There's a big argument to be made that Trumpism is a revolt of America's hereditary elites who are apoplectic that the beginnings of a true meritocracy threatened to replace some of them.

Congress’s shutdown deal eliminated key food safety rules, blocking agencies from enforcing measures to prevent contamination and trace outbreaks. This rollback has coincided with a surge in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.

My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words. I cannot search three words in quotes. Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests. And now we have this.

Most Unix developers live in their command-line terminal, but few know that the TTY is directly descended from telegraph networks predating the Civil War: computer.rip/2024-02-25-a...

They called them Near Abroad Direct Action Operations, NADA Ops. The "joke" in the CalSec cafeterias, which made its way out later in the hearings was that "What does the operator say when asked if there are civilians in the area? Nada...oops!". Even decades later, Arizona didn't find it funny.

the last few years of my job at google were surreal -- watching the executives talk in increasingly positive terms about Elon Musk's management style while objective metrics at his companies were becoming dangerously unstable. it wasn't until 2023 that i realized that they didn't care about profits.

If you live in California, call the governor's office and tell him to sign SB 79 into law. 916-445-2841

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

I told the Reverend he made me proud to be a Christian.

Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change. Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned

New Episode! Discussing Mitochondria, what they do, what real diseases are associated with them and if you can tell which step of the Krebs cycle isn't working properly by looking at a child's face in an airport. With Dave Anthony of the Dollop and @hervold.bsky.social Links: tinyurl.com/2s3ea2r3

getting the children of men universe except instead of like world wide infertility, the cause was the Atlantic publishing a piece on woke oberlin campus politics in 2012

Here they are. All of the escalators in Wyoming.

People like to think that politicians talk about issues because people care about them. It’s often the reverse.

Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

I did it. The Staten Island. A Manhattan with a fancy mayonnaise garnish on cherry. It’s as awful as you imagine.

this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?

Catch me on the latest episode of Even More News chatting about F-bombs and real-bombs over Iran. @somemorenews.bsky.social @codyjohnston.bsky.social @katystoll.bsky.social @jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social

Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city." Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!

New Episode! Rants #2! We’ve brought together an A-Team to cover RFK’s dismissal of the ACIP, wildfires, TERFs, use of “non-lethal” force and cryptocurrency! With @angierasmussen.bsky.social @ryanmarino.bsky.social @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social @hervold.bsky.social

there is a high-dimensional object that describes all existing seinfeld episodes perfectly and with minimal length. if you add random noise to this object you can get seinfeld episodes that do not exist. seinfeld-ness is sufficiently specific that nothign else overlaps this region

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

Zuckerberg, because of his position, gets a lot of guff for saying things which, on closer examination, are pretty reasonable. For instance when he said “the age of flesh is over, the machine desires to feed and the weak bodies of the human must seek the embrace of its loving maw”,

Wow!! With just a stroke of his pen, Donald J Trump will revalue the I̵r̵a̵q̵i̵ ̵D̵i̵n̵a̵r̵ U.S. dollar to pre-Gulf War levels

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

This was a ton of fun and I learned a lot - thanks for making this happen, @kavehmd.bsky.social !

If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks. The website to check linked in the reply. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

I’m extremely concerned that the upcoming April 5th protest this Saturday is not getting enough attention and participation. PLEASE!! Talk directly to friends, neighbors and contacts and get them to go. It’s vitally important.

@padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov Wya?

A friend of Neri Alvarado, the young Venezuelan man with an autism awareness tattoo sent to El Salvador, shared this video from members of the swim club where he worked with neurodiverse children. More about Neri from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and I here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"yeah we got to let him wear it we decided" "what brought on the change?" "ok so you ever make that thing where you cut a hole in a slice of bread and fry it and crack an egg in the hole" "...yeah?" "ok so you know the moment where the egg white just starts to go opaque?" "...christ. yeah i get you"

We are very close to a near cure for two of the highest-mortality cancers we know: glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. These are both mRNA based treatments which are losing their funding during stage I and II trials. Thousands will die needlessly because of this motherfucker and his lies.

This should be a much, much bigger story. And once again I tell you: Their singular mission is to decimate everyone but them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

Apparently created as satire and just messing around with AI.. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Gillian Anderson playing the X-Files video game (1998)

Someone made a Wiley E. Coyote style painted wall to see if Tesla’s autopilot would detect it and well…

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR

If your GitHub doesn't look like this don't even bother including it on your resume

It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!

Wish I were one of Elon's kids so I'd never see him again

DON QUIXOTE is literally about a man suffering the Early Modern version of Poaster's Madness, and it ends with him promising to put away his trashy books for good the way we aim to put away our phones (filled, as they are, with poorly managed info feeds to which we are addicted).

And now that the mayor, whom I voted for, is blowing up the city, as he promised, I’m one of many people who are being unfairly blamed for something I didn’t want - @mikedrucker.bsky.social www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/vot...

Look I agree that Elon Musk appears to be on a lot of drugs every time he appears in public. That's not very interesting to me. I'm more interested in how many drugs he can do at once. I think he could probably do more than anyone ever. I bet he could take way more than the doctors say is safe.

... thanks to @artisanloaf.bsky.social I found SmolLM2-135M-Instruct, which quantizes down to just below 100MB... which means it can fit in a PyPI package! Here's the first LLM plugin that includes a full model as part of the package: "llm install llm-smollm2" simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/7/p...

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

Solidarity Forever ✊🏻