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"as part of the company’s latest move to trim its workforce amid heavy spending on artificial intelligence." I continue to be surprised by how many of these "knowledge economy" companies keep sacrificing real intelligence for artificial intelligence. Especially given all the flaws in the latter.

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As the world braces for a potentially devastating war the president announces that the White House lawns will be receiving the two most magnificent poles made, tall, tapered, rust proof, rope inside the pole, and of the highest quality

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National intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard told Congress in March that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon and its supreme leader had not reauthorized the dormant program. But President Donald Trump has dismissed the assessment of U.S. spy agencies.

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NEWS: Federal judge finds Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier in civil contempt for telling law enforcement they could enforce Florida's criminal immigration law despite the court's TRO barring its enforcement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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War is pretty scary. I sure hope me and my loved ones don’t get blown to smithereens. Hopefully reality show host Donald Trump and weekend talk show host Pete Hegseth know what they’re doing.

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Trump declines to join G7 statement urging Israel and Iran to deescalate, leaves summit early, will miss meetings with Zelensky and Sheinbaum on Tuesday @cqzakrz.bsky.social Cleve Wootsen and Amanda Coletta report from Banff www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

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But we're going to touch the stove and we'll be touching it more than probably ever before. And we're not going to get burned. We're not going to get burned

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The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

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"Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, eh!?"

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BREAKING: Armed man arrested at Nashville's 'No Kings' protest had long fascination with Nazis, mass murder www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

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NEW: Since January, concerns about deportations have been cited by businesses in SEC filings 74 times. From June 2015 to January 2025, the total number was just 22. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/compan...

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Veterans Affairs doctors and psychologists could refuse to treat Democrats under Trump's new hospital guidelines www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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i'm not at all qualified to evaluate this study but i am absolutely going to share it with my students, scared straight style

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Fucking hell: “Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police officer.”

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US scrambles to bring back VOA’s Persian service amid Iran-Israel conflict. Staggering incompetence by the Trump Admin that just keeps breaking things on purpose only to later realize those things might be needed. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Netanyahu wanted to strike Iran when Obama was president. Obama said no and he didn’t. Netanyahu wanted to strike Iran when Biden was president. Biden said no and he didn’t. Netanyahu wanted to strike Iran when Trump is president. Trump said no and he did.

submitted 6 days ago • 45 comments

Resegregation has always been the plan

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A federal judge has blocked President Trump from deploying members of the California National Guard to Los Angeles and ordered the administration to return control of the forces to Gov. Gavin Newsom. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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SCOOP — ICE employees received an email yesterday telling them the agency's warrantless arrest policy had been rescinded. It's likely part of the Trump administration's efforts to further loosen enforcement restrictions to meet the new quota of 3,000 immigration arrests per day. My report:

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Apple fixes an iPhone zero-day used in Paragon spyware hacks after a Citizen Lab report found two European journalists had their iPhones hacked with the spyware (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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SCOOP: Guardsmen deployed to LA aren't on formal orders, thus aren't set up to be paid or get healthcare yet www.military.com/daily-news/2...

submitted 7 days ago • 135 comments

“Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches about how to meet ‘big booty women.’”

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

Trump: "Russia fought with us in WWII and everybody hates them. And Germany and Japan, they're fine — some day somebody will explain that...Everybody hates Russia and they love Germany and Japan...It's a strange world."

submitted 7 days ago • 602 comments

God, wouldn't it really suck if the entire internet was built on top of dependence on one of three service providers? Like... can you imagine what would happen if the whole internet relied on Google Cloud or Azure or Cloudflare and then all three of them had outages? Damn, that'd really suck.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

The Bullwark just posted this from Padilla's staff, that's Senator Padilla on the ground.

submitted 6 days ago • 173 comments

Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)

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lots happening so it’s easy for massive news to be buried: the trump admin is now moving forward with a clear effort to get SCOTUS to overturn the law banning presidential impoundment & let the federal government decide how money given by congress is spent

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

🤯🥴

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If you're active-duty military and filing conscientious objector paperwork in response to what's happening, we'd like to talk to you @taskandpurpose.com. Even on background or anonymously. Please reach out via signal nslayton.12

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I know it is a rhetorical question but: the answer is white supremacy. It is that simple.

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Tear gas can cause long-term health consequences by making people more susceptible to contracting respiratory illnesses, including COVID. The chemical agent can also hurt people inside their homes if it seeps into residential neighborhoods. What you need to know (published 2020):

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lol lmao even

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JUST IN: A federal judge in New York has ruled that the Trump administraiton's rush to send federal employee data to DOGE was a "breach of law and trust" that violated the Privacy Act and cybersecurity protections. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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US FDA approves Merck's RSV antibody for infants reut.rs/3Hx0o7H

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the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)

submitted 11 days ago • 171 comments

If you know something about a visible protester no you fuckin don’t

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Study on London 20 mph limits shows: - collisions ⬇️ 35% - casualties ⬇️ 36% - fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34% - child casualties ⬇️ 46% - child deaths ⬇️ 75% - walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28% etsc.eu/20mph-limits...

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Only in LA would protesters think to tag the ground so it’s visible in helicopter shots.

submitted 11 days ago • 74 comments

Haliburton, as called in: Brazil, France, Iceland, U.S. (in Spanish), Albania, U.S. (ESPN Radio), Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, the Netherlands, Türkiye, Canada, and Croatia:

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Kristi Noem, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, wants to slash the Coast Guard’s shore infrastructure budget by 90%, a move that some lawmakers said would push the service’s housing, facilities and piers into further disrepair.

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So this week, Palantir told me I was banned from its booth at a tech conference (didn’t give a reason) & threatened to call the cops if I came back In recent days, Palantir has been increasingly defensive toward multiple journalists and perceived critics: www.wired.com/story/palant...

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🚨Another HUGE bit of news tonight; in collaboration with the Trump admin, Texas just kicked 20,000 undocumented college students — people who grew up in Texas and graduated from high school there — out of eligibility for in-state tuition. This may force thousands to drop out.

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Breaking news: US tariffs of 50% on steel and aluminium have come into force, doubling President Donald Trump's existing levies on the sectors www.ft.com/content/2c41...

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