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Daniel Penny just got a cushy job at Andreessen Horowitz specifically because he murdered a homeless man on the subway

submitted 8 hours ago • 13 comments

That guy is Executive Director, Naval Sea Systems Command. He's basically the guy in charge of making sure the boats are good boats. And he has to send a frantic email out telling everybody to treat DOGE like a phishing attack.

submitted 8 hours ago • 35 comments

Given that Elon was implying that how employees handled this email could be grounds for dismissal, it seems like he’s trying to do an end-run around individual’s Weingarten rights www.ueunion.org/stwd_wei.html

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 8 hours ago • 122 comments

Spending isn't a “conspiracy” just because Musk doesn’t know how to read usaspending.gov. A program isn't waste just because it doesn’t help the richest man in the world. It isn't fraud just because he doesn’t like it. A law is not illegal just because he disagrees with it.

submitted 9 hours ago • 52 comments

From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

submitted 9 hours ago • 154 comments

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.

submitted 9 hours ago • 74 comments

please call this what it is, which is government-sanctioned abuse, rape and murder

submitted 10 hours ago • 16 comments

FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

submitted 9 hours ago • 68 comments

we need a new video of some nazi getting his lights knocked out. it has been too long.

submitted 9 hours ago • 10 comments

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

submitted 16 hours ago • 198 comments

Elon Musk's first ex-wife (who is a novelist) wrote this harrowing account of his insane behavior back in 2010. Sadly, way too many people ignored it. www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a53...

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

“Sonny is part human, part AI: a new kind of chatbot that school districts are adopting to provide support when there aren’t enough counselors to go around.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 19 comments

Humans care for the rich, robots are forced on the poor. The neoliberal fantasy of the oligarchs is coming to fruition by the way of austerity measures and spending cuts. Why pay for actual human support if a robot can tick the checkbox.

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

Where are the Democrats but also Where are the churches Where are the celebrities Where are the NGOs Where are the Universities Where are professional groups like AMA Where are the athletes Where are the unions What people/groups do and don’t do for next month determines our collective future

submitted 10 hours ago • 84 comments

the most frustrating thing about the current infiltration of genAI into everything is the general attitude that has normalised “it works/is not harmful until I see clear evidence otherwise”. it's exhausting

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

If anyone who receives this would like help writing a suitable prompt injection for when they use an LLM to evaluate responses, I am at your service. DM or @hmason.64 on Signal.

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

Sage wisdom from two experienced legal aid attorneys. In any interaction with police or law enforcement, including ICE: “Shut the f*ck up.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

“classified information, links, or attachments” is a poorly constructed and dizzyingly incomplete list.

submitted 11 hours ago • 48 comments

1. Monday - fell apart 2. Tuesday - broke my heart 3. Wednesday - same 4. Thursday - didn't even start 5. Friday - I'm in love

submitted 10 hours ago • 56 comments

Fucking probably

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this is the crux of it!!!

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

Apparently, entire agencies are having their emails go to spam because the opm email list is using private servers.

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Social Security has a payment accuracy rate of over 99 percent. Only 0.3 percent of Social Security benefits are improper payments, which are typically caused by mistakes or delays. That's better than any private insurance company. www.cbpp.org/blog/setting...

submitted 16 hours ago • 24 comments

The system works!

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

OH COME ON

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Seen today in Lower Manhattan...

submitted 15 hours ago • 138 comments

"This is also where elderly people can apply for Medicare, which doesn’t have physical outposts of its own. And it’s where hearings are held — due process provided — for beneficiaries who believe that they have been unfairly kicked off of desperately needed assistance."

submitted 22 hours ago • 12 comments

Trump: Fire hundreds of thousands of career civil servants trying to keