CNN — The Trump administration has put more than 100 officials at the National Security Council at the White House on administrative leave. https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/politics/national-security-council-administrative-leave-trump?cid=ios_app

PBS caves to Trump.

“Criticism of Trump Was Removed From Documentary on Public Television
A segment in a documentary about the cartoonist Art Spiegelman was edited two weeks before it was set to air on public television stations across the country.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/arts/television/art-spiegelman-documentary-edited.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Chaos spreads as desperate Gazans wait for food to arrive https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2ekv9ez43o

Sources: DOGE is using a customized Grok to analyze US government data, including at DHS where it has not been approved, raising security and privacy concerns (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/musks-doge-expanding-his-grok-ai-us-government-raising-conflict-concerns-2025-05-23/
http://www.techmeme.com/250523/p5#a250523p5

China pledges $500M to WHO as US abandons international health agency

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/china-pledges-500m-to-who-as-us-abandons-international-health-agency/

Microsoft has used its security controls to block messages which contain the words Palestine and Gaza.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/672312/microsoft-block-palestine-gaza-email

Q&A from a talk I gave last week.

Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?"

A: Fascism. It's fascism.

Aid ship on its way to Gaza allegedly attacked by drones off the coast of Malta.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/europe/gaza-flotilla-ship-sos-intl-hkn

UPDATE: We've added 11 more names to our DOGE tracker, bringing the total to 77 staffers affiliated with Musk.

Plus, you can now filter our database by federal agency. Check it out ⤵️
https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#DOGE #ElonMusk #Musk #Government #Data #Research #USPolitics #Trump

Dear tech people.

NOW is absolutely the time for you to reach out to your friends and colleagues in places like Palantir, Microsoft, Meta, etc., and start propagandizing them.

They are participating in and facilitating the destruction of human lives.

They are collaborating with fascists for a paycheck.

Convince them to choose a side. Not by being passively silent. But actively *choosing* the world they want to see.

Force that moment.
Invite them to leave the Death Star.

Because this fucking apparatus *needs to be stopped.*

BAMP.

CPJ (Committee to Protect Journalists) are now advising journalists visiting USA to treat it as an authoritarian regime and travel accordingly:

https://cpj.org/2025/04/cpj-issues-safety-advisory-for-journalists-traveling-to-the-united-states/

#Palestinian Photojournalist & Protagonist Of Cannes-Selected Doc Killed In #Israeli Gaza Strike

#FatimaHoussana and 9 of her family members murdered 24 hours after film accepted in #Cannes festival

from #Deadline [USA]
By Melanie Goodfellow
Senior International Film Correspondent
April 17, 2025 5:11am

[heartbreaking story. Still hard to believe how murderous and cruel Israel is.]

https://deadline.com/2025/04/gaza-photojournalist-cannes-doc-killed-israeli-strike-1236370699/

#PermanentCeasfireNow
#IsraelWarCrimes
#ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics #Photojournalism
#Documentary
#news #press @palestine @israel

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/18/media-censorship-in-the-age-of-palestinian-genocide/

You can say you didn’t care. What you can’t say is that you didn’t know.

#genocide #Gaza #Palestine #israel https://todon.eu/@dbattistella/114356969101255794

Most #LLMs over-generalized scientific results beyond the original articles

...even when explicitly prompted for accuracy!

The #AI was 5x worse than humans, on average!

Newer models were the worst.🤦‍♂️

🔓 Accepted in #RoyalSociety Open #Science: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.00025

@josephcox @glynmoody and at almost the same time, NATO purchases Palantir’s Maven AI:

https://shape.nato.int/news-releases/nato-acquires-aienabled-warfighting-system-

New from 404 Media: we've obtained a leak from inside Palantir describing Palantir's plan to help ICE find people to deport. Includes peoples' location. Palantir is expecting a backlash, preparing comments for employees to tell their family. Says ICE "mature partner"

https://www.404media.co/leaked-palantirs-plan-to-help-ice-deport-people/

Den här nyheten om att en högt uppsatt förhandlare på fackförbundet Vision är personen bakom den antidemokratiska pseudonymen på ytterhögern, Teodor Gustafsson. Fy fan.

https://expo.se/fordjupning/janusansiktet-expo-avslojar-teodor-gustafsson/

Using an alphanumeric passcode for your phone instead of a fingerprint or face lock can protect your data legally and physically. Other things you should know: https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2024/05/04/how-do-i-prepare-my-phone-for-a-protest-updated-2024

Apparently, as @f and @ssg mentioned, Bluesky has started honoring account restriction / takedown requests from Turkish government.

Bluesky has been a haven for Turkish leftist people, because both the government and X has restricted access to the leftist accounts.

After people accepted Bluesky as a safe place, their "limiting access of accounts to specific regions" is frustrating, and exhausting.

I've been promoting ActivityPub / Mastodon for years, and I'll keep on doing so.

#bluesky