NYT: US Involved in Attack on Dairy Farm in Ecuador

Domesticating AI - It's Not Coming, It's Already Here Authored by Howard Armitage via New Atlas, When my neighbor wanted a vision of what his fence could look like, I didn't hesitate to ask ChatGPT to create a mock-up. I took a photo of the fence and asked it to overlay a potted Jasmin espaliered to it, after a couple of tweaks, and all of about one minute later, it gave me this: AI-generated mock-up created from the author’s original fence photograph Howard Armitage During a recent conversation with a diving buddy, he pulled...

The UK will deploy an RAF midair refueling aircraft to support Saudi Arabia as it wages a war against Ansar Allah in Yemen. “Following a request from the Saudi Arabian Government, the UK has agreed to provide an RAF Voyager air-to-air refueling aircraft to support Saudi defensive activity in support of the legitimate government of […]

Narrative Control: The Collapsing Authority Of The State Authored by Jacob Reynolds via 'Academy of Ideas' substack, Perhaps the central battleground of contemporary politics is the need of our political elites to control the narrative. Primarily, the role of establishment politicians is not to deliver changes and reforms, not to fix problems identified by people in their everyday lives, and not to change circumstances such that they can attract votes, but to maintain narrative hegemony. Crucially, this differs from previous attempts to maintain ideological hegemony – that is, to win the societal ‘battle...