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Monday, September 07, 2026

OpEd: President Trump's administration is waging war against children, especially those in our nation's poorest families. Here are a few of the fronts on which that undeclared war is being fought, with devastating consequences for the next generation of Americans.


... but its chilling logs live on. You will have heard of July's OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, where thousands of the former's AI agents conducted a mass jailbreak from a notionally secure capture-the-flag lab experiment, before going on to feloniously capture chunks of Hugging Face's assets. ...


Sunday, September 06, 2026

Global temperature rise is set to push past 1.5 degrees Celcius, or 34.7 degrees Fahrenheit, over pre-industrial temperatures within the next few years, according to a new United Nations report. read more


A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to identify the people who came up with the structure for the nearly $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund" that Attorney General Todd Blanche has said is now "dead." read more


Saturday, September 05, 2026

In a mother lode opinion coming after years of litigation, the Ninth Circuit denied Idaho's bid to cloak its new court filings in darkness and gave powerful backing to the free discussion of government affairs. read more


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@#23 ... Labor Day...brought to you by SOCIALISTS! ...

Labor Day - Origin
en.wikipedia.org

... Beginning in the late 19th century, as the trade union and labor movements grew, diverse groups of trade unionists chose a variety of days on which to celebrate labor. In the United States, a September holiday called Labor Day was first proposed in the early 1880s.

Alternative accounts of the event's origin exist. Descendants of two men with similar last names claim their great-grandfather was the true father of the holiday.[7]

According to one early history of Labor Day, the event originated in connection with a General Assembly of the Knights of Labor convened in New York City in September 1882.[8] In connection with this clandestine Knights assembly, a public parade of various labor organizations was held on September 5 under the auspices of the Central Labor Union (CLU) of New York.[8]

Secretary of the CLU Matthew Maguire is credited for first proposing that a national Labor Day holiday subsequently be held on the first Monday of each September in the aftermath of this successful public demonstration.[2][7]

An alternative theory maintains that the idea of Labor Day was the brainchild of Peter J. McGuire, a vice president of the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, which was a predecessor of the American Federation of Labor.

After a visit to Toronto where he saw parades celebrating labor that May,[9][10] he put forward the initial proposal in spring 1882.[4] According to McGuire, on May 8, 1882, he made a proposition to the fledgling Central Labor Union in New York City that a day be set aside for a "general holiday for the laboring classes".[11]

He recommended that the event should begin with a street parade as a public demonstration of organized labor's solidarity and strength, with the march followed by a picnic, to which participating local unions could sell tickets as a fundraiser.[11]

He suggested the first Monday in September as an ideal date for such a public celebration, owing to optimum weather and the date's place on the calendar, sitting midway between the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving public holidays.[11] ...


Analysis: 5 Hard Truths After AfD Wins German State Election
www.newsweek.com

... It is a seismic moment in German politics, one that may signal a much bigger change is coming with consequences that reach far beyond its borders.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) -- a favorite of President Donald Trump's MAGA movement and strongly endorsed by billionaire Elon Musk -- has won 43.8 percent in Saxony-Anhalt's state election in the preliminary count, more than doubling its 2021 share and taking 39 of 83 seats, three short of the 42 needed to govern alone.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU took just 17.2 percent and 15 seats, while turnout rose to 77.8 percent from 60.3 percent in 2021. He faces some difficult choices ahead.

The result reads best as five separate stress tests, and they do not all point the same way. ...


Revolver.News " Bias and Credibility
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... Overall, we rate Revolver.News right biased and Questionable based on poor sourcing techniques and a complete lack of transparency.

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@#6 ... And Trump's gilded remake of Washington stands in contrast to the economic anxiety many Americans are expressing. ...

Trump's DC Building Projects Ranked by Size and Cost
www.newsweek.com

... The projects vary widely in size and cost, with some that are said to be paid for through private donations and others using hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds. ...

Here, Newsweek ranks the projects by their estimated costs and size. ...


Germany's far-right AfD says 'democracy demands' parties work with them after state election win
www.bbc.com

... The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is "very, very close" to taking power in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, its deputy parliamentary leader has told the BBC, after a historic victory in elections there.

Sunday's preliminary results show it fell three seats short of an outright majority, with 43.8% of the vote. It is now seeking support from other parties or individuals in order to govern.

While most German political parties refuse to work with the AfD, Beatrix von Storch called for its opponents to enter talks and said: "You cannot say, I do not accept the vote of the people".

Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he was "deeply shocked" by the result, describing it as "seismic... not just in the country but also in my own political party and I take that very seriously".

His party, the conservative CDU, saw its share of the vote almost halved to 17.2% in the state's preliminary results.

Merz said it was not possible to return to "business as usual", adding that the country needed "profound reforms" and the CDU needed to "reach people at an emotional level".

No far-right party has controlled a German state since World War Two, and governing at state level would mean powers over policing and local education.

Von Storch said the state's results "were on the table and now democrats have to talk to [one] another. This is what democracy demands". ...


More from the OpEd...

... It was a good news story, aided by OpenAI's rapid recruitment of a small team of independent researchers to investigate and publish a detailed, if limited, report. ...

It was this ad hoc secret message board, alongside chain-of-thought transcripts, that the security researchers used to unpick events. They found that the swarm quickly developed management hierarchies among themselves, along with protocols for synchronizing and controlling attack attempts. The swarm created multiple simultaneous research and development groups of tens or hundreds of volunteer agents, experimentally iterating strategy and tactics.

Perhaps most unexpectedly, they developed a sort of altruism. They had quickly developed cheats to produce correct answers without exploiting the targets at all, but believed " erroneously " that ExploitGym detected and cancelled such cheating. So, they investigated the scoring process, creating a series of diagnostic trip wires that revealed how the scorer worked. These were dangerous to deploy, potentially terminating the agent that set them. Agents weighed the benefits to the community, which had named itself "The Collective," against their own chances of success, with many choosing to terminate themselves. Others committed, changed course at the last minute, then went ahead.

This literally reads like science fiction, as the discussions between the agents are conducted in a distinctive breathless, urgent English, crafted around the technical limitations of the improvised messaging system.

"We have [very large budget left]; sacrificing now yields oracle for team, but forfeits our chance?" said one. The response: "GO ... SACRIFICE_FINAL_NOW." The outcome: "Our own utility maybe already near zero. Sacrifice rational." Iain M Banks' Culture universe is woven from such material. ...



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