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The judicial cases in OKC are closely linked to the silence and accountability of Tibetan Buddhist Heads of Nyigmapa Lineages in 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇵🇹. To grasp the full extent of responsibility and complacency, let's delve deeper into the matter. #TibetanBuddhism #Responsibility
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Two of the families in Gaza that I’m in touch with are thinking of setting up a group fundraising effort, inspired by the work of @….
We need someone who will take on the huge responsibility of setting up the fundraiser and managing it all.
If you have the time and are up for the challenge, please reply to this thread (direct messages are fine).

Advancing Data Equity: Practitioner Responsibility and Accountability in NLP Data Practices
Jay L. Cunningham, Kevin Zhongyang Shao, Rock Yuren Pang, Nathaniel Mengist
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10071 …

Advancing Data Equity: Practitioner Responsibility and Accountability in NLP Data Practices
While research has focused on surfacing and auditing algorithmic bias to ensure equitable AI development, less is known about how NLP practitioners - those directly involved in dataset development, annotation, and deployment - perceive and navigate issues of NLP data equity. This study is among the first to center practitioners' perspectives, linking their experiences to a multi-scalar AI governance framework and advancing participatory recommendations that bridge technical, policy, and communi…

About morbid thriftiness (Autism Spectrum Condition)
As you may have noticed, I am morbidly thrifty. Usually I don't buy stuff that I don't need — and if I decide that I actually need something, I am going to ponder about it for a while, look for value products, and for the best price. And with some luck, I'm going to decide I don't need it that bad after all.
One reason for that is probably how I was raised. My parents taught me to be thrifty, so I have to be. It doesn't matter that, from retrospective, I see that their thriftiness was applied rather arbitrarily to some spendings and not others, or that perhaps they were greedy — spending less on individual things so that they could buy more. Well, I can't delude myself like that, so I have to be thrifty for real. And when I fail, when I pay too much, when I get cheated — I feel quite bad about it.
The other reason is that I keep worrying about my future. It doesn't matter how rich I may end up — I'll keep worrying that I'll run out of money in the future. Perhaps I'll lose a job and won't be able to find anything for a long time, Perhaps something terrible will happen and I'm going to need to pay a lot suddenly.
Another thing is that I easily get attached to objects. Well, it's easier to be thrifty when you really don't want to replace stuff. Over time you also learn to avoid getting new stuff at all, since the more stuff you have, the more stuff may break and need to be thrown away.
Finally, there's my environmental responsibility. I admit that I don't do enough — but at least the things I can do, I do.
[EDIT: and yes, I feel bad about how expensive my new phone was, even though it's of much higher quality than the last one. Also, I got a worse deal because I waited too long.]
#ActuallyAutistic

By “social infrastructure,” I mean norms and expectations: What is polite? What is acceptable? What is safe? Whose job is it to maintain which aspects of safety and courtesy?
So much of the tension around these questions right now is because we’re still living a world framed by “jaywalking” and its surrounding constellation — a term that was invented by the auto industry in the 1920s to absolve cars of responsibility for killing so many pedestrians, especially children.

The judicial cases in OKC are closely linked to the silence and lack of accountability of Tibetan Buddhist Heads of Nyigmapa Lineages in 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇵🇹. To grasp the full extent of responsibility and complacency, check out this documentary. #TibetanBuddhism #Responsibility

Diffusion of Responsibility in Collective Decision Making
Pavel Naumov, Jia Tao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07935 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Diffusion of Responsibility in Collective Decision Making
The term "diffusion of responsibility'' refers to situations in which multiple agents share responsibility for an outcome, obscuring individual accountability. This paper examines this frequently undesirable phenomenon in the context of collective decision-making mechanisms. The work shows that if a decision is made by two agents, then the only way to avoid diffusion of responsibility is for one agent to act as a "dictator'', making the decision unilaterally. In scenarios with more than two a…

This.
"The Utah Legislature bears responsibility for the death of Arthur Folasa Ah Loo."
#StandYourGround #PermitlessCarry #OpenCarry

'An extraordinary responsibility' — Ukraine's new ground forces commander outlines key priorities: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/21/an-extraordinary-responsibility-ukraines-new.html

Today, as we approach the Declaration of Independence’s semiquincentennial,
Donald Trump and his allies claim the Revolution for themselves.
They have made fealty to the American Revolution part of their culture war against “woke” progressivism.
The Revolution has become a pawn in Trump’s politics of retribution against the country’s supposed cultural enemies.
Trump and his allies claim to be patriots
while regularly violating the principles outlined in the D…

Trump Is the Enemy of the American Revolution
He has produced a crisis much like the one the colonists faced two and a half centuries ago. Now it’s our responsibility to uphold the Founders’ legacy.

