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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

This is an extremely important article. It makes clear that there's no way to stop this using conventional approaches. They have flooded the zone.

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

Niantic has just launched the Quest 3 native app, "Into the Scaniverse" and its a great way to browse Gaussian Splats of the World as well as view your own splats. Most impressively, it was built entirely in our web-based Niantic Studio XR and is our first native app! www.meta.com/experiences/...

Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."

From John Lindland.

👀 "If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." -- AUSA Hagan Scotten, SDNY.

Tesla, whose chief executive, Elon Musk, has been advising President Trump on how to cut government spending, is likely to receive a lucrative contract to supply armored versions of its Cybertruck pickup to the State Department, according to public documents.

"The proposed bill is called the ELON MUSK Act, which stands for Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy. " techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/t...

The parallels with the DeLorean continue to increase. www.torquenews.com/11826/tesla-...

This is the reason, and the horror. www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/g...

I'm not sure if this will make it easier or harder for the Chiefs to win, but the game will certainly be more complicated. www.nbcnews.com/news/colombi...

Insanity: The deportation flights Trump used military jets for—that Mexico refused to accept—cost the U.S. up to $852,000 per flight to attempt to deport just 80 migrants at a time. To compare, flights directly chartered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement cost just $8,577.

@kairyssdal.bsky.social, glad to hear you are a KC Chiefs fan! Seems like there are fewer and fewer outside of KC as we turn into the team to hate.

Remember when Musk said Twitter needed fewer employees and cut from 7500 to 1500? Apparently he has changed his mind. Revenue is down 80% and headcount is now only 20% below peak.

Great historical ad from 1998 in Next Generation magazine. .

Very interesting that the Chief Justice and 4 woman justices are in the majority. Likely the only time the vote will come out this way. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/n...

I am deleting my Threads account.

@kairyssdal.bsky.social , I know you are very busy with the fires crisis, but this typo by WSJ confuses me: China debt "approaching 300% of GDP". www.wsj.com/world/china/...

For whatever reason, I found this very funny.

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all!

Go Squeeks!

About damn time!

What in the world happened on Aug 17th to make such a material change in Internet traffic? radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-revi...

I'm really proud of the Niantic Spatial team for the work to bring Guassian Splats to the Meta Quest3 HMD. Your splats, scanned with Scaniverse, can now be quickly (less than 4 minutes from scan start) viewed in headset. youtu.be/xwzdnTJd9Qs

AFC WEST CHAMPIONS #ChiefsKingdom #NFL

In an all-day onsite on the pier in SF Bay. Wondering whether the tsunami is real and whether we'll need to evacuate. So far no reports from locations that would be hit earlier. ETA 12:10 in Bay Area.

Watching Arrival because it inspired original Transformers paper.

This is a photo looking North while flying over Greenland. Surprised to see the moon over there!

Happy Thanksgiving to one and all!

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

I've joined Bluesky and thought I'd start out with one of my better sky pictures that has a bit of blue. I hope Bluesky gets the mometum to satisfy my tech/news/sports interests.