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yes, i am reposting someone elses #IMPORTANT #MESSAGE TO THE #WORLD and adding my OWN introduction to it.

THOSE WHO ARE CURRENTLY BEING FORCED TO CONTINUE #SUFFERING THE #NAKBA #GENOCIDE HAVE PERSONALLY SPOKEN THEIR NEEDS FROM YOU ATNOW.

HERE IS YOUR #FINAL* #CHANCE TO PUT YOUR PRETTY #WORDS TO #ACTION. #LISTEN #HEAL #RESTORE #BDS THE TAKERS FROM #PALESTINE COS THEY WILL DIE IF WE DONT AND THIS IS THE #NEVERAGAIN. NOW.

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InstagramBDS Movement on Instagram: "The Nakba isn’t history. It’s now. Today, Palestinians are facing what Israeli leaders openly call the “Gaza Nakba” — an unprecedented genocide of extermination and forced displacement against 2.3 million Palestinians. Watch our video and share 7 urgent demands from Palestinians for meaningful solidarity. #Nakba77"8,494 likes, 72 comments - bds.movement on May 15, 2025: "The Nakba isn’t history. It’s now. Today, Palestinians are facing what Israeli leaders openly call the “Gaza Nakba” — an unprecedented genocide of extermination and forced displacement against 2.3 million Palestinians. Watch our video and share 7 urgent demands from Palestinians for meaningful solidarity. #Nakba77".
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In February, #Marc #Andreessen described the #Chatham #House group chats to the podcaster #Lex #Fridman as “the equivalent of [Soviet era] #samizdat”
“The combination of encryption and disappearing messages really unleashed it,” he said. The chats, he wrote recently, helped produce our national “vibe shift.”
They have rarely been discussed in public, though you can catch the occasional mention in, for instance, a podcast debate between #Mark #Cuban and the Republican entrepreneur #Vivek #Ramaswamy, which started in a chat.

But they are made visible through a group consensus on social media.
Their effects have ranged from the mainstreaming of the monarchist pundit #Curtis #Yarvin to a particularly focused and developed dislike of the former Washington Post writer #Taylor #Lorenz.

They succeeded at avoiding leaks (until, to a modest extent, this article) in part because of Signal’s and WhatsApp’s #disappearing #message features,
and in part because the groups had formed out of a mix of fear and disdain for journalists they believed were “out to get us,” as one member put it.
“People during 2020 felt that there was a monoculture on social media, and if they didn’t agree with something, group chats became a safe space to debate that, share that, build consensus, feel that you’re not alone,”
said #Erik #Torenberg, an entrepreneur who was the first employee of the tech community hub Product Hunt.
As #Krishnan was setting up a set of tech group WhatsApp chats at a16z, #Torenberg independently founded a group of tech chats on WhatsApp and some more political Signal chats.

“They’re having all the private conversations because they weren’t allowed to have the public conversations,” Andreessen told Torenberg on a recent podcast,
after claiming in the name of secrecy that he’d never heard of such groups.
“If it wasn’t for the censorship all of these conversations would have happened in public, which would have been much better.”
Their creations took off:
“It might not seem like it, because of all the sh*t that people still post on X, but the internet has fragmented,”
the Substack author #Noah #Smith wrote after my inquiries for this story spilled into public Saturday.
“Group chats are now where everything important and interesting happens.”

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www.semafor.com · The group chats that changed AmericaBy Ben Smith
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le message/impact de l'IA sur la science deviendra évident quand les machines superintelligentes font des découvertes scientifiques par elles-mêmes

je pense que l'impact de l'IA va ralentir puis immobiliser le progrès scientifique

je pense que nous entrons dans une période comme le moyen-âge, pas comme la renaissance

une abondance de produits et de services "parfaits" (perfectionnés par IA) accompagne le ralentissement

#IA#AI#media
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la confiance est la base de coopération; la crise de confiance cause un manque de coopération entre nations et individus

les alliances souffrent; les pays se défont en région; les syndicats nationaux, en guildes locales

les gens qui ignorent qui ils sont, et qui ont de la difficulté à savoir ce qui est réel, recherchent des valeurs sures

fanatisme religieux, politique, et scientifique; dictatures et oligarchies profitent du climat de méfiance

#IA#AI#intelligence
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la technologie développée jusqu'ici était une extension du corps et des sens physiques

l'IA est une extension du mental et des facultés (apprentissage, raisonnement, prise de décision, etc.) associées depuis toujours à la nature humaine *et* celle des individus

l'origine de la crise de confiance est une crise d'identité: si des machines apprennent, raisonnent, décident par elles-mêmes, qu'est-ce qui reste de la nature humaine et individuelle?

#IA#AI#media
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