial. Now It’s Pivoted to Scoreboard Model
Rebranded as The Primary, the service ranks media outlets and reporters. Its LLM-based methodology has given The New York Times' A.I. beat journalists among the lowest scores.

"‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom" 🙌 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/25/never-seen-this-level-of-objection-scotland-pushes-back-against-datacentre-boom

‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom
Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyond

"‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom'
#Scotland #Technology #DataCentres

‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom
Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyond

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"What the Trump administration wanted “was fast money, with no strings attached,” said one former official who left the State Department over objections to the policy. “**The whole point was to circumvent [congressional] notification that money was being sent to a government known to be corrupt.**”
How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation - Washington Post
https://wapo.st/4dLG4wo

Over the “strongest possible” objections from the federal prosecutor handling the case,
leaders at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent
accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it. 
The agent, 52-year-old Christian Castro,
allegedly shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg in Minneapolis this January during Operation Metro Surge,
the Tr…

Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections
A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that Trump officials quashed those plans.

@… objection!!

An archive of more than 100 hours of Oasis recordings, amassed by the band's sound engineer, is to be auctioned for up to £1.6M despite objections from the band (Nadia Khomami/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/sep

Oasis recordings up for auction despite band’s objections
Archive documenting concerts, rehearsals, soundchecks and conversations estimated at up to £1.6m

Democrat blocks fast-track passage for data center ratepayer bill (Politico)
http://politico.com/live-updates/2026/09/17/congress/data-center-bill-falls-amid-democratic-objection-01082461
http://www.memeorandum.com/260917/p131#a260917p131

Frequent readers know that I often think about LLM-“AI”,
and that I think, um, poorly of it.
Most of my objections are systemic in nature, relating to climate, resources, extractive capitalism, job displacement, tool of the oppressor
-- you know what I mean.
But I can see how one could get a similar kind of joy to successfully guiding a deeply flawed program with a conversational interface, until it produced a program sort of like what one had in mind...
So I see …

Pete Hegseth regularly receives formal objections from senior commanders
-- and proceeds anyway,
the Pentagon’s top spokesman has said,
💥as he tried to discredit a Washington Post report that four generals and admirals had advised against prolonging the war in Iran.
“Of course, we demand candid military advice,” Sean Parnell wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
“Non-concurs are standard.
The Secretary sees them constantly.
That’s how you run a real military…

Pentagon plays down report of Hegseth regularly overruling military advice
Response seeks to discredit Washington Post story that four generals and admirals advised against prolonging Iran war