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hmm > Venezuela has the world's largest proven oil reserves at an estimated 304 billion barrels (18% of global reserves) as of 2020. The country was once one of the world's largest exporters of oil. Oil production peaked in the late 1990s and early 2000s.[4]

The secret ingredient is the torture nexus

evangelicals: "mental health isn't a thing, just character flaws and gods will." also evangelicals: innovating childhood trauma.

“Migrant workers from the rest of the EU… were young, working, made little demand on the education system, virtually no demand on the NHS, and they weren’t unemployed. They were generating much more than they took out.” #BrexitBrokeBritain #RejoinEU apple.news/Aqq_OLK5MQDS...

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

lol nm, the ideas were just crap

Here's a funny paradox: I'm trying to use Claude to consolidate a bunch of brainstorming that contains redundant content and related ideas explored at varying levels of depth. Claude keeps trying to hold on to all of the worst versions of everything.

reminding myself to take a closer look at this one

Restricting visas doesn’t lead to hiring non-immigrants—it leads to hiring foreigners. For every H-1B visa rejection, multinationals add ~0.4–0.9 foreign employees, especially in R&D hubs like India, China, and Canada. via @florianederer.bsky.social

Classic paper saturday brings you: the paper that introduced the hashing trick! y'all remember the hashing trick right? right?? proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/1988/f...

A year ago today, the ICE director was caught red-handed accepting bribes in anticipation of his current role.

maybe the silver lining here is there will be a big jump in the number of people who at least know or work with someone has been directly impacted by this administration's bullshit.

I’m giving a free/public talk this Tues in Seattle about how US government investment in science laid the foundations for the field of human-computer interaction and how that field (and investment) connects to so many of the innovations that we take for granted, as well as the future of AI.

People seem to have forgotten that H1B's aren't about "domestically unavailable talent". That's a rhetorical foil. Don't take the bait. H1B's are primarily a soft-power mechanism that sequesters talent in the US so it can't be used by other countries.

I bet companies are more willing to invest thousands in legal fees fighting an illegal executive order than paying an additional 100K per head for literally no reason.

From a dynamics perspective, "regulation" is policy speak for any mechanism available to steer the chaotic system that is society. "conservatives" have no coherent position towards "big government" because what they're actually against is anyone other than themselves having authority or influence.

When I get notifications that I have new followers, my assumption is that 9/10 of them are bots/inauthentic.

Harvard Library Shares the Public Domain: Unlocking Centuries of Knowledge for AI and Research https://library.harvard.edu/about/news/2025-09-05/harvard-library-shares-public-domain-unlocking-centuries-knowledge-ai #AI #training #PublicDomain #libraries

Area Man Has Sad Little Routine For When He Needs Cheering Up https://theonion.com/area-man-has-sad-little-routine-for-when-he-needs-cheer-1819569359/

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

Plz don’t send me classified info but if you want to tell me what’s going on at the Pentagon my Signal username is annabower.24

this is wildly unconstitutional.

so I guess trump is just going to keep doing unusually-even-for-him outrageous shit for the next three years to keep people from talking about the fact that we essentially have hard evidence that he's the pedophilic rapist we already knew he was.

1946 - Gabor - Theory Of Communication

It's Friday post papers arxiv.org/abs/physics/...

it's Friday post papers arxiv.org/abs/cs/0412108

It's Friday post papers arxiv.org/abs/2302.10778

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Citizen-led reforms in Missouri have legalized marijuana, raised the minimum wage, and revoked the state’s abortion ban. Last week, Republicans advanced a constitutional amendment that would effectively kill the citizen initiative process.

let them eat cake

My respect for anyone who says they're afraid of voting against this resolution is zero. You are a member of Congress. The country is being dragged to hell. 'People will threaten us.' What did you think this job entailed? Quit blubbering, vote no, and move on.

trump just wanted to take a golf vacation on our dime and get doted on by royalty while he was in town.

Y'all gotta be ready to push that button sooner. Lot of noise out there. The assholes are not worth your energy. Mute/block and move along.

"One thing to keep in mind about these capitulations is how they snowball. They have tended to come in bunches—when one law firm, one college, one media company rolls over for Trump, it compels others to do the same. Meanwhile, with every new capitulation, Trump grows bolder."

“As an independent journalist, I’m trying to see a glimmer of opportunity on this scorched Earth. Maybe this move has blown the hinges off the doors at long last. Maybe, after years of layoffs, restructures and mergers, a greater swath of people will understand that we must try something different.”

Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia... www.thedailybeast.com/jon-stewart-...

🧵Reminder.... Trump oversaw the largest increase in murder in US history in his first term. Based on FBI crime data, there was nearly a 30% increase in murders in 2020, the largest single-year jump since the bureau began recording crime statistics six decades ago. And he's now fomenting more.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

TFW you are told the administration is short staffed and you have to be Ambassador to Liechtenstein and not just lovely Switzerland

Trump isn't going after Antifa. That's just the codeword he's using. He's going after anyone who is against fascism in America. Anyone who speaks about it will be fired, arrested, or worse. That's what he's really saying, that those of us against fascism are terrorists., e.g. a threat to him.

This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."

Much as I enjoy the "crumbled like a house of cards" line, I'm more interested in hearing about what kind of sanctions will be levied against the lawyers/agencies who we have on record directly lying to the court.

This is America.

wow wtf. trump is the reason we abandoned our position there, and basically invited our enemies to fill the power vacuum we were leaving behind. trump's rushed withdrawal caused the US to gift a TON of military resources like weapons and equipment to our enemies (loads of stuff was just abandoned).

Noted lib Amy Coney Barrett wrote the fking majority opinion. People don't understand what happened in Murthy bc the right treated it like a civil rights case while MSM barely paid attention. It was dismissed b/c *the plaintiffs hadn't even mentioned most of the defendants* ergo no standing.

enjoy some fleeting good news this morning before whatever horrors that await us today arrive.

imagine a world in which the constitution was signed without the 3/5ths compromise.

Jasmine Crockett pledged to pay for the funeral of Demartravion "Trey" Reed. “This was пot simply a tragedy. This was a message. And we mυst ask who seпt it.” @crockett.house.gov

I think it's important to note that all of these networks firing people because their parent companies need govt approval of mergers only can do so because we allow media conglomerates to merge even though they are so big that a govt agency has to approve it.