His one good move. I hope the next administration doesn't undo this one thing.
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His one good move. I hope the next administration doesn't undo this one thing.
CA?
Just realized how funny it would be if Trump passed away before issuing all the pardons that his lawbreaking cronies are expecting.
Rare that a talented legal reporter will make predictions. He is, of course, correct.
There is no right boat.
homeschooled alumni have been saying this, and it's bad
At this point, it's not clear if Pirro could get a grand jury to indict an unmasked man caught on camera, flashing his passport while holding a gun to a teller's head, and yelling, "Hello, my objective this morning is to rob this bank, which is a federal felony under 18 U.S.C. ยง 2113."
I don't yell at those people. They want and expect that. I just block.
Microsoft hosted articles citing fake experts. Microsoft is responsible.
Tiniest critique... You gendered this person: "She pitched...". "They pitched" might be more appropriate. Thanks for the great reporting though, and continuing to maintain your high standards.
Is that allowed where you live? ACAB does not include animal control.
Roosters do not wait till dawn.
The lesson is clear: you canโt outflank the far right by borrowing its language. You only validate its narrative, undermine your own authenticity, and make democracy more fragile in the process.
Judge: this is completely illegal. Also Judge: you can keep doing this illegal shit while my ruling gets appealed up to the corrupt supreme court.
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, itโs actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Susie provides the best words.
Bad at parallel parking? Feel good about yourself after watching this!
Pattern pirates engage!
Happy Birthday to a true Grandmaster Of The ARTs @fab5freddy send this salute around
I have nothing against an em dash. Just not in filenames. Okay?
Escape from reality with the Church of the SubGenius!
I mean, neither does the Internet, and here we are.
this is an excellent summary of probably the most concerning talk I saw at @hope.net :
I'm impressed someone put their name on this.
Saw one of these in person. Mind blowing. The "sao" (not at all shitty) let you listen to the audio traffic of the air traffic controllers. Optional antennas were legit.
Cheaper than paying his legal bills nymag.com/intelligence...
"the music industry" has long been a machine that tricks and steals from talent. They make stars out of mediocrity and squash talent they cannot exploit.
Read random threads occasionally. There be gold in them hills.
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A fantastic teaching example of a predictor being misinterpreted as having a causal effect. #CausalSky #EpiSky
Sugarcubes era!
I used to work a block from there. My lunches were fantastic. Russian pastries, French pastries, crepes, so much tasty.
I've worked with engineers who took ethics courses. They didn't apply them.
Coming to a hacker con near you.
If I were in Alberta my child would be bringing books in from home every day. Every day. Banned books on Fridays.
String Theory Strap Midi Dress
Childhood trauma braces you for bad experiences as an adult. I don't recommend it though.
Pity the poor intern.
Someone was distributing prints of the Captain Crunch whistle, which was awesome, but unfortunately there are some creepy connotations.
Judge Sooknanan to Ensign: "This is why we have process. This is why we have courts." Then she says that she also took the opportunity to look at the provision that Ensign cited. "I'm pretty skeptical that it gives the government the authority to do what you are claiming it does," she says.
No, but they purport to be 89db, and dogs certainly.... React to them (mine does). Next year's may, but I'll probably focus on aesthetic improvements.
Post con update. Who knew that devices that are loud and annoying would be popular among hackers? Was worried people wouldn't be interested, and that I made too many. I didn't make enough. Next year there will be more (and better).
When firefighters find a car blocking a hydrant, they'll smash through its windows to thread the firehose through. We should expect similar levels of destruction to self-driving cars when they impede first responders.
Me when my wife sees the browser history
This has always been true, but the US government is particularly untrustworthy these days.
Employers don't care if you are a better debater, they care if you are right about things (that will make them money). In fact, being able to better debate shitty ideas is a net loss for employers (except perhaps their legal or pr teams).
Let me guess, on a topic they are new to and you are acknowledged as a leading expert on?
Oh that's interesting. www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...
For everyone? Or just for me?
Surprised that dude reacts to draw attention to how many days folks are working. To be clear, I'd rather him at the golf course than doing his job, but he's one to talk.
It would have been more fun if he had read Niven.
You want AI to be regulated? This is how you make that happen.
If you run this and you see this DM me so I can fund you.
Specifically, what it would look like when we have the next Carrington Event (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carring...).
Sometimes I contemplate the impact of a big enough solar flare.
Where there is a bipartisan creation of a mythical version of him that never existed. Republicans created the mythical Reagan and (many) Democrats validated the nonsense.
