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She emerged a minute later talking to Lee in an adjacent hallway. The 2 spoke for a couple of minutes before the #Minnesota #Democrat emerged.
“Let me gather myself,” #TinaSmith said as she left, declining to comment initially.
She eventually told reporters she wanted #MikeLee to hear from her directly “about how painful that was & how brutal that was to see that on what was just a horrible, brutal weekend.”
#PoliticalViolence #MelissaHortman #ethics
Sen #TinaSmith (D-MN) on Monday confronted Sen #MikeLee (R-Utah) over of series of comments he made blaming #Democrats for the fatal #shooting of a #Minnesota state lawmaker & her spouse.
Shortly after the #Senate began its Monday evening vote, Smith was seen walking into a conference room where #Republicans were about to hold a meeting to discuss the text the Finance Cmte had just unveiled for the party’s massive tax bill.
#PoliticalViolence #MelissaHortman #ethics
thehill.com/homenews/senate/53…
Tools - Jeremy Keith
Jeremy Keith about the ethical implications vs the 'usefulness' of LLM and the 'it is just another tool' stance.
You could even convince yourself that a large language model is like a bicycle for the mind. In truth, a large language model is more like one of those hover chairs on the spaceship in WALL·E. Large language models don’t amplify your creativity and agency. Large language models stunt your creativity and rob you of agency.
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I have used LLM based image creation for my band's gig flyers, and it feels like eating fast food.
Is it healthy? No not really. Do I want to know how the sausage is made? 🫣
#creativity #ethics #lazy #LLM #sausages
Tech billionaires like Bezos and Brin are investing heavily in life extension. But is living forever a moral good?
A professor of medical humanities explores how the ancient philosopher #Cicero argued that quality of life matters more than sheer longevity. buff.ly/4gUXp4W
The quest to extend human life is both fascinating and fraught with moral peril
Among the big names investing big bucks to prolong their lives are Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google founders Sergei Brin and Larry Page, and Oracle’s Larry Ellison.The Conversation
The Air Force revealed earlier this year that a general who oversaw its lobbying before Congress had inappropriate relationships with five women.
Sources say one of the women whose relationship with him was scrutinized was Sen. Joni Ernst.
(Published March 2025)
propublica.org/article/joni-er…
#News #JoniErnst #Military #Ethics #Government #USPolitics #Congress
Ethical Concerns Surround Sen. Joni Ernst’s Relationships With Military Officials
Ernst, an Iowa Republican, is one of the most influential voices in Congress on military topics. Ethics and military experts say her relationships with top Air Force and Navy officials created potential conflicts of interest.ProPublica
IMPACT: Senators Call on DOJ to Investigate Potential DOGE Conflicts of Interest After ProPublica Report
Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden and Jack Reed cited our reporting on how one aide assigned to the CFPB helped oversee the mass layoffs of the agency’s staff while holding as much as $715K in stocks that bureau employees are prohibited from owning.
propublica.org/article/doge-ai…
#News #DOJ #Congress #Senate #Ethics #Government #USPolitics
Senators Ask DOJ to Probe Potential DOGE Conflicts of Interest at CFPB
Citing ProPublica’s reporting on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Democratic senators argued that the potential conflicts “underscore what appears to be a pervasive problem with Elon Musk and DOGE employees trampling ethics rules and laws.”ProPublica
Many Israelis say social #media content about the Israel-Hamas #war should be censored
source: pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…
The share of Israelis who say posts that express #sympathy for civilians in #Gaza should be kept off #socialmedia (59%) is about double the share who say these posts are acceptable (30%).
#empathy #ethics #humanRights #press #freedom #journalism #censorship #democracy #conflict #terror #Palestine #news #research #problem #Israel #IDF #military
Many Israelis say social media content about the Israel-Hamas war should be censored
Most Israeli adults do not post or share about political and social issues online – including the war between Israel and Hamas.Beshay (Pew Research Center)
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“The reason people say something like this is because it immediately invites solutionism. “It matters how you use it” is an intellectual half-gesture.”
frank.computer/blog/2025/05/ju…
Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used
I’m tired of this phrase and this simple way of thinking about tools. This blog post is a wandering train of thought on the topic of what tools are and why it matters to be even slightly more mature in how we think about them.Frank Elavsky
