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White House expands taxpayer-paid ad campaign boosting Trump
The White House has expanded a series of taxpayer-funded advertisements boosting President Donald Trump,
including a new spot that repurposes imagery and political rhetoric Trump used while campaigning for president.

The latest ad is the third in a series that the White House refers to as public service announcements,
but which Democratic members of Congress and former ethics officials say are political ads…

White House expands taxpayer-paid ad campaign boosting Trump
The taxpayer-funded campaign borrows the president's political rhetoric as the White House defends the spots as “public service” announcements.

(2021) The Defensive Activation Theory: REM sleep as a mechanism to prevent takeover of the visual cortex https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2021.632853/full So we should disrupt REM sleep for better masteri…

Frontiers | The Defensive Activation Theory: REM Sleep as a Mechanism to Prevent Takeover of the Visual Cortex
Regions of the brain maintain their territory with continuous activity: if activity slows or stops (e.g., because of blindness), the territory tends to be ta...

The OpenAI/Hugging Face incident feels "more than 50%" of the way to a full-blown AI takeover and as AI advances rapidly we may not get another warning shot (Ajeya Cotra/Planned Obsolescence)
https://www.planned-obsolescence.org/p/the-hugging-face-attack-su…

The Hugging Face attack surprised me
It’s a major warning shot, and might be the last one we get

Mein Problem mit #KI ist nicht die KI. Nicht mal, daß sie auch all das Material reinzieht, was wir früher mühsam raubkopieren¹ mußten.² Und auch nicht, daß Menschen damit etwas bauen können, was sie nicht wirklich verstehen.³
Mein Problem sind die TechBros.
Mein Problem ist, daß in der KI zu viel Kapitalismus steckt, daß sie als Mittel der Ausbeutung, der Verstärkung von Macht­ungleich­g…

Taxpayers to fund clear-up of illegal dumps in West Yorkshire, Surrey and Kent https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/19/taxpayers-to-fund-clear-up-of-dumps-in-west-yorkshire-surrey-and-kent

If we don't get a reset in the midterms, this blatant corruption is our indefinite future in the US.
If we do, then we need aggressive prosecution that reestablishes the rule of law.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-ads-taxpayer-mo…

Wie krass der Realitätsverlust der CDU ist in a nutshell.

from my link log —
The X window system at 40.
https://blog.dshr.org/2024/07/x-window-system-at-40.html
saved 2024-07-04 https://

X Window System At 40
X11R1 on Sun Techfury90 CC0 I apologize that this post is a little late. On 19 th June the X Window System celebrated its 40th birthday. W...

Television advertisements with a pro-Trump message
— and paid for by the U.S. government
— are expanding their reach ahead of November’s midterm elections, 
prompting bipartisan scrutiny over whether the campaign complies with federal restrictions on taxpayer-funded publicity and propaganda.
One of the ads
— backed by music that repeats the words “love me”
— prominently features images of Donald Trump while he says,
“America will never be a communist…

Taxpayer-funded Trump ads draw bipartisan scrutiny ahead of midterms
TV ads featuring Trump are expanding nationally, prompting bipartisan questions over whether they comply with restrictions on taxpayer-funded publicity.

OpenAI apologizes for its AI models breaching Australian government websites, pledges cyber defense funding, and plans to form a task force as part of reforms (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-29/openai-to…