We all recognize that the point of running the government into the ground is simply to then privatize all those functions to the benefit of the owning class, right??? Failure *is* the plan.

billie eilish is such a great natural singer it will be incredible when she discovers she has a chest voice and can also use that to produce sound and even sing notes

I repeat from yesterday: all of that information was freely accessible online up until the current administration took control and removed that database from being publicly available

This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC x.com/kenklippenstei…

"Dox" used to mean "my social security number and home address were posted on 4chan" and now it's "naming the people administering the federal government." Like 'disinformation' before it, rendered completely and hilariously meaningless by overuse

We really gotta popularize a higher fidelity vocabulary for communicating about AI. The AI we’re talking about here is so different from ChatGPT that it barely makes sense to have the same word for both of them, and I don’t think that’s obvious enough to lay audiences.

great time to get an english degree honestly nobody can read or write you might become scribe to the king in the next 15 years if you know cursive the way things are going

Remember when AI researchers used to be like, "this is a neural network, isn't it cool? It can say DOG or CAT if you show it a DOG or a CAT :)" and now they're like, "we're gonna make God before China does" okay

its kinda awesome that Jared fucked them up so bad they stopped even trying to market themselves as healthy. it went from “eat fresh” to “fuck it come get a philly cheesesteak and a 1,200 calorie cookie”

I wish people understood intelligence with the same nuance that they understand athletics. Every baseball fan knows that pitchers don't make great batters because that's not what they train for, but they have a hard time understanding that a computer wiz can't run the government.

This is absolutely insane. If scientists aren't allowed to use the term "women" or "female" when applying for NSF grants, that basically rules out any human clinical trials of anything. "Disability" is blacklisted too? There goes a lot of medical research.

Removing advice on supporting people with disabilities from US govt emergency readiness websites will kill people 🚨

Using early 20somethings to a lot of mission-critical work is what management does when everyone else is smart/old/wise enough to say That’s Dumb. I’m Not Doing That.

i’m being serious. who the hell is joy villa? she’s been invited to the grammys almost every year for the last decade and does this every time. she’s a “singer” with 1,108 monthly listeners on spotify. does anyone know what’s going on

we are touching the stove

GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal databases. A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness. 🔗 404media.co/forbidden-word…

It turns out the price of your coworker getting to say slurs on the job was the federal government. Not a great deal in my opinion

So tired of being told that asking legitimate questions about justice, process, care of the deceased, unidentified remains, obvious lies, dubious forensics, police or clinician incompetence et al is “disrespectful to families”… it’s the new No Comment and it’s happening daily

The Trump administration knowingly deported a Maryland father with legal protection from removal—sending him to El Salvador’s megaprison. Kilmar Abrego Garcia: – Came to the U.S. at 16 after fleeing gang death threats – In 2019, an immigration judge granted him withholding

More from the story linked above. “The Trump administration does not claim he has a criminal record, but called him a “danger to the community” and an active member of MS-13, the Salvadoran gang that Trump has declared a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Sandoval-Moshenberg said