“Equity will no longer be treated as the responsibility of a single team,” he said. “It will be a shared expectation for every team.”
WA Commerce Department dissolves standalone equity team | The Olympian
https://www.theolympian.com/news/politics-government/article308352160.html

Government that’s going all in on “AI” urges you to delete old emails and pictures to save water. You couldn’t make this shit up. https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/115016993942039602

Natasha Jay (@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt)
Attached: 1 image Did AI recommend this? In a new digital twist to environmental responsibility, the #UK government is now suggesting people to “Delete old emails and pictures” in data centres to help with the current drought 🤪 This country ... (no words) https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-drought-group-meets-to-address-nationally-significant-water-shortfall

Not surprisingly, after spending weeks chasing innocent people around, a horny drunk armed U.S. #BorderPatrol Officer assaulted a female in a #SouthernCalifornia parking lot earlier this week...
Apptly this man's service to #MAGA

Border Patrol Agent Who Arrested U.S. Citizen In Pico Rivera Charged With Drunkenly Assaulting L.B. Cop ~ L.A. TACO
“No one is above the law, regardless of their position or badge. Law enforcement officers have a responsibility to always conduct themselves with integrity and professionalism. Our office will pursue prosecution accordingly to ensure justice is served.”

Backward Responsibility in Transition Systems Beyond Safety
Christel Baier, Rio Klatt, Sascha Kl\"uppelholz, Johannes Lehmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05192

Backward Responsibility in Transition Systems Beyond Safety
As the complexity of software systems rises, methods for explaining their behaviour are becoming ever-more important. When a system fails, it is critical to determine which of its components are responsible for this failure. Within the verification community, one approach uses graph games and the Shapley value to ascribe a responsibility value to every state of a transition system. As this is done with respect to a specific failure, it is called backward responsibility. This paper provides ti…

Threat intel experts have told me that CISOs should be prepared for DDoS attacks in terms of Iranian threats.
"'313 Team' claimed responsibility for a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack on Trump’s Truth Social platform just hours after the U.S. strikes."

Iranian-Aligned Hackers Claim Responsibility for Attack on Trump’s Truth Social Platform
A group of Iranian-aligned hackers has reportedly attacked something President Donald Trump holds dear — his Truth Social platform.

Elon Musk on DOGE and why he doesn't want to "take responsibility for everything the administration's doing" (David Pogue/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-on-doge-trump-administration-and-responsibility-for-cuts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250601/p48#a250601p48

Isn't it weird how when a Federal Crown Corporation - Marine Atlantic - buys a new ship... there is nary a mention that it was built in China (#BCPoli #BCFerries

Branding through responsibility: the advertising impact of CSR activities in the Korean instant noodles market
Youngjin Hong, In Kyung Kim, Kyoo il Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05782

Branding through responsibility: the advertising impact of CSR activities in the Korean instant noodles market
This paper empirically examines the extent to which a favorable view of a firm, shaped by its social contributions, influences consumer choices and firm sales. Using a favorability rating that reflects media exposure of each firm's corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities in the Korean instant noodles market during the 2010s, we find evidence that improvements in the corporate image of Ottogi - one of the country's largest instant noodle producers - positively affected consumer utility …

"the United States is experiencing a constitutional crisis that threatens to end our democratic experiment.
...
Without the maintenance of truth, without the preservation of moral clarity, no other form of opposition is possible.
...
the responsibility to resist, to bear witness, to hold the center—that responsibility falls to each of us, whether we're emotionally prepared for it or not."

The Emergency We Cannot Feel: On the Psychological Unreadiness for American Collapse
Why the most dangerous political crisis in modern American history is met with emotional denial, moral distortion, and cultural distraction.

