I don't agree with basically anything that the Trump Justice Department is doing, but facts are facts, and when DOJ lawyers stand there in open court and assert that Congress has never "circumcised" the president's power to decide who gets a security clearance, they're absolutely right

hmm how many years are we talking about here .... TWO (2) YEARS

*whistling innocently while rolling a grenade into the discourse tent* AI is the only industry willing to fund the public preservation of internet news articles from the depraved destruction by future owners. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

I've lost probably 80% of my work because I didn't PDF my shit and so many places I worked for dumped old reporting. Places you wouldn't even expect! NBC, Citypaper, LA Weekly, Zagat, etc so many "institutions" you think would keep all their archives. Nope!

Weekend starts soon. Send me your dumbest PDFs.

They hate watch. We hate read. We are not the same.

this Elon Musk plot to steal your 401(k) money is really going underdiscussed

Link decay is a serious problem. Most of the world‘s digital data is not being archived for the long-term and we are losing so much information

I'm so furious I can't see straight

“6 genders, a real hit on Jesus, this guy is bad news” is a parody reading of a rap sheet on law & order

It's always hard to tell how much this stuff matters. I think the effect is often vastly overstated. viz the 2016 election, I don't think Cambridge Analytica microtargeting was a GOP mind control device. But the bots and related scammery and misinfo absolutely do exist and are out there, mixed in.

Everyone is so distracted by the genderflation that no is asking what the fuck "a real hit on Jesus" is supposed to mean??

Obviously typescript is one of them The other one is why there’s a go v rust hot war

Rongorongo is pretty wild. Little enough left to be indecipherable, but enough to know that it’s written in alternating lines where the whole piece needs to be flipped upside down to read each successive line.

extremely early returns: bluesky is now a uk politics app

Male, female, de-male, e-mail, chain mail, and peppermint

I had a (much lower profile) group of people come after me like a year ago (because I’m insufficiently committed to the cause of cryptocurrency criticism) and as soon as I blocked three people and stopped looking at one subreddit it disappeared

a fun thing to do is open up ai news emails from last year/two years ago. two years ago was 4o this time last year was opus 4

IT WORKS! We have zork on ATProto now.My bot stores no state on its server - the entire gamestate is serialized into a blob inside each of the bot's replies and stored in the PDS. Whole thing runs from a laptop, game engine is a pure reduce function. No jetstream, no open ports, reads from appview

I slag on editors a lot on this site, as any thinking, breathing news consumer in this age should, but as a counterbalance to all the negativity I would like to highlight that whoever was responsible for this piece absolutely nailed the headline.

I know Bluesky is the backwater lib bubble that will never matter in a million years or whatever but it's funny to note that the Washington Post has its Walgreens Bari Weiss podcast over here farming rage views because their engagement on YouTube is so bad

Trump said and done some stupid shit, so this feed gathered some new entries bsky.app/profile/numb...

is "fairly short period" more or less noncommittal than *two weeks" when coming from trump?

I would never crash out on the TL and start fedposting over bad national political news. I only do that for moderately unfavorable local transit project updates

a lot of the pundit class is constantly saying "what is the one liberal tenant that democrats must vigorously denounce in order to win the next election???" and the answer at the moment is "mercy"

This is actually a really tedious talking point that I'm sick of hearing so I want to break it down for everyone WA: Need a supermajority to change constitution, possible for '28 OR: Need a supermajority to prevent quorum bust, possible for '28 CO: Need voters to repeal commission, possible for '28

no dude has ever rocked harder than this, I judge. how has this not been made into a movie

you've got to respect this. jim crow's on its way back and black democrats have decided to trust their colleagues enough that they're going to fucking take one for the team once again. we gotta make it worth it.

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

Bluesky mentioned!

I like the idea of going "holy shit americas gun control has this gaping loophole that people could exploit to get firearms" as though reloading a musket even once isn't harder than the entire process of legally buying a semiautomatic

A friend sent me this and this is totally a job I could do, because having read everything except A History of Florence, if he were alive today, in any given situation, Machiavelli would be ranting excitedly about his 40k minis.

I love all these extremely pointed signals that this papacy is not going to put up with this shit

Big picture it's still so crazy how wars are just started on the president's whim now and congress has to vote to stop them

this is somehow *even more corrupt* than him suing for the money, even though it’s a smaller amount, this is a taxpayer-funded bribes fund over which he wants sole control and no oversight

As someone pointed out to me offline, this is a really funny typo in Alito’s mifepristone dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

it is a hard sell

Given how much Xi likes to promote Traditional Chinese Medicine, neither administration pictured here has clean hands when it comes to the removal and retention of animal members. Though, speaking of clean hands, looks like Trump put more effort into the makeup for his big visit.

There more be more delicious schadenfreude yet to come.

Chuck Schumer Substantially Vindicated

It whips ass that people talk about how Bluesky has no influence but there’s also an entire account that the newspaper of record maintains to defend its honor on here

I've seen it first-hand. they will say shit that is blatantly untrue because either they made it up or their favorite ragefluencer made it up.

Using Haiku to craft prompts to feed to Sonnet to build a hacking harness for Opus so it can craft zero days to steal someone's Mythos API access. And then using Mythos to craft more complex zero days to break into Anthropic and steal my true prize: the weights for Golden Gate Claude.

Data centers should not be permitted to use elderly nursing home residents as Matrix pod people to generate energy to run AI inference

good, informative thread. my experience in AR tech was primarily in industrial use cases but i have always wondered about the use cases that help enable people (that aren’t strictly, like, consumer-focused)

15 months on hrt and i think it's really making a difference! 💖

ah, a fundraiser

it’s gonna be like the end of prohibition here when it happens

I had to read Dred Scott v. Sandford in school; how much more distressing could an idea possibly be?