Depending on the level of restrictions, daily life in some authoritarian states can resemble that in democratic states so much that some people may not fully feel the difference.

Good take: open.substack.com/pub/misofact...

Team Trump is great at breaking things—but it’s failing at its larger goal. 🤞

All things aside, it’s the best free ad @signal.org could ask for. ✌️

Waltz’s historic fuck-up.
Wikipedia goes in real time.
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Witkoff was in Moscow when he was added to the Signal group chat about the Houthi strike—just as Russia was providing the Houthis with targeting data: www.wsj.com/world/russia...

bsky.app/profile/olga...

4/ Researchers and historians are currently examining these documents to identify any significant information that was not previously known. Given the volume of material—approximately 80,000 pages—it will take time to thoroughly assess the content and its implications. www.axios.com/2025/03/18/t...

3/ — Internal Memos: Previously redacted internal communications within federal agencies discussing investigative strategies and findings.
nymag.com/intelligence...

2/ — Foreign Communications: Records of communications between U.S. agencies and foreign governments concerning Lee Harvey Oswald’s activities abroad.

6/ Little, A. T., Schnakenberg, K. E., & Turner, I. R. (2022). Motivated reasoning and democratic accountability. American Political Science Review, 116(2), 611-627.

5/ As a result, the electorate becomes less responsive to actual government performance, thereby diminishing the effectiveness of democratic accountability mechanisms.

4/ Little, Schnakenberg, and Turner (2022) argue that motivated reasoning weakens democratic responsiveness by fostering divergence in public beliefs and desensitization to political misconduct.

3/ shift the boundaries of acceptable discourse, and render once-shocking actions routine or inevitable. This phenomenon is closely related to motivated reasoning, which plays a critical role in shaping political accountability.

2/ leading to the acceptance of previously unacceptable behavior.

Through a deliberate strategy of overwhelming the public with frequent transgressions, scandals, or inflammatory rhetoric, political figures or groups can lower societal standards,

4/ While such systems may operate without direct human control, they typically do not independently perform the entire process of finding, selecting, and engaging targets. www.csis.org/analysis/ukr...

3/ AI significantly enhances specific functions such as drone footage analysis, target recognition, target tracking, and autonomous navigation, including last-mile navigation, as well as sound and text analysis for intelligence extraction, where AI replaces 99% of human labor.

2/ AI is a foundational technology for transitioning from automated to autonomous systems that can determine how to achieve a goal rather than merely executing human-programmed algorithms.