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  1. "Dass Aron D'Souza nun erneut mit Thiels Unterstützung ein Tool zur "Bewertung von Journalismus" entwickelt, wird in Medienkreisen kritisch beobachtet. Aufgrund der Vorgeschichte mit Gawker befürchten Kritiker, dass es weniger um objektive Faktentreue gehen könnte, sondern um ein weiteres Instrument, um unliebsame Berichterstattung unter Druck zu setzen." #objection #gawker #PeterThiel

  2. Peter Thiel is building a parallel justice system

    "...If people with limitless resources could sponsor litigation against news organizations they disliked, constitutional protections would be no match for the sheer cost and complexity of defense.
    Now, they’ve found an AI-assisted way to supercharge those effects..."

    codastory.com/polarization/can

    #ai #news #journalism #PeterThiel #ObjectionAI #Objection

  3. @cdarwin if #objection does come to fruition and if their goal is to get to the facts of the matter, then it will use all income to do and pay for such work for both sides. 🧐

    Otherwise, their sole purpose will be to preemptively muzzle all critical / investigative journalism. 🤔

    #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress

  4. @cdarwin if #objection does come to fruition and if their goal is to get to the facts of the matter, then it will use all income to do and pay for such work for both sides. 🧐

    Otherwise, their sole purpose will be to preemptively muzzle all critical / investigative journalism. 🤔

    #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress

  5. @cdarwin if #objection does come to fruition and if their goal is to get to the facts of the matter, then it will use all income to do and pay for such work for both sides. 🧐

    Otherwise, their sole purpose will be to preemptively muzzle all critical / investigative journalism. 🤔

    #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress

  6. @cdarwin if #objection does come to fruition and if their goal is to get to the facts of the matter, then it will use all income to do and pay for such work for both sides. 🧐

    Otherwise, their sole purpose will be to preemptively muzzle all critical / investigative journalism. 🤔

    #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress

  7. Aron D’Souza says his latest startup, #Objection, aims to use AI to adjudicate the truth of journalism.

    And for the price of $2,000,
    anyone can pay to challenge a story,
    triggering a public investigation into its claims. 

    (D’Souza is also the founder of the Enhanced Games, an Olympics-style competition that allows performance-enhancing drugs and is set to debut in Las Vegas next month.)

    Objection launched on Wednesday with “multiple millions” in seed funding from Peter #Thiel and Balaji #Srinivasan, as well as VC firms Social Impact Capital and Off Piste Capital.

    Thiel, who funded the Gawker lawsuitpartly in defense of the individual right to privacy,
    has long been critical of the media.

    D’Souza says his goal is to restore trust in the Fourth Estate, which he argues has collapsed over decades.

    Critics, including media lawyers, warn Objection could make it harder to publish the kind of reporting that holds powerful institutions to account,
    -- particularly if that reporting relies on confidential sources.

    Anonymous sources have played a key role in major award-winning investigations into corruption and corporate wrongdoing.
    These are often people who are at risk of losing their jobs or facing other retaliation for sharing important information.
    It’s the journalist’s job
    — alongside their publication’s editors, peers, and lawyers
    — to ensure that those sources are reliable and not acting out of pure malice and to verify the information they provide. 

    But that’s not enough for D’Souza, who said
    “using a fully anonymized source who hasn’t been independently verified”
    would lead to a lower evidence and trust score on Objection.

    Under the platform’s rubric, primary records like regulatory filings and official emails carry the most weight,
    while anonymous whistleblower claims are ranked near the bottom.

    Those inputs are collected in part by a team of freelancers
    — former law enforcement agents and investigative journalists
    — and are ultimately fed into what Objection calls an
    “Honor Index,”
    a numerical score the company says reflects a reporter’s integrity, accuracy, and track record.

    “Protecting a source’s information is a vital way of telling an important story,
    but there’s an important power asymmetry there,”
    D’Souza told TechCrunch in an exclusive interview.

    “The subject gets reported upon, but then there’s no way to critique the source.”

    ⚠️His solution presents a lose-lose for journalists:

    either divulge sensitive source information to Objection’s “cryptographic hash” that determines “if it’s high quality reporting,”

    or face demerits for protecting sources who share important information at great personal risk.