The first Dem, at any point in the future, that gives him the Reagan treatment will have me canvassing against them. It will happen though, maybe in a decade, but it will happen.
For some reason the present moment reminds me of "Mockingbird" by Walter Tevis. I would say it was underrated, but it was nominated for a nebula.
AI is pretty good at mad libs.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says โCan I help you find something?โ โIโm looking for the obituaries.โ โThe obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.โ โNot the one Iโm looking for.โ
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Maybe Stanford and Harvard should mandate ethical classes for its freshmen, as it feels like folks drop out before they get to that class. And then do very unethical things
Respond to strangers? Hell, I don't respond to my friends! (Really sorry about that)
This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.
It finally happened.
Organizers in LA are raising money to do tamale buyouts from local tamale vendors who are unable to safely vend on the street due to ICE kidnapping vendors. The tamales will be distributed to unhoused neighbors. Please consider donating โ I personally vouch for this one: venmo.com?txn=pay&audi...
Might the militarization of the city dissuade people to report crimes?
Media: each time you name the attacker in mass shooting events, you motivate the next shooter. They want fame; deny it and let their names be forgotten forever.
I appreciate this analysis. Even more I appreciate that the attacker isn't named, though his motivation for fame is noted. Let us remember the victims, the tragedy, the crime, and forget forever the attackers names.
Roth: Well, that's why we're not challenging the "for cause" provision in the statute. In response, Cobb says that's kind of circular if the government's position is that the president's determination of "cause" is not reviewable
Normal press: almost all of this. WSJ: ...in a $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home...
"AI-generated designs are welcome โ creativity comes in many forms." Note: I believe they are looking for the output of the AI, and do not want you to merely submit your clever prompts.
www.theverge.com/microsoft/76... Microsoft: against occupation and surveillance. "When seven folks do as they did today, storm a building, occupy an office, lock other people out of the office, plant listening devices โ even in crude form..." "โ thatโs not ok.โ
Whoever has been writing headlines at @the-independent.com recently is doing a great job
Have you deployed Privacy Badger on your organization's managed devices? We'd love to hear your feedback. DM us or email extension-devs@eff.org.
ABAB
These are not legal in Quebec and much of Europe.* Taking photos of strangers without consent in public is not universality allowed. *(Do not take legal advice from social media)
The tariffs he removed were hurting Canadian consumers and small businesses. Only China had reciprocal tariffs. That he used them once showed he's willing to use them again. Individual's Canadian boycotts of goods and travel have been hurting the US though.
Holy shit... Make sure you make that last photo full screen.
Reminder that surveillance is an essential ingredient to fascism. Reclaiming privacy is an act of resistance.
I mean I still talk about the g0v "Gov Zero" campaign in Taiwan where the opposition party set up a counter website to every official website that anyone could check out by swapping the "gov.tw" with "g0v.tw" Dems completely fail at showing a positive alternative to what we have now.
The posse is just out of frame.
If the US really ended the "war on drugs" (AKA, the war on Black people), ended qualified immunity and passed meaningful police reform, ended civil asset forfeiture, passed universal healthcare... Then US outcomes would look more like Ireland.
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"The spectacle that falsifies reality is nevertheless a real product of that reality, while lived reality is materially invaded by the contemplation of the spectacle and ends up absorbing it and aligning itself with it."
"Not a first amendment issue" vexes me because it's obscuring and imprecise because usually first amendment law is relevant to resolving the question and usually the speaker means "the first amendment does not prevent punishing this" which may or may not be right.
I expect a future Congress to write many laws to prevent abuses of power and norms that have been taking place in this administration.
Can someone FOIA the cost of this 'protection'? Also, they can't stay there forever, and chalk is cheap.
Someone just put the interrobang on the keyboard. Half the questions I have these days are: "are friggin *kidding* me?!"
Thankfully it won't hallucinate threats. Right? Right?!
Wait, we could outlaw all gun accessories? Yeah, no holster for you, buddy. No gun cases, no targets... Gun safes, okay, sure, even required, but at a security level similar to military safes (they are kind of a joke now).
Dem quants and Republican quants are on the same team. I don't blame them, but I certainly blame the party for giving them the influence they do.
Feels like the FBI agent that convinces the mentally ill folks to take part in a plot and then arrests them. What I mean to say is that it's rich to encourage self harm and then report the user for becoming convinced.
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
Would be authors: if this book got published and even reviewed in the New York Times, you too can get published!
Again.
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