Honestly, this guy is clueless… can’t read a room. The Marie Antoinette of the #TrumpAdministration - J.D. Vance is obviously very envious, super jealous, about the lifestyles of his buddies the #billionaires while being utterly oblivious to the plight of the poor and disadvantaged. #JDVance #VicePresident #Politics #USPol #EatTheRich
Just a reminder of what ‘civilized’ democracies do when under threat from within…
🧵3/3 If you’re reading this #thread about #ClassicalMusic and young multi-instrumentalist, composer and conductor Alma Deutscher and you’ve gotten this far… you may be interested in this 25-minute interview with the #MusicalProdigy to hear about her life and her #music in her own worlds. #AlmaDeutscher https://youtu.be/a8t7XsB4Pj4?si=tCrD3O2kBYlVExDx
#trump and his dense #Republican cronies are SHOCKED at China’s predictable assertive response to the #TrumpAdministration imposition of very high tariffs on Chinese products. China ‘panicked’ they say… no, quite the opposite. China didn’t panic at all, they’ve been planning this for months, ever since the ‘fentanyl tariffs’ earlier this year. Have US diplomats and planners not been paying attention to China’s new breed of ‘wolf warriors’, ‘little pinks’ and armies of online activists? The country is taking strong, assertive and expansionist positions across all arenas, political, economic, foreign affairs, trade, and military. We have poked the Chinese tiger, and it is roaring its defiance. Not the expected response by naive US operatives. The stage is set now for a major #TradeWar that could last long enough to drive global #Recession. Hang on to your hats, folks. #economy #economics #tariffs #TariffsWar #China #RepublicansOwnThis #RepublicansDidThis
Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed… you’d be amazed at the places #Backdoors show up - but your bed!!?? #opsec #infosec #privacy #surveillance #DataProtection #IoT #InternetOfThings
https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/removing-jeff-bezos-from-my-bed
Signals of Trouble: Multiple Russia-Aligned Threat Actors Actively Targeting Signal Messenger
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/russia-targeting-signal-messenger #Infosec #OpSec #Signal #Russia
Kansas native and fifth generation farmer writes: With Trump and Musk Driving US Policy Kansas Farmers Have Been Played For Suckers… #agriculture #farming #farms #farmers #Kansas
USDA freezes farmer funding for some programs, conservation contracts…
CHICAGO/WASHINGTON DC, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has frozen some funding for farmers as it goes through a sweeping review, despite assurances from the Trump administration that programs helping farmers would not be affected in the government overhaul. The impact has been immediate and wide-ranging, from cash assistance for ranchers to fix cattle watering systems to help for corn growers wanting to plant cover crops that curb wind erosion. #farmers #farming #agriculture
#OpenAI Employee Says They’ve "Already Achieved AGI" https://futurism.com/openai-employee-claims-agi #AI #AGI
#AI Model Comparison - See and compare every #AIModel easily. 100% free & open source.
For years, the tech industry's conservative-libertarian wing has complained that Washington's leaders and culture stifle innovation. Now, with the appointment of David Sacks to be White House #AI and #Crypto Czar, it will be their turn to call the shots. What could possibly go wrong? #tech #Technology #cryptocurrency #regulation
ChatGPT Pro is here… at a cost. #AI #OpenAI #ChatGPT
Elon is bigly mad at #OpenAI - so he’s seeking through the courts to halt the firm’s transfer from a non-profit to a for-profit. Get out the popcorn, should be a real circus. #ElonMusk #AI
Anthropic introduces the ‘model context protocol’ for building models and agents. Instead of loading your data into an AI, now the AI can live in your data and be taught to act on it. #AI #Agents #Anthropic
#X released its first #transparency report since the Elon Musk takeover. It says it received almost 67 million reports of hateful conduct and took action on more than 2,000 accounts — a 99.99 percent decline in content moderation. (Vittoria Elliott / Wired) #SocialMedia #Birdsite #HateSpeech #ElonMusk #ContentModeration
Ignorance and democracy: Capitalism's long war against higher education https://www.salon.com/2024/03/16/ignorance-and-democracy-capitalisms-long-against-higher-education/ #Capitalism #Education #HigherEd #College #academia
In honor of #Caturday and the #CatsOfMastodon I’m posting our two feline sisters, litter-mates that couldn’t be more different. They share coloration, but literally nothing else. One is a long-hair, chill, slow-moving couch potato; the other is a short-hair, hyperactive, mischief maker intent on escaping out the door - even though both enjoy a large ‘catio’ on our family room deck. So meet Safi, short for Saffron; and her sister Coco. Coco is the long-hair.
Winter temperatures above 35C in South America leave climatologists in disbelief - "South America is living one of the most extreme events the world has ever seen, unbelievable temperatures up to 38.9C in the Chilean Andine areas in mid-winter," #GlobalWarming #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Heatwave #Temperatures #TemperatureRecords #Extinction https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-04/south-america-extreme-heat-mid-winter-climate-change-scientists/102678662