    💥If technology like Objection takes off,
    it could chill whistleblowing,
    experts argue.

    Jane Kirtley, a lawyer and professor of media law and ethics at the University of Minnesota, says Objection fits into a long pattern of attacks that erode public trust in the press.

    “If the underlying theme is,
    ‘Here’s yet another example of how the news media are lying to you,’
    that’s one more chink in the armor to help destroy public confidence in independent journalism,” she said,
    adding that clearly journalists need to do their part to be as transparent as possible in their reporting.

    Kirtley pointed to existing journalistic standards,
    like the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics,
    which advises reporters to use anonymous sources only when there is no other way to obtain the information.

    She also cited longstanding industry practices like peer criticism and internal editorial review as built-in accountability methods.

    ⭐️More broadly, she questioned whether Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who are not steeped in journalistic traditions are equipped to evaluate what serves the public interest.
    techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/can-

  8. Peter Thiel, openlijk fascist & geestelijk vader van Musk & Trump, is een nieuwe AI begonnen. Hij wil rechtbanken & journalistiek opheffen, omdat ze veel te vaak kritisch zijn op oligarchen zoals hij.

    Volgens Evil Peter kunnen we beter zijn Objection AI vertrouwen. Want Objection zal je mening bijsturen naar de mening van Thiel en zijn extreemrechtse miljardairsvriendjes, en dat is toch veel beter?

    ...maar waar is Thiel eigenlijk bang voor?

    youtu.be/XAqE03jiff4?is=F6S4Qu

    #AI #PeterThiel #Objection

  9. @elaterite @akkana @croyle @sofonofos inside chili tips! So here for it 🤍

    Tho I must object to buying new appliances

    #objection

  10. #objection : that which is, or may be, presented in opposition

    - French: objection

    - German: der Einwand

    - Italian: obiezione

    - Portuguese: objeção

    - Spanish: objeción

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    Fill in missing or incorrect translations @ wordofthehour.org/r/translatio

  11. This is the #primaryschool I attended as a #child... any wonder I still, even as a #teacher and professional #educator, I still feel a deep #suspicion, #objection, #resentment, and extreme #aversion regarding #school? I feel triggered every time I walk by, and notice, that not much has changed since I attended, around four decades ago. Sadly, this is not uniquely a German issue. Though, the primary schools I passed in #Barcelona were by far the most inviting.

    #Ludwigshafen #Germany

  12. This is the #primaryschool I attended as a #child... any wonder I still, even as a #teacher and professional #educator, I still feel a deep #suspicion, #objection, #resentment, and extreme #aversion regarding #school? I feel triggered every time I walk by, and notice, that not much has changed since I attended, around four decades ago. Sadly, this is not uniquely a German issue. Though, the primary schools I passed in #Barcelona were by far the most inviting.

    #Ludwigshafen #Germany

  13. This is the #primaryschool I attended as a #child... any wonder I still, even as a #teacher and professional #educator, I still feel a deep #suspicion, #objection, #resentment, and extreme #aversion regarding #school? I feel triggered every time I walk by, and notice, that not much has changed since I attended, around four decades ago. Sadly, this is not uniquely a German issue. Though, the primary schools I passed in #Barcelona were by far the most inviting.

    #Ludwigshafen #Germany

  14. #usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #truce / #uspeaceplan / #objection

    »Country says some appointments to the group, which will oversee the administration and reconstruction of Gaza, are ‘contrary to its policy’.«

    theguardian.com/world/2026/jan

  15. #objection : that which is, or may be, presented in opposition

    - French: objection

    - German: der Einwand

    - Italian: obiezione

    - Portuguese: objeção

    - Spanish: objeción

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    Fill in missing or incorrect translations @ wordofthehour.org/r/translatio

  16. In the Way of Inquiry • Objections to Reflexive Inquiry 2
    inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/02

    Our agent of inquiry is brought to the threshold of two questions:

    • What actions are available to achieve the aims of the present activity?

    • What assumptions already accepted are advisable to amend or abandon?

