Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.

SCOOP: Some of the DOGE staffers are drawing salaries from the agencies they are cutting. We got some new details: www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

DOGE's savings page fixed old mistakes — and added new ones An NPR review of new data added to DOGE's "wall of receipts" finds the group quietly changed previous errors, added new ones and still has little verified savings to show for its work.

An NPR review of new data added to DOGE's "wall of receipts" finds the group quietly changed previous errors, added new ones and still has little verified savings to show for its work.

Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza because Israel has broken the Ceasefire treaty and refused to start withdrawing their troops from Gaza.

Blocking Humanitarian Aid and starving people is a War Crime, but you won't hear any of the Media reporting it.

For the millionth time, stop using this meme. The original context was Norm Macdonald joking about the brutal rape and murder of Brandon Teena, a trans man. It was depraved to say it at the time and it's worse that people continue to share this.

musk on twitter: Mars probably had liquid oceans a long time ago, before it cooled. Now, there are vast fields of ice covered by red dust. If we warm up the planet, the oceans will return and the atmosphere will densify, making it possible to extend life to Mars.

he's really so stupid and I can't stand it. if you warmed up mars and melted the water, the water would evaporate into space. Mars can't have a habitable atmosphere in its current state bc it has no magnetic field. solar winds strip away everything that isn't stuck to the surface.

Meta could have solely funded the ENTIRE WORLD'S 2022 CLIMATE FINANCE GOAL instead of this

1. You don't pay inheritance tax you're dead, the people who inherit it do.

2. Never going to inherit £1m+ from anybody?

Then like 96% of people you won't pay any inheritance tax.

3. If you get rid of inheritance tax for millionaires and billionaires, your taxes will go up.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Is the news media going to address the facts that Sam Kerr & Kristie Mewis felt unsafe that night: first bc of the actions of the cab driver. Then bc a white policeman ignored the couple's complaint against the cab driver? Both #sexism & #racism here. Yet the whole focus is on Kerr's words. #justice

screenshot of a NYT page that says: Sabrina Imbler was a reporting fellow for The New York Times, covering science. She left The Times in May 2022.

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lmao sorry this is so fucked up??? I was using they/them pronouns when I started at the NYT in 2021 and when I left in 2022.

Folks are mostly missing the forest for the trees re: the recent Meta announcement. Specifically, the focus on the move from fact checking to community notes. There two different changes that are a much bigger deal that have received less focus. 🧵 1/11

Another obvious tell is the awkward inclusion of the specific term "transgenderism" (a rightwing shibboleth) into the policy language itself.

TL;DR - the fact checking drama is mostly a distraction from a much more grim set of changes. 🧵 11/11

During the Holocaust, the Nazis and their collaborators paid bounties for every Jew they turned in.

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All these goobers posting airplanes and stars thinking they’re drones made me realize that if there was social media 500 years ago, a bunch of people would have been sharing pictures labeled “omg a mermaid” with community notes like “that’s a rock” and “manatee.”

winter night walks are great for freaks like me who enjoy a desolate wasteland with no one around and nothing but howling frost wind belting your face freezing you half to death. it’s refreshing

Elmo hates this photo. Share it far and wide around social media.

yeremi colino, a teenager stabbed to death in NYC last night by a group of men after he told them he didn’t speak english, deserves as much attention as the healthcare CEO, if not more. let’s give it to him. www.amny.com/new-york/man...

AOTEAROAAAAAA

I keep getting media requests but tbqh I don't think I'm the right person to have on shows. If you're a lawyer, academic, journalist, closely following SK politics, present in Seoul, and fluent in English, please reply to this post with your creds so I can forward them to people who keep asking me.

🫡 heading out to see what I can clumsily report on the declaration of martial law in south korea

I'm fucking blasted and hanging out in the weirdest scene because history happened at a deeply inconvenient hour. so it goes.

Sitting on my hand until it goes numb so it feels like someone else is doing the dishes.

it’s interesting that they’re trying to ban trans people from the military. from what i’ve heard they’re super soldiers who are too good at sports and athleticism

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‘Deaths of needless poverty and despair’: homelessness report reveals surge in fatalities in Australia ‘Staggering’ annual death toll of 1,500 revealed in 10-year analysis ‘a shocking indictment on our society’, expert says

“Almost 1,500 people are dying in homelessness every year, with new research from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare showing a 63% surge in preventable deaths.”

www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

The network technology giant Cisco offers to turn Wi-Fi access points installed in offices and other buildings into a system that tracks the location of employees, customers, smartphones, laptops and other devices for a wide range of purposes #workersurveillance

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legacy media upset about the bluesky migration, calling it an “echo chamber,” while elon has rigged X to oversaturate his tweets demeaning those exact same mainstream media sources. and to be clear, X has never been a strong driver of page views—just a bunch of bots and trolls yelling off a tweet

Transgender lawyer makes history, takes case on puberty blockers and hormone therapy to Supreme Court The Supreme Court will weigh whether Tennessee's ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender minors is a form of sex discrimination.

In 9 days my colleague @chasestrangio.bsky.social will become the first transgender litigator to argue before the Supreme Court. He'll be representing three trans teenagers and their families in a challenge to TN's ban on hormone therapies for trans people under 18 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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