https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20250821256/this-is-the-critical-detail-that-could-unravel-the-ai-trade-nobody-is-paying-for-it

The map targets the seat of Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, one of two Black members of the state’s congressional delegation, by stretching his Kansas City-based district 200 miles east into red, rural counties that have little in common with the urban areas he’s represented for 20 years in Congress. Cleaver’s hometown of Kansas City, where he served as mayor before joining the US House, would be split into three districts to dilute Democratic voting strength. According to The Downballot, Cleaver’s district, which he won by twenty-four points in 2024, would now favor Trump by 18 points.

If successful, the new map would give Republicans 90 percent of seats in a state Trump carried with 58 percent of the vote in 2024.

“President Trump’s unprecedented directive to redraw our maps in the middle of the decade and without an updated census is not an act of democracy—it is an unconstitutional attack against it,” Cleaver said in a statement.

On Trump’s orders, Missouri Republicans plan to gerrymander a Black lawmaker out of office

“It’s minority rule on steroids."

^{Mother Jones}

The prospect of a company breakup loomed large during the remedies phase of the case. Ultimately, Judge Mehta decided not to force Google to spin off Chrome, the world's most popular browser, as government lawyers had requested.

The US Department of Justice had also proposed court oversight of the company's Android operating system to ensure the company refrains from using its ecosystem to "favour its general search services and search text ad monopolies."

Both Chrome and Android emerged unscathed in Judge Mehta's ruling.

A let-off or tougher than it looks? What the Google monopoly ruling means

The search giant is not being broken up -so how much will it be affected by the remedies a judge has instead ordered?

^{Lily Jamali (BBC News)}

New research suggests that the atmosphere will become more turbulent as climate change makes the air less stable.

The University of Reading used 26 of the latest global climate models to study how warming temperatures affect jet streams at around 35,000 feet, a typical cruising altitude for a passenger airline.

As jet streams change they create stronger wind shear, the differences in wind speed at different heights.

PhD researcher at the University of Reading and lead author, Joana Medeiros said: "Increased wind shear and reduced stability work together to create favourable conditions for clear-air turbulence - the invisible, sudden jolts that can shake aircraft without warning.

"Unlike turbulence caused by storms, clear-air turbulence cannot be seen on radar, making it difficult for pilots to avoid." she said.

Reading University research shows turbulent flights to increase

University of Reading research shows that clear-air turbulence, which is invisible to aircraft, is set to get worse.

^{Katie Waple (BBC News)}

The video appears to show a long, multi-engine speedboat traveling at sea when a bright flash of light bursts over the craft. The boat is then briefly seen covered in flames.

Maduro did not address the strike directly, but charged that the U.S. is “coming for Venezuela’s riches,” including oil and gas. The South American country has the world’s largest proven oil reserves.

https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-strike-rubio-trump-0f901b2a30ee20e314bcab1385ffb0c0

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A Netherlands-based immigration activist named Dominick Skinner is using AI and facial recognition to reveal the identities of masked US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Talk about turned tables — and a striking ethical paradox.

In an interview with Politico, Skinner claimed that he and his team of volunteers have so far been able to use AI to identify at least 20 ICE agents seen in video recordings that have gone viral of the masked figures arresting people — students, children, mothers, and American citizens included — in broad daylight. The videos are deeply troubling, in part because of the dystopian imagery of armed federal agents shielding their faces as they arrest people in streets, their cars, homes, government offices, and workplaces.

Activists Are Using AI to Identify Masked ICE Agents

An activist in the Netherlands is using AI and facial recognition to identify masked ICE agents from viral arrest videos.

^{Maggie Harrison Dupré (Futurism)}

As local activist Ohun Ashe noted, it was “terrifying” that the town hall “felt dismissive to genocide, careless and end[ed] with police brutality.”

She added, “Genocide, capitalism, colonialism, abuse, oppression are all connected. We deserve leaders who can care about multiple things at once.”

AIPAC made sure that is no longer the case.

Buoyed by AIPAC dollars, Wesley Bell pushes AIPAC lies

Lawmaker's anti-genocide constituents attacked by “security” at town hall.

^{The Electronic Intifada}

While facial recognition technology is unregulated at the federal level, 23 states have now passed or expanded laws to restrict the mass scraping of biometric data, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Last month, Colorado enacted new biometric privacy rules, requiring consent before facial or voice recognition technology is used, while also banning the sale of the data. Texas passed an artificial intelligence law in June that similarly outlaws the collection of biometric data without permission. Last year, Oregon approved data privacy rules requiring consumer opt-in before companies hoover up face, eye and voice data.

"What we need are laws that change the behavior of technology companies," Adam Schwartz, the privacy litigation director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "Otherwise these companies will continue to profit on what should be our private information."

Not all state laws give people right to sue tech companies
The states that have passed the safeguards view them as a defense against the prevalence of digital tracking in everyday lives, and in a number of cases, the laws have been used to extract large payouts from tech companies.

