US citizens: call on the Senate to reject Bondi as attorney general.

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With Syrian Kurds in Kobane, under constant attack by the Turkish army.

The article has some information about Rojava.

One of the unsolved questions of artificial intelligence is how to tell whether an apparently intelligent system really has thoughts and feeling. Is it conscious, or is it only mimicking. Some academics are proposing moral rules for treatment of any artificial conscious systems.

The case of today's bullshit generators has nothing to do with this. We know how they work, and we know they are not conscious. There is no need to worry that a chatbot will feel hurt by your cursing at being compelled to talk to it.

Canadians propose to cut off crucial exports to the US as well as replying with tariffs.

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