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Washington Post laid off a third of their workforce including most foreign correspondents and the entire sports section. The Post has been losing money, in part due to subscription cancellation over Bezos changes. The annual losses total five days income for Bezos,beho paid $75 million for Melania movie.
 
Post also laid off Middle Eastern bureau. Nothing much happening there, right? Also laid off city desk. The desk once staffed by Woodward and Bernstein.
 

New Site Lets AI Rent Human Bodies​

"Robots need your body."

The pitch is simple: “robots need your body.” For humans, it’s as simple as making a profile, advertising skills and location, and setting an hourly rate. Then AI agents — autonomous taskbots ostensibly employed by humans — contract these humans out, depending on the tasks they need to get done. The humans then “do the thing,” taking instructions from the AI bot and submitting proof of completion. The humans are then paid through crypto, namely “stablecoins or other methods,” per the website.

futurism.com

New Site Lets AI Rent Human Bodies

RentAHuman is a new digital marketplace connecting AI agents to humans who don't mind taking orders from the computer.
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SlyPokerDog said:

New Site Lets AI Rent Human Bodies​

"Robots need your body."

The pitch is simple: “robots need your body.” For humans, it’s as simple as making a profile, advertising skills and location, and setting an hourly rate. Then AI agents — autonomous taskbots ostensibly employed by humans — contract these humans out, depending on the tasks they need to get done. The humans then “do the thing,” taking instructions from the AI bot and submitting proof of completion. The humans are then paid through crypto, namely “stablecoins or other methods,” per the website.

futurism.com

New Site Lets AI Rent Human Bodies

RentAHuman is a new digital marketplace connecting AI agents to humans who don't mind taking orders from the computer.
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It won't be long...

 
Bill currently in Oklahoma State legislature makes it a felony to give food, shelter or other aid to undocumented immigrant or asylum seeker. Includes individuals and organizations including churches.
Oklahoma requires teaching Bible in public schools and displaying ten commandments because they are so 'Christian.
 
Group of crypto execs commissioned an 18 foot tall statue of Trump. Gilded, of course. The statue sits in creator's workshop and can't be displayed because he hasn't been paid.
 
Smithsonian Institute is cancelling annual Folkways Festival, held every year since 1967, in order for a Trump themed patriotic festival to be held instead.
 
Pardoned January 6 insurrectionist Jake Long went to Minnesota to be an asshole. A veterans group put up a display with Prosecute ICE on it. Long kicked over letters to make it Pro ICE and was stupid enough to post on Xitter. Display on private property. He was arrested for vandalism and trespassing.
 
SpaceX awarded a $1 million prize for best article to a white supremacist blogger who wishes Trump was more like Hitler and says Somalis have lower IQ than wild animals.
 
Requested we keep politics out of main Olympics thread. So...
JD Vance arrived with massive entourage in fleet of huge SUVS that could barely fit Milan's narrow streets. They caused traffic jam so bad American figure skater nearly missed her event. They actually brought their own food. To Italy.
Ugly American embodied.
 
Senator Rick Scott, responding to criticism of ICE and anti gay policies by some Olympic athletes, said they represent a country that is a beacon of freedom and democracy. If they don't agree with that they can take off Team USA uniforms. Is he too stupid to see the blatant irony of his remarks? Senator Van Orden took it further. They should be sent home by way of Arlington National Cemetery.
We are a beacon of freedom and democracy and if you criticize you deserve to die.
 
New York Times reports small group of conservative activists after years has finally succeeded in their goal of eliminating all federal climate legislation.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
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Trib article - 3 out of 1500 arrested.

Around 1,500 students from area schools walked out of school toward downtown Aurora on Monday, according to the Aurora Police Department, joining a string of recent student protest actions in the Chicago area.

Three students were charged following the walkouts in Aurora, and the interactions between the police department and the students involved have since drawn some criticism on social media and from local officials.

A number of student walkouts staged in protest of the Trump administration’s continued mass deportation campaign have occurred in recent days — from Chicago to Naperville to Waukegan, according to reports. In the Aurora area, a number of high school students from East Aurora School District 131 held a walkout of their own in protest of ICE last week too.

