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#AdventOfSystemSeeing Day 5, still trying to catch up with @…

Advent(ure) in System Seeing — Day 5 — Key Systems Concept: Feedback
Let’s gather some of the thoughts that have been percolating around systems. Let’s assume that you are designing the introductory page of…

Analysis: World Liberty Financial has earned the Trump family at least $1.2B in cash since its launch, while the Witkoff family has earned at least $200M (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/tru

While politicians often avoid answering questions,
Speaker Mike Johnson’s habit of doing so is particularly noteworthy
because of the prominent place the speaker occupies in government.
“Very few officers are mentioned specifically in the constitution;
the speakership is one of them,”
“I would say it’s absolutely the responsibility of the speaker to keep up with what the president is saying and doing.”
But there are at least 14 examples of Johnson saying he…

The fascist who killed Heather Heyer at Unite the Right helped turn the tides against the last Trump administration. He said there were "very fine people on both sides." The resistance grew, antifa doxxing fascists started getting those fash fired.
But some of those fash didn't stop. They kept organizing their terror cells. The fash who killed Heyer was with a group called Vanguard America. Patriot Front is a Nazi group that split off from Vanguard America. They started terrorizing people by loading up in box trucks and piling out for spontaneous marches.
That box truck tactic probably sounds familiar. Patriot Front basically disappeared at the same time that ICE started recruiting hard.
Let me make it more clear. The very same Nazis from UTR who killed Heather Heyer, who Trump called "very fine people," are now employees of DHS. They've been carrying out the ethnic cleansing they always dreamed of, and they're being paid by the government, *with your tax dollars*, to do it. And now, just like in Charlottesville, they've murdered an unarmed protestor.
This feels similar because it is. These are the same people killing daughters and mothers. Killing unarmed protestors, out of rage not fear, then lying and claiming self defense. This is the same tactic it's always been. This is the same thing they've always done.
It seems like we may have reached the Heather Heyer point of this administration early with Renee Good. Now would be a good time for everyone to get into the streets and stay there until this is over. Everyone turned the tides before, and now he's so much weaker.
This can all be over if we fight like hell to end it.
#USPol

📡 'Mind-captioning' technique can read human thoughts from brain scans
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-mind-captioning-technique-human-thoughts.html

'Mind-captioning' technique can read human thoughts from brain scans
Reading brain activity with advanced technologies is not a new concept. However, most techniques have focused on identifying single words associated with an object or action a person is seeing or thinking of, or matching up brain signals that correspond to spoken words. Some methods used caption databases or deep neural networks, but these approaches were limited by database word coverage or introduced information not present in the brain. Generating detailed, structured descriptions of complex…

There's a video going around social media today showing an individual in Minneapolis being killed by American "ICE" personnel. In many cases, there's no content warning, and it (and other videos) will automatically play in most apps and browsers by default.
If you happen across it, or other traumatic videos, and it causes intrusive thoughts, I've seen credible sources saying that real and good advice to counter them is to play Tetris.

Q&A with mathematicians behind the "First Proof" experiment, which tests AI's mathematical competence on questions drawn from the authors' unpublished research (Siobhan Roberts/New York Times)
https://www.nyt…