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NIST is seeking input on a demonstration of how identity and authorization standards and best practices can be applied to AI agents.
ACCELERATING THE
ADOPTION OF
SOFTWARE AND AI
AGENT IDENTITY AND
AUTHORIZATION
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See, this — •this• — is what ICE CBP are actually for under this regime. •This• is why they got a budget the size of Russia’s entire military.
It’s nothing to do with immigration. It’s about the would-be dictator having his own private military that:
- can be deployed domestically
- at will
- unbeholden to the UCMJ etc
- or disciplined military culture
- or any accountability whatsoever
- with unpredictably violent behavior
- applied indiscriminately
- to anyone
- so that the entire population is terrified of it
…because for them, the problem with Jan 6 was that the coup wasn’t violent enough and didn’t have enough weapons.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/04/steve-bannon-ice-immigration-agents-polling-sites-midterm-elections

The Names They Call Themselves
#uspol

The Names They Call Themselves
*Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make *the names Trump’s regime calls themselves* universally acknowledged slurs.

Over the past couple of days I had the pleasure of chatting with a number of sharp undergrads who've applied to work on my project next year as part of the university's research opportunity program. It's been a real pleasure working with the group of four others I already have this academic year (their projects are really coming together!). I'm already looking forward to next year.

Defense Dept. effort to punish Mark Kelly draws skepticism from judge
A federal judge on Tuesday sharply questioned the legality of the Defense Department’s efforts to censure and possibly demote
Sen. Mark Kelly,
a retired Navy captain,
over his public criticism of the Trump administration.

U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared to be
expanding restrictions on free speech that have applied only to active-duty servi…

Defense Dept. effort to punish Mark Kelly draws skepticism from judge
A federal judge said Pete Hegseth appeared to be expanding restrictions on free speech that have applied only to active-duty service members.

Sources: Meta is creating a new applied AI engineering organization led by Maher Saba in its Reality Labs division to help bolster its superintelligence efforts (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-to-create

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

AP Senior Product Manager for AI Aimee Rinehart told staff that many editors preferred an AI-written article to a human one, and resistance to AI is "futile" (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/03/2026/its-bots-vs-reporters-at-the-ap

Exclusive: It’s bots vs. reporters at the AP
The tensions inside the wire service reveal a broader conflict playing out across the media over how AI should be applied within journalism.

Denver-based Northslope, which builds customized AI applications for Palantir OS, raised a $22M Series A led by Friends & Family Capital and Goldcrest Capital (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/01/29/exclu…

Exclusive: Applied AI startup Northslope secures $22M
Palantir-native AI startup scales custom software