Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 5, 2008

The final stop for my Micronesia trip was Guam, a U.S. Arriving on Guam felt like coming back to the United States, although it's more like Hawaii than the mainland! Guam has a huge American military presence: the armed forces control about a third of the island. The military and tourism are Guam's two big industry.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

In addition to meeting with key leaders and visiting schools, Donna McNear really wanted me to see blind children in their homes. But, she's a teacher with a national reputation and a fierce dedication to improving and reforming the system for educating blind children. She has also made Micronesia her professional mission focus.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

If successful, the FTC’s case — which was joined by 46 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam — could force the company to divest itself of Instagram and WhatsApp, radically reshaping the digital economy. The idea that these apps are not interchangeable would be news to Facebook.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Within months, U3 is running inside of the data centers of the most cyber-capable nations: Israel, the PRC, and Russia. If you read the ending and your reaction is, But the experiments would take too long, or nation-states would just do X, remember the difference between the Sunday afternoon blogger and the ascendant GPU nation.

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