Many years ago I overslept and missed a flight and was charged an insane amount of money to get on another flight the same day. Apparently YMMV.

Yes, that’s a major part of it. Similarly Congress is letting Trump get away with trampling congressional powers and all manner of corruption. Our system was not designed with the idea that Congress would simply surrender to an authoritarian president.

We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification The damage he and his cronies have wrought could take decades to repair, particularly when it comes to science and public health.

The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Trump has basically turned the presidency into a giant Bribe Delivery System.

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I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

New Documents Undermine Trump Administration’s Claims About Offshore Wind Deal There was no new investment required from TotalEnergies, according to newly disclosed terms.

The US government paid $1 billion to kill a wind farm just because. Just absolute idiocy in every direction heatmap.news/energy/total...

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

The GOP has long pushed the idea that taxing the rich isn’t fair because they earned it, somehow even convincing many people that they’ll be rich someday too.

But the wealth gap has exploded. Maybe the billionaires overplayed their hands and more people are finally sick of it.

Yeah, it’s complicated. The United Methodist church now allows gay and trans clergy and gay marriage, but also allow local churches to be less inclusive if they want. It’s odd. But local “discretion” wasn’t enough for some conservative churches, hence the schism.

Incredible how they’ve chucked over 200 years of precedent to put the Court’s weight behind right wing policy goals and nothing has been done about it.

Supreme Court “shadow docket” wasn’t a thing until 2016 when they used it for the first time to block the Clean Power Plan. Now it’s routinely used to give Trump quick wins.

It defies over 200 years of court precedent and is being used in a nakedly partisan way by the right wing majority.

On the plus side, they’re not hawking NFTs. I mean, maybe they were a couple years ago before that incredibly short lived craze died back, but they’re not now. Right?

Will National Today plagiarize this article about National Today being a giant plagiarism mill?

A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale A PR firm is running a strange AI-fueled plagiarism mill that's ripping off — and mangling — a huge amount of local and national reporting.

Welcome to National Today, a plagiarism-filled trash pile of a website where the governor of Iowa is named "Jane Doe."

Schumer is not fit to lead. Again and again he has failed to rise to the moment, to rally the party against an authoritarian regime. And then there’s his out of touch, morally bankrupt position on arms for Israel.

Talk about trotting out an old racist trope.

These NY Times oral histories—of what the Trump administration is doing to federal agencies—are a public service. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Yes, and I’m not sure what the answer to that is. Our system of checks and balances assumes that different government branches want to keep their own power. That was largely true until the GOP Congress completely surrendered to Trump.

Me too but I actually went to the truth social URL. Ewww. Hope my browser didn’t catch anything.

Somehow we almost missed Fox saying teens ages 15-19 not having babies is a “problem”🤔

Anthropic's Claude Mythos isn't a sentient super-hacker, it's a sales pitch — claims of 'thousands' of severe zero-days rely on just 198 manual reviews Many of the "thousands" of bugs and vulnerabilities it found are in older software, or are impossible to exploit.

What'd I say?

SLOW DOWN and always— ALWAYS— start from the ground position that any claims made by any spokesperson for any "AI" corporation— any for-profit corporation, really— is an instance of them lying to you to hype their product and get your money.

“they repeatedly suggest they're unsure if this new AI is conscious.”

🙄 This alone is enough to make me extremely skeptical of their other claims.

RFK Jr. Lied His Way Into Office and American Health Is the Victim He is pushing quackery as science as health secretary

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

America's money goes to Hungary. To Argentina. To fund wars in Iran and invasions of Venezuela.

It goes to kill shipwrecked survivors. To ICE, who shoot US citizens and build concentration camps

Our money seems to fund death and destruction all across the globe

But it never goes to help Americans

Europeans want more renewables, even if it increases energy bills Public enthusiasm for clean energy comes as the Iran war exposes Europe’s vulnerability to global oil and gas markets.

vulnerability to fluctuating global energy markets, and will help Brussels in its drive to replace imported fossil fuels with homegrown renewables. The survey of more than 6,000 people in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Poland in March found that around 60 percent want Europe to either speed up or maintain its transition to renewables. The single biggest block of respondents — 39 percent — supported accelerating the transition even if energy prices rise in the short term. Just 17 percent said the EU should prioritize the cheapest energy sources regardless of environmental impact.

One day, in the distant future, we will see a poll that actually reflects what happens when renewables are built (power bills go down). *EVERY* poll currently adopts a brazen lie in question framing, for shamelessly ideological reasons.

US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock after Pentagon entered agreement with company Expert said federal law bars officials from taking actions in their jobs that benefit their own financial interests

Just so much shameless corruption

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Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

This is catastrophic.

A steady stream of war crimes do that eventually. Plus prior Israeli leaders were careful not to side too strongly with one side or the other in US politics. Netanyahu, fool that he is, cast his lot with Trump.

"This is not who we are" should always be understood as an aspirational statement that carries forward the legacy of countless Americans who fought and died to make it as true as possible, to create the space for you and I to take up the rallying cry.

Yes, they have larger vocabularies than someone who describes nearly everything as strong and/or powerful.