According to the Aurora Police Department, officers were deployed throughout the city at around 11:50 a.m. on Monday in response to the walkouts occurring at several local schools. Aurora police officials said officers worked with school administrators to encourage students to remain in class or return to campus, and, as students traveled together, provided verbal direction meant to keep the walkout participants out of traffic and reduce the possibility of conflicts or unsafe conditions.

Around 1,500 students ultimately walked toward the downtown area and City Hall, a Facebook post from the police department said. According to the police department, portions of the crowd “began disregarding officers’ directions by entering traffic lanes, blocking vehicles and walking into oncoming traffic along Lake Street and surrounding corridors.” The police department also claims fights broke out, water bottles were thrown at police vehicles and reckless driving occurred near areas where students had gathered.

Amid the police response, the department said that it made contact with two individuals whose “actions were contributing to the unsafe conditions,” and both were taken into custody after police said they resisted officers’ attempts to detain and identify them. According to the police, a third student “intervened and punched an officer in the head, causing a laceration.”

The injured officer was taken to a local hospital, and three male juveniles from East Aurora High School were charged with improper walking in the roadway, obstructing and resisting a peace officer, the Facebook post from the police department said. One of the individuals was also charged with aggravated battery to a police officer.

In a statement on Tuesday, a spokesman from the police department confirmed that the three arrested were all from East Aurora High School, but noted that the department cannot release further information on their identities.

Students from West Aurora High School and Jefferson Middle School, both part of West Aurora School District 129, were also involved in the walkouts, the police spokesperson confirmed. Students from Waubonsie Valley High School and Fischer Middle School, both part of Indian Prairie School District 204, also staged an action on Monday, but the police spokesperson said those students “did not require any intervention.”

The remaining students ultimately dispersed, and normal traffic conditions were restored, the police department said.

East Aurora School District 131 said in a statement on Facebook that it had been made aware that some students at the high school planned to walk out on Monday, reiterating that the district does not condone walkouts during the school day. The district said it is providing a location inside the school building for students “to engage in civil discourse with staff and peers” in a “safe, supervised environment.”

The district noted that students who leave campus are marked with an unexcused absence and may face disciplinary action.

West Aurora School District 129, in a message posted on Facebook, also confirmed that students from Jefferson Middle School and West Aurora High School were part of Monday’s walkouts. The district emphasized that walkouts during the school day are not condoned, and said the district was working closely with the Aurora Police Department to monitor the situation.

West Aurora’s spokesperson declined to comment further, and said the district did not have an accurate count of how many students participated.

District 204’s spokesperson said that the district had been made aware that students at Waubonsie Valley High School were organizing a walkout, but that they did not have a count on how many students participated, and said that the district “enforced all standard attendance policies” during the action.

East Aurora did not immediately return a request for further comment on the walkouts.

State Rep. Barbara Hernandez, D-Aurora, said on Facebook that the incident “escalated beyond what anyone hoped for,” and said she will be reaching out to the police department and is working with the schools to “understand what occurred and to help ensure this does not happen again.”

State Sen. Karina Villa, D-West Chicago, in a news release, was critical of the police response to the walkouts, calling videos circulating of “minors being restrained and handled like criminals in front of their peers … deeply disturbing and unacceptable.”

Villa said she stands “in solidarity with the students, their families and the community as they demand accountability and advocate for the charges against the students harmed in the altercation to be dropped,” calling for “a thorough and transparent investigation on the actions taken by the Aurora Police Department.”

“Our children are our future,” Villa said in the news release. “Their voices should be protected and uplifted – not silenced through intimidation or force.”
 
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As an old boss of mine use to always say, "it's a quick trip from the penthouse to the outhouse"
 
Small town and rural public libraries and museums have small budgets and no big donors. They are aided by federal grants which, while small in dollar amounts, are a significant part of their income.
Trump administration announced awards will be reviewed to ensure recipients "align with President Trump's values" (greed, grift, pedophilia, racism, gratuitous cruelty perhaps) and present "uplifting" vision of America. No references to slavery, slaughter of indigenous people, internment of Japanese Americans, and above all no gays.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Trib article - 3 out of 1500 arrested.

