if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway. A federal program created to protect the government against cyber threats authorized a sprawling Microsoft cloud product, despite the company’s inability to fully explain how it protects sensitive dat...

8) Yet my investigation — drawn from internal memos, logs, emails, meeting minutes, and interviews with 7 former/current gov employees & contractors — found breakdowns at every juncture of that process, as well as a remarkable deference to Microsoft.
www.propublica.org/article/micr...

Congrats to all the assholes who shit on Starfleet Academy, which had the best first season of a Star Trek show in franchise history, white supremacist homophobic Paramount has cancelled the show and you won and now there is no Trek in production

Do you feel like winners? You assholes

I hate the re-soloing of development. We were so close to learning social skills, creating community, encouraging creativity & purpose, & applying empathy. Easier to manage if each of us is so busy with our genieswarms that we don't have time to talk & reflect.

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

Since primaries are iterative, you almost kinda get a very very poorly implemented form of instant run-off. Which is why I wanted to see them come closer together before *any* voting started.

That's true. But what I was witnessing was a lot of Warren supporters getting pushed away from Sanders (who would otherwise have been their second choice) and voting Biden instead, and a lot of Sanders supporters getting burned on Warren and just skipping the primary! And primaries are iterative!

And the wedges that were shoved between Sanders and Warren supporters amplified that. I'm not saying there were no substantial differences, but it was stupid bait to fall for in FPTP electoral system. I'd hoped they would cross-endorse each other (similar to Landers/Mamdani) before voting started.😞

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities – and society at large

“Reliance on AI among faculty is also on the rise, with observers pointing to the dystopian possibility that the college experience may soon be reduced to AI systems grading AI-generated homework – “a conversation between two robots”.”

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

was just discussing “AI” with a coworker and realized this:

if i had wanted to use english to program complex systems that run nondeterministically, i would’ve gone into law

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

1/ GIFT LINK. Especially enjoy the role the Supreme Ct played. With no authority to do so and 'course no explanation of why it thought it had any, it overrode fed'l privacy laws and SSA's partitioned data structure & data-handling rules, effectively authorizing the system's breach.

wapo.st/4bAFCQZ

Love that this is nearly 7 years old and is just as spot on as ever

neither nor there but having grown up getting conscended to about how the desire of misguided leftists to, say, end hunger would actually inevitably mean a planet of gulags, watching these stone cold freaks blow up the world out of sheer lust greed and pique hits real special

The YouTube algorithm imo has been the backbone of radicalization around the world for over a decade. The only reason we don't constantly talk about it is bc we all still use it for our own fun non-fascistic purposes too.

That's got to be the point the Democrats hammer home.

"If this is necessary, why didn't it happen last shutdown?"

"Why are you choosing to do this?"

"Why is being able to kill Americans so important to you that you're willing to throw everyone else under the bus with your tantrum?"

I spent my childhood being told not to be like the German church under Hitler by the same people speedrunning fascism

So, just to recap, we have two random DOGE bros with basically no knowledge or experience in the humanities (and at least one of whom is a college dropout), who just went around terminating grants that had gone through a full grant application process by feeding in a list of culture war grievance terms, selecting out the grant titles based on the appearance of seemingly “woke” words, then asking ChatGPT “yo, tell me this is DEI” and then sending termination emails the next day from a private server and forging the director’s signature. This is what “government efficiency” looks like in practice: two guys with zero relevant experience, a keyword list built on culture war grievances, and a chatbot confidently spitting out 120-character verdicts on federal grants that went through actual review processes. The experts who might have explained what these grants actually do? Locked out. The director whose signature appeared on termination letters? Couldn’t tell you which grants got cut or w

Ever wondered how your grant got cancelled? No we know. Some college dropout asked ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke"?

www.techdirt.com/202...

If you ever see someone who is not explicitly a subject matter expert on short-term interest rates or repo posting about repo, immediately ignore them. That goes triple for anything sourced to Reddit.

Maryland, New Mexico Become Latest Blue States to Ban Local Contracts with ICE - Bolts Governors Lujan Grisham and Moore signed laws barring local sheriffs and police from partnering with ICE’s 287(g) program, joining a string of ten states with similar prohibitions.

NEW: Major, BFD action by blue states standing up to ICE.

Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program. 

That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract!

And New Mexico did the same last week:

I really It's kinda weird how the "The left hates technology (because AI)" mostly come from people whose experience with tech is on the level of vibecoding and the "left" they criticize consists to a significant part of people who've been actually building and maintaining systems for decades.

There is no bottom with these people. Think of how much we don't know about what is going on inside the concentration camps. I want to hear from every Democratic elected official and candidate about their plans for accountability once this regime is out of power.

The legitimately innovative thing about AI is that it is a completely bottomless pit. It's swallowed up:

- all energy sources
- all our data
- all investment dollars
- all new jobs
- all capex
- all attention
- and now, all hardware components

with absolutely no end in sight. Nothing will satisfy.

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.

this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

Thing about hacking away at the Clean Air Act and lots of Clean Air Act enforcement is that Congress isn’t likely to return to New Deal State-ish legislation anytime soon, and that’s what makes the CAA so powerful. The people doing the hacking ofc know that

ICE's Masks Are All a Lie Working for ICE is actually less dangerous than being an elementary school student in America.

One good point from this piece by @vermontgmg.bsky.social is that ICE doesn't need guns to do its job (if they are going after 'bad hombres', they could ask for aid from other agencies). I bet if we banned their guns, a fair number of them would quit because it's not fun anymore.

The man in this image is Sheriff Chuck Jenkins, a known white supremacist and supporter of ICE. His department in Frederick Maryland has a 287g agreement with ICE and his deputies actively help with kidnappings. An ICE Camp is being built 30 minutes for Frederick. He’s up for reelection this year.

jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind

Wasn't the reason "disastrous" become an obligatory attachment to Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan that he wasn't able to get all the Afghans out who had worked with us? Now that Trump is just sending them back, I guess this was just the media's way of trashing Biden in "news" stories.