Not that we didn't know this already but having ICE - whose jurisdiction has absolutely NOTHING to do with elections - investigate voter fraud gives away the game. ICE is no longer a legal entity bound by laws and norms, it's Trump's personal force, focusing on whatever he wants.

i wish there had been some way to know a republican president would start an unwinnable war in the middle east that did nothing more than pad the bank accounts of him and his cronies

Apparently SpaceX caused airspace closure today along my route causing a multi-hour delay, a missed connection & stuck in Panama City tonight. Couldn't cancel original hotel as notice was too late and had to pay for new hotel tonight. F--k Elon Musk. www.faa.gov/space/stakeh...

every 5 months you hear "Joe Rogan is turning on Trump" from people in the media who don't actually watch rogan and take the bait like it's susan collins casting a line when in reality this is literally what he says almost every single day about democrats including fucking yesterday

This is as good a look at the current state of working in tech as I've seen. I definitely felt my own perspective reflected in the data and takeaways and it passes the "smell test" based on my own conversations with others. www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-tech-w...

(AP) — A federal judge said Monday that President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked tax returns was filed for an “improper purpose” as she referred attorneys for disciplinary actions. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...

The "American Dream" is officially dead. It may never have been as real as people believed it to be, but that belief is why people around the world strove to come here. It took 50 years but the ultra-wealthy (our new oligarchs) killed it. Trump is both a symptom and the final nail in the coffin.

The White House was never supposed to be a palace. George Washington and architect James Hoban deliberately rejected the lavish style of European monarchies. Instead, they designed a President’s House that reflected the ideals of a republic: dignified, restrained, and accountable to the people.

Since when does the military take orders from a president posthumously?

The best part of making the switch is that you'll find you spend far less time and mental energy trying to decipher the results to avoid ads, scams and AI misinformation.

Another great chart from Lenny Rachitsky’s survey of how tech workers feel about their jobs. That the fear of AI’s impact on their jobs is more that they will be overworked following layoffs (52%) than that AI will take their jobs (22%) totally resonates given my observations.

The son of the man shot and killed by ICE: I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction. Unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars.

I'm waiting to hear how both sides are "testing the limits of the cease fire" by refusing to cease firing again.

This Fourth of July New Yorker cartoon is painful and accurate.

There's so much insanity to dissect here but I'll start with, how did we go from 8 wars only weeks ago to 100 wars? Is he counting every short-lived ceasefire in the Iran war as ending a new war?

Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.

(1) The party of Jeffrey Epstein wants genital inspections for teen athletes. (2) Every time conservative justices can destroy a campaign finance law, they will. (3) Upholding birthright citizenship should have been unanimous. That it wasn't shows how extreme the Court conservatives are.

Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America

I don’t have much to say about Slaughter, and honestly I think we do too much justice to the Roberts Court by treating its opinions like serious judicial reasoning. But I will say that it’s striking how openly the court treats congressional oversight as somehow antithetical to democratic government

Justice Sotomayor read her dissent from the bench. It reads in part: "Today, this Court undoes centuries of political practice and concludes that all three branches of Government have been acting in open defiance of the Constitution all this time. Its conclusion is wrong."

So for progressives they are willing to wage war, but against Trump all we got were "very strong letters" expressing disapproval.

Beyond parody. So now, just to soothe one man's ego, rather than having the no-bid contractor repair their shoddy work, taxpayers will have to foot the bill for repairs as well as for the additional security at the pool to guard against non-existent pool saboteurs.

Astro 7 is here! A new Rust compiler, a new Rust Markdown/MDX processor, Vite 8 and more. Get ready for 60%+ faster builds. astro.build/blog/astro-7/

A new study by Katherine Pompilio reveals for the first time that almost one in 16 Jan. 6 insurrectionists subject to the president’s clemency order has been arrested for and charged with—and in the vast majority of cases convicted of—other crimes.

Reason eleventy billion why no Musk owned company will ever get $1 from me personally (as if another reason was even needed). ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

McSweeney’s on the economics of the AI bubble. This description of AI driven layoffs is excellent satire.

As someone who has been struggling with a family member addicted to this garbage, this is infuriating. 😡

SpaceX market cap $2.1tn Microsoft market cap $2.8tn SpaceX revenue ~$20bn Microsoft revenue ~$300bn Incredible.

The best explanation I've seen yet as to why the markets seem to respond to Trump's peace deal announcements even when they are most likely a lie from @justinwolfers.bsky.social newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-to-pri...

I remember back in Trump I when we had the stupid and endless debate on whether Trump was truly racist in his heart. Trump II has made it clear he is both deeply racist but also heartless.

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

voters elected trump to make then rich

When I fell asleep at the Garden, the Knicks were Winning. Then when I wake up, I see the Spurs have "won." It seems that in the 4th Quarter, the so-called referees kept "finding" Points for the Spurs. Rigged! Fake Game! by Donald J. Trump

Switched to Kagi as my default, but the net result is the same as it just returns links.

I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time. influence.citationneeded.news

Another good tip (as always) this week from @nickyt.online. Given the type of work I do, this ended up clearing about 8GB of wasted space on my laptop. one-tip-a-week.beehiiv.com/p/one-tip-a-...

Ah, yes, I remember when the Walkman threatened to replace millions of jobs and companies were like, "We're laying off 30% of our staff because of efficiencies created by the Walkman." Those were scary times. link.wired.com/view/6876d2d...

NEWS: A @lawfaremedia.org report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported. Incredible work by @katherinepomps.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

If Google's internal Jetski AI tooling is as bad as their public Gemini tooling, none of this surprises me. This morning Gemini failed miserably at a task that required it to SEARCH THE INTERNET, something Google supposedly solved back in 1998. www.404media.co/google-emplo...

I don't tend to make a lot of predictions but Cloudflare has been acquiring some important projects in the JavaScript ecosystem including Astro and now Vite. It feels to me like they're gearing up to formally take on Vercel. blog.cloudflare.com/voidzero-joi...

The valuation of SpaceX is based on this page in their filing*. Estimated future market: 28.5 trillion Of that Grok/AI is: 26.5 trillion 93% of the SpaceX valuation is Grok NINTY THREE PERCENT OF THE SPACEX VALUATION IS GROK!!!! * www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Journalists will note that much of the "controversy" comes from paid X accounts that monetize rage-bait on a platform where the algorithm is tilted towards far-right extremism...but somehow we *must not ignore it*!!! Latest example: www.polygon.com/god-of-war-l...

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

So Blanche says the DOJ is "not moving forward" with the weaponization fund but is steadfastly refusing to put "anything in writing." This is a "trust us" ploy from the least trustworthy administration in American history.

I recently learned about a tool called CloudBurn that detects cost-related mistakes in AWS setups. I wanted to see if I could use it to detect problems automatically in a local environment to find cost regressions in IaC before you deploy. Here's how it works: blog.localstack.cloud/managing-clo...

If you're traveling this summer beware. The scams this article describes happened to me in Spain and, because they have real reservation details including the price, they are very realistic. I was nearly fooled. www.wired.com/story/hundre...

I’m trying not to pay too much attention to the dumpster fire in tech right now. But man Webflow wtf. They laid people off without notice apparently, just locked them out of their computers. The CEO same day proudly announces an AI pivot

Ray's the best. Hire him!

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