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Paul Schoe

That this is on the official White House website is so sad.

It makes it clear once again that since January, information on government websites of the #USA can no longer be trusted.

The entire US government #information is now about influencing people, about controlling the narrative.

Just like we knew that we could never trust anything that Trump says, the same applies now for US Government information. 😭

Thanks for the link
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@lorry

A screenshot of the Whitehouse page on Covid-19 - A royal Blue background with Agent Orange (with an added-on pumpkin for a face because I don't think anyone needs to see that) walking out of a text that says "LAB LEAK" with the strapline "The true origins of Covid-19" Below that is: THE ORIGIN “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak theory — was prompted by Dr. Fauci to push the preferred narrative that COVID-19 originated naturally."
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Nonilex

The #Trump admin has threatened to block #Harvard University from enrolling #international #students unless the #school hands over detailed #information about the student body, in yet another escalation of the govt’s fight against higher #education.

In a letter sent on Wed, #KristiNoem, #DHS secy [& dog killer], demanded “relevant information” regarding each student #visa holder at Harvard who has been involved w/ “known illegal” or “dangerous” activity.

#law#immigration#privacy
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Nonilex

It's unclear why #DOGE would need #access to #NLRB files that contain personally identifiable #information to complete its *mission* of improving *efficiency*, outside of employment records for potential reductions in force. The agency publishes publicly available annual performance & accountability reports & budget justifications that former NLRB members told #NPR would likely be sufficient in looking for ways to cut costs.

#law#NationalSecurity#InfoSec
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The Evolution of Biological Information: How Evolution Creates Complexity, From Viruses to Brains by Christoph Adams, 2024

Why information is the unifying principle that allows us to understand the evolution of complexity in natureMore than 150 years after Darwin’s revolutionary On the Origin of Species, we are still attempting to understand and explain the amazing complexity of life.

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Although we now know how evolution proceeds to build complexity from simple ingredients, quantifying this complexity is still a difficult undertaking. In this book, Christoph Adami offers a new perspective on Darwinian evolution by viewing it through the lens of information theory. This novel theoretical stance sheds light on such matters as how viruses evolve drug resistance, how cells evolve to communicate, and how intelligence evolves. By this account, information emerges as the central unifying principle behind all of biology, allowing us to think about the origin of life—on Earth and elsewhere—in a systematic manner. Adami, a leader in the field of computational biology, first provides an accessible introduction to the information theory of biomolecules and then shows how to apply these tools to measure information stored in genetic sequences and proteins. After outlining the experimental evidence of the evolution of information in both bacteria and digital organisms, he describes the evolution of robustness in viruses; the cooperation among cells, animals, and people; and the evolution of brains and intelligence. Building on extensive prior work in bacterial and digital evolution, Adami establishes that nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of information. Understanding that information is the foundation of all life, he argues, allows us to see beyond the particulars of our way of life to glimpse what life might be like in other worlds.
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