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Top AI Experts Concerned That OpenAI Has Betrayed Humankind
https://futurism.com/openai-open-letter-experts-humankind?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/technology

Top AI Experts Concerned That OpenAI Has Betrayed Humankind
In a scathing open letter, luminaries from the AI industry are calling on OpenAI to prove that it has not betrayed humanity.

Home Heat Pumps: 2-day Installation Open Letter (2025) - Distress winter replacements of a gas boiler with heat pump are possible and needed... #heatpump #netZero #winter -

Home Heat Pumps: 2-day Installation Open Letter (2025)
Distress winter replacements of a gas boiler with heat pump are possible and needed... #heatpump #netZero #winter

Open letter: 40 European companies oppose the EU's "Chat Control" proposal, which forces services to scan messages for CSAM, fearing it would mandate backdoors (CryptPad Blog)
https://blog.cryptpad.org/2025/10/07/open-letter-against-chat-control/

Europe's future is at stake: Open letter against Chat Control
European SMEs have united to direct a strong open letter to urge ministers of EU member states to oppose Chat Control and to defend privacy and a strong European tech industry.

Open letter to Irish minister who's pushing ChatControl from @…
https://crookedtimber.org/20…

Read every embarrassing thing about felon trump into the congressional record.
Make it a weekly night event on the floor for cspan and advertise it.
Make a bingo game out of it.
Read off the court transcripts trump and his ilk.
Enjoy yourselves while you do this.
Bullies hate being mocked.
If the GNP (Grand Nazi Party) wants to stop you, make them own the chamber 24/7.
Tell them you will stop making them own the space when they start to push bac…

I just signed onto “An open letter to the Rails Core team and Ruby community”: https://github.com/Plan-Vert/open-letter
(You have to know how to do a Pull Request to sign up, which may be appropriate in this particular case.)

GitHub - Plan-Vert/open-letter: An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence
An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence - Plan-Vert/open-letter

Over 2,300 WGA members sign an open letter criticizing President Trump and Congressional Republicans, decrying "escalating attacks on the First Amendment" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/wga-letter-trump-au…

WGA Members Letter Blasts Trump 'Authoritarian Assault' on Free Speech
More than 2,300 WGA members signed an open letter decrying recent actions taken by President Trump and his administration that they say represent 'an unprecedented, authoritarian assault.

We (over 500 scientists) have put (yet another) open letter to the EU commission online, detailing while we do not believe anything has changed in the recent iteration of #chatcontrol proposals that would make it any less unsafe: https://

Deep dependency on a technology lack of agency disagreement with leadership creates anger.
Great observation by @…
This explains so well why after being a macOS developer for 20 years, I can't stand Apple right now.

Carta abierta a la UE contra #ChatControl. Somos 502 firmantes.
https://csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

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Shock Therapy:
🎵 Hate Is a 4-Letter Word
#NowPlaying #ShockTherapy
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Open Letter to Deezer on the Advent of Track Removals #musicianresources #musiciantips https://

Open Letter to Deezer on the Advent of Track Removals
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Just fwiw the best way to exclude your open source code from being ingested for "AI" training is to load it up to the motherfucking brim with fucking 4-letter word comments #fuck /* fuck */

Just made the PR to sign @…'s open letter for a community fork from #Rails, to get away from fascist DHH.
I'm not really using Rails any longer, so I don't know that my voice carries any weight here. But, for 14 years we ran openSNP on Rails, providing the world with an open data/science resource. And the rise of the far-right authoritarianism played a big role in the decision to shut it down (see #ruby

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
Yes Please!! This seems to be only for Dutch universities but every country should write the same letter!
Edit: I think this one is more general (quoting @…

“Under this definition of antisemitism, which absurdly conflates criticism of a nation-state, Israel, and a political ideology, Zionism, with the ancient evil of Jew-hatred, it is impossible with any honesty to teach about topics such as the history of the creation of Israel, and the ongoing Palestinian Nakba”

Bears inform fans of plans to leave Soldier Field, finalize stadium in Arlington Heights for Super Bowl bid

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bears-i

FEMA employees placed on leave after criticizing the Trump administration in open letter (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/fema-employees-fired-criticizing-trump-administration-open-letter-rcna227509
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p102#a250827p102

Important read about the #censorship Columbia has agreed to: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/01/columbia-historian-rashid-khalidi…

Forty-four US AGs sign an open letter to 11 chatbot and social media companies, warning they'll be held accountable if their AI chatbots knowingly harm children (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/44-attorneys-general-to-ai-chatbot-companie…

Attorneys General To AI Chatbot Companies: You Will ‘Answer For It’ If You Harm Children
Forty-four attorneys general signed an open letter on Monday that says to companies developing AI chatbots: "If you knowingly harm kids, you will answer for it.”