Around 1,500 students from area schools walked out of school toward downtown Aurora on Monday, according to the Aurora Police Department, joining a string of recent student protest actions in the Chicago area.

Three students were charged following the walkouts in Aurora, and the interactions between the police department and the students involved have since drawn some criticism on social media and from local officials.

A number of student walkouts staged in protest of the Trump administration’s continued mass deportation campaign have occurred in recent days — from Chicago to Naperville to Waukegan, according to reports. In the Aurora area, a number of high school students from East Aurora School District 131 held a walkout of their own in protest of ICE last week too.

According to the Aurora Police Department, officers were deployed throughout the city at around 11:50 a.m. on Monday in response to the walkouts occurring at several local schools. Aurora police officials said officers worked with school administrators to encourage students to remain in class or return to campus, and, as students traveled together, provided verbal direction meant to keep the walkout participants out of traffic and reduce the possibility of conflicts or unsafe conditions.

Around 1,500 students ultimately walked toward the downtown area and City Hall, a Facebook post from the police department said. According to the police department, portions of the crowd “began disregarding officers’ directions by entering traffic lanes, blocking vehicles and walking into oncoming traffic along Lake Street and surrounding corridors.” The police department also claims fights broke out, water bottles were thrown at police vehicles and reckless driving occurred near areas where students had gathered.

Amid the police response, the department said that it made contact with two individuals whose “actions were contributing to the unsafe conditions,” and both were taken into custody after police said they resisted officers’ attempts to detain and identify them. According to the police, a third student “intervened and punched an officer in the head, causing a laceration.”

The injured officer was taken to a local hospital, and three male juveniles from East Aurora High School were charged with improper walking in the roadway, obstructing and resisting a peace officer, the Facebook post from the police department said. One of the individuals was also charged with aggravated battery to a police officer.

In a statement on Tuesday, a spokesman from the police department confirmed that the three arrested were all from East Aurora High School, but noted that the department cannot release further information on their identities.

Students from West Aurora High School and Jefferson Middle School, both part of West Aurora School District 129, were also involved in the walkouts, the police spokesperson confirmed. Students from Waubonsie Valley High School and Fischer Middle School, both part of Indian Prairie School District 204, also staged an action on Monday, but the police spokesperson said those students “did not require any intervention.”

The remaining students ultimately dispersed, and normal traffic conditions were restored, the police department said.

East Aurora School District 131 said in a statement on Facebook that it had been made aware that some students at the high school planned to walk out on Monday, reiterating that the district does not condone walkouts during the school day. The district said it is providing a location inside the school building for students “to engage in civil discourse with staff and peers” in a “safe, supervised environment.”

The district noted that students who leave campus are marked with an unexcused absence and may face disciplinary action.

West Aurora School District 129, in a message posted on Facebook, also confirmed that students from Jefferson Middle School and West Aurora High School were part of Monday’s walkouts. The district emphasized that walkouts during the school day are not condoned, and said the district was working closely with the Aurora Police Department to monitor the situation.

West Aurora’s spokesperson declined to comment further, and said the district did not have an accurate count of how many students participated.

District 204’s spokesperson said that the district had been made aware that students at Waubonsie Valley High School were organizing a walkout, but that they did not have a count on how many students participated, and said that the district “enforced all standard attendance policies” during the action.

East Aurora did not immediately return a request for further comment on the walkouts.

State Rep. Barbara Hernandez, D-Aurora, said on Facebook that the incident “escalated beyond what anyone hoped for,” and said she will be reaching out to the police department and is working with the schools to “understand what occurred and to help ensure this does not happen again.”

State Sen. Karina Villa, D-West Chicago, in a news release, was critical of the police response to the walkouts, calling videos circulating of “minors being restrained and handled like criminals in front of their peers … deeply disturbing and unacceptable.”

Villa said she stands “in solidarity with the students, their families and the community as they demand accountability and advocate for the charges against the students harmed in the altercation to be dropped,” calling for “a thorough and transparent investigation on the actions taken by the Aurora Police Department.”

“Our children are our future,” Villa said in the news release. “Their voices should be protected and uplifted – not silenced through intimidation or force.”
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New definition for Trump Derangement Syndrome?
 
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