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EX-Microsoft - Research analyst at Directions on Microsoft covering identity, security, management, & Microsoft licensing. Blog: http://getwired.com
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Huge M365 news: “… powered by Azure Local, Microsoft 365 Local enables customers to deploy Microsoft productivity workloads like Exchange Server and SharePoint Server in their own datacenters or sovereign cloud environments…” Full announcement: blogs.microsoft.com/...

Today marks nine years since Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right extremist, a terrible loss to those who knew and loved her and to politics. Zero lessons were learned though and the far-right continues to be pandered to. With more political assassinations in the US it all feels too familiar.

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

So much of the “promise” of AI right now is saving time creating. Let me say it from my chest: all I want is to spend *more* time creating. I’m not making content. I’m engaging in my vocation, my calling, my literal reason for existing.

“The bill’s process for selling off lands runs at breakneck speed, demanding the nomination of tracts within 30 days, then every 60 days until the arbitrary multi-million-acre goal is met, all without hearings, debate or public input.”

This is not a president of the United States. This is a hateful demagogue and pathological liar who is exploiting the office to sow division and dismantle our democratic system.

In the old (normal?) days, you'd be impeached for much less.

Walz: "This cannot be the norm. It cannot be the way that we deal with our political differences. Now is the time for us to recommit to the core values of this country ... Talk to a neighbor rather than arguing. Debate an issue. Shake hands. Find common ground. This is who Melissa Hortman was."

I'm trying to imagine a Democratic president saying openly and proudly that he would be sending federal agents to target the 'Republican Power Center' in Texas, Florida, and Tennessee. We would be in the midst of a civil war before he'd finished saying those words.

This is a piece on the Substack of the CEO of FIRE written by a FIRE's special consul for college campuses. This is a "free speech" organization literally taking Trump's side in its efforts to attack free expression at a university even though they believe the university is legally right.

A sane President would see the chaos that he engineered in LA as a mistake to avoid replicating. But for Trump it was simply the opening battle of his authoritarian takeover of major power centers controlled by his political enemies.

This is what fascism looks like - using a conspiracy theory about a dehumanized outgroup as a pretext for seizing political power and wielding arbitrary authority. What you read about in the history books is happening right here, right now.

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Trump is confusing "trade deals" with other sovereign countries with "demands for bribes" from US media companies

Integration of Okta with Microsoft Defender for Identity now available: learn.microsoft.com/defender-for...

It has what plants crave.

WTH

No man, this is what happened stop lying

Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name Genie: okie dokie

Immigration hearings continue to be fine I guess.

In additional to being strategically smart, this is just another incredibly well done video. They make you want to believe in politics.

U.S. agents suspected Bukele and some in his inner circle of diverting USAID funds to MS-13 leaders. Agents sought to review any U.S. bank accounts held by 15 Salvadoran political figures including Bukele, other senior officials and their relatives.

Here’s former ABC reporter Terry Moran’s first post on Substack. Thank you, Terry, for being unafraid to lift up your voice. This is bigger than politics as usual. When a President is handcuffing Senators, threatening the free press, and so much more—we all have to speak up for our democracy.

Something tells me USAGM is going to find it a lot harder to regain the audience now that it’s been cut off for months.

NEW: A Biden-appointed judge sided with the Trump admin's last-minute argument to *DENY* Mahmoud Khalil's release. Trump admin argued he could be detained for a frivolous charge they gave him *after* his arrest. The judge agreed. Khalil will spend his first Father's Day away from his newborn boy.

Thinking to myself, “Why does my hand feel like it’s on fire?” I just made tamales with a chipotle sauce in them. That’s why.

[holding a banana phone] yeah hi just circling back on a friday afternoon to see if we’ve figured out the whole soldier on the moon situation

Here's a hint: Trust can be freely given or earned but once lost, it's very difficult to get back. Perhaps law enforcement agencies should consider what has been occurring and how that breaches the trust of the people around them.

It’s like raiiiin… on your big parade… 🎶

This makes total sense. Of course he can’t choose, he is both a convicted criminal AND a vindictive prick.

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Among all the other things that it is, it's a very particular and strange moment in the history of streaming television that this sign exists and is being produced for upcoming protest marches.

Office Space The Prestige L.A. Story

jfc

Walking down the street in London and noticed the guy walking towards me looks an awful lot like Dustin Hoffman…

NEW: 12 masked armed men try to enter a homeless shelter without saying who they are. ICE agents park outside an elementary school, sparking fear and a car accident. Local police respond to a call about a possible assault, only to find ICE. Inside one day on LI: theintercept.com/2025/06/13/i...

Al Gore tells it like it is.

This is evil

This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone.   If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?

If you watch Trump taking questions from the press and think he’s running the country then there’s no hope for you. You’re watching him in real time learn what his administration is doing by having the press ask questions about it. He’s completely checked out.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge issued a sweeping order blocking President Donald Trump’s unprecedented seizure of California’s National Guard, calling the move illegal and a “dangerous precedent. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“Unpermitted ICE facility” should be setting off warning sirens across the entire country

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Gavin Newsom announces Donald Trump has LOST and the National Guard will be back under Newsom’s command at noon tomorrow. Donald Trump has been ordered to stand down.