“But the open letter won’t do anything”
It’s really showing that a lot of you never did any organizing or political work.
The open letter is open so that _people in the community see it_, not because we don’t know how to address a letter to DHH or the Rails Core team personally.
Aka it shows people that they’re not alone in their criticism and opinion about DHH and the inaction of the core team.

New preprint article based on an open letter (which I've signed onto) against the uncritical adoption of AI:
#AI #LLMs #GenAI

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Shuggie Otis:
🎵 Strawberry Letter 23
#NowPlaying #ShuggieOtis
https://stpetersburg.bandcamp.com/track/shuggie-otis-strawberry-letter-23
https://open.spotify.com/track/2NXnBIYFPQPo7GSn3TEbpD

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Thievery Corporation:
🎵 Letter to the Editor (feat. Racquel Jones)
#ThieveryCorporation
https://thieverycorporation.bandcamp.com/track/letter-to-the-editor-ft-racquel-jones
https://open.spotify.com/track/7kw3rUFrQVSUKawR23fa6m

Universal Precision Limits in General Open Quantum Systems
Tan Van Vu, Ryotaro Honma, Keiji Saito
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21567 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Universal Precision Limits in General Open Quantum Systems
The intuition that the precision of observables is constrained by thermodynamic costs has recently been formalized through thermodynamic and kinetic uncertainty relations. While such trade-offs have been extensively studied in Markovian systems, corresponding constraints in the non-Markovian regime remain largely unexplored. In this Letter, we derive universal bounds on the precision of generic observables in open quantum systems coupled to environments of arbitrary strength and subjected to tw…

Attorneys General To AI Chatbot Companies: You Will ‘Answer For It’ If You Harm Children https://www.404media.co/44-attorneys-general-to-ai-chatbot-companies-open-letter/

Slack is extorting us with a $195k/yr bill increase
An open letter, or something
#salesforce

France summoned the American ambassador Charles Kushner
after he wrote a letter to President Emmanuel Macron alleging France had failed to do enough to stem antisemitic violence
a French foreign ministry spokesperson said on Sunday.
Kushner, who is Jewish and whose son Jared is married to Donald Trump’s daughter, published the open letter in the Wall Street Journal amid deep divides between France and the US and Israel.
Kushner’s letter to Macron noted that Monday was…

@… ok at least they acknowledge it
https://forum.fairphone.com/t/an-open-letter-to-the-fairphone-community/118760…

So apparently the lesson is that unless you are a charity that can raise a massive backlash on Hacker News then you should expect the $230bn company that is Salesforce to utterly fuck you over if you use Slack. But luckily these folks WERE one of those unicorns, so they are just going to go with it.
"Slack is extorting us with a $195k/yr bill increase "
h…

Home Heat Pumps: 2-day Installation Open Letter (2025) - Distress winter replacements of a gas boiler with heat pump are possible and needed... #heatpump #netZero #winter -

Home Heat Pumps: 2-day Installation Open Letter (2025)
Distress winter replacements of a gas boiler with heat pump are possible and needed... #heatpump #netZero #winter

The influence of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program really cannot be overstated. The fact that there is still no solicitation for this year is unfair to students and risks damaging the future of American science. Please take 30 seconds to sign the open letter to US STEM Leadership .
https://jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

1. Ben & Jerry to Unilever: This is not the Ben & Jerry’s that we founded.
2. Unilever to Ben & Jerry: This is not the Ben & Jerry's that you own.
I made up the second one, but you know someone at Unilever said that.
#BenAndJerrys #Unilever #business

FEMA employees put on leave after criticizing Trump administration in open letter (Brianna Sacks/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/08/26/fema-employees-leave-trump-administration-letter/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250826/p160#a250826p160

It seems the government's rather imperfect plan to renationalise the railways is in some peril due to a counter-offensive from the predatory Train Operating Companies.
They are fighting hard now to get their "open access" applications approved before new legislation comes in. And, if approved, they could lock in privatisation for decades.
@weownit.org.uk .bsky.social @heidialexander.bsky.social

Open letter: stop First Group, Arriva and other private firms clinging on to our railway | We Own It
Private firms like First Group and Arriva are fighting to cling on to our railway. The government must impose a moratorium on approval of new rail contracts with private firms.

