Black and brown chiweenie looking at her garden.

I decided to sift soil with a colander (yes, the kind for vegetables). Not effective. Looking at soil sifters, and I think I could make a proper one myself?

Here is Baby Eloise enjoying her garden.

Tricia McLaughlin & @TriciaOhio 0... The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully. He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family. This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements.

In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'. 's account was false. According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency. After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying. He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.

"You" re not from here. Do you have your papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer, "New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested. Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read. According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name. Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.

The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document. Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained "at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error. Hermosillo said he was detained with about 15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because "they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

Correction for correctness because I am not actually certain: there is a non-zero chance a linguist has written a paper about this 🙃

Substitution test gets us closer? There is no chance, there are no marbles.

There is not a chance I will pass the exam.
There is zero chance that I will make up the exam.
There are no chances.
There are zero chances to make up the exam.

This is Chester. He is so good at piano he can play it in his sleep. In fact, he can only play it in his sleep. 13/10

Republicans want to slash Medicaid — a death sentence for thousands of Americans. Medicaid provides health care to more than 37 million kids, funding for 2/3 of seniors in nursing homes & is 40% of the revenue for community health centers. 

We must EXPAND Medicaid, not cut it.

The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE’s Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn’t exist.

This is the most important story in the United States right now.

www.wired.com/story/treasu...

Wonderful! Thank you for sharing this!

@migolomaniac.bsky.social 👀

Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

I thought the purple was going to be the green. And the blue would be yellow. And so, things got weird

Connections
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Very cool!

There is a fun and free course on Hugging Face. And I believe they have a Discord channel as well

Sure, because addicts just forget to pick up their heroin and then decide they don’t really need it anyway because things are actually going fine, like all the time 🫠

You do not want to wait to submit ROI forms until you are in the position of trying to help someone access care or prescriptions

This is not to be alarmist but this is an important step to take to be prepared for the worst case

If you care for a family member on Medicare/Medicaid

Make sure release of information and contact numbers are up to date

It will be easier to advocate for them if these are already in place

#medicaid #caregiver

Re: Deep Seek. Opportune time to repeat a non-trivial point, which several folks have been making for quite some time:

open weight != open source

What was interesting about algorithms?

The challenge of doing X with as few resources as possible (memory, power, etc).

What are OpenAI + friends doing? The opposite.

"Lets assume we have unlimited resources & try to build a god."

No wonder they're losing their shit with the DeepSeek thing.

"If it winds up being the case that the treatment group benefited from [bunch of AI interventions] and (4) extra tutoring after school, while the control group received none of those resources, then the researchers did not actually study the effect of AI on the treatment group"

Jfc

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

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Boule bread

Et alors, je me sens vraiment française 🇫🇷🥖

I got this boule on my second attempt. Next up, I will try to replicate my mom’s quiche.

you saw what you saw. you know it. use it to remind yourself why you’re turning to community, joining groups, committing yourself to service and care. america is not that motherfucker, america is us

You Blamed DEI for Hurting Your Career. Now What? For people who pin their failures on diversity, corporate America’s DEI retreat removes a barrier—or maybe an excuse.

this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

It’s very good

Bagel

'hey do you want to read a text that is a complicated statistical average of the entire internet?' what? no dude, i don't

Yay! Have so much fun, I’ll be watching on a glitchy live stream 🫶

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