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if i were training a LLM i would simply violate the information processing inequality

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers. That would mean literally ripping up post office parking lots to auction off assets with no private-sector value. It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 197 comments

though the Journal doesn't indicate its sourcing, this is the most direct reporting i've seen that Miller was responsible for defying Judge Boasberg's order to turn around the El Salvador rendition flights (Axios said only that he and Noem orchestrated the flights)

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments

Grateful that Brad Lander is using his experience to highlight the biggest outrage; that ICE is re-arresting people who have been 100% compliant with ICE and the courts, with the goal of unlawfully stripping them of a court hearing to juice Stephen Miller's deportation numbers.

submitted 6 days ago • 52 comments

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

submitted 8 days ago • 325 comments

"we've developed a technology to remove joy in the name of efficiency (also it doesn't work)" is a pretty good summary of the tech industry for ... twenty years?

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

submitted 8 days ago • 278 comments

“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

submitted 10 days ago • 1920 comments

DOGE affiliates Kenneth Jackson and Nate Cavanaugh “disabled and restricted access to the Institute's FOIA system, terminated the employees responsible for processing FOIA requests, and restricted the use of Institute financial resources.”

submitted 10 days ago • 36 comments

i love how nearly everything is a scam now

submitted 16 days ago • 125 comments

What infuriates me so much about this new operation is that it is literally punishing people for following the rules and showing up to their court hearings. It is so toxic to the basic concept of following the rules. It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.

submitted 22 days ago • 549 comments

NBC News confirms: The chief of staff to DNI Tulsi Gabbard asked analysts to revise an intelligence assessment on the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua — after it contradicted Trump's claims to justify deportations — to shield Trump and Gabbard from political criticism. @msnbc.com

submitted 31 days ago • 94 comments

House Republicans smuggled this👇attack on the federal judiciary into their reconciliation bill. Courts rarely require plaintiffs to post security, so this provision, if passed into law, would render a vast number of existing judgments—including Boasberg's contempt order—effectively unenforceable.

submitted 32 days ago • 68 comments

🚨According to litigators, ICE just put a dozen men on a flight (which may have already taken off) to SOUTH SUDAN, a country on the brink of civil war, in direct defiance of a court order requiring ICE to give people an opportunity to raise objections before being sent to a country not their own.

submitted 34 days ago • 196 comments

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

submitted 36 days ago • 162 comments

Do not underestimate RFK Jr.'s determination to eliminate all vaccines, as he was lying through his teeth when he said he didn't want to take away anyone's vaccines. He will find ways to eliminate them. First, he will try to delicense specific vaccines, likely starting with HPV or hep B.

submitted 38 days ago • 41 comments

Many of the major changes Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service pushed at Social Security have been abandoned or are being reversed after proving ineffective, while others are yielding unintended consequences and badly damaging customer service and satisfaction.

submitted 37 days ago • 152 comments

BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants last month in its rushed effort to expel them to El Salvador in the middle of the night (which SCOTUS blocked). Alito and Thomas dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 38 days ago • 247 comments

The reality of our government is that it's a sprawling and occasionally inefficient system because you can't deliver services to 330 million people without having to deal with edge cases, and to someone who doesn't know the edge cases, that looks like waste or fraud www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

submitted 39 days ago • 8 comments

@altagliabue.bsky.social making a presentation at @ucl.ac.uk telling us that ocean iron fertilization won’t do jack for climate and will further harm fisheries. Yet, it’s the marine CO₂ removal (mCDR) method that has sold the most credits so far. 🤷🏻‍♂️

submitted 40 days ago • 11 comments

In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically. rdcu.be/dbFbB

submitted 237 days ago • 105 comments

Energy & Commerce text is out. Will go through it in this thread. tl;dr: this'd be the largest Medicaid cuts in history, kicking millions off their health insurance, leading to tens of thousands of additional deaths each year LOTS of bad stuff in this (but the very worst policy did not make it in)

submitted 42 days ago • 51 comments

the neck gaiter pulled up over the nose is the SS uniform of the Trump regime

submitted 45 days ago • 94 comments

Two of Musk’s most strident goons manually, one-by-one, killed lifesaving programs even those Rubio wants credit for trying to save, on Musk’s orders.

submitted 46 days ago • 78 comments

NEW: Whistleblower records show that the NIH axed research grants – even after a federal judge blocked the cuts with an injunction. www.propublica.org/article/trum... 🧵

submitted 47 days ago • 37 comments

1/ A central issue in several cases - Abrego Garcia, ACLU-DF habeas case to get people out of CECOT prison, purging criminal contempt for defying Judge Boasberg's orders) is whether USG retains "constructive custody" over detainees. These 2 puzzle pieces help nail it.⤵️ via @bcfinucane.bsky.social

submitted 48 days ago • 8 comments

Wow, wow, wow Declassified National Intelligence Council, Sense of the Community Memorandum: "The Maduro regime probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movement to and operations in the United States." Now consider: DOJ lawyers saying opposite to courts!

submitted 48 days ago • 132 comments

Now that Trump has openly admitted he could bring back Abrego Garcia whenever he wants, his lawyer tells me he will use discovery to determine which officials are advising Trump to defy the Supreme Court. New piece from me with lots of fresh reporting on this case: newrepublic.com/article/1948...

submitted 51 days ago • 85 comments

Trump literally said on national TV last night that he could get Abrego Garcia back if he wanted to. Everyone knows that Bukele would do it if Trump asked. This is a charade. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...

submitted 54 days ago • 45 comments

BREAKING: After a hearing and further briefing, Judge Brian Murphy says that, no, DHS — blocked by a prior order in the case from third-country removals w/o due process — cannot just send people to Gitmo and then let the military remove them to a third-country location with no due process.

submitted 54 days ago • 27 comments

BREAKING: A judge has ordered the immediate release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student detained amid Trump administration crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists. @liz_crampton was in the Vermont courthouse where the decision just camedown. Details TK

submitted 54 days ago • 58 comments