#ChatControl
In this FAQ we summarize the key points in the letter signed by more than 700 expert scientists
around the globe on the issues with the Danish Presidency’s compromise proposal.
https://csa-scientist-…

Hundreds of employees at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
have signed an open letter,
directed to Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Sean Duffy,
criticizing proposed cuts to the agency
and condemning recent policies that could potentially harm the U.S.
The letter, titled
“The Voyager Declaration”
in honor of two spacecraft that were launched by NASA in the 1970s
(that continue to zoom beyond the boundaries of t…

Hundreds of NASA Employees Write Open Letter Blasting Trump Over “Rapid and Wasteful Changes” to Agency
Trump’s cuts will “leave the American people without the unique public good that NASA provides,” NASA workers wrote.

Added myself to this open letter demanding Rails Core hard fork Rails/remove DHH.
Consider adding yourself.
https://github.com/Floppy/plan-vert-letter

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Stars:
🎵 Elevator Love Letter
#Stars
https://starsband.bandcamp.com/track/elevator-love-letter-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1XlG975pL1kYwq3GwHyP2g

This seems a good petition to sign for YP https://www.ourparty.org.uk/#openletter

Sign the open letter: it's time for the people to take the reins.
Your Party is too important to fall at the first hurdle. If you agree that the founding conference should be organised by a democratically elected body, sign your name.

I just sent this open letter on drastically speeding up UK #heatPump installation, especially in winter, to the UK's energy minister and the CEO of Octopus which is the UK's largest retail energy supplier:
https://www.

Home Heat Pumps: 2-day Installation Open Letter (2025)
Distress winter replacements of a gas boiler with heat pump are possible and needed... #heatpump #netZero #winter

en av världens bästa spelstudios tar ställning mot folkmordet! https://www.gamespot.com/articles/arkane-devs-call-for-microsoft-to-stop-working-with-israel/1100-6533901/

Arkane Devs Call For Microsoft To Stop Working With Israel
An open letter from union members directed at company leadership says Microsoft has "no place being accomplice of a genocide."

Word Chain Generators for Prefix Normal Words
Duncan Adamson, Moritz Dudey, Pamela Fleischmann, Annika Huch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19619 https://arxiv.…

Word Chain Generators for Prefix Normal Words
In 2011, Fici and Lipták introduced prefix normal words. A binary word is prefix normal if it has no factor (substring) that contains more occurrences of the letter 1 than the prefix of the same length. Among the open problems regarding this topic are the enumeration of prefix normal words and efficient testing methods. We show a range of characteristics of prefix normal words. These include properties of factors that are responsible for a word not being prefix normal. With word chains and gen…

Hundreds of economists defend Lisa Cook, Fed's independence in open letter against Trump efforts (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/trump-lisa-cook-fed-powell-fraud.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p70#a250902p70

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Thievery Corporation feat. Racquel Jones:
🎵 Letter To The Editor
#NowPlaying #ThieveryCorporation #RacquelJones
https://thieverycorporation.bandcamp.com/track/letter-to-the-editor-ft-racquel-jones
https://open.spotify.com/track/7kw3rUFrQVSUKawR23fa6m

As the Trump administration cracks down on both environmental policies and progressive activism,
the Sunrise Movement,
the youth-led climate justice organization that popularized calls for a Green New Deal,
is widening its mission to fight authoritarianism.
“Every day, Donald Trump is seizing power and shredding the Constitution,”
Sunrise’s executive director, Aru Shiney-Ajay,
wrote in an open letter to Sunrise members, funders and allies.
“What ordi…

Who would think Arne Duncan would provide excellent, bold, concrete steps for how higher education should #resist Trump's assault? My jaw has dropped, but I agree with what he is saying! I hope higher ed administrators/leaders are reading this!!!

