My latest: rest in peace, George Foreman... open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...

From far and wide, people love these signs

4/ Full Backstory: www.theregister.com/2025/03/17/c...

Welcome to autocracy. The Republic we have known for the last 240 years is gone. This is going to keep getting worse. Much worse. The courts mean nothing, the law means nothing, Congress is irrelevant. He is a malignant psychopath.

OK, gonna throw this spicy bomb out there. If you're fortunate enough to have disposable income, then right now it is your duty to use that income wisely. You have agency over how you spend it and you should own how you spend it. Your decisions do, in fact, affect stock prices of big corporations.

The Pentagon erased Maj. Gen. Charles Rogers, a Black Medal of Honor recipient, from its site—then slipped “DEI” into the URL like a smear. This isn’t just gutting diversity programs—it’s deleting history. Trump’s war on DEI is now a war on who gets remembered. Who’s next?

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

The best part of this tiny red bathmat is it ends in a puddle.

These were seen in London. London fucking ROCKS!💪

1/ The hot new topic in Gen AI right now is Model Context Protocol (MCP). How to connect AI to the world? MCP is a semantic, self-describing interface giving AI dynamic access to enterprise data + functions. A sort of ODBC for AI. A Rosseta Stone. I'll break it down. 👇🧵

the stock market is crashing so hard today it resembles a SpaceX rocket

Sounds like Trump’s team spent a lot of the day trying to placate panicked GOP members of Congress. Republicans are freaking out about the market, a potential recession, and midterms. Ray Charles could have seen this coming.

Bluesky watching the shitshow on twitter.

True facts.

Nothing screams HYPOCRITE quite like Trump complaining about & gutting school loan forgiveness for grads dedicated to service & bettering our communities while he’s had HUNDREDS of MILLIONS in debt forgiven due bankruptcy 6 times. tinyurl.com/r6nkkz3j

Happy #internationalwomensday !!! Don't let the patriarchy get you down. We outchea!

A while back I was helping examine the security of the Starlink terminal and found a very obvious bug in the bootloader that was only unexploitable due to the memory layout of the terminal. Critical infrastructure shouldn't depend on Starlink without a shitload of auditing.

I've now included 25 debunkings of DOGE bullshit in my collection (I'm puzzling over several other fact checks of Trump's false claims from last, including but limited to DOGE ones). www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-it...

Most of what we call "tech" is about getting the right information into a database and trying to prevent the wrong person from reading or updating it.

Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro

Great job explaining why the economy could contract

🚨🚨🚨 On Xitter, Roger Sollenberger unpacked the Github of one of Elon's DOGE boys. It includes: 1) A script to download X DMs 2) A script to filter HR data by union membership 3) Data on undersea cables and valuable minerals xcancel.com/Sollenberger...

The Elon Musk playbook: 1) kill govt agencies investigating him 2) remove govt officials who could stop him 3) kill govt contracts belonging to rival companies 4) give all the govt contracts to his own companies

Says it all.

BREAKING: Elon Musk tries to get Verizon's FAA contract canceled -- so that he can give the $2.4 BILLION contract to his Starlink company Musk is literally going into the government -- and pocketing billions for himself MASSIVE conflicts of interest -- 100% ILLEGAL

This is what a deal with the devil looks like👇 @housegop.bsky.social JUST VOTED TO CUT Medicaid, SNAP benefits, school meals, & housing assistance all in exchange for giving corporations & billionaires a tax cut all at the  expense of the middle class.

Guess who’s getting a new FAA contract to help privatize air safety? Elon Musk. He’s cutting the FAA and everything else in government — and carving it off for himself. THE WHOLE THING IS A MONEY GRAB

All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

Here to support my friend @joyannreid.bsky.social as she signs off, her last show! She's one of the best!!!

Here's why @VentureBeat is wrong. Grok3 trained on 15x the hardware as Grok2, only to achieve modest gains. This demonstrates lack of scalability of current AI model technologies. Full stop. Even Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, thinks existing approaches to scaling have plateaued. 1/2

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

“This is our documentary moment” @janefonda.com

They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.

Woof

Yes. But they are missing that much of this has to be performative. That’s what Trump is great at and Dems are awful at. You can’t just tell voters , you have to know how to sell voters. Trump gives sales pitches, Dems show charts. One goes viral. The other is ignored and forgotten

Would really love if Green Day would just re-release American Idiot like it's a new album. So many people have memory holed it or didn't pay attention and we really need that energy right now.

Many CIOs have struggled whether to drop VMware from their IT portfolio. But the popular virtualization platform can be too expensive + pervasive to pull out. Average large-scale migration can take up to 4 years + $6 million. Escape pods desired. www.cio.com/article/3820...

Software companies sponsoring F1 teams indicates to me we are probably paying too much for their software #CIO

What a great way to absolutely ruin OpenAI. I hope he is blocked out some how from this. #OpenAI #ElonMusk #AI Elon Musk Leads Bid to Buy OpenAI for $97.4 Billion www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/t...