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A Democrat won a state legislative special election in a district that President Trump carried by 17 percentage points,
unnerving Republicans in Texas and beyond.
Taylor Rehmet,
a local union leader and first-time candidate,
defeated the Republican, Leigh Wambsganss,
by double digits
— 57 to 43
— in the historically conservative district.

Democratic Upset in Deep Red Texas District Rattles Republicans
A Democrat won a state legislative special election in a district that President Trump carried by 17 percentage points, unnerving Republicans in Texas and beyond.

Leona Health, maker of an AI-copilot that integrates with doctors' WhatsApp accounts in LATAM to manage patient communications, raised a $14M seed led by a16z (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/16/uber

Uber Eats alum lands $14M seed from a16z to fix WhatsApp chaos for LatAm's doctors | TechCrunch
Leona Health built an AI co-pilot to manage the flood of patient messages Latin American doctors receive on WhatsApp.

Artificial intelligence could become “a weapon of mass destruction of jobs” without proper controls, London mayor Sadiq Khan has warned.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/london-mayor-ai-mass-destroyer-of-jobs

London Mayor warns AI could become ‘mass destroyer of jobs’ in the capital
Artificial intelligence could become “a weapon of mass destruction of jobs” without proper controls, London mayor Sadiq Khan has warned.

This is quite a vulnerability. New Remcos Campaign Distributed Through Fake Shipping Document.
https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/new-remcos-campaign-distributed-through-fake-shipping-document

Ukrainian special forces destroy Iskander missile depot in occupied Crimea: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/ukrainian-special-forces-destroy-iskander.html

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
"AI slop on ScienceDirect (Elsevier), a “premier platform for scientific, health and technical literature”
https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/ai-slop-and-the-destruction-of-knowledge/

Vi har lyst ut to stipendiatstillinger knyttet til doktorgradsprogrammet FILMART ved INN (https://www.inn.no/forskning/doktorgradsutdanning/filmart/). Stipendiatene skal knyttes til det nasjonale KI-senteret MishMash (

Kunstnerisk utviklingsarbeid i film og beslektede audiovisuelle kunstformer - Universitetet i Innlandet
Ph.d.-programmet ved Fakultet for film, TV og spill er forankret i kunstnerisk praksis. Fagfeltet er «film og beslektede audiovisuelle kunstformer», og det er åpent både for de som arbeider innenfor mer tradisjonelle filmfaglige disipliner og utøvere som utforsker nye teknologier og format.

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Distraction
The Globe and Mail

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Distraction
The Globe and Mail

Rep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin’s Third District
wants you to think he is a tough guy.
He wears his Navy SEAL Trident like a shield, using his past service to deflect from the fact that he is a traitor to this country and tried to overthrow a democratically elected government on January 6th, 2021.
Derrick Van Orden is not a tough guy. He is a thug. And his race should be the number one target in Wisconsin.
Over the next year, we must strip away the costume and sh…