The CDC is on the Brink, the editorial in this week's @TheLancet https://
thelancet.com/journals/lance
t/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00799-3/fulltext
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CDC Crisis: Editorial in The Lancet Examines Public Health Agency
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US military stockpile rebuilding amid geopolitical tensions
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Good thing the US has no other adversaries in the world and we can afford to take as much time as we want to rebuild our stockpile. /s
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Big Tech’s 4x Move: Platform Power Through Market Dominance
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Calling the 4x move "platform power" is generous, it's just because they can.
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AI will handle philosophy, making human decline irrelevant
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All philosophy on this subject will soon be done by AI so it’s not a big deal if we get worse at it, even terminally so.
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Dubious AI Predictions Give Tech Leaders Excessive Power
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Dubious predictions that have yet to be fulfilled have given dubious people like Sam Altman and Elon Musk extraordinary power over society. @carissaveliz
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US Accuses China of Industrial-Scale AI Intellectual Property Theft
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US has accused China of "industrial-scale" theft of AI and warned that it will be cracking down on the exploitation, per FT.
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Journalists Need New Equipment for AI-Era Work
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Les journalistes peuvent pas travailler sans téléphone, mais il faut qu'ils changent leurs équipements.
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AI as Executive Partner in Government Operations
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An inspiring blueprint for the future of government, @HHShkMohd ! An incredibly ambitious initiative! Empowering AI as an "executive partner" to manage operations while elevating human decision-making is the true promise of this technology. The world will be closely
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Autonomous Vehicles Social Cost and Public Infrastructure Investment
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You are asking to exclude millions of people who cannot afford renting human drivers from being able to getting around. That is an incredible social cost. Let's find other sources of income. How about we build infrastructure again?
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Status Bias in Tech Leadership: Intelligence Perception Beyond Credentials
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For many people, perception of a presentation is biased by status: how can the hip, successful, manipulative decitrillionaire CEO talking to the weird 25yo nerd not be the dominant intellect?