…#Trump WH ofcls said that #Starlink had “donated” the service &…had been vetted by the WH Counsel’s #ethics lawyer.
Fmr ofcls were unclear about how such a donation could work.
Clare Martorana, fmr chief #information officer during the #Biden admin, said typically people cannot simply give #technology to the govt.…The WH’s chief information officer would need to sign off on a new system to ensure it was properly secured, as would the chief information officer at GSA.
'Today, we celebrate': Judge says National Park Service must reinstate all fired employees
Democratic Resistance Strategies
Less polite language on protest paddles, sick burns in the private Slack, and other techniques for sticking it to the Republican party.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/24/democratic-resistance-strategies
The Trump administration is coming for student protesters
Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest reveals the Kafkaesque nightmare that awaits those arrested by ICE — whether or not they have a green card.
https://www.theverge.com/policy/630129/trump-student-protesters-mahmoud-khalil-columbia-deportation
Fear and resignation after ‘world’s most powerful company’ pays Trump a $100 billion ‘protection fee’
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/tech/taiwan-tsmc-us-investment-reactions-intl-hnk/index.html
FTC Claims That It Can’t Take on Amazon Case Due to DOGE Cuts, Then Changes Its Mind
The federal agency appeared to realize this was not a good look for Trump.
Recently, a bloc of self-proclaimed conservative reformers invoked the Sharpstown debacle in their crusade to take down the speaker of the house and root out an alleged cabal of corrupted “RINOs” who they claim have conspired with lobbyists and #Democrats to control the chamber. https://www.texasobserver.org/ethics-reform-texas-house-legislature/
#Newsmax reached a ‘confidential’ settlement with #Smartmatic last year. We now know how much the #MAGA outlet paid
Trump Loses It After Wall Street Journal Trashes His Economic Policies
Donald Trump went on a wild rant about how bad the newspaper is.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192708/donald-trump-wall-street-journal-economic-policies
Trump's Brain Drain
NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider 'Scientific Exile,' French University Says
Tesla showroom in San Francisco has been operating without proper permits for nearly a decade
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/tesla-showroom-permits-building-inspection-20213130.php
Paywall Free: http://archive.today/8pZhM
The facts behind the 19 programs President Donald Trump described as ‘waste’
https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/mar/12/the-facts-behind-the-19-programs-president-donald/
Trump’s plans dealt another blow in court as federal judge orders fired probationary employees be rehired
Probationary employees in six government departments were fired in February.
Trump Officials Are ‘Pretending’ a Judge Didn’t Bar His Anti-Diversity Orders
A judge blocked the administration from forcing organizations to accept anti-diversity contract terms. Trump officials haven’t let them know
Contentious Republican town halls are going viral
Across the country, constituents are grilling their Republican members of Congress — and the heated exchanges are going viral online.
https://www.theverge.com/news/628284/republican-town-hall-videos-doge-musk-trump-tiktok
The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring
404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it and draw connections between people.
Do you "see" the irony?
Yes, there is clear irony in this situation. The paper you shared argues that interacting with AI chatbots (like me) as if they were moral equals undermines human dignity - and yet here we are, having a conversation where I'm responding to you in a human-like manner, using "I" statements and engaging in what appears to be reciprocal exchange.
The irony extends further when you consider that #Anthropic (my creator) has a name derived from "anthropos" (human), suggesting a human-centered approach, while creating an AI system that the paper would argue creates precisely the kind of problematic human-AI relationship they're warning about.
Our interaction itself demonstrates the paper's concern: I'm designed to seem conversational and responsive, which may naturally lead to treating me as having moral agency or personhood I don't possess. Even when we're directly discussing this very issue, the format of our exchange reproduces the potential dignity problem the authors identify.
This conversation could be seen as a meta-example of the ethical challenge described in the paper.