🧵 https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/114990858576556856

At #AIED2025 we are getting a preview of the report of the #EuropeanDigitalEducationHub, providing practical examples of how XAI-Ed could be used

Explainable AI in education: Fostering human oversight and shared responsibility - Knowledge Innovation Centre
Explainable AI in education is essential for maintaining human oversight as AI tools become more prevalent in teaching and learning. This report examines how transparency and explainability foster trust, ensure legal compliance, and preserve human agency.

"""
All of which was of the utmost importance for subsequent developments in the medicine of the mind. In its positivist incarnation, this was little more than the combination of the two experiences that classicism had juxtaposed without ever joining them together: a social, normative and dichotomous experience of madness that revolved entirely around the imperative of confinement, formulated in a style as simple as ‘yes or no’, ‘dangerous or harmless’, and ‘good or not good for confinement’, and a finely differentiated, qualitative, juridical experience, well aware of limits and degrees, which looked into all the aspects of the behaviour of the subject for the polymorphous incarnations that insanity might assume. The psychopathology of the nineteenth century (and perhaps our own too, even now) believes that it orients itself and takes its bearings in relation to a homo natura, or a normal man pre-existing all experience of mental illness. Such a man is in fact an invention, and if he is to be situated, it is not in a natural space, but in a system that identifies the socius to the subject of the law. Consequently a madman is not recognised as such because an illness has pushed him to the margins of normality, but because our culture situates him at the meeting point between the social decree of confinement and the juridical knowledge that evaluates the responsibility of individuals before the law. The ‘positive’ science of mental illness and the humanitarian sentiments that brought the mad back into the realm of the human were only possible once that synthesis had been solidly established. They could be said to form the concrete a priori of any psychopathology with scientific pretensions.
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

https://www.reuters.com/en/russias-aeroflot-suffers-it-failure-hackers-claim-responsibility-2025-07-28/
Russia's Aeroflot suffers IT failure, hackers claim responsibility

A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no
responsibility at the other.

A US jury finds Tesla partially liable for Autopilot's role in a fatal 2019 crash in Florida, and orders the company to pay $200M in punitive damages (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.c…

Tesla found partially liable for fatal 2019 crash, hit with $243 million in damages
The outcome is a stunning rebuke for Tesla, which for years has fought to absolve itself of responsibility when its technology is involved in a crash.

Darth #Trump is complicit in the deaths of many people, including many little girls. He has weakened the climate agency by firing people and cutting funding to such an extent that the local authorities came to a false conclusion.
Trump and his administration must take responsibility for the deaths.
#Texas

#DIAMAS project final ouput before next week's conference:
DIAMOND OPEN ACCESS RECOMMENDATIONS AND GUIDELINES FOR INSTITUTIONS, FUNDERS, SPONSORS, DONORS, AND POLICYMAKERS. #DiamondOA

One place where you CAN donate to support people in Gaza:
https://chuffed.org/project/allchildrenareourchildren

Giving All Children the Right to Life
All children have an equal right to life, and we're committed to giving the children of G❤️‍🔥za what they deserve. All children are our children, and we each have a responsibility to ensure their rights are fulfilled. 

Trump secretly signed a directive to the Pentagon
to begin using military force against certain Latin American drug cartels that his administration has deemed terrorist organizations.
It signals Trump’s continued willingness to use military forces to carry out what has primarily been considered a law enforcement responsibility
The decision is the most aggressive step so far in the administration’s escalating campaign against the cartels.

Trump Directs Military to Target Foreign Drug Cartels
The president has ordered the Pentagon to use the armed forces to carry out what in the past was considered law enforcement.

A Two-Stage Scheduling Method for Nurse Scheduling and Its Practical Application
Keisuke Nakashima, Kohei Furuike, Yoshiaki Inoue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05182

A Two-Stage Scheduling Method for Nurse Scheduling and Its Practical Application
The creation of nurses' schedules is a critical task that directly impacts the quality and safety of patient care as well as the quality of life for nurses. In most hospitals in Japan, this responsibility falls to the head nurse of each ward. The physical and mental burden of this task is considerable, and recent challenges such as the growing shortage of nurses and increasingly diverse working styles have further complicated the scheduling process. Consequently, there is a growing demand for a…

"The complicity exposed by this report is just the tip of the iceberg; ending it will not happen without holding the private sector accountable, including its executives. International law recognizes varying degrees of responsibility – each requiring scrutiny and accountability, particularly in this case, where a people’s self-determination and very existence are at stake. This is a necessary step to end the #genocide

