not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy
(he/him) Aging tech nerd, living in Silicon Valley. I'm an avid hiker and geocacher.
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@dangillmor But this action is taken by a guy who is leaving UMich, evidently to curry favor with his new bosses in Florida, not by anyone still there.
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@Nonilex I never understood why Biden didn't manage to force out DeJoy, who was just awful (though I'm sure that anyone Trump names will be even worse).
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@phocks White GenX Americans vote to the right of boomers as well as all younger generations, and helped even more than boomers did to give us Trump. Sorry, not particularly cool.
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@volts.wtf I am following you from Mastodon, via the bridge. Your edit button is over here. It works just fine.
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@w7voa How does this work if the VOA isn't currently operating? Or does this just mean that a VOA reporter is helping to produce the pool reporting for other media?
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@Nonilex Is anyone using because Trump has exceeded his authority? The Constitution gives the tariff power to Congress. Congress said the president can impose tariffs as an emergency measure, in specific circumstances. Seems films are not an emergency.
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@futurebird I hate the transitions. But I like the later light in summer, and having daylight time all year would make it too dark in the mornings in winter. I suppose that if schedules were more flexible it wouldn't matter.
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@Nonilex I don't buy this story. Laura Loomer, who Trump for some reason Trump loves, has been demanding #MikeWaltz 's scalp for some time, and has crowed about his firing on social media. I think they are retconning a justification.
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@Holberg It is called Amazon.
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@Nonilex I think he thought that Canadians could write him in.
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@Nonilex So this is what the law firms that bent the knee to Trump, agreeing to provide hundreds of millions in pro bono work, will now be doing: defending cops who kill protesters and the like.
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@cdarwin The source for this is one anonymous tweet. People are referencing a Der Spiegel article, but that article only mentions the arrest. Not Hegseth
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@jerasikehorn.bsky.social The Hatch Act doesn't apply to Obama. He isn't a federal employee.
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@w7voa Calling it "misleading" is way too kind.
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@GossiTheDog Anyone reading this and getting ideas: please don't fuck with the crosswalks. Blind people rely on the voices to cross the street safely.
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@Nonilex The lobbyists can kill it by telling Trump (correctly) that using Medicare's negotiating power to lower drug prices was a Biden thing. That will be enough to get him to stop it.
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@Holberg You can bet on the next pope, and a lot of bookies have posted odds. But you can't do a bracket because there is only one game: we only hear about the new pope, any intermediate stages where candidates lose out are secret. The two favorites are Luis Antonio Tagle and Pietro Parolin from […]
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@timbray Some improvements have been made here. When I followed the link to the fediverse post in your blog posting and attempted to reply, I got a "take me home" prompt. I only needed to type the first two characters of my instance for the autocomplete to give me the rest, and "take me home" so […]
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@mattblaze @heidilifeldman The court gave Trump immunity for official acts, but that doesn't apply to his underlings. Guess he could pardon them though.
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@VeroniqueB99 Continuous glucose monitors (like the one my type 1 diabetic wife has) work well enough. The much more difficult problem is keeping the blood sugar level in range; even with an insulin pump it is a real pain.
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@GottaLaff Respect. She was the only member of Congress to vote against GW Bush's overly broad authorization for use of force, and later events showed that she was right and everyone else was wrong. I was surprised to see that she is 78, she certainly seems a good deal younger.
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@Nonilex I thought I had remembered that the Trump administration threatened Ukraine with exactly this (disabling US planes they were given). So all the Russians have to do is repeat the threat.
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@dogzilla Harvard's endowment puts them in a good position to fight this, and I am glad that they are standing up to Trump. Just not sure that the courts are enough.
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@dogzilla The problem is that the Trump administration hasn't been complying when courts order the restoration of funds. So if they win in court and Trump defies the courts, then what?
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@Lazarou Unfortunately the trolls that no longer have 4chan will be looking for a new place, and many will come here.
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@bruces Sounds like Kaluza and Klein's theory which didn't work out.
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@jef Yes, this exists, and it's risky AF. The problem is prompt injection. The problem is that the LLM can't tell your commands from things in the data that looks like commands, so if you ask your LLM-based agent to summarize your email, someone might have sent you an email that orders the LLM […]
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@Nonilex I am sure that some people were tipped off. But I am also pretty sure that there were some investors that bought big after the huge drop in the stock market on the assumption that Trump would have to reverse course and prices would go back up, without any knowledge of exactly when this […]
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@Nonilex Does the bill still make it extremely difficult for a married woman who changed her name and doesn't have a passport to vote?
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@GottaLaff I expected that he would back off, or ease some of them if people kissed his ass. The thing is, no business is going to move production to the US because of the Trump tariffs, precisely because he keeps changing his mind and changing the numbers. It takes huge investment and several […]
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@GottaLaff Let's have more backlash and get more of their damage undone and the old, good stuff restored.
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@bruces Even better if you own a nondescript van and park it on the street in front.
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@Holberg Well, it does mean that we should mock all of the CEOs, bankers, and VCs who supported him who now seem to be surprised that he's done exactly what he repeatedly said he would do.
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@jef Or the CNBC people. They liked him, but they like their investments more. Seems they just figured out this week that Trump isn't good for them.
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@GottaLaff He should lay himself off (resign). That would not be a mistake.
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@GottaLaff Seems the tariffs affect the budget, so if 51 senators want to, they can attach this as an item in the budget reconciliation. But it would take more guts than we have seen so far: Schumer and some others might back down again rather than be blamed for a government shutdown.
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@dangillmor People don't have an instinctual understanding for large numbers, and often they are easier to understand if we divide by the population. So a billion dollars is about $3 per American, a trillion is $3,000 per American, 6 trillion is $18,000 per American. That is a huge number. What […]
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@briankrebs @mmasnick One more question not mentioned in the TechDirt article: have the phones of the participants in the Signal chat been analyzed for the presence of malware? They are using their personal phones, the same devices they use to surf the web, read email, post to social media, view […]
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@jik Did you read it? I see quite a few words: "how Democrats are pushing back against the Trump-Musk agenda", "As we fight to defend Social Security and Medicare from dangerous cuts by the Trump-Musk Administration", "how we’re fighting back against the Trump-Musk Administration’s harmful […]
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@johncarlosbaez That law review article seems to have missed the following text from the 12th amendment: "But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States." So no, Trump cannot run for VP.