cyneheard.bsky.social
Maryland Wesleyan Agnostic liberal with a background in K-12 education. He/him.
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I would assume so, since they fired or reassigned anyone who was working on stopping it.
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Not sure if I'm anti-smoothing because it would bother me watching, or because I refuse to upgrade my TV to be that very dumb type of "Smart" that the new ones are.
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It’s an older trope, but it still checks out:
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
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Hybrid where our team is actually in one place works, but if you’re going into an office and the people you work with aren’t there…why?
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All instrumental.
Both Discovery and Strange New Worlds share a fair bit with the TOS theme. Picard, of course, echoed TNG's.
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And he wasn't that good at it when he was in the minority. ACA still happened on his watch. And he had the majority when he stopped Garland from getting on SCOTUS.
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You're assuming that DOGE at OPM actually configured their email-everyone-server that they set up in like a day correctly. The last time they blasted everyone they did not skip them.
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Official comms from who? It's not like Musk has any authority - he's just a special government employee - according to what DOJ has told the courts.
Also, an unsigned email from OPM really doesn't establish its authority either.
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Grok. Since clearly the US Federal Government can be run by one crazed AI.
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So instead of a Dead Internet - because Grok is absolutely going to be the only thing that reads these emails - it’s a Dead Federal Government. Great. Just great.
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Grok. And I don’t think that’s a joke.
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He thinks Grok can handle it.
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And Pete’s biggest problem last time was with Black voters. Is there any evidence he’s changed that?
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Yellow 5x8 notepads.
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There's no way they pick a Pope who isn't from the Latin Church - anyone who wants to split the Church would just go "is the Pope really Catholic?" and that would work on enough people.
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True, although Benedict's resignation was a clear "we need to change course" signal.
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80% Francis appointees is a very good thing - his last major pronouncement was basically "You, specifically, John David Vance, are wrong on basically everything it means to be Catholic and Christian."
The next Pope would need a 2/3 vote.
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He's the Pope.
Benedict XVI resigned in 2013 and died December 31, 2022.
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110 (80%) of the 138 cardinal-electors (meaning <= 80 years old) were appointed by Francis. Of the 13 cardinals born in 1945 (so turning 80 this year), 8 were Francis appointees (incl. the next 2 oldest - March 1st and April 6th).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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Yeah, there’s a lot of “challenge accepted” energy going on there.
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See: Hogan, Larry.
Harris won MD by 29, Alsobrooks won by 12.
Trump won KY by 26. If KY’s baseline partisanship shifts to Trump +10, then Beshear might pull it off…at which point he’d be Dem Senator #55 or so.
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Tom Homan is furious at AOC for sharing this information even though it is perfectly legal to do so. We don't wanna piss off Tom Homan so please do not share this information.
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3 weeks - the budget convos will heat up as the GOP realizes they have a disaster or seven on their hands.
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The JAG firings scream “purge” on top of the racism and misogyny in this round of firings.
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That’s a different problem. A majority vote in the Senate means you’re a divided government away from tossing the President.
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Hitting the JAGs makes it much clearer what’s going on.
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Let me guess. The highest-ranking people who aren’t white men?
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He retired in 2024, so it's not like he's been out for long.
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Bureaucracies don't know how to not take notes.
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There's some tension in other data sources about individual privacy risks vs. the ability to do population level analyses (like educators not having gender info hides a lot at scale), but we seriously need to lean into "this PII doesn't need to exist" as being our default.
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I had a glimmer of hope that Gorsuch might find his limits, but it's way more likely Roberts/Barrett with sometimes (MY GOD) Kavanaugh joining them are the ones stopping the worst nonsense.
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Legitimacy. If push really comes to shove, the Speaker of the House instead of the Minority Leader saying that POTUS and VPOTUS have forfeited their legitimacy because [insert list of wildly illegal activities here] is different.
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Also, this one is heavily going to be self-inflicted by the government. I don’t think Bush had much of a role in the tech bubble bursting.
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Destruction of Governmental Efficacy continues apace.
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Seriously. You’d think we would have all learned that by now.
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I was expecting Big Pharma to go “Oh Hell No” to RFK, and that didn’t happen.
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Yes. Whether they would have found him immune from prosecution is also different from “would they have allowed him to do it”
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These things get used - like the Press Secretary’s posts on X got used as a “hey, the feds are doing this” evidence a couple weeks ago on something - I think it was the spending freeze TRO?
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That would be my guess as well (unless both of them die non-violently - one from age and the other from drug use), but it would heavily be up to Congress.
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That’s largely up to whether the Republicans in Congress roll with it or not, I think? Hard to say.
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Really tired of seeing parties willfully choose stupidity.
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While arguing we should annex our Commonwealth neighbor.
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On the plus side, it means we aren't going to throw gigantic contracts at SpaceX to hit YR4 with a rocket.
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We will welcome its presence (and thank you for winning last night), but this is America needing to clean up America's bullshit.
We're responsible for how we got here, we're responsible for how we get out of it.
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This is simultaneously the best policy proposal ever proposed and the worst.
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Yes. They could not have reasonably anticipated that Canada would be his target, but that Trump would do something this stupid? That was easily foreseeable before the election.
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I mean, it was an amazing scene and it + Garak’s support for Kira later showed what seven years of the show could set up.
But heartwarming it was not.
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The EU needs to find its footing. I just hope it doesn’t take a war or three for that to happen.