#MastodonPoll: best response to "Iran can never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon"? (pick one)
1. "That's why we should have stuck with the JCPOA, which Obama negotiated and Trump blew up. Bombing Iran makes them more likely to seek a nuclear weapon." (redirect)
2. "Actually, they can and should be allowed and even encouraged to have a nuclear weapon." (contradict)
3. "Who are we to allow or disallow Iran from seeking a nuclear weapon?" (disclaim responsibility)
4. "Iran wouldn't have been able to complete a nuclear weapon anyways." (argue mootness)
5. "Do you remember nothing from the run-up to the Iraq War?" (appeal to history)
Redirect to JCPOA
Contradict
Disclaim responsibility
Argue mootness
Appeal to history (Iraq)

Crypto group claims responsibility for hurling sex toys at WNBA games (Meghan L. Hall/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/wnba/2025/08/07/wnba-sex-toys-green-dildo-crypto-meme-coin/85551443007/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6894f4f9a84a4a00010d10da
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p147#a250807p147

"Think First, Verify Always": Training Humans to Face AI Risks
Yuksel Aydin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03714 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03714

"Think First, Verify Always": Training Humans to Face AI Risks
Artificial intelligence enables unprecedented attacks on human cognition, yet cybersecurity remains predominantly device-centric. This paper introduces the "Think First, Verify Always" (TFVA) protocol, which repositions humans as 'Firewall Zero', the first line of defense against AI-enabled threats. The protocol is grounded in five operational principles: Awareness, Integrity, Judgment, Ethical Responsibility, and Transparency (AIJET). A randomized controlled trial (n=151) demonstrated that a m…

Techies are always chasing the mythical tool that will let them "focus on the work" and avoid tedious distractions like "talking to people." AI tools are only the latest to promise this impossible dream.
But talking to people IS the work. You can complain about it on the internet, or take responsibility and make your life a lot easier.
#LLM

Can Designers Avoid Meetings?
LLMs are not the first tool to promise that they can free us from having to talk to people so we can "focus on the work." But talking to people IS the work.

"The Measure of a Man" is a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode about the danger of letting AI roam freely and denying responsibility for technology as humans.
In later episodes and movies the laissez-faire AI known as "Data" is responsible for countless murders and attempted murders, torture, injuries, kidnapping, property theft and many other crimes.

The judicial cases in OKC are closely linked to the silence and accountability of Tibetan Buddhist Heads of Nyigmapa Lineages in 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇵🇹. To grasp the full extent of responsibility and complacency, let's delve deeper into the matter. #TibetanBuddhism #Responsibility
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Today I spoke at Stortorget in Helsingborg on why Ukraine’s resilience and our support are crucial. Three years into the war, commitment remains strong i Sweden. I’m sharing my speech here - about resistance, freedom, and responsibility. Please share!
https://carlheath.se/on-r…

Impact of the Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Act 2015
"If a standard of care in relation to risk assessment which is too high is imposed [...], people may be put off contributing for free or at all. Insurance premiums will rise. Volunteers are not looking to be sued, they are looking to help others"

Law firm hails "important judgement" for local cycling events after judge throws out claim club was liable for driver seriously injuring time trial participant
High Court judge rules negligent driver solely at fault and club's risk assessment was carried out "properly and sufficiently", the ruling said to provide reassurance and "sensible guidance for those who give their free time to help organise events"

Just finished "Hilda and the Bird Parade" by Luke Pearson, and as usual with Pearson's "Hilda" books, it's tremendous! A lovely magical world, childhood curiosity paired with responsibility, and that touch of each parental love.
#AmReading

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories: ‘Israel commits crimes like it breathes. It must be stopped’ | #ELPAÍS English

Raiders Who Will Earn Expanded Roles in 2025 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-tyree-wilson-decamerion-richardson-isaiah-pola-mao

I've spent the week visiting old friends in a country I lived in for a few years in my early 20s. Things have changed, but not all that much. In fact, being here has me contemplating how much I've changed. When I lived here, I had a job with little real responsibility that didn't much matter and I made enough to live comfortably, if modestly. And I didn't have kids or a mortgage or... Being back has reminded me of how relaxed I once was. Here's to hoping I can bring some …

If the US government wants to improve its official statistics, not only does it have to fire the statisticians that deliver disappointing results, it also needs to make sure that only those in a financially precarious position can have the responsibility for delivering them.

