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What is he aware of? Why? Are his Cabinet not sharing things with him? No knowledge of this. No knowledge of the attack on the #Houthis related to #SignalGate Not aware of all of #Musk #DOGE cuts. Who is running the government?

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Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell is blasting President Trump for allegedly putting "amateur isolationists" in charge of US military policy.

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EWING, N.J. (PIX11) – New Jersey officials, including Middletown Mayor Tony Perry, were left scratching their heads after a meeting with state police in Ewing ...

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We are so screwed it’s beyond what most of us can imagine. We were utterly screwed a year and a half ago and we’re even more screwed now. And depending how far you look into the future it just gets worse.

Aviv Ovadya on the information economy and the spreading of fake news

For Ovadya — now the chief technologist for the University of Michigan’s Center for Social Media Responsibility and a Knight News innovation fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia — the shock and ongoing anxiety over Russian Facebook ads and Twitter bots pales in comparison to the greater threat: Technologies that can be used to enhance and distort what is real are evolving faster than our ability to understand and control or mitigate it. The stakes are high and the possible consequences more disastrous than foreign meddling in an election — an undermining or upending of core civilizational institutions, an “infocalypse.” And Ovadya says that this one is just as plausible as the last one — and worse.

Worse because of our ever-expanding computational prowess; worse because of ongoing advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning that can blur the lines between fact and fiction; worse because those things could usher in a future where, as Ovadya observes, anyone could make it “appear as if anything has happened, regardless of whether or not it did.”

That can lead to something Ovadya calls “reality apathy”: Beset by a torrent of constant misinformation, people simply start to give up. Ovadya is quick to remind us that this is common in areas where information is poor and thus assumed to be incorrect. The big difference, Ovadya notes, is the adoption of apathy to a developed society like ours. The outcome, he fears, is not good. “People stop paying attention to news and that fundamental level of informedness required for functional democracy becomes unstable.”

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Many do not learn the lessons of the past or understand the allagory of #Atlantis. Now maybe people will. Oops, too late!