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As CEOs push replacing people with AI, AI isn't quite ready to do the job https://www.axios.com/2025/05/30/ai-jobs-replace-humans-ceos-amodei
#axios #news #usnews

As we enter a new phase in American politics, we’re reaffirming our commitment to facts, journalism and open discourse. Our values have not changed.

Our managing editor @csullivan explains more.

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/flipboards-commitment-to-facts-for-a-new-political-era/

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"A private citizen with zero Constitutional authority is effectively seizing control of critical government functions. 🚨

The Constitution explicitly requires Senate confirmation for anyone wielding significant federal power — a requirement Musk has simply ignored"

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/elons-twitter-destruction-playbook-hits-the-us-government-and-its-even-more-dangerous/

Here’s a thread with links to articles about the #ElonMusk takeover of the US #government.

Is it a #coup? Will anyone stop it?

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Scientists warn US will lose a generation of talent because of Trump cuts https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/03/national-science-foundation-trump-cuts #Researchanddevelopment #Trumpadministration #Climatecrisis #Environment #USpolitics #Science #USnews #Race

EPA to launch program that lets people adopt its lab animals amid Trump cuts https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/03/epa-lab-animals-trump-cuts #Trumpadministration #Environment #USpolitics #Animals #Science #USnews

EPA puts 139 employees on leave after they sign a ‘declaration of dissent’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/03/epa-employees-administrative-leave #USEnvironmentalProtectionAgency #Environment #USpolitics #Pollution #Society #USnews #Health

U.S. immigration authorities are using smartphone facial recognition technology in the field to determine whether people are citizens, @404mediaco reports. Officers use an app called Mobile Fortify, which has a bank of 200M images and data from the State Department, CBP, FBI, and states as well as datasets relating to “individuals, vehicles, airplanes, vessels, addresses, phone numbers and firearms,” according to a memo viewed by 404's @josephcox. Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement: “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship — including a birth certificate — if the app says the person is an alien.

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