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Are you bored tonight? Send your five accomplishments, maybe your shopping list, or your five thoughts on Elon from the past week to OPM at [email protected].

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NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

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“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.”—Herman Hesse

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Who recalls the Underwater screensaver from Windows 95? www.youtube.com/watc...

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The BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s massive archive of experimental music has been turned into a downloadable library. www.theverge.com/ent...

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I feel seen.

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New money-making opportunity for Vegas casino guests unlocked: $50 class-action settlement offer from MGM Resorts to compensate for what the e-mail informing me of this artfully calls "Data Incidents" in July 2019 and September 2023.

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"Soon, U.S. legislators may turn to AI to help them keep pace with the increasing complexity of their lawmaking—and this will suppress the power and discretion of the executive branch to make policy." www.lawfaremedia.org...

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[On writing:] "I try to leave out the parts that people skip." -- Elmore Leonard

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Shoes https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/102435

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An interview with the CMO behind the Intel Inside campaign. "Her goal is to get people to decide what the problem is — and then commit to following a path, whether they agree with the direction or not." Interesting reading. pgsignal.com/2025/02...

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I laughed out loud www.youtube.com/watc...

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Pencil Printer: Print With A Pencil Stub (from 2014, still makes me say "cool!") www.ippinka.com/blog...

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Google Gemini AI can now analyze uploaded PDFs and other files from all users, both free and paid. zdnet.com/article/gemi... via @zdnet.bsky.social

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Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need

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What books are best read with zero advance knowledge? My first thought: Ender's Game

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The Therizinosaurus was a mysterious mix of giraffe, sloth, and wolverine, and it roamed the earth for millions of years. www.discovermagazine...

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A Google Docs trick for exporting an .epub file for your e-reader: File menu > Download > EPUB Publication. (I haven't tried this. I leave it to you.)

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Mood: What do you mean, I promised to work out at the gym?

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If you hate your CEO but can’t afford a hitman, it turns out there are slightly more subtle options.

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CISA is down 167 employees so far (I understand more to go) and reportedly NIST is about to be set on fire. NIST operate National Vulnerability Database and lots of other things. https://www.wired.com/story/the-national-institute-of-standards-and-technology-braces-for-mass-firings/

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How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

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In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

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Reminder: Zelenskyy refused to leave Kyiv as bombs fell. Donold hid in a bunker from protesters with cardboard signs.

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As part of a decades-long conservation project, Brazil has re-introduced more than 70,000 yellow-spotted river turtles into their original wild habitats. Last week, almost 5,000 baby turtles were released into to the Iguapo-Acu River. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

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looking back everything went to shit when Schoolhouse Rock stopped airing

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The National Science Foundation fired all its experts. The National Science Foundation. Fired. All of its. Experts. And they weren't even told to! The leadership worked toward the Fuhrer and went beyond the cuts demanded of them in anticipation of many, many more firings—up to half its staff.

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"Everyday clothing may soon be able to capture and record body movements... Harmless low voltages are passed through conductive threads which are stitched into garment seams to create electrical circuits. Their resistance changes with the movement of the wearer's body." www.bristol.ac.uk/ne...

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Native American activist Leonard Peltier, freed from prison, is welcomed on North Dakota reservation www.thecanadianpress...

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Resources and answers for federal employees laid off or facing career uncertainty: Leave, benefits, interacting with the press, and more community.publicgood...

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BREAKING: The Trump administration has announced that it will kill Medicare coverage of most telehealth services on April 1st.

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Hours after Elon Musk’s AI company xAI released the latest version of its AI model, Grok 3, X has significantly hiked the price for its top Premium+ subscription plan, which gives users access to the latest model, to almost $50 per month. techcrunch.com/2025/...

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So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

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Amazon remembers it has an Android app store, kills it (If nothing else, this is kick-ass headling writing) arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

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Hungarian and German researchers have synchronized maps produced during the Napoleonic wars about Southern Germany with modern databases, which has made it possible to track a wealth of interesting information, historical and environmental changes. www.elte.hu/en/conte...

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If you want to see the cool automotive tech my employer has been working on.... Really. It's cool. Take the 3 minutes to find out. www.youtube.com/watc...

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New — Social Security Administration (SSA) probationary employees were told today that they have eight hours to agree to be reassigned to a field office, tele-service center or payment center and waive all rights to appeal reassignment, or they will be fired, agency source tells me.

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Black IT leaders have seen firsthand: Both individuals and organizations do better when they embrace diversity. www.cio.com/article/...

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Fun reading. And TIL Between 2018 and 2023, spending on canned seafood in the U.S. surged from $2.3 billion to $2.7 billion, with no slowing down in sight. www.eater.com/243645...

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A new WaPo piece talks about the AI industry glomming on to the word "deep." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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1990s: “On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog.” 2020s: “On the internet, everyone knows you’re a dog, where you live and work, where you’re at right now, and your entire purchase history.”

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📢 App Version 1.98 is rolling out now, including: (1/5) • a new option for who can reply to your posts • search posts by a user • lots of little improvements to make the app feel better!

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The cabinet must invoke the 25th amendment and remove Elon Musk from office

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I've made this a few times. It's a good choice for anyone wanting to lower their carbs! (Or who doesn't want to mess with pizza dough.)

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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

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