My instinct is that some of this is the market, and some of it is because I've always been able to write a mean cover letter and now that advantage is rendered close to meaningless because robots. Feels bad!!

Israeli forces attacked Doctors Without Borders workers—who were all wearing marked medical vests. They killed Omar, a 42-year-old occupational therapist and sole provider for his family. He was killed at a bus stop, on his way to take care of other people bombed by Israel.

This is illegal, plain and simple, with penalties including removal from federal service, debarment from federal employment for five years, and a fine of $1000. 5 U.S.C. § 7326. A country which valued the rule of law would enforce its laws.

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

‘The appeal to the mystical image of the “warfighter” is that it avoids having to discuss war in concrete terms. It sells the attractive myth that by doing more of the parts of war that look cool and really make you feel like a man, you can actually win wars.‘ www.deadcarl.com/p/clausewitz...

State Rep. James Talarico raised $6.2 million in the first three weeks of his bid for Senate, a massive haul that far outpaces the earliest fundraising numbers tallied by recent Democratic statewide hopefuls.

Lol I met this guy at a White House Christmas party in 2022; when he found out we were from Austin, my partner went on an eggnog-induced rant about the surge in crypto bros. To Brock's limited credit, he politely nodded and walked away. How on earth he got invited to a WH xmas party, I have no idea

Widespread disruptions to the delivery of lifesaving US foreign assistance including antiretrovirals and malaria medicines laid out in this: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

If we take back the House I would *love* to see Dems force a vote on the Hatch Act

Yet another good reason for locals to resist data centers: "electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity" Gift link from @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

I think this has to be the nail in the coffin for republican ownership of and credibility on national security.

yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.

Dude actually expected a laugh line here

This passage nearly broke me.

Gotta add that no one could pay me enough to ever live in Geneva. Granted I got stuck there for three weeks in Feburary, caught pneumonia, and was working for a cheap NGO that gave us $20 per diems. But talk about a city that has priced out everyone/everything fun.

I'm sure I missed the right spots but I had an *extremely* unenjoyable time in Omaha (besides the Rilo Kiley show, duh). Loved Lincoln however and honestly enjoyed driving across rural Nebraska.

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

klein's thesis (which is explicit in the intro to abundance) is that because the right is not responsive to outside ideas, it makes sense to only lecture people in the center and on the left on what to do—which does not examine at all why one party can be so successful despite being unresponsive!

"After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, or ARCUS, will close September 30." "The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives."

The president unilaterally sending money to his supporters while the government shuts down because it's out of money? That's cartoon dictator stuff. And all the farm sector can see is "But we deserve it!"

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

Incredibly relatable city government scandal

We have got to make sure that every American is exposed to the trauma that is Old Yeller at an impressionable age.

Location of Warren Jeffs cult fame, of course

This is one of the things I find so infuriating about SV and VC accelerationists. You work in fields owing their existence to a peaceful, civilized society, have never worked a physically taxing day in your life, owe all your wealth and power to your extremely obedient, nonconfrontational employees,

This is a ridiculously broad understanding of the President's foreign affairs powers -- that the Executive Branch experiences "harms to [its] conduct of foreign affairs" when it is must spend foreign aid money appropriated in a bill signed by the President. Whither Congress's power of the purse?

so article i is just dead dead

i have seen exactly zero evidence to suggest that peter thiel is anything other than a dumbass who got lucky once

Rough fatality rate and vaccine distribution here going into rainy season.

AI workslop is a great term lol

dude 👏 has 👏 the👏 juice 👏

The only thing I want re: one of today's unspeakable nonsense items is Amb. Mike Huckabee's daily schedule

the problem with transactional foreign policy is that you can’t maintain any consistency at all (see: the massive about-face we’ve done on China, India, and now Russia policy we’ve done over the last year)

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...

This is the one (1) post about this clown that has made me laugh today

The funniest thing about Charlie Kirk was that his entire shtick as a teenager was “watch this college dropout DESTROY these undergrads.” And he then went through the entirety of his 20s and into his 30s … still debating undergrads.

not excited about sharing Austin roads with these murderbots. cc @evilmopacatx.bsky.social arstechnica.com/cars/2025/09...

#New World screwworm confirmed in cow just 70 miles south of US-Mexico border The case, an 8-month-old cow, had recently been moved to a certified feedlot in Nuevo Leon from a southern Mexico area with active infections. www.cidrap.umn.edu/n...#New Judy Gallagher / Flickr cc

the admiral in this convo understands that deliberately killing civilians is a war crime and people who do it are war criminals

Obama would also like to chill at the crib, painting. Kamala might prefer a cooking show to a 2024 election post-mortem & steady Trump critique. Why does W get a pass? Perhaps he’s ill. If not, he needs to speak.

The Bush Center entering month eight of "preferring backchannel advocacy" re: PEPFAR is outright embarrassing for them. It's not saving any programming and it makes them look like they dgaf about the scale of child death.

Last week I was in a room full of military officers where these attacks came up and prompted eye-rolling and some jokes. All seemed to treat it as common knowledge that drugs and chemicals are more likely to come in via the west coast and apparently come in legally through ports and borders.

A fourth boat bombed in international waters. Total death toll now 19 What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us? www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

The University Democrats at UT-Austin, a longstanding student group, has been told that no guests, candidates, or speakers can speak at their meetings unless the administration approves them. Submitted speakers' lists have been ignored or summarily denied. Please HMU if you know a good 1A attorney

Never forget that in McCarthy’s insane communist witch hunt he decided to go for that noted pinko George Marshall. You know, the guy who built the AEF campaigns in WWI, built the Army for WWII, oversaw the war, served as secretaries of both defence and state, rehabilitated Europe and Japan…

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This week's presidential library reviews: Eisenhower's may have the best grounds. Really lovely, very Kansas. But loses points big time for zero mention of his assassination of Patrice Lumumba in the DRC. I also would have liked more detail on the history of the interstate highway system

A gender lens remains one of the best ways to understand far right authoritarian regimes. Male order is imposed through a family-like structure, with women subservient and children taught that fear is the price of belonging www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...