Indigenous leader José Albino Cañas Ramírez was recently shot and killed by two unknown individuals in Colombia’s Caldas department. Indigenous authorities suspect it was a targeted attack linked to his work in defense of one of the oldest Indigenous reserves in Colombia, the Resguardo of Colonial Origin Cañamomo Lomaprieta (RCMLP). It’s a 37.6-square-kilometer (14.5-square-mile) reserve established in 1540 but has been threatened by illegal miners and armed groups for decades. According to a statement released by the RCMLP, the two individuals arrived at the shop attached to the home of Cañas Ramírez at approximately 8:50 p.m. on Feb. 16. As Ramírez prepared to attend to them, they shot him four times and fled along the community’s roads toward Supía, a neighboring municipality.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is threatening to blacklist Anthropic from working with the U.S. military over the artificial intelligence company's refusal to loosen its safety standards.

The threat came on Tuesday during a meeting between Hegseth and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, according to two people with direct knowledge of the meeting who were not authorized to speak publicly.

While both sides agreed Hegseth vowed to punish Anthropic for not bending to the administration's demands, accounts of what exactly the threat was vary. One person close to the discussion said Hegseth dangled the possibility of canceling Anthropic's $200 million contract with the Defense Department, while a Pentagon official said repercussions could include forcing Anthropic to allow the federal government to use its AI tools against its will and blacklisting the company from receiving future work with the U.S. military.

US defense officials have pushed for unfettered access to Claude’s capabilities, while Anthropic has reportedly resisted allowing its product to be used for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons systems that can use AI to kill people without human input.

yes, the totalitarianism of having food and being able to read and killing Nazis. True horrors for the standard liberal.

ADHD is not a quirk. It is ruining my life. I am disorganized, I am in debt, I am paralyzed. I can't even get help; I have tried navigating the maze of finding a doctor who will accept my crappy exchange insurance but I always end up throwing in the towel. I thought I found one, once, but sike, he's an addiction counselor who refuses to prescribe stimulant medication on principle.

Not that I'm opposed to trying nonstims again, but I was prescribed Strattera in high school and it made me so drowsy I failed chemistry because I couldn't stay awake even with a full night of sleep. Also, bonus, his profile on the site I used to find him lied, and he doesn't actually accept my insurance. Here's a $500 bill for our 45 minute zoom call where I accused you of drug seeking. I got his practice to cancel the charge but still.

ADHD is ugly; ADHD looks like every chair in my apartment being full of clutter (and me subsequently freaking out because I hate clutter). it looks like brushing my teeth every two or three or five days. It looks like being able to hold on to my job as a waiter nothing else. It looks like me having the money to pay my bills, me wanting to pay those bills, and then me getting sent to collections anyway. ADHD looks like ghosting an old best friend because I'm too embarrassed to keep up with him. It looks like my partner shouldering more of the housework than is fair. And I get to look back on all this behavior, identify and accept that I am the problem, and then I get to do fuck all to fix it. ADHD looks like a horizon that gets narrower and narrower every day.

And I feel alone. ADHD is not cute. It sucks to suck.

Eric Andre's Black Scientologist sketch impression

Truth? His allegiance to the Populares!

For lack of a better term? I'm not sure what to call it. I started arguing with someone who was claiming you shouldn't help people in public because it could get you into legal trouble. Without wanting to even get into the ethics of why you should help someone regardless, I brought up good Samaritan laws. This person brought up a guy in Illinois who was convicted as a sex offender for grabbing a girl by the arm and lecturing her for jumping in front of a car without looking both ways first. According to this person, holding someone underage, even for a moment, counts as imprisonment of a minor, and automatically gets you put on the sex offender registry for life.

Now, that seemed fishy, but plausible in an awful sort of way, so I did some digging. I found several sources that mentioned this story, and learned the alleged man's name is Fitzroy Barnaby, the incident occurred in 2001, he was convicted in Cook County in 2003, and it's a cautionary tale against being a good Samaritan (ugh). But I cannot find any court documents, nor can I find any original sources. Every source references a since-deleted article by the "Chicago Sun Times", and Barnaby isn't even listed on the Illinois sex offender registry. Was this whole story just made up? Or have records been sealed and scrubbed or something?

The title is from the article but doesn't really cover the breadth of changes proposed. The key parts:

The government is proposing to make it legal to ride e-scooters in cycle lanes. It is part of its work to "fix the basics" in the New Zealand transport system, with consultation opening today on two packages for rule changes.

In the first package, the government is proposing to:

• Allow children up to age 12 (inclusive) to ride their bikes on footpaths, helping keep younger riders safer and reflecting common practice;
• Introduce a mandatory passing gap of between one and 1.5 metres, depending on the speed limit, to give motorists clearer guidance when passing cyclists and horse riders;
• Allow e-scooters to use cycle lanes;
• Require drivers travelling under 60 kilometres per hour to give way to buses pulling out from bus stops;
• Clarify signage rules so councils can better manage berm parking.

The second package relating to heavy vehicles proposes:

• Some permit requirements would be removed so rental operators can move empty high productivity motor vehicle truck and trailer combinations between depots and customers without unnecessary delays;
• Driver licence settings would be updated so Class 1 licence holders can drive zero-emissions vehicles with a gross laden weight up to 7500 kilograms, and Class 2 licence holders can drive electric buses with more than two axles with a gross laden weight up to 22,000kg;
• Signage requirements for load pilot vehicles would be made more practical;
• Overseas heavy vehicle licence holders would be able to convert their licences either by sitting tests or completing approved courses.

EU chiefs assure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy they have the tools to unblock the funds.

The EU will deliver on its promise to give Ukraine a much-needed €90 billion loan, despite Hungary attempting to derail the effort at the last minute, top officials said on Tuesday.

Speaking in Kyiv with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council chief António Costa both insisted that the loan would go ahead soon.

"We will deliver on our word one way or the other," von der Leyen told reporters. "Let me be clear. We have different options and we will use them."

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On 9:27 AM - July 8, 2023, Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr wrote

Show us all the Epstein client list now!!! Why would anyone protect those scum bags?

Ask yourselves this question daily and the answer becomes very apparent!!

Just the title

He said the soccdem thing! He said "REFORM"

Jokes aside, his heart is in the right place, but his methods are ultimately a dead end. All that energy he puts in, the absolutely liberal cope that was the "clippy movement" shit and all the lobbying he has done...

What do you think of him?

Meta said in court that social media addiction is a figment of imagination.

That's not what it researchers thought.

They tried studying addiction and the company back tracked because they couldn't control the narrative

The EU aims to develop and deploy so-called “biometrics on the move” technologies in order to turn its borders into engines of seamless mass discrimination. Behind the promise of rendering border crossings instantaneous and border checks invisible, lies a vision rooted in opacity and unproven technological solutions. This could, in practice, usher in a regime of invisible but pervasive mass surveillance of people on the move and travelers alike.