Major shoutout to local National Weather Service offices who have issued literally hundreds and hundreds of tornado / severe thunderstorm / flood warnings in just the past 36 hours alone. Most offices are doing this amid staff shortages.
SPC / WPC teams doing amazing work, too.
Scientists matter.
I'm watching CNBC. These anchors are so angry. They really didn't believe he'd do it. They're actually just now, 10 years into this shit, realizing he's a maniac hellbent on revenge and there's no grand plan for the markets. Better late than never but holy shit.
There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.
Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
We are less safe with Trump/Musk/Vance
In 2019, RFK Jr visited Samoa to spread anti-vax lies, spurring a measles outbreak that led to the deaths of 83 people - mostly children.
We can’t let that tragedy repeat in Texas. The MMR vaccine is 97% effective at preventing measles. Let’s stop the spread.
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No, 150-year-olds aren't collecting Social Security benefits. Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud; but there's a much simpler explanation.
All over today. This is NYC.
I always get people to ask it a question they know the answer to. A musical friend, who had been really impressed with LLM answers to topics he wasn't expert in, completely lost faith in it after reading an answer on musical theory. Difference was simply he knew it was wrong.
this is how you can tell somebody doesn't know what they're doing
LLMs produce unusable, wrong "answers" a significant chunk of the time.
even highly educated people are painfully gullible. all you gotta do is animate the text like it's typing and these suckers slurp it down like mommy's milk
Seeing people get up to nonsense like this - like not to get all corny, but honest to God - reminds me that people are worth fighting for lmao.
The move comes just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
This kind of ends of it. The MSM will not even let citizens pay to speak out against a private citizen who has taken over our government and is firing thousands of workers who live within 100 miles of the paper’s city.
Bowing and scraping it’s way into irrelevance.
If this comes to pass, it would be a huge blow to Long Covid advocacy.
Tom Homan asks "where is the line of impeedment?" I'm not sure what he's trying to say, but I'm certain that AOC telling people what their rights are does not meet the standard of criminal impeedyness necessary to open an investigation.
Can we just please stop firing federal aviation employees until we can figure out what is going on?
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I'm probably going to get in trouble pointing this out--but Jeffries and Schumer take money from very powerful lobbies that are determined to prevent Americans from protesting, which is why the response on college campuses turned violent and were denigrated by certain Democratic politicians.
Today in DC
The Washington Post sinks even lower.
People in tech talk about the idea of a “10x programmer” — someone whose work is worth that of 10 others. I get the impression Musk etc think they can apply it all over the federal workforce but like… there’s no such thing as a 10x ATC navigational aid maintenance worker. Some jobs just need people.
“If the official charged w protecting whistleblowers from retaliation was himself utterly vulnerable to retaliation & removal…then the OSC’s whistleblower protection purpose might fail when it is most needed.” apple.news/ArW6hvvMNSnm...
I wonder when MAGA will realize they support the pro-Nazi party?
Because VP Vance not meeting with or recognizing the democratically elected German Chancellor and instead meeting with the German Nazi party (AFD) is undeniably pro-Nazi.
Antisemitism is a canary in the coal mine signaling the erosion of democracy. Ask yourself why Musk and Vance are so invested in the success of Germany’s far right.
NEW: Elon Musk and his team have posted classified data on DOGE's new website www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...
"If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." - SDNY's Hagan Scotten to the acting US deputy asst. attorney gen.
