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K12 EDUCATION
The kids will only spend two hours on academics a day in a program organizers say was inspired by Elon Musk.
Arizona School’s Curriculum Will Be Taught by AI, No Teachers
The state’s charter school board approved an application on Monday from Unbound Academy to open a school with a two-hour per day academic curriculum set by AI.
Elon Musk is not an elected official. He’s been elected to nothing and has no place inserting himself like he’s the president when Congress is trying to get disaster relief to those who need it.
A Doctor Went to His Own Employer for a COVID-19 Antibody Test. It Cost $10,984.
Elon Musk, SpaceX reportedly under federal review for undisclosed meetings with foreign leaders
Tim Kaine @timkaine
Trump opposes bipartisan budget deal thus flirting with shutdown. He’s demanding that Congress lift the debt ceiling.
Why? Because he’s planning on blowing a hole in the deficit with tax giveaways to the rich next year!
BREAKING Georgia killed Trumps last case
WE STAND WITH FANI
Fani Willis, Fulton County District Attorney, has been removed from the election interference case by the Republican-appointed judges of the Georgia Court of Appeals.
The Georgia Court of Appeals voted to remove Fulton DA Fani Willis and her office from the 2020 election interference case, a bombshell decision that will upend the last remaining criminal case against incoming President Donald Trump
https://www.ajc.com/politics/court-of-appeals-strips-fulton-da-fani-willis-of-trump-election-interference-case/XGKWOZNKYJBQDFYSONWYPBCIIY/
However, they refused Trump’s request to throw out the case.
The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her office should be disqualified from the 2020 election interference case, a bombshell decision that upends the last remaining criminal case against incoming President Donald Trump.
In a 2-1 opinion, a panel of judges, all GOP appointees, concluded that Willis’ onetime romantic relationship with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade constituted a conflict of interest that merited her dismissal from the case.
Sen Chris Murphy: He says Dems are not functioning as an effective opposition to Trump’s accelerating authoritarianism right now, and that this is dangerously complacent.
Transcript: Chris Murphy’s Ominous New Warning About Trump Nails It
An interview with Senator Chris Murphy, who argues that Trump’s attacks on democracy are accelerating as we speak, that the media is folding, and that Democrats must sound the alarm before it’s too late.
“Get back to where we used to be 20 years ago when we were an aggressive democracy reform party because our critiques of Donald Trump will land flat if people think that we’re just defending the existing system.”
The TheoBros, a network of militant Christian nationalist influencers linked to Pete Hegseth, are embroiled in an antisemitic debate that has resulted in a seismic rift between two factions.
The Christian Nationalist “TheoBros” Have, Uh, Thoughts About Antisemitism
“I hate Judaism but love Jews and wish them a very pleasant conversion to Christianity.” https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/the-christian-nationalist-theobros-have-uh-thoughts-about-antisemitism/
Real Estate Platform To Show Neighborhoods’ Political Leanings To Prospective Homebuyers
The tool will initially be available in South Florida and New York City
Real estate battle over secretive off-market listings heats up
IMF tells El Salvador #Bitcoin acceptance
must be optional for businesses for country to qualify for a $1.3B IMF loan. El Salvador has secured a $1.4 billion agreement with the International Monetary Fund. El Salvador going to use the IMF loan to mine gold they just discovered.
Then convert that gold to digital gold aka BTC. BTC will no longer be legal tender in El Salvador. Acceptance by the private sector must be voluntary. Taxes only paid in USD, the Chivo wallet to be unwound and crypto regulation enhanced. El Salvador has not revoked bitcoin’s status as legal tender. The agreement with the IMF focuses on broader economic reforms and does not mention revoking bitcoin’s legal status.
HEALTH
The Vagus Nerve’s Mysterious Role in Mental Health Untangled
The healing potential of the brain’s most interconnected nerve intrigues researchers. Scientists hope it will enable them to refine existing treatments and find new therapies for other conditions, ranging from inflammatory bowel disease to long COVID. Clinical trials are underway on so-called transcutaneous VNS (tVNS) devices
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-vagus-nerve-could-influence-physical-and-mental-health/
TECHNOLOGY
It’s easy to trick an LLM-controlled robot into ignoring its safety instructions.
We saw a supply-chain attack against the Ultralytics AI library on GitHub. A quick summary:
On December 4, a malicious version 8.3.41 of the popular AI library ultralytics — which has almost 60 million downloads — was published to the Python Package Index (PyPI) package repository. The package contained downloader code that was downloading the XMRig coinminer. The compromise of the project’s build environment was achieved by exploiting a known and previously reported GitHub Actions script injection. Lots more details at that link. Also here.
What Graykey Can and Can’t Unlock
The Graykey, a phone unlocking and forensics tool that is used by law enforcement around the world, is only able to retrieve partial data from all modern iPhones that run iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1, which are two recently released versions of Apple’s mobile operating system, according to documents describing the tool’s capabilities in granular detail obtained by 404 Media. The documents do not appear to contain information about what Graykey can access from the public release of iOS 18.1, which was released on October 28.
Meanwhile, Graykey’s performance with Android phones varies, largely due to the diversity of devices and manufacturers. On Google’s Pixel lineup, Graykey can only partially access data from the latest Pixel 9 when in an “After First Unlock” (AFU) state — where the phone has been unlocked at least once since being powered on.
The Technology the Trump Administration Could Use to Hack Your Phone
MUSIC
The Ghosts in the Machine Spotify’s plot against musicians
Tell your lawmakers to support the bill to fix streaming, the Living Wage for Musicians Act
We’ve long suspected that Spotify was recruiting fake artists and juicing them in its algorithm and placing them on the most popular playlists. Liz Pelly collected the internal docs + other evidence to finally prove it. Even for a longtime Spotify hater, it’s shocking how systematic and deliberate the fake artist program is.
Organ Dönörs with Micky Metts
recorded live at Mr. Tipps, 8/20/92
Here is a link to the clip used at the Harvard Punk event, and in the exhibit. Link is good for 2 weeks only
https://harvardmusiclib.aviaryplatform.com/r/9w08w39v4m?access=H0lOKTdxy5f-y6pRcmSpvg==
https://harvardmusiclib.aviaryplatform.com/collection
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Isle 5 AI Clean Up