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Carefully. Document. Everything. This is absolutely illegal.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Every day the far right does something that the far right of ten years ago would have spilled blood in the streets over. A government contractor using his position to force private advertisers to spend money on his business platform? That would have been Bunker Hill shit during the Obama years.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

great job if you can get it: steal priceless amounts of government data which your competitors can’t get to train your models while charging the american people forty million dollars a month or more for the privilege

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

If you leverage AI in literature review, CHECK THOSE REFERENCES. I just finished reading through a proposal on a topic that I knew well, and thus was surprised to see several papers referenced that I hadn't known of. Then when I looked them up online, I found they didn't exist. 7 fake references.

submitted 4 days ago • 63 comments

I keep seeing takes like this marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo... 1. I don't like the status quo on policy X 2. Trump is thoughtlessly blowing things up, including on policy X 3. It might turn out better after being blown up so 🤷 We're on the road to authoritarianism, not your preferred policy.

submitted 6 days ago • 49 comments

This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.

submitted 9 days ago • 316 comments

This.

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

Super Bowl halftime show generating big “Trump won, why am I still seeing black people” energy from the indignant grifter class

submitted 13 days ago • 99 comments

The Silicon Valley billionaires & techno-feudal lords who are waging a capitalists' coup right now are rebelling against the people & the "free market" for rejecting them & the tech they need us to become dependent on. They're taking over the government to ensure we have no more choice in the matter

submitted 14 days ago • 53 comments

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

submitted 19 days ago • 122 comments

Something the "so you think the law means anything now" doomers fail to grasp: the importance of buying time. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, has infinite resources and infinite capacity for managing complexity. Make your opponent work. Make their every decision complex and their every move costly.

submitted 18 days ago • 127 comments

Sometimes you just have to show off your crown! #Birds

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.

submitted 19 days ago • 852 comments

MORE OF THIS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

submitted 20 days ago • 1040 comments

In generall: The more personal and less scripted you make your communication with an elected official, the more weight it gets. That said, everything helps, so just do what you personally can do.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

submitted 20 days ago • 50 comments

This is the message, Democrats! (And any Republicans who want to join us in defending the Republic!)

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

If I were the PM of Canada or Mexico, I would impose export duties on anything that Trump exempts from his tariffs. Those exemptions are your guide to "what will cause Trump political pain."

submitted 22 days ago • 72 comments

i just told two people at the table next to me at the bar who were talking about everything about this and they’re going now, too. i am getting my household and band to go. that’s 7 in 10 minutes. how many can you get to sign up and attend?

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

NEWS: A Census employee tells me that the National Crime Victimization Survey—conducted for DOJ's Bureau of Justice Statistics—and National Health Interview Survey—conducted for the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics—have already been altered to fit with Trump's anti-trans censorship.

submitted 22 days ago • 14 comments

If you're a journalist downloading CDC data today, please consider filling out this form so we have a centralized guide to who has what. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 23 days ago • 71 comments

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 23 days ago • 2304 comments

Hello all cable news: do not broadcast the President of the United States talking about air traffic control. He doesn't know what he's talking about.

submitted 23 days ago • 130 comments

If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it. Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice. But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word. They aren’t firing for a reason.

submitted 24 days ago • 2926 comments

This is exactly what we want to see from Senate Democrats. Russell Vought is the mastermind of Trump’s sweeping (and illegal) spending freeze, and his nomination should be withdrawn. Democrats are starting to fight back, and we need to encourage them to keep going: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

submitted 24 days ago • 106 comments

If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.

submitted 24 days ago • 555 comments

#ClassConsciousness 101

submitted 24 days ago • 178 comments