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18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

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Connecticut-based toolmaker Stanley Black & Decker is suing Stanley 1913, the Seattle company that makes trendy travel mugs involved in a recent safety recall. (via @ctpublic.bsky.social)

submitted 12 days ago • 39 comments

Age yourself with a movie you saw in a theater. (Technically, the first one I remember is Pinocchio, but that was a rerelease)

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Oh, buddy.

submitted 13 days ago • 70 comments

playing hades 2 on god mode blissfully button mashing with 0 skill so i can flirt with everyone instead

submitted 14 days ago • 33 comments

In theory, I'm fine with this All Star game format. The problem is that the time between games is longer than the damn games

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Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics. Government wins are often the avoidance of loss. So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses not averted?

submitted 20 days ago • 69 comments

Mac McClung has the coolest job in the world. Nobody ever yells at him about whether his team loses, and then one night per year, he just has to do one or two cool things. The Santa Claus of dunking

submitted 21 days ago • 13 comments

TTS doesn't deserve this

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Major AI/fair use decision out of D. Del today. It is not good news for AI proponents for many reasons, including: 1: The judge reversed his own prior ruling that was more AI-favorable. 2: This is one of the three cases I thought most strongly favored AI storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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I asked Google Gemini why Google has removed Holocaust Remembrance Day from it's Calendar app, and it literally said because of DEI.

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Once again, this is because all of this is a job for Congress, under Article I of the Constitution. The Framers could not imagine legislators so cravenly lacking ambition & fealty to oaths that they would let the president run amok like Mad King George. Nor did they intend the courts to fix this.

submitted 28 days ago • 28 comments

More than 8 out of 10 civilian federal employees live outside the DC region. They are your neighbors!

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This is the 23 year old who currently has access to the entire Treasury payment system, by the way.

submitted 30 days ago • 237 comments

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they done yet but the level of …

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I wrote about the US Copyright Office's pragmatic stance on copyrightability of AI art. As @jtlg.bsky.social puts it: “If you make art with the help of AI, it’s copyrightable. If you ask AI to make art for you, it’s not.” No new laws needed. Today's Tech Brief: wapo.st/3WAWSOj

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Okay I'll admit I burst out loud laughing at this one

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As Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis once said, “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” time.com/7204675/marl...

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Considering we still don't know the level and depth of Salt Typhoon's infiltration, this seems hellishly bad.

submitted 46 days ago • 29 comments

Some sad news

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Beginning with the 2025 NCAA Tournament, women’s college basketball teams will finally be paid for March Madness games, the NCAA unanimously voted on Wednesday. More on the approved financial "units" structure for women's basketball programs ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/606...

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I can't believe I just saw a Washington playoff victory... It's been so long

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DOINK

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I've seen half a dozen productions of Cabaret over the decades and this has never happened. The fact that the last line of "If You Could See Her," which should sting like a lash, is now getting unwelcome laughs is unbelievably grim.

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Almost as if users aren't the target audience

submitted 59 days ago • 5 comments

Re: Bayless, I'm the opposite of shocked

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my reaction to new tech like this is just so frequently "why?"

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Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

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WELCOME TO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN Popeye the Sailor. ⚓️ In 1929, E.C. Segar introduced Popeye to his 10-year-old “Thimble Theatre” newspaper comic strip & he stole the show. Learn more! ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠ #PublicDomainDay #Popeye

submitted 67 days ago • 16 comments

So glad you asked! The public-domain class of 2025 includes Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Woolf’s A Room of One's Own, the 1.0 versions of Popeye and Tintin, Ravel’s “Boléro,” and the first recording of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” - my favorite in this bunch.

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I’ve been a grantwriter for 20 years and I agree with every word of Evan’s thread “What they are saying with trust-based philanthropy is to offer support beyond a check, and that’s typically not what she is doing” no they literally just want the check please just give them cash and leave them alone

submitted 68 days ago • 15 comments

Got to say...that was a twist

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The best reason to close

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jokes aside as popeye enters public domain a reminder we got mario and donkey kong because nintendo couldn't use popeye and bluto, like star wars happened because lucas was denied making a flash gordon movie let corpos denying you recycling their stuff drive you to do better new stuff that's yours

submitted 72 days ago • 24 comments

This is a welcome bonus

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I don't like talking on the phone but I know damn well when I need to

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Selling young men who feel like they’re not masculine enough on the idea that they’ll be basically samurai or cowboys or whatever if they put their money in a speculative financial asset that’ll surely make them rich and tough and desirable sounds like such a classic scam holy cow.

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The reason Judge Ponsor was censured for casting doubt on the integrity of the judiciary while Justice Alito is free to talk shit about the courts at events funded by billionaires with business before them is that the Supreme Court refuses to submit to a binding ethics code.

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