America: we can automatically sign you up for the draft

Also America: automatically signing you up to vote is impossible actually

A small kitten sitting in front of her siblings. Everyone is black, and they have coloured collars on. They're fluffy and adorable. Myrtle at the front is sitting up with her head slightly cocker to the side. She has wide blue eyes and lots of fluff.

Look at my very perfect and very chonky babies. I have worked VERY hard on that chonk.

Myrtle is at the front.

You must be disappointed often.

This person's grounds are that they are (probably) German, and this is very much a national pastime in Germany.

In my world (data protection) the Germans dominate the competition in the in legal pedantry/outrage games.

Racists brining the country to a standstill this week (under guise of fuel crisis) tried to intimidate one of the great charities in the country last night.

MSOÉ have been feeding the unhoused for 11 years on O Connell street.

Ugly scenes but beautiful show of solidarity from the people they feed.

This is gross, and whatever sympathy the protestors might have had is mired by this ugly display.

There's something black in a person's heart to target a charity helping to feed people.

I would take the risk. Kitten claws are more scratchy than piercy anyway.

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It's like the engineers internalized this song a little too hard.

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They are criminally cute, Veronica. I would like to just lay down and have them kitten pile me for hours.

Biiiig stretch and such a good purr motor!

💯 true. I have songs for every cat I've ever had.

DOGE got them the data to make this happen.

Split the baby and only publish the slides.

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago.

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Well that's fun.

Waiting around tonight for The news to come through is like Shit Christmas.

Congress is full of cowards who stand for nothing and bloviate endlessly online for likes. If a president literally sharing that he's going to commit war crimes won't do it, we need to stop assuming they will ever do anything and vote every last one of them out. Assuming that's even possible now.

So actually do it. Don't tweet about it.

Go go go Patata!

Two of my cats are exactly this for me, and two different cats do the same for hubs. They must be present with us all the time.

How Abu Dhabi Quietly Bought A Stake In $90 Billion VC Insight Partners A workplace lawsuit has opened the lid on the little-known ownership structure of Insight Partners, an investor in OpenAI and Anthropic: It is now partially owned by the government of Abu Dhabi.

A workplace lawsuit has opened the lid on the little-known ownership structure of Insight Partners, an investor in OpenAI and Anthropic: It is now partially owned by the government of Abu Dhabi.

Read for more details. With @iainmartin.bsky.social for @forbes.com:

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Gorgeous!

I'm glad I'm not the only one. It's a weird place to be in.

Churu is crack cocaine in cat treat form.

But this also really feels like we as a society are in an ‘electricity’ moment: AI is something new that’s dangerous, uncharted, and prone to abuse, but also demonstrably helpful and probably inevitable.

The Ladder to Nowhere: How OpenAI Plans to Learn Everything About You ChatGPT Health is a small part of a much larger plan to learn everything about you. In this post, I talk about what's driving them and how they might get there.

This whole exercise is deeply uncomfortable to me. On the one hand, I see exactly how the thing I worry about the most (‘The Ladder to Nowhere’) is happening. insights.priva.cat/p/the-ladder...

No, Claude didn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know. It reframed and distilled a bunch of disparate thoughts that have been bouncing around in my brain for the last 3 years into something more concrete and tangible.

I’ve paid money to career coaches in the past, but this was something else.

It prodded and poked, asked tough questions, and forced me to think. I fed it some of the articles I’ve written, and shared more than was probably reasonable for someone in privacy to share.

I learned a lot about myself in the process.

So, today I did something that I swore I’d never do: I used Claude as a career coach. I had it interview me, to interrogate and ask deep thoughts and help me figure out what I really want to do when I grew up.

Heh. I built a similar stack (though without the daily curation), with integration and chat app functionality in Obsidian. Using AI to parse through the noise is game-changing. insights.priva.cat/p/how-i-vibe...