It takes 1.28 seconds for a message to reach us from the Moon. It takes as little as 35 minutes from Jupiter. It takes as little as 4.5 hours from Pluto. It takes at least 6-12 months from NYT reporters, plus $35 for the book containing it.

software has gotten continually worse over the past 20 years so we trained a robot to reproduce it at a scale you can't review

I’m still on a bit of a high for this. Bolts didn’t exist four and a half years ago, and now it’ll be in the canon of the Supreme Court — you don’t have to tell me what to think of SCOTUS, but it’s the cool feeling of how far you’ve come.

we're giving iran about as much money as all the gold in fort knox

Obviously, this is great to see, but it isn’t a surprise. The fascists were able to go on their racist rampage not because their community broadly wanted it, but because a small minority called “police” allowed it.

Something underreported: in their reconciliation bill, Republicans are forgoing even the normal (inefficient) oversight and restrictions on ICE/CBP funding. For instance, normally there’s a prohibition on shackling pregnant women. But not for this new money they’re providing. (1/3)

Adam Hamawy is a seasoned veteran combat medic who literally saved the life of a sitting senator of the United States; volunteered to treat Bosnians and Palestinians during their genocides, helped 9/11 victims on 9/11, and this is how the NYT decides to describe him after he wins a seat to Congress.

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

9 months old and still so true. “ If you’re pushing slop or eating it, you wouldn’t read it anyway. You’d ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did not consider.”

Musk v Altman JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.

I think voters might be a little more enthusiastic about the Democratic party if their elected officials didn't so clearly despise them

It is remarkable how many establishment Dems simply do not understand they are in the middle of an existential war against MAGA politics, and that there’s no co-existence possible here.

New from me: Five years ago, I criticized a San Francisco TV reporter for getting her facts wrong. Ever since, she and her allies have alleged that I was part of a conspiracy to end her career. That narrative just got a boost with her new book, which is being promoted by some powerful tech people.

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

"The Government cannot escape liability for DOGE’s work by scapegoating ChatGPT." A US judge slammed DOGE's use of AI in a decision today blocking the termination of $100M in humanities grants, finding DOGE lacked authority and unlawfully based decisions on race and viewpoint buff.ly/Qw0qcDH

/5 This is a sin throughout the media, left and right, and part of the corruptly cozy relationship with law enforcement. When insiders tip about pending arrests and searches and case developments they are breaking policy and the law to hurt and demean targets and defendants….

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

This is a problematic take. 1. This author draws on personal LLM experiences, such as tutoring as a PhD holder. Actual studies that show mixed results for LLMs as tutors in, say, CS education, including cognitive offloading and students not building relationships with other people.

what is the fucking point of an opposition party that acts like this

Given that it's usually the guest's prerogative how their work experience appears on the chyron, it's telling that McLaughlin listed the Vivek Ramaswamy campaign and not DHS as her former employer

If you ever encounter an omniscient being it would be really easy to make fun of it and bully it. You could be like "hey you know what it feels like to get crushed to pulp inside a whale's asshole while trying to fuck it" and guess what knowing literally everything means

The press corps, sadly, seems to have made the very mistaken assumption that this nation's security apparatus has any more interest in protecting them from gun violence than it does for other ordinary citizens who aren't members of this administration.

Can’t wait for like, 500 articles that are like “as I dived under a table to hide from the shooter I realized I had to be even more sycophantic to the White House”

The swing from Swalwell to Becerra among insiders, as if they were interchangeable widgets, is deeply illustrative of the Iron Law of Institutions. Bearstar, etc., would rather prop a new stalking horse up — and risk letting two Republicans into the general — than cede their power over the party.

Literally any city, you’re going to be surprised by how much money goes to policing.

Swalwell is in the news today. Just a reminder for all the Dems that he endorsed the recall of the sitting DA in his own district who was a Dem for his own benefit. He's been terrible for years, with zero principles other than the lowest bar, Trump.

Oregon water managers need to drive a harder bargain with these data centers. Like, if they're using 40% of the water, they ought to be purchasing 80% of a water recycling plant to feed their cooling systems and remove pressure on drinking water systems.

I don't think I could make a joke better than this

Per APTP, San Leandro Police harassed and brutalized a Black homeless man, couldn't anything to charge him with, then dumped him in Oakland

another example of why taxing the rich, especially these two losers, is a necessary alternative to letting them coast on these small scale, ephemeral pet projects of performative philanthropy

The AMA is a trade organization. Its true mission is to protect the financial interests of physicians.

It's hard for me to believe this report is not headline news. OPD has visibly been shrinking for years, but in past 12 months had its lowest performing consecutive academies in history with huge jumps in attrition & visible head-hunting amid a region-wide shortage of applicants

Good reporting from NPR on how U.S. federal agencies are simply buying people's private information and location data to use in investigations — without getting warrants.

And here's another prediction. I think this is just another step on the road. If they're running my playbook they're expecting to lose this case, and the next step is to ask a state judge to issue a criminal warrant for FBI/DHS records and say "we tried Touhy and it didn't work."

Humorous moment before Marco Rubio walks in. Lawyers argue about whether the jury can see photos of David Rivera holding Rubio's kid. “Secretary Rubio might want one of these, because he looks great. It looks like he was working out," Judge Melissa Damian said. "Again, the secretary looks great!"

Disconcerting news from Miami federal court: No reporters — zero — have been allowed into the courtroom to see Marco Rubio testify this morning. I & others were first in line & forced to wait outside the building since dawn. When we walked in, court staff & security already filled every seat. #1A

I'm in Miami federal court this morning to hear Marco Rubio testify about a weird scandal that touches on Venezuela, secret lobbying, and his old Cuban American friend. @notus.com: www.notus.org/courts/marco...

The question that broke America fundamentally was ‘do all people deserve basic rights?’ This question was too hard for us. Too hard for our leadership. It still is. So now all of our rights are in jeopardy.

If you have ever taken an international flight into the U.S. you understand how ludicrous this is.

"German utilities expressed many of the same concerns nearly a decade ago when plug-in solar started to become popular in Germany. But with more than a million systems installed, no safety incidents have been reported for customers who used the panels as instructed"

Law enforcement in this country is not under civilian control & we‘re due to discover why this is a problem very soon

The truth is that it's hard to justify emergency spending for our munitions & other acquisitions. These things often take years to complete, so they won't be used in Iran. It's true the US is very low on a lot of stuff, but that doesn't justify a supplemental that doesn't involve budgetary tradeoffs

All of these are policies they're already supposed to be following. So why would anyone believe they'll start following them in exchange for DHS funding. I mean, come on. The proper response to "We won't deport U.S. citizens if you fund DHS" is, "Are you fucking kidding me?"

Here's an easy job for the next sane administration: Bovino has now openly lied multiple times under oath, an offense which upon conviction per 5 USC 8312 strips defendants of any federal retirement benefits to which they might have been entitled

Abolish ICE, abolish the CBP, abolish surveillance capitalism.

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

It’s genuinely insane how many cop dramas hinge on the idea that Internal Affairs is an omnipresent, suffocating entity trying to ruin cops’ lives for being too damn good at their job when in real life we get a steady drip of videotaped executions that don’t even go to trial.

The second we intervene in the oil markets w/ cash; We are officially paying for the privilege of staying at war indefinitely.