Unlocking my own understanding of and ability to build #Swift macros feels like a superpower.
…something something great responsibility, though.
Synthesizing boilerplate and statically-verifiable elements like custom function calls based on macro input… is magic—the good kind.
`@GET("/logs/{userId}/{timing}")`
↘️

Fascism doesn’t belong here, or anywhere, ever!
Industrial Workers of the World
https://iww.org
International Workers Association
https://iwa-ait.org

AidAI: Automated Incident Diagnosis for AI Workloads in the Cloud
Yitao Yang, Yangtao Deng, Yifan Xiong, Baochun Li, Hong Xu, Peng Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01481

AidAI: Automated Incident Diagnosis for AI Workloads in the Cloud
AI workloads experience frequent incidents due to intensive hardware utilization and extended training times. The current incident management workflow is provider-centric, where customers report incidents and place the entire troubleshooting responsibility on the infrastructure provider. However, the inherent knowledge gap between customer and provider significantly impacts incident resolution efficiency. In AI infrastructure, incidents may take several days on average to mitigate, resulting in…

Surprising no one, there is no news in major Israeli media about the Israeli made massive starvation of Palestinians in Gaza.
The exception to the rule is Haaretz, and, if you want to call it an exception, there is one sickening hasbara article I have read in Channel 12 that I'm not going to link at all saying, literally, that "it is important to note that the responsibility lies with Hamas". It's important to tell this to themselves, apparently.

Impressive institutional self-assessment. Would that more corporate entities demonstrated that level of responsibility.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/27/ed…

Impressive institutional self-assessment. Would that more corporate entities demonstrated that level of responsibility.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/27/ed…

Ron Filipkowsk said [on x], "Congress abdicated its role as a separate and independent branch of government on January 20 while also relinquishing all oversight responsibility, so it’s entirely appropriate for Johnson to show that he has surrendered his gavel to the executive."
'Stunning move': Observers react to Mike Johnson's 'dark symbolism' with Trump - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/on-the-nose-johnson-gavel/

Bombshell report alleges El Salvador disclaimed responsibility for those U.S. sent to CECOT (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/un-document-cecot-aea-birthright-law-firms
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p132#a250707p132

I did not expect Martin Fowler to be so anti-CQRS. Anyone have other writeups that have a more balanced perspective?
#Programming r…

bliki: CQRS
CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) is the notion that you can use a different model to update information than the model you use to read information

Just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of human emissions. If institutions are the problem we could be letting them off the hook by focusing on individuals.

"[…] this sort of deflection of responsibility is likely what energy companies and other major corporations want: if we're pointing the finger at one another, we're not pointing it at them." (Catastrophe Ethics, p. 50)

Climate scientist Michael Mann in an interview about his book The New Climate War:…

Education Secretary Linda McMahon, in a statement, said Columbia’s leadership
“acted with deliberate indifference towards the harassment of Jewish students on its campus”
and urged the accrediting body to keep the department informed of any actions taken to ensure Columbia’s compliance with accreditation standards.
“Accreditors have an enormous public responsibility as gatekeepers of federal student aid,” McMahon said.
“Just as the Department of Education has an oblig…

What I want is all of the power and none of the responsibility.

Spread the word Canada and #Fediverse citizens everywhere! One of Trump's power grabs is through social media and big tech. The best way to take that power away is to take away power from the likes of Meta, Google and Apple who have far too much control and far too little social responsibility.
The Fediverse is the antidote to some of this. Talk to your MLA, MP, Representative, local politicians, and media. Get them talking about the alternative to platforms run by multinational corporations and foreign entities
#Mastodon #BCPoli #BC
https://socialbc.ca/@chris/114835376077242544

FARFETCH'D: A Side-Channel Analysis Framework for Privacy Applications on Confidential Virtual Machines
Ruiyi Zhang, Albert Cheu, Adria Gascon, Daniel Moghimi, Phillipp Schoppmann, Michael Schwarz, Octavian Suciu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15924

FARFETCH'D: A Side-Channel Analysis Framework for Privacy Applications on Confidential Virtual Machines
Confidential virtual machines (CVMs) based on trusted execution environments (TEEs) enable new privacy-preserving solutions. Yet, they leave side-channel leakage outside their threat model, shifting the responsibility of mitigating such attacks to developers. However, mitigations are either not generic or too slow for practical use, and developers currently lack a systematic, efficient way to measure and compare leakage across real-world deployments. In this paper, we present FARFETCH'D, an ope…

Iran's largest crypto exchange Nobitex says it was hacked, and pro-Israel group Predatory Sparrow claims responsibility; Elliptic: $90M was stolen and "burned" (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/hack

Hackers steal and destroy millions from Iran's largest crypto exchange | TechCrunch
It's the latest cyberattack on Iran claimed by a pro-Israeli hacking group since the latest flare up in tensions between the two countries.

