Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband. BEAD was designed as an ambitious program to bring broadband to underserved communities and close the digital divide. Under Trump it has become a boondoggle funneling billions of dollars to Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. By Karl Bode and Sean Gonsalves at The Verge.
Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly.. ““Ford has admitted to rehiring hundreds of human workers after its aggressive AI adoption strategy backfired.vThe US automaker hired over 350 veteran engineers, referred to internally as “gray beards”, over the past three years in order to address mistakes made by automated systems.” By Anthony Cuthbertson at The Independent
How Mel Brooks Taunted the Nazis During World War II. By Tony Alpsen at Vice.com
The Warrior-Witches of Ukraine’s Resistance. “Inside the occupied territories, women form the backbone of the resistance. Many hold positions in Russia’s civil administration—at clinics, schools, and government offices—and report to Ukrainian intelligence. They exploit the occupiers’ assumptions: Russian soldiers often fail to imagine that women can be combatants. Few suspect that a grandmother passing their barracks every morning, shopping bags in hand, is the first link in a kill chain. ‘They can go places, do things, that men cannot,’ [Petro Andriushchenko, a Ukrainian spymaster] told me. ‘Also, they are ruthless.'” By Ken Harbaugh at The Atlantic.
