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Justice department officials felt sure "Border Czar" #ATom #Homan would not be able to obtain a security clearance based on the evidence gathered in the corruption probe, which they and FBI agents believed had shown Homan unsuitable for a trusted senior role in government service

Border czar Tom Homan didn’t receive normal background check during bribery probe
President-elect Trump initially balked at submitting names of likely nominees to the FBI for background checks, a basic step intended to flag possible financial conflicts or ethical problems.

Even if, for just a brief moment, I put aside all the ethical, environmental, moral, social, and economical problems with LLM generated code:
It’s just like… not what I want you know?
I’ve never felt that it would be better if I moved faster.
Or if my solution was more fragile.
Or if my own personal understanding of the problem space was shallower.
Calling this industry Software Engineering is already a laughingstock to any actual engineer. I’ve never once wanted …

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more;
A handful of companies monopolize the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives
https://www.theg…

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more
A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

"Capable LLMs require a logic of dominance and of disregarding consent of the people producing the artifacts that are the raw material for the system. LLMs are based on extraction, exploitation and subjugation. Their politics is violence. How does one “liberate” that? What’s the case for open source violence?"
(Original title: Acting ethically in an imperfect world)

Acting ethically in an imperfect world
Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are […]

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Leela James:
🎵 Complicated
#LeelaJames
https://leelajames.bandcamp.com/track/complicated
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"Mexico Dolphin Show Ban, Paving the Way for Ethical Wildlife Tourism Alternatives"
#Mexico #Dolphins #Animals

Mexico Dolphin Show Ban, Paving the Way for Ethical Wildlife Tourism Alternatives | Happy Eco News
The Mexico dolphin show ban in 2025 promotes ethical wildlife tourism alternatives. Learn how this historic law changes travel and why responsible whale-watching is replacing cruel captive entertainment across Latin America.

"AI democratizes creativity and talent" => "AI offers everyone a minion they can exploit ruthlessly"
... sure it's possible to ethically use dollar-store fluffers when you can't afford professionals or can't attract volunteers, but maybe don't delude yourself into thinking it's something else?

"Even if #OpenAI was run by decent, ethical, friendly, trustworthy people (which would then of course make them not work on the products OpenAI has, but it’s just a thought experiment) their products would need to be criticized for what they are and what they do." — @…

Acting ethical in an imperfect world
Live is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are […]

Until January, Patrick J. Schiltz,
the chief judge of the District of Minnesota,
had steadily managed one of the federal court system’s heavier workloads with little fanfare.
He was more widely known in the legal community for penning a revered law journal article 27 years ago that advised young lawyers how to become ethical members of an “unhappy, unhealthy and unethical profession.”
But starting this year, as federal agents surged into Minnesota, hundreds of immigr…

Patrick Schiltz, an Ethicist, Is the Minnesota Judge Blasting ICE
Judge Patrick Schiltz, an appointee of George W. Bush, became an unlikely critic of the Trump administration’s tactics in Minnesota.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened to punish the artificial intelligence company Anthropic
if it doesn’t let the Pentagon use its technology however it wants
—apparently even to create autonomous killer drones
or conduct surveillance of Americans.
Anthropic’s powerful AI model, Claude,
is currently the only one permitted to handle classified military data,
and the company was awarded a $200 million contract last year
to develop AI capabilit…

Hegseth demands Anthropic let military use AI however it wants—even for autonomous killer drones and spying on Americans
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the company that owns the AI assistant Claude would be punished unless it drops all ethical guidelines.