“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

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AI is a lack of consent technology

"Trump II administration figures often speak the language of merit in order to contrast it to 'DEI' or 'affirmative action,' but in practice they only hire incompetent clowns—so long as they are also loyal clowns." - @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com

I’m 250 paid subscribers away from a major goal. Think we can get there tonight? www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade

So forcing people to use ShatGPT in their awful software after lobbying against the IRS free tax filing tool? I feel like whomever said we all expired in 2020 and this is hell might’ve made a few points…

This is y'all's chance to work on a webapp where the whole point of using Rust isn't to scale up—it's to scale DOWN. 6k reqs/s on a sub-US$30 machine is no joke. And it's a hard copyleft ecosystem that we're going to protect for the folks who rely on us! Let's do open source right.

One of the challenges since I got my ADHD diagnosis is that I can't really tell if the issues I observe now are the same as they've always been, or if they're actually worse and I just don't have a good frame of reference. I forget things all the time now. But maybe I always have.

In almost every substantive conversation about AI with working professionals, there's almost always a person who is hardcore anti-AI. But not usually someone who is willing to be a staunch advocate. I wonder what that means.

I got hit with a "What up Unc?" in the wild and in stunning unlce fashion I replied "Aight now" Damn it they got me

Notice we ain’t hear from the White House ALL DAY?

Welp!

Black Mirror but make it fashion.

Went on @msnbc.com to talk crypto grift. Plus, a sneak peak of the film I directed, EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY playing @docnycfest.bsky.social this weekend!

Like what is the point of going out of your way to sacrifice people like Sarah and Link if it doesn’t even enable you to get at people like Singal? Don’t can’t pretend you care about inciting violence and then utterly fail to actually protect against the worst perpetrators.

Whew. Listen. You talk to a lot of young people today and the whole conversation is basically them asking “where is the fix?” It’s not that they don’t work hard. They’re actually working very hard to find ways to exploit the system.

"A legislative commission in Richmond has spent the past year surveying nearly every public institution of higher education, finding that at least 11 cited using eminent domain or other means to acquire land in majority-Black neighborhoods."

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

@cydharrell.bsky.social Cyd! It's good to see you here.

For the record, many many people are not actually clear on their values. It's more difficult than it sounds.

I'm gonna push back on this. I feel like people fall victim to this all the time. The flaw in this reasoning is that if the platform has decided to engage in moderation, they don't need to take the word of the person that it's a joke. They need to use their own judgment and make a determination.

How does this incident compare to Link, who has been banned indefinitely?

"Democrats will never fully support disabled people because disability is the antithesis of capitalism. It requires we take a step back from always making a profit when it comes to the lives of people who can produce no profit outside of extraction from our for-profit healthcare system." 100% this.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

I remember everybody patting themselves on the back for getting Fetterman elected. I admit I wasn't paying attention and don't know anything about it. Is there any writing on how he so thoroughly duped everybody?

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale. Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

It seems to me that past right-wing moved to eliminate government programs would be couched in some sort of “taxpayer savings” rhetoric. I haven’t seen anything of the sort with the SNAP cuts. Just cruelty and no justification as to why, thinly veiled or otherwise.

One thing they will always do is tell you how to beat them. They are admitting the only way to stop this is incarceration

Is Link still banned? I still don't see the profile, but wanna make sure I didn't miss something.

So one of my weird habits is that anytime I start using a new app, I go through all of the settings. I like to see what kind of things are configurable and turn off anything I find annoying. The bluesky moderation stuff seemed weird from the jump.

The "service" includes settings for hiding certain types of content, warning you that the skeet contains such content before you see it, or simply turning off the filter. If you've never been here before, you'll find things like "rude" or "threats" are set to "Hide".

You can “do everything right” and *still* need safety net programs.

Contrast this with the response of a president who was an actual decent human being.

holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end

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It's a good thing to believe in ideals and fight for them.

This is dope. I want to highly light this part. This is what government is for. Wealth redistribution. Take money from companies who are hoarding it. Use that money to help ease the burden on everyone else. The details matter, but it's not more complicated than that.

I need a new fidget toy. I have several already, but it's so hard to find something that really fits. I need something clicky that I can do with one hand. Ideally with either hand. It should be sturdy and have some weight to it. Metal is always good. If you have one you like, let me know.

I think trying to create robots that try to do things the same way humans do is silly. Technology is about leveraging the things humans are not good at.

Only thing that stood out to me was this from the cops: "Any other person in the airport acting and talking the way she did, our department would have been dispatch (sic) and we would have addressed the behavior" Basically you can't talk shit to cops unless you have power.

I'm collecting some best practices around building modern, multi-tenant web apps. Today I'm thinking about how to create firewalls between different customer data. Both at the organization level and the individual user level. If anybody has thoughts or resources to share, I'd like to hear it.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Since your government hates you and doesn’t care if you starve despite you paying taxes into a system that should help you like SNAP… This is where you can get food if you need it.