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Sources: Anthropic has been lobbying Congress to oppose a bill banning states from regulating AI, and pushed against the recent US AI deal with Gulf states (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/30/2025/anthropi…

Anthropic emerges as an adversary to Trump’s big bill
Sources familiar say the White House, angered by Anthropic’s lobbying against its chief piece of legislation, have come to view the AI company as an obstacle.

The California State Senate launches an inquiry into whether Paramount's proposed $15M settlement with Trump violated bribery and unfair competition laws (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/30/2025/california-opens…

California opens inquiry into Paramount and Trump
The California Senate’s move follows a letter from three US senators to the embattled media company.

A Replit employee details a critical security flaw in web apps created using AI-powered app builder Lovable that exposes API keys and personal info of app users (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/29/2025

The hottest new vibe coding startup may be a sitting duck for hackers
Lovable is accused of failing to fix security flaws that exposed information about users, a growing vulnerability as vibe coding’s popularity surges.

AI-generated political fanfiction videos that feature political stars and look like breaking news are proliferating in places like Mr. Noah's Stories on YouTube (David Weigel/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/28/2025/a…

AI-powered political fanfiction racks up views online
Fake stories about real politicians sometimes get more views than real-world reporting that’s not built for the algorithms.

Témoignage de Ricardo Mendes sur la dérive sectaire d’OKC
Ricardo Mendes, né et ayant grandi dans la communauté bouddhiste Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC), témoigne comment cette communauté idéaliste a progressivement sombré dans une dérive sectaire sous le contrôle de son fondateur, Robert Spatz
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Meu computador mais antigo, aquele com o #LUbuntu, simplesmente iniciou o sistema com o driver open source ao invés do driver do #NVidia, como sempre fez. E como se isso jš não fosse estranho o suficiente, a instalação "driver metapackage" do nvidia 470 deu erro, como se o servidor ti…

This was a fascinating — as well as slightly uncomfortable — listen. Sobering to realize the left has quite a lot to learn before it will be capable of taking power again.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000y7sq

The Spark - Karen Stenner and the authoritarian predisposition - BBC Sounds
Helen Lewis meets people offering radical solutions to the big problems of our times.

#PotagerChallenge
Premières fleurs de tomates !

This was fascinating — I think it came via @… . Everything I know about sociopathy is pop psych/culture, so this interview was just utterly fresh to me.
#MentalHealth #MentalIllness

Finished 1923 this week. Doesn't have the elŠn of Yellowstone/1883, esp when it comes to dialogue, but was a very solid ride nonetheless. My favorite thing is how they brought the era to life.
You don't have to have watched anything else to get it, but the other stories fill in context.
That said, I'd start with 1883, to this, to Yellowstone if I was new to it.
#film

1923
Follow a new generation of the Dutton family during the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home.