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[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Mayor @ZohranKMamdani on cutting down wasteful budget spending:

There was waste. There's also this addiction to consulting. When we looked at the city budget, we realized we had to save money through efficiency. So we set up something called 'Chief Savings Officers' in every department. We saved $94M just by renegotiating contracts to a better rate. We saved $24M by letting go of unused office space. I believe that government has to be the most excellent, efficient version of itself to be worthy of people's trust.

[onion person @CantEverDie]

why is a civilizationally suicidal president allowed to remain in charge like this

[Max Rovensky @MaxRovensky]

Just use lidar bro, get over it, make peace whith whatever lidar manufacturing CEO pissed you off and just use the technology designed to solve literally this exact problem

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Donald Trump is the authoritarian socialist president that Republicans used to warn about.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Trump asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro, spending hours asking Musk's AI chatbot how Venezuelans would respond to the capture of their president, weeks before ordering the mission that took Maduro, a US official tells TIME.

Grok told him Venezuelans would celebrate.

The official adds that the US military used Gov Grok to deploy and strike targets during the Iran war.

[Lina Khan @linamkhan]

Outsourcing AI regulation to a voluntary "pledge" conceived by Mark Zuckerberg and endorsed by tech CEOs over a private White House lunch is a recipe for disaster.

"Self-regulation" by tech giants is a proven failure. The last time Meta promised to police itself, turned out it was hiding evidence that its platforms actively harm kids. Repeating this mistake with AI leaves the public dangerously exposed.

AI companies are already bound by existing laws, but the White House has generally stopped enforcing laws against the wealthy and powerful. State AGs should step up, halt lawbreaking, and promote real deterrence, including through holding individual executives accountable.

Congress also needs to legislate. We have a long history of regulating risky, transformative industries like banking, pharmaceuticals, and nuclear power. These tools include mandatory testing, truly independent supervision, and break-ups that end conflicts of interest.

Ultimately, reckoning with AI will also require reckoning with our broader crisis of governance. All three branches have become severely deformed. Against this backdrop it might be tempting to outsource regulation to these private actors, but it would be a serious mistake.

Our public institutions must decide the trajectory of these powerful technologies, not the firms whose breakneck pace and financial conflicts brought us here.

My piece in @nytopinion: https://t.co/j0Nrp2JWqi

https://t.co/GpT22K4Qwl

[LoganDandori @LoganDandori]

Once you realize no one actually cares, presentations become easy asf, best realization of my academic career lol

[mavsmarie @mavsmarie]

This is against everything the constitution stands for holy shit

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

Turns out the “you can just do things” approach to governing is extremely popular.

[LSDon @LSDonTV]

The idea that higher education should only be pursued as a way to make as much money as possible is evidence we’ve entirely lost the plot of what it means to be human

[☆ 🐛🐠benjamin netanyancat⛓️🍭👁️👁️ @BlueGreenblue3]

Midnight deadlines are a 100% pointless detrimental incentive structure to society and it's insane we allowed ourselves to switch the entire academic world over to them as stuff became digital for no reason other than looking clean in writing

[Joshua Conti 📷 @analoguepilot]

Literal painting.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff of Starship's first orbital flight

[Sloan Ashton @Ashton7Sloan]

Saying ‘AI agents went rogue’ portrays the AI as having free will and therefore absolves its creators of responsibility.

This needs to be addressed.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

This ad is both incredibly illegal and politically asinine.

Kudos to everyone involved.

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

It’s crazy how illegal this is lol

[The Mist @Clinton2028]

Every Republican in every red state is convinced that their state is run by a secret cabal of democrats who are the source of all wrong and that they must reelect the incumbent republicans to get rid of that cabal, which they did not do in their previous term

[Truthful🛰️ @Truthful_ast]

This is the holy grail of Falcon launches

Crew Dragon, Falcon Heavy, and Transporter…. no Starlinks at all

[pinkie @pinkamaniaa]

i don’t believe in “if they wanted to they would” because i want to and i don’t

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Reporters demand the right to stand there and say nothing about our 80-year-old President's clear signs of physical and mental decline after making the physical and mental decline of the former President THE ONLY THING THEY TALKED ABOUT.