New site just dropped. Did you know Florida, USA is home to over 100 billionaires? What could we do with a modest wealth tax on these folks: taxfloridabillionaires.com
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Outside LLMs 2025 - AI & Music Buildathon | Win Outside Lands Festival Tickets Join Outside LLMs, the world's top AI & Music Buildathon in San Francisco! Build AI music apps and win Outside Lands 2025 festival tickets plus distribution to 200,000+ attendees.

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This is some sick shit. Heritage Foundation lays out their case that slashing higher ed and gutting public K-12 will increase fertility (for certain desirable populations, of course).

DOGE Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk In its apparent quest to cut government spending and improve efficiency, DOGE has fired entire tech teams devoted to those very things.

In DOGE’s purported quest to make government more efficient and cost effective, it is decimating federal tech teams working on smart, innovative projects designed to do exactly that.

From @makenakelly.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/doge-m...

Canadian Bacon Official Trailer #1 - Rip Torn Movie (1995) HD YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

@mmflint.bsky.social sir you outdid yourself with this one youtu.be/4jf8Bt4gD9Y?...

"This product is made in America—in factories that sit in a deep red area in Georgia and a deep blue area in Rhode Island. It’s made with peanuts grown mostly in the south, and dairy produced in the Northeast and Midwest. It’s produced by American workers, then hauled by them to American ports..."

"You're so young," he said. "It seems almost criminal that you should be so young in these terrible times. I wish you could have known this country when it was still salvageable."
"It might survive," I said, "changed, but still itself."

--Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler

Despicable, evil, impeachable and frankly treasonous behavior from Trump and Musk.

About a Third of Project 2025 Has Already Been Implemented A conversation with Adrienne Cobb, who is tracking objectives agency by agency.

Just under a third of Project 2025’s policies have already been implemented, according to a developer who is tracking them. More than half of its goals for DOJ, the State Department, and the White House are now in progress. Great Q&A from @jeva.bsky.social:
heatmap.news/politics/pro...

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learn about the battle of Alcatraz

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If you haven’t ridden a bike today, I’d highly recommend it.

Computers can’t push pedals, you are safe.

For now.

Are you watching Common Side Effects? You should if you enjoyed Scavengers Reign.

This is just sheer brazen criminality by DOJ. Adams gets federal corruption charges dropped not because there isn’t overwhelming evidence, but because he agrees to help Homan round up migrants. And Homan says the charges will be refiled if Adams doesn’t “come through.”

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AG Pam Bondi shutters the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force Pam Bondi is the first attorney in history to have been a lobbyist for foreign governments. She also just disbanded the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force.

Attorney general Pam Bondi was, as recently as 2020, a registered foreign agent who was responsible for “personally and substantially” engaging in delivering services for the government of Qatar. As one of her first actions, she closed the FBI office focused on combating foreign influence campaigns.

There is still beauty in this world

Perhaps it is worth saying that the difference between $5M and $500B is $500B.

NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.

Keep the takes coming, sending love from FL! 🫡
Surfers against reviving fascism. SARF!

For their 1976 bicentennial issue, National Geographic invited "five noted thinkers" to predict the future. The answers ranged from optimism to pleas for transformational change.

Here's an excerpt from Edmund Bacon, city planner (AND FATHER OF KEVIN BACON)

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

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As 12,000 remain displaced from Helene, campers become homes. The problem is keeping them warm More Western North Carolina residents are turning to campers as temporary homes as housing demand remains high after Helene.

Disasters move on from the headlines, but the effects linger.

12,000 Western NC residents remain displaced after Hurricane Helene. This article tells of folks using pine needles as insulation under their camper carpets as winter cold set in.

www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...

Letter to VP Harris

Stephen Spoonamore, a former CEO/CTO at seven technology companies is the second technologist since Duncan Buell to pen an open letter to VP Harris, calling to reverse her concession and open an investigation as well as hand recount in 7 swing states. Read: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Where’s the #basicincome convo at?

AI, energy usage, water, etc.
Anyone doing interesting things?