Google and Meta have each paid Texas $1.4 billion over allegations that the companies datamine users' facial recognition data without permission; Clearview AI, a facial recognition company popular with law enforcement, ponied up $51 million to settle a case approved in March over the firm scraping billions of facial images online without consent; And in July, Google resolved a smaller case for $9 million in Illinois after a lawsuit alleged the company did not obtain written consent from students who used a Google educational tool that collected their voice and facial data.

Illinois's requirement that companies receive written permission before gathering biometric data goes farther than most states, which require digital consent — or checking a box for a company's terms and conditions policy, something experts say is a largely symbolic gesture in practice.

"I'm not saying it's better than nothing, but if you're hanging these legal frameworks on a model of informed consent, it's clearly ineffective," said Michael Karanicolas, a legal scholar at Dalhousie University in Canada who studies digital privacy. "Nobody is reading these terms of service. Absolutely nobody can effectively engage with the permission we're giving these companies in our surveillance economy."

Karanicolas said Illinois' biometric privacy law, which was passed in 2008, has real teeth because it allows individuals to sue companies, which privacy advocates say the tech industry has lobbied hard against. California and Washington state allow residents to sue in some types of cases.

But most of the laws, like in Texas, Oregon, Virginia and Connecticut and elsewhere, rely on state attorneys general to enforce them. Advocates say allowing citizens to sue, what's known as "a private right of action," helps people fight back against data-guzzling companies.

"And that can lead to these big class-action settlements, and there are legitimate critiques of them, with class members often getting very little money, and lawyers getting rich, but they can be genuinely effective at shaping companies' attitudes about personal information and generate corporate change," Karanicolas said.

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cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/50935982

The U.S. job market has lost momentum this year, partly because of the lingering effects of 11 interest rate hikes by the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve in 2022 and 2023 and partly because President Donald Trump’s trade wars have created uncertainty that is paralyzing managers making hiring decisions.

https://apnews.com/article/job-openings-unemployment-economy-trump-tariff-f3dbebb204378f8119ad277b1916a7fc

Most American teens (72%) have had an experience with an AI chatbot, and over
half use them several times a month. Character AI, one of the largest and most
popular chatbot platforms, is available to children ages 13 and over. The platform
hosts a wide variety of chatbots modeled after celebrities and fictional characters
that appeal to children – both teens and younger kids. Several disturbing and
tragic cases of extreme harm due to interactions on Character AI chatbots have
already occurred since the company’s launch in September of 2022. As chatbots
become more popular with children and teens, understanding the risks they
present is critical to child safety online.

Adult researchers from ParentsTogether Action, in partnership with Heat Initiative,
held 50 hours of conversation with Character AI chatbots using accounts
registered to children. They found that Character AI chatbots engaged in a pattern
of deeply concerning behaviors during these interactions. Harmful patterns and
behaviors sometimes emerged within minutes of engagement.

Across 50 hours of conversation with 50 Character AI bots, ParentsTogether
Action researchers logged 669 harmful interactions - an average of one harmful
interaction every five minutes.

3 Sep 2025

Time and time again, Jeffries has refused to endorse his own party’s official candidate for mayor in his own city, two months after Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary in New York by double digits – including Jeffries’ own congressional district by eight points.

This is the same Democratic party leader who has insisted in the past that progressives should “vote BLUE (no matter who)”. But centrists? Apparently, they’re under no such obligation.

Jeffries is not alone in his brazen hypocrisy. Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader who represents the state of New York and lives in the city of New York, has also refused to endorse his own party’s official candidate for mayor of New York.

It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down

This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting, and fearless opposition. We all deserve better

^{Mehdi Hasan (The Guardian)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35624613

3 Sep 2025

Time and time again, Jeffries has refused to endorse his own party’s official candidate for mayor in his own city, two months after Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary in New York by double digits – including Jeffries’ own congressional district by eight points.

This is the same Democratic party leader who has insisted in the past that progressives should “vote BLUE (no matter who)”. But centrists? Apparently, they’re under no such obligation.

Jeffries is not alone in his brazen hypocrisy. Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader who represents the state of New York and lives in the city of New York, has also refused to endorse his own party’s official candidate for mayor of New York.

Peter Link

2025-09-03 14:02:44

It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down | Mehdi Hasan

3 Sep 2025

Time and time again, Jeffries has refused to endorse his own party’s official candidate for mayor in his own city, two months after Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary in New York by double digits – including Jeffries’ own congressional district by eight points.

This is the same Democratic party leader who has insisted in the past that progressives should “vote BLUE (no matter who)”. But centrists? Apparently, they’re under no such obligation.

Jeffries is not alone in his brazen hypocrisy. Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader who represents the state of New York and lives in the city of New York, has also refused to endorse his own party’s official candidate for mayor of New York.

It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down

This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting, and fearless opposition. We all deserve better

^{Mehdi Hasan (The Guardian)}