Counterfactual quantum measurements
Ingita Banerjee, Kiarn T. Laverick, Howard M. Wiseman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01888 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01888…

Counterfactual quantum measurements
Counterfactual reasoning plays a crucial role in exploring hypothetical scenarios, by comparing some consequent under conditions identical except as results from a differing antecedent. David Lewis' well-known analysis evaluates counterfactuals using a hierarchy of desiderata. These were, however, built upon a deterministic classical framework, and whether it could be generalized to indeterministic quantum theory has been an open question. In this Letter, we propose a formalism for quantum coun…

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The Brothers Johnson:
🎵 Strawberry Letter 23
#TheBrothersJohnson
https://mototembo.bandcamp.com/track/the-brothers-johnson-strawberry-letter-23-moto-tembo-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/0njiQg4d7YKObnXO1YkPjz

Columbia’s new policies intended to stop and punish any on-campus criticism of the Gaza genocide
by characterizing it as “antisemitism”
have made it impossible for Rashid Khalidi to teach his planned fall course.
See his explanation here, which ends with:
Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning
into a shadow of its former self,
an-anti university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls,…

A unified coupled-channel description for the five near-threshold structures $\psi(3770)$, $G(3900)$, $R(3760)$, $R(3780)$ and $R(3810)$ from $e^ e^-$ annihilation
Ri-Qing Qian, Xiang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17679

A unified coupled-channel description for the five near-threshold structures $ψ(3770)$, $G(3900)$, $R(3760)$, $R(3780)$ and $R(3810)$ from $e^+e^-$ annihilation
The recent observation of multiple near-threshold structures in $e^+e^-$ annihilation-including $ψ(3770)$, $G(3900)$, $R(3760)$, $R(3780)$, and $R(3810)$-reveals limitations in existing models of charmonium and exotic hadrons. In this Letter, we propose a unified coupled-channel description that simultaneously incorporates all five near-threshold structures using parameters constrained by hadron spectroscopy. Our model accurately reproduces the line shapes in both $D\bar{D}$ and non-open-charm…

Over 100 liberal philanthropies,
including those that are being targeted by the Trump administration as part of an expected crackdown after the killing of Charlie Kirk,
are banding together to try and stave off attacks on the nonprofit sector.
The institutions, including the Ford Foundation and George Soros’s Open Society Foundations,
on Wednesday pushed out an open letter that forcefully defended the philanthropy sector,
even as its list of signers doubled as a…

100 Liberal Philanthropies Prepare to Push Back Against Trump Crackdown
The institutions published an open letter to defend their missions amid fears the Trump administration could target their tax-exempt status.

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PJ Harvey:
🎵 The Letter
#PJHarvey
https://brokencymbals.bandcamp.com/track/the-letter-pj-harvey
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ZJ28OVvI4RDb6ZwxOOCOw

A group of former national park superintendents is calling on the Trump administration to close the parks to visitors in case of a government shutdown.
Past shutdowns in which parks remained open led to vandalism of iconic symbols, destroyed wildlife habitat and endangered visitors,
40 former superintendents said in a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.
A shutdown now could be even worse as parks are already under strain from a 24% reduction in staff and severe budget…

Former national park superintendents urge Trump administration to close parks in case of shutdown
A group of former national park superintendents is calling on the Trump administration to close the parks to visitors in case of a government shutdown. Past...

At a private event hosted by Senator Dave McCormick, Republican of Pennsylvania,
donors wandered through a sculpture hall at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh
and partied with their cowboy hats on at a dinner where each plate cost $5,000.
The aftermath was less celebratory.
Dozens of employees at the Carnegie Museums sent an open letter to trustees,
saying that the fund-raiser violated guidelines meant to safeguard the institution from partisan activities…

$5,000-Per-Plate Dinner Tests Museum Ban on Political Fund-Raisers
Carnegie Museums employees objected that a fund-raiser for a nonprofit with ties to a senator had violated museum policy against renting space for partisan political events.

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Thievery Corporation feat. Racquel Jones:
🎵 Letter to the Editor
#ThieveryCorporation #RacquelJones
https://thieverycorporation.bandcamp.com/track/letter-to-the-editor-ft-racquel-jones
https://open.spotify.com/track/7kw3rUFrQVSUKawR23fa6m