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I wish my first thought wasn’t that people are real willing to throw “impersonating” out there without evidence

Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

This, this, this. Training juniors is about imparting a way of thinking. It’s your responsibility to help progress their careers. Prompt engineering is about tuning instruction sets If you think they are the same it tells me a lot about what you’re doing with your juniors.

Thanks to Trump's latest flurry of pardons, he's now pardoned most of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century. The new total is nine — and counting. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Peter David was an incredible writer of comics, and, I would say, in the top three best ever Star Trek novelists. Spidey 2099, Hulk, Captain Marvel, X-Factor, Young Justice, New Frontier, Imzadi, Q-Squared, I could list his accomplishments all night. May his memory be a blessing

Some quotes are too good to cut on.ft.com/4jkssZ0

Quite frankly we need to pick up the pace! racketmn.com/help-racket-...

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When do I hit the part of getting old when I need less sleep?

No, we are not going to live on other planets. Bullshit artists like Musk might as well be the leaders of death cults. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

Yes

Sometimes I start to think I might be a competent adult and then I break a toe by tripping over a box of cat litter

Did I wake up this morning thinking “man I hope I read all about the niche of horse games, and how there’s a hidden market for them and how players have modded other games just so they can have the experience they enjoy, and also the expert is on Bluesky?” No. But this is what the internet is *for*.

"We’re not here to make friends. We’re not here to be prom queen. We’re not here to win popularity contests. We’re here for one reason and one reason only: crypto scams."

The seven deadly shenanigans

California bar exam: a technical disaster with AI-written nonsense questions pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/24/c... - text www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lnE... - video

A California company recently rolled out its riff on our state's top culinary achievement at Target and Gelson's stores around the country. So, how does it taste? racketmn.com/we-taste-tes...

Newsletter: Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it. www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...

This is a banger.

The fact that Mayor Frey stands by Chief O'Hara, who at first said police were afraid to do their job because there would be a headline of "MPD shoots mentally ill person" is a perfect example of why we need a new mayor.

This is true: The Trump administration said it has imposed a 10% tariff on the British Indian Ocean Territory, whose only inhabitants are the U.S. and U.K. service members at the military base on Diego Garcia.

Happy tenth anniversary to a really dumb thing I did that somehow changed my life www.vice.com/en/article/i...

Blog entry: "It’s important that we reconsider how much to government software development outsource. I don’t mean what percentage of development, I mean the extent of each project that is handed off to a vendor. What might it look like to reduce the outsourced extent, if that would reduce risk?"

I’m 43 and I’m ready to throw bricks, my dudes. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...

Democrats Have to Stop Making Political Decisions with an Eye Towards 2026 www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/14/d...

Oh no; this is horrible. He was one of the best of us. Rest in power, Kevin.

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

You can’t have a strategic crypto reserve because there is no strategic use of cryptocurrency.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Let's say their names: * General CQ Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: FIRED FOR BEING BLACK * Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE * Admiral Linda Fagan, Coast Guard Commandant: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE All replaced by less qualified white guys.

Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need

Turns out I like gaming conventions far more when I know just enough people to feel comfortable

New, from me: DOGE's mass firings of probationary employees are a masterclass in how not to manage public organizations. They don’t have a plan to fix what they are breaking because they don’t understand or care about the damage they are doing. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...

This is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen in my life

A lot of people on here keep fantasizing about the moment Trump "fires" Elon Musk because Musk has stepped out too far in front of him and I'm sure that feels good, but after watching the last Musk/Trump presser I think it's worth considering that we are essentially watching a coup via elder abuse.

This is a smart thread

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

"My formative experiences were a childhood encounter with UFOs in a cornfield and being born again at age thirty-six. I’ve been an absolute freak for longer than you’ve been alive."