    The inquirer is faced in the object of inquiry with an obstinately oppositional state of affairs, a character marked by the Greek word “pragma” for “object”, whose manifold of senses and derivatives includes among its connotations the ideas of purposeful objectives and problematic objections, and not too incidentally both inquiries and expositions.

    Overview
    oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_S

    Obstacles
    oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_S

    #Peirce #Inquiry #InquiryIntoInquiry #InquiryDrivenSystems
    #Anomaly #Doubt #Discrepancy #Dispersion #Entropy #Uncertainty
    #Interruption #Obstruction #Information #Comprehension #Extension
    #Pragma #Pragmata #Purpose #Objective #Problem #Objection #Praxis
    #Semiotics #SignRelations #Semiositis #Reflection #SelfApplication

  17. #Trump & his #legal team have said repeatedly that they “won 80% of the trial,” because an appellate court *intended* to dismiss claims based on statutes of limitations. #Engoron has not dismissed any portion of the AG’s case, but the defense is suing him over what they say is an improper refusal to follow the #appellate court order. Engoron acknowledged the blanket #objection, & #Bender proceeded to #testify.

    #law #legal #civil #fraud

  18. Oh FFS; Before the first #witness #DonaldBender, could even begin testifying, one of Donald #Trump’s attorneys issued a preemptive #objection. Chris #Kise told Justice Arthur #Engoron that he objected to various parts of the #accountant’s #testimony & wanted to issue a “blanket objection” based on an #appellate ruling in June.

    “As you know we won an appellate victory in June of this year,” #Kise said. “We make a blanket #objection to #testimony in that regard.”

    #law #legal #civil #fraud

  19. "Can you please clarify what exactly you are objecting to, so that I can more efficiently explain why you're wrong?"

    #smartass #objection

  20. #objection : that which is, or may be, presented in opposition

    - French: objection

    - German: der Einwand

    - Italian: obiezione

    - Portuguese: objeção

    - Spanish: objeción

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    See previous words @ wordofthehour.org/r/past

  21. 🤖 «Meta AI» on Facebook and Instagram.

    Meta wants to use public user content in Europe to train the AI «Meta AI». The respective forms can be used to object to the use of the data.

    ⚠️ An objection must be made by May 26 (today).

    Form on Facebook:
    facebook.com/help/contact/6359

    Form for Instagram:
    help.instagram.com/contact/233

    The second text field can be left blank, a reason for the objection is not required.

    Further information is available from the consumer advice center (in german):
    verbraucherzentrale.de/aktuell

    #AI #Meta #facebook #instagram #objection

  22. MU Members Urged to Challenge Birmingham’s Busking Ban httpsChallenge Birmingham’s #Busking Ban - If you like or play #music please challenge Birmingham’s busking ban by responding to the council’s consultation and logging an #objection to the proposed new Public Space Protection Order by Sunday 25 May 2025 buff.ly/2gKMNIF

  23. #objection : that which is, or may be, presented in opposition

    - French: objection

    - German: der Einwand

    - Italian: obiezione

    - Portuguese: objeção

    - Spanish: objeción

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    See previous words @ wordofthehour.org/r/past

  24. #Objection de conscience : en #Israël Tal Mitnick a refusé de servir l’#armée. Au total, il a passé 185 jours derrière les barreaux en six peines consécutives et a finalement été exempté du service militaire ce 10 juillet.
    humanite.fr/monde/armee-israel

  25. Read here how you can file an objection against the use of your data to train MetaAI.
    Lese hier wie Du gegen die Nutzung deiner Daten zum Trainieren von MetaAI Einspruch einlegen kannst.

    ticker.nemethstarproductions.e

    #MetaAI #Objection #Facebook #Instagram #Threads

  26. SEC files objection to Binance.US’s plans to acquire Voyager Digital - The SEC wants to see more information included in the $1.022 bill... - cointelegraph.com/news/sec-fil #acquisition #binance.us #objection #voyager #cochran #ftx.us

  27. I'll be posting some old art that I'm fond of. The jolteon is my pokesona called Jetta, while the shiny umbreon belongs to a friend (miyu on itaku.ee). These were made around march and june 2018.

    tags #furry #art #pokemon #jolteon #umbreon #shiny #cute #puyo #pocky #shy #wristband #scarf #objection