$77 billion dollars. Seventy. Seven. Billion. Dollars. Anyway, back to my job which is slowly being strangled by budget cuts that are small fractions of the amount wasted on What If Second Life But No Legs.

If my opinion is "Racism is bad." And your opinion is "Racism is good!🤡" Then yes, it is OK to humiliate you. And no, I don't respect racists, so no, I won't be showing them respect. They haven't earned that. Society needs much less of pandering to racists, and people selling civility discourse.

No. And pathetic

"Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don’t—the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear out." (David Grann, The Wager)

oh my God it's a real image from Getty www.aol.com/articles/jd-...

Everything is bad, but at least I can focus on my dissertation chapter about how the British in 1915 didn’t have the navy to force a strait when it needed to because it spent the previous decades funding their army’s misadventures in unimportant areas that turned into expensive quagmires.

Step 1: Get a job as chief of saving money for the Federal government (DOGE). Step 2: Instead of pushing to simplify the tax code or automating tax collection you fire a bunch of IRS workers. Step 3: Retweet posts about how your racist AI (aka MechHitler) can do people’s taxes.

The Anthropic versus Pentagon conflict is at least three questions which the media skipped asking 1. Should a computer be able to kill people? 2. What’s an acceptable error rate for that computer given LLMs 5% hallucination rate? 3. Can the government force you to sell them your tech to kill?

"in reality, prediction markets produce the opposite of accurate, unbiased…"–Charlie Warzel www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy. We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

1 dataset. 100 visualizations.: 100.datavizproject.com "Fascinating and a reminder that how data is presented shapes the data's story."

Words cannot express the insanity of slapping across-the-board inflationary tariffs in the middle of waging an inflationary war. It’s like they’re trying to crash the market or someth— ah, I see now www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Today's the Texas primary and all eyes are on the context between Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico. I have exciting news: They are both excellent candidates with a path to victory; the GOP candidates are trash/weak. I explain what that means here. GO VOTE. youtube.com/shorts/9VnVr...

JFC you guys — do better. He literally shrugged and said “…that’s the way it is…”

Boy, does this make me think of Justice Jackson’s Youngstown concurrence, in which he warns of the danger of a president unilaterally initiating a war, and then using that war as a bootstrap to claim extraordinary powers at home.

Tell me you don’t understand…anything

The Everdeck: A Universal Card System: thewrongtools.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/t... "This is a nifty bit of design"

Trump, July 19: "All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service." Witkoff, Sunday: "They're probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material."

"tapering plans" for HRT is a death sentence if you've had gender-affirming surgeries, like I have with my orchi, because your body will just wither away and die without hormones. Unspeakable evil. Demonic shit. You don't hate these motherfuckers enough.

Modern CSS Code Snippets | modern.css: modern-css.com "A collection of modern CSS code snippets. Every old CSS hack next to its clean, native replacement, side by side."

Hey @Anthropic / Claude team, I haven't used Cowork, and while I may in the future, this is pretty unacceptable when trying to restart an app that I rely on to be responsive. I'm now *far* less inclined to let Cowork do anything for me. Please do better. #Claude #Anthropic

Watching crypto exchanges pivot to prediction markets confirms they were always casinos masquerading as investment institutions.

Indicate Mono Condensed: www.designmadeingermany.de#230649 "Introducing Indicate Mono Condensed, the second style of my monospace typeface in ongoing development. While preserving the strict order of a monospace typeface, Indicate Mo"

President Obama to Dems: Stop nominating old people!

🎉 New Blogpost 🎉 Style Headings using the CSS :heading pseudo-class CSS just got tidier. Say goodbye to verbose selector groups and hello to cleaner, more intentional styling for your design systems. www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/sty... #CSS #WebDev #FrontEnd #WebDesigin

This is happening because OpenAI - a company that does not have anything even approaching a viable business model and is setting money on fire - used borrowed money to advance buy all of the raw materials for RAM production so competitors couldn’t get it

NotebookLM for Product Designers: uxplanet.org/notebooklm-f... "NotebookLM for Product Designers NotebookLM is one of the most interesting yet often overlooked free AI tools from Google. As the name suggests, NotebookLM is basically a notebook with access to…"

Completely agree

Twitter was a $5B/year business when Elon acquired it. Now the only revenue numbers they quote are a fifth of that. The guy is almost as good at running social networks as his buddy Trump is at running casinos.

The SAVE Act (which is designed to save the GOP by preventing as many as 21 million people from voting) was passed by the House today. Call your Senators and tell them to vote NO or we can all kiss this democracy goodbye.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

The total lack of explanation or comprehension from all sources contacted I this article is really unsettling - nobody has any idea why a major city was just suddenly grounded - with lethal force authorized against any aircraft that didn’t get the memo. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

What the hell. Why would the FAA close El Paso’s airspace for the next 10 days? apnews.com/article/faa-...

This is the same bot attack that nearly took down the A11y Project site last year. @matthiasott.com describes the problem in detail. matthiasott.com/articles/web...

EyeDrop - AI Alt Text Generator for Mac: eyedrop.ai "Generate AI-powered alt text for images, locally on your Mac."

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

Agentation: agentation.dev "a dev tool that lets you annotate elements on your webpage and generate structured feedback for AI coding agents."

Trump's racist post came at the end of a minute-long video promoting conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. After deleting the post, Trump told reporters he "didn't make a mistake."

Oh, were there other, less racist things, senator?

Trump job approval rating by news platform 🟢 Twitter/X: +9 🔴 Facebook: -7 🔴 Cable TV: -10 🔴 Podcasts/YouTube: -14 🔴 Local TV: -17 🔴 Instagram: -21 🔴 Broadcast TV: -28 🔴 TikTok: -28 🔴 Newspapers/news sites: -33 🔴 Reddit: -40 www.theargumentmag.com/p/twitter-is...

President Donald Trump went on a wild social media posting spree late Thursday night and into Friday morning, one that included a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.

wow too much for tim scott is saying something

Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

Filament - Plastic Fantastic Deals: plasticfantasticdeals.com/filament/

Planning to film ICE? Wired has a guide for that: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Let’s try this one in foreign correspondent voice: State Security Forces Arrest Journalist Who Covered Protests Against Regime Official

We are now 42 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files

"In theater" is a military term that refers to a wartime theater of operations. ICE and CBP agents are in Minnesota, which is one of the United States. The enemy in this military operation are citizens of Minnesotans and the United States.