The entire contents of Waste. gov, the website tracking government "waste" are from a default WordPress theme about an imaginary architecture firm. Musk said yesterday DOGE is "maximally transparent" and all actions are being tracked on website:
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Elon Musk's Waste.gov Is Just a WordPress Theme Placeholder Page
Musk told reporters all of DOGE's actions are "maximally transparent." The website tracking waste is currently about an imaginary architecture firm.
New Microsoft study finds that using generative AI at work makes employees' critical thinking skills "atrophied and unprepared"
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Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.
Just spoke very briefly to National Archivist Colleen Shogan, who confirmed she was fired by Trump a few minutes ago:
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Trump Fires National Archives Director Colleen Shogan
“This evening, President Trump fired me. No cause or reason was cited."
AI-generated slop books are now in public libraries and librarians who are already stretched very thin, underfunded, and are under attack are struggling to deal with the onslaught
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AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library
Librarians say that taxpayers are already paying for low quality AI-generated ebooks in public libraries.
senator proposes bill that would criminalize downloading open source AI from China
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Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek
According to the language of the proposed bill, people who download AI models from China could face up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, ...
New: Github reveals some of the code and banal back-and-forth discussion used to clean a federal database of "forbidden words" in a dataset that tracks spending effectiveness for Headstart, which affects "America's most vulnerable young children":
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‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases
A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.
"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks"
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'Everything I Say Leaks,' Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio
"There are a bunch of things that I think are value-destroying for me to talk about, so I’m not going to talk about those."
Thousands of datasets have disappeared from data.gov. Determining what's gone, why it's gone, and whether it moved elsewhere will to take time. Things are definitely being purged but archivists working hard to determine exactly what has happened to a given dataset
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Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.gov
More than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from data.gov since Trump was inaugurated. But analyzing exactly what happened and where it went is going...
In its war on DEI and trans people, the Trump administration has bravely deleted a video about the grammatical concept of pronouns, demonstrating a scattershot, unserious effort that is nuking all sorts of things
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Trump Admin Deletes Video Explaining Grammatical Concept of Pronouns in War Against DEI
Github is also revealing a widespread, scattershot effort to nuke not only "DEI" but things that have nothing to do with it.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.