SDF Chatter

5,022 readers
107 users here now
founded 2 years ago
ADMINS
SDF

Support for this instance is greatly appreciated at https://sdf.org/support

1
 
 
2
 
 
3
4
5
 
 
6
 
 

Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.

in other words please help us, use our AI

7
 
 
8
 
 

Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches.

The memo authorizes ICE officers to use force to enter a residence based solely on a more narrow administrative warrant to arrest someone with a final order of removal, a move that advocates say collides with Fourth Amendment protections and upends years of advice given to immigrant communities.

9
 
 
10
 
 
11
12
13
 
 

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/157160

President Donald Trump repeatedly referred to Greenland as “Iceland” during his speech at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, even as he demanded that the U.S. be handed ownership of the territory. When the president initially raised Greenland, which he said he was originally “going to leave … out of the speech,” he referred to it correctly. He issued veiled threats to Denmark…

Source


From Truthout via this RSS feed

14
15
16
 
 
17
18
 
 
19
 
 
20
 
 

Invoking Vaclav Havel, he said it was time to stop pretending that what the western powers called a rules-based order was not a self-serving sham.

“Great powers can afford, for now, to go it alone. They have the market size, the military capacity and the leverage to dictate terms. Middle powers do not. But when we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness. We accept what’s offered. We compete with each other to be the most accommodating,” he said

“Being a happy vassal is one thing, being a miserable slave is something else,” he said.

“If you back down now, you’re going to lose your dignity, and that’s probably the most precious thing you can have in a democracy, it’s your dignity.”

21
 
 
22
23
 
 
24
 
 

Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

25
 
 
view more: next ›