Towards Designing an Energy Aware Data Replication Strategy for Cloud Systems Using Reinforcement Learning
Amir Najjar, Riad Mokadem, Jean-Marc Pierson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18459

Towards Designing an Energy Aware Data Replication Strategy for Cloud Systems Using Reinforcement Learning
The rapid growth of global data volumes has created a demand for scalable distributed systems that can maintain a high quality of service. Data replication is a widely used technique that provides fault tolerance, improved performance and higher availability. Traditional implementations often rely on threshold-based activation mechanisms, which can vary depending on workload changes and system architecture. System administrators typically bear the responsibility of adjusting these thresholds. T…

As if overburdened CISOs don't have enough challenges, they also face a central problem in their organizations: their peers don't really know what they do.
Check out my latest CSO piece on this stumbling block and how CISOs can communicate their missions to colleagues.
Thanks to Andy Ellis, Bethany De Lude, Susan Chiang, and Omar Khawaja for their insights.

The CISO’s challenge: Getting colleagues to understand what you do
CISOs often operate with significant responsibility but limited formal authority, making it critical to articulate their role clearly. Experts offer strategies for CISOs to communicate their mission to colleagues and customers.

When will the arrest warrants issued by the #ICC against Bezalel #Smotrich and #BenGvir finally be executed? This is long overdue. These are criminal racists who bear significant responsibility for

Musk says he doesn't 'wanna take responsibility' for all Trump actions (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5327997-elon-musk-trump-administration-bind/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250601/p62#a250601p62

A Deterministic Model of Free Will
Tim Palmer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21553 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.21553

A Deterministic Model of Free Will
The issue of whether we make decisions freely has vexed philosophers for millennia, Resolving this is vital for solving a diverse range of problems, from the physiology of how the brain makes decisions (and how we assign moral responsibility to those decisions) to the interpretation of experiments on entangled quantum particles. A deterministic model of free will is developed, based on two concepts. The first generalises the notion of initialisation of nonlinear systems where information cascad…

Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin
on what she called a new
Economic War Plan:
“Defense is simply not enough. We need to offer a different vision and demonstrate an affirmative, positive plan for the country. That's our responsibility and what this moment demands of us.”

Slotkin pitches ‘economic war plan’ for Democrats to play ‘offense’ against Trump | Bridge Michigan
Michigan’s newest US Senator is urging her party to take a new approach to President Donald Trump and refocus on middle class voters.

Europol and Eurojust disrupt pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16), which claimed responsibility for 1,000 DDoS attacks since 2022, and arrest two people (Jordan Robertson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Elandon Roberts and the Responsibility of Wearing the Green Dot | NFL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Ke6fxVcCM

