US CEOs want to become our feudal overlords and have offered to rent us their land for sharecropping. Why are we so ungrateful?

On Sunday the Trump admin is hosting a 9-hr Christian nationalist festival on the National Mall — w/ govt funding & govt speakers. I study these movements & wrote a field guide: the leaders, the agenda, the history, & what makes this event genuinely unprecedented. open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...

In the USA today corruption is not just a widely accepted part of the system, it is the point of the system. Go ahead Americans, shrug your shoulders as the President turns the office into a vehicle for illegal enrichment. www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

What Amazon wants to measure (productivity) is hard, so they're measuring genAI token usage as a proxy. A lot of corporate dysfunction is because lazy managers chose bad metrics

"Evangelical" is increasingly a political label and vanishingly a religious label.

EXCLUSIVE: In 2022, a Georgia grand jury investigated Trump’s alleged interference in the 2020 election. It heard from more than 60 witnesses. For years, the full record of what those witnesses said under oath has remained hidden from public view. Until now. www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...

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This has to be the funniest question AND response I've ever seen in a poll. Less than half of Republican men think they could beat Trump in a fight. What a bunch of pathetic losers.

Just like a boomer to use work resources for his personal IT support

As the death toll reaches 190, it's time for another reminder that the boat strikes are unlawful under both international and domestic law--and they are a stain on our national conscience. For much more, take a look at this @justsecurity.org collection: www.justsecurity.org/120753/colle...

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NEWS: DOJ's filing is in. Per filing: - Kurt Olsen referred the matter "no later than" Jan. 5. - FBI opened an "assessment" on Jan. 6. - An investigative summary was converted into a search warrant affidavit draft on Jan. 22. Ballots seized on Jan. 28 www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

The war in Iran becomes triply illegal today. Read more from me and @tessbridgeman.bsky.social:

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An Atlanta suburb learned Flock was using livestreams from a children's gymnastics studio, a pool, and a playground in sales pitches to other cities. Residents are furious but the city renewed its contract with Flock anyway: www.404media.co/city-learns-...

Residents of Dunwoody, Georgia are furious about the city's surveillance contract with Flock. Do their elected officials care?

This isn't the most important part of the story, but I wish police in the US would find the strength within themselves to arrest rather than shoot. UK policework proves this is possible.

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It seems trivial, but this move to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War (at a cost of $50-$100 million) symbolizes Trump's broader rejection of the postwar legal order, grounded in the prohibition on the use of force. Congress must vote no. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...

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It's like Offshoring, except you replace your salaried employees with a team who charges you by lines of code, even the code that was so broken it had to be completely rewritten.

"This paper analyzes the advent of fascism as a management philosophy, and its growing influence in the philosophical underpinnings of contemporary business practice" doi.org/10.1007/s409...

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"Hundreds of previously redacted records reveal how Amazon has put pressure on independent sellers using its platform into raising their prices on the sites of competitors such as Walmart and Target"

Fans of blues music will not want to miss the sound from the recently-discovered 1940 shellac master test pressing of Robert Johnson performing "Cross Road Blues"—a famous track, now available with vastly better sound. (via Ted Gioia) www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmnN...

Do not expect the US government to protect you from cyber attacks

I deleted DoorDash when I read this and you should too. No money for nazi bootlickers.

Trump is the id of corporate america's manager culture

UK unlikely to side with USA in WWIII

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So the US has chosen World War III to distract from our president's participation in a pedophile sex trafficking ring.

So WWIII yet or nah

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Iran says tankers will be given “a few seconds to pay in bitcoin, ensuring they can’t be traced or confiscated due to sanctions,” Hosseini added. @financialtimes.com #$IBIT www.ft.com/content/02ae...

No no no, this is very wrong. We already had purpose-built systems that understood programming languages well enough to find bugs. Google "symbolic execution." Vendors put minimal effort into finding bugs because it's expensive. LLMs will find these bugs less reliably and at much greater cost!

Guys we're all done with that crazy war, now we're just hangin' around

Guess trump didn't have the cards

Iran gets: the strait the hereditary leader the dead guy wanted withdrawal of enemies to tell the story of how they fought off all of west asia plus USA at the same time and won for the next 100 years to give no nuclear assurances USA gets:

Iran's 10-point plan, which President Trump agreed to, includes the complete removal of all sanctions imposed on Iran, but does not include a commitment to give up its nuclear stockpile or to completely halt uranium enrichment.

Maybe we deserve this

As always, consumers are out on the front lines of cyber conflict with nobody to protect them. Internet Svc Providers could detect these attacks but will say "not our job." Law enforcement will say "we're not staffed for this" and will be unable to help. Who do you call?

Donald Trump is unfit to serve as the leader of the free world. That's why I have cosponsored H. Res. 939 Articles of Impeachment to remove him from office.

“Stay curious,” the CIA advised in its “fond farewell” to the CIA World Factbook.

Open the fuckin' strait, you crazy bastards This is how presidents talk

Why can't Democrat politicians message like this?

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