thank goodness the post avoided dirtying it's hands with partisan politics last election

if someone is willing to pay for the products, i'd be willing to purchase these items, deconstruct them, and give them to expert tailors, shoemakers, and craftspeople for review. i will also see if i can track down the factories. i would be interested to know if these items are made in the US

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Garbarino statement:

BREAKING: Flight cancellations accelerate as U.S. airlines comply with an order to cut flights at 40 major airports starting Friday.

I went to go check back in on Meta AI's Vibes feed, and found that it's full of boomerbait, memey videos of Trump now www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-vibe...

Today I walked by a baffling protest. As far as I could figure out, they were protesting PETA for genocide and maybe this has something to do with Israel?

NEW: @timstarks.bsky.social and I confirmed WaPo story that CBO was hacked by a suspected foreign actor - cyberscoop.com/congressiona...

I will simply never understand this

Confirming WaPo - CBO systems accessed in ‘security incident’ possibly tied to foreign hackers: www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

"Something more subtle is going on. I do not believe that ChatGPT has an inner life, and yet it seems to know what it’s talking about." An undeniably uncanny aspect of working with LLMs is that they *seem* to be thinking. An absolute must-read by James Somers www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

And there it is, the government plans to appeal:

Chris Krebs compared the Balancer exploit to the scheme from Office Space, where the idea was to skim fractions of a penny off the top of many individual transactions. gizmodo.com/120-million-...

Federal agents in Chicago are aggressive everywhere but they elevate this in the SW Side. They don’t just snatch people and leave. They linger longer, march down streets with guns, interrupt traffic flows. The attacks feel concerted to instill as much fear & display power over immigrant mhoods.

😆 SOUND ON 🔈

The Trump regime summed up

“He glanced at the guy on the floor before he returned to his regularly scheduled dead-eyed oblivious self-involvement.” What more could one ask, amirite.

Via Anna Barrett: Auburn University apologized for accidentally sending three emergency alerts to students and employees about an active shooter, a tornado and a hazardous waste spill within the space of minutes early Thursday afternoon.

Sources say the Congressional Budget Office, lawmakers’ nonpartisan bookkeeper, was hacked by a suspected foreign actor, and email and chat logs between lawmakers’ offices and nonpartisan researchers might have been accessed. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Remember the scene in Goodfellas when Paulie gets a piece of the restaurant? "Business bad? Fuck you, pay me! Oh, you had a fire? Fuck you, pay me! Place got hit by lightning? Fuck you, pay me!"

Judge McConnell basically walked them through the math, called all their arguments bullshit, and entered the order that the gov't stop playing games with the money while kids go hungry. Didn't even give the gov't the chance to respond.

McConnell on children going hungry: "This Should Never Happen in America." He goes back to gov't's argument being pretextual, citing numerous statements made by Trump and his adminisrtration over the last week.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

It is clearly deeply annoying for a sociopath when a human collapses nearby and distracts attention from him.

investigation for every company that agreed to one of these payoffs

Republican Senators: anti-Hitler wing of the party is now really small ADL's Jonathan Greenblatt: my organization's main priority is to monitor & defame the Muslim mayor of New York. But we will also provide cover for any Republicans who get accused of antisemitism for their support of Hitler

What is it about MAGA wanting to weaponize starvation? What sickness resides deep inside of these people that they want to see others starving? What is the correct psychological term for this? Sadism? It's bad enough they want poor people around the world to starve, but their fellow Americans too?

🚨 A judge just ordered the administration to make FULL SNAP payments tomorrow. As he said, “irreparable harm continues by the minute.”

HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.

breh the school was named after his chicken what www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

In 217 days people from all over the globe are going to congregate in LA to watch extremely intense sporting matches in public. What's the strategy to welcome these fans if we're tear-gassing anyone who dares to drink a Modelo on the sidewalk?

First thing Dems should do if they ever regain power is pack the court.

The Economist Says We Need to Invent Phrenology Again.

New: Washington Post latest to be identified as an Oracle EBS hacking victim www.reuters.com/business/med...

Oh so many clever puns in the comments.

Check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including --CISA plans to fire 54 employees despite court injunction, 1/5 www.metacurity.com/cisa-plans-t...

Condé Nast fired four employees who, in the wake of the laying off of Teen Vogue's political reporters, pressed HR on what the various Condé Nast publications planned to do in standing up to the Trump administration.

#BREAKING U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago is entering a preliminary injunction governing the use of force against protesters and journalists.

NEW: The Paragon spyware scandal in Italy widens again. A political consultant who works with left-wing politicians, who are part of the opposition party Partito Democratico, has now come out as the latest target. "It is time to ask a very simple question: Why? Why me?" Francesco Nicodemos said.

Never been a better time for journalists and politicians to get off of X.

There is a compromise on the table to get this deal done and reopen the government while keeping health insurance premiums down. But the sole problem, plain and simple, is Mike Johnson.

LOLOLOL UM BUDDY

“Mommy! Mommy! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!” — Leia Kahl, as she was overwhelmed by immigration agents’ tear gas. Leia’s age: 2. Via @natashakorecki.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

lol Trump literally ran on fixing everything on day one and has spent the last few weeks telling us he ended 8 wars.