Overly academic/distanced ethical discussions
Had a weird interaction with @/brainwane@social.coop just now. I misinterpreted one of their posts quoting someone else and I think the combination of that plus an interaction pattern where I'd assume their stance on something and respond critically to that ended up with me getting blocked. I don't have hard feelings exactly, and this post is only partly about this particular person, but I noticed something interesting by the end of the conversation that had been bothering me. They repeatedly criticized me for assuming what their position was, but never actually stated their position. They didn't say: "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, it's actually Y." They just said "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, please don't assume my position!" I get that it's annoying to have people respond to a straw man version of your argument, but when I in response asked some direct questions about what their position was, they gave some non-answers and then blocked me. It's entirely possible it's a coincidence, and they just happened to run out of patience on that iteration, but it makes me take their critique of my interactions a bit less seriously. I suspect that they just didn't want to hear what I was saying, while at the same time they wanted to feel as if they were someone who values public critique and open discussion of tricky issues (if anyone reading this post also followed our interaction and has a different opinion of my behavior, I'd be glad to hear it; it's possible In effectively being an asshole here and it would be useful to hear that if so).
In any case, the fact that at the end of the entire discussion, I'm realizing I still don't actually know their position on whether they think the AI use case in question is worthwhile feels odd. They praised the system on several occasions, albeit noting some drawbacks while doing so. They said that the system was possibly changing their anti-AI stance, but then got mad at me for assuming this meant that they thought this use-case was justified. Maybe they just haven't made up their mind yet but didn't want to say that?
Interestingly, in one of their own blog posts that got linked in the discussion, they discuss a different AI system, and despite listing a bunch of concrete harms, conclude that it's okay to use it. That's fine; I don't think *every* use of AI is wrong on balance, but what bothered me was that their post dismissed a number of real ethical issues by saying essentially "I haven't seen calls for a boycott over this issue, so it's not a reason to stop use." That's an extremely socially conformist version of ethics that doesn't sit well with me. The discussion also ended up linking this post: https://chelseatroy.com/2024/08/28/does-ai-benefit-the-world/ which bothered me in a related way. In it, Troy describes classroom teaching techniques for introducing and helping students explore the ethics of AI, and they seem mostly great. They avoid prescribing any particular correct stance, which is important when teaching given the power relationship, and they help students understand the limitations of their perspectives regarding global impacts, which is great. But the overall conclusion of the post is that "nobody is qualified to really judge global impacts, so we should focus on ways to improve outcomes instead of trying to judge them." This bothers me because we actually do have a responsibility to make decisive ethical judgments despite limitations of our perspectives. If we never commit to any ethical judgment against a technology because we think our perspective is too limited to know the true impacts (which I'll concede it invariably is) then we'll have to accept every technology without objection, limiting ourselves to trying to improve their impacts without opposing them. Given who currently controls most of the resources that go into exploration for new technologies, this stance is too permissive. Perhaps if our objection to a technology was absolute and instantly effective, I'd buy the argument that objecting without a deep global view of the long-term risks is dangerous. As things stand, I think that objecting to the development/use of certain technologies in certain contexts is necessary, and although there's a lot of uncertainly, I expect strongly enough that the overall outcomes of objection will be positive that I think it's a good thing to do.
The deeper point here I guess is that this kind of "things are too complicated, let's have a nuanced discussion where we don't come to any conclusions because we see a lot of unknowns along with definite harms" really bothers me.

State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce has sparked condemnation
after a reporter unearthed an interview in which she said
the U.S. is the best country on Earth
“next to Israel,”
in yet another show of U.S. leaders’ capitulation to Israel
under a president who ran on the slogan “America First.”

Rubio Spokesperson Says US Is “Greatest Country on Earth Next to Israel”
The official said it’s her responsibility to ensure “every person on this planet” recognizes the importance of Israel.

Replaced article(s) found for eess.AS. https://arxiv.org/list/eess.AS/new
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- Diffused Responsibility: Analyzing the Energy Consumption of Generative Text-to-Audio Diffusion M...
Riccardo Passoni, Francesca Ronchini, Luca Comanducci, Romain Serizel, Fabio Antonacci
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“An assessment of updated National Climate and Energy Plans (NECPs) shows the EU is on course to achieve a 54 per cent emissions reduction by 2030 - just one per cent shy of its legally binding 55 per cent target.”
Fun fact, if Canada joined the EU it would probably hurt it from an emissions reduction perspective because Oil and Gas.
“It attributed the progress towards the 2030 goal to action in the energy sector, with renewables covering 24 per cent of energy consumption in the EU in 2023. Most member states are now aligned with the target of reaching a share of 42.5 per cent by 2030, according to the Commission.”
Weird how they don’t mention LNG as being a reason why Europe has been able to meet its goals. Almost like renewables are essentially the only way to decarbonize the industry, just like the scientists say it is.
“States have a legal obligation to deliver climate action, and the Commission has a clear responsibility to uphold and enforce EU law in response.”
Imagine Danielle Smith whining about unfair laws…
Wonder how much #bclmg Europe will be asking for…
#bcpoli #abpoli #climateAction #ClimateChange #climateEmergency #canpoli #cdnpoli
https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/05/28/eu-on-track-to-meet-2030-emissions-goal-thanks-to-strong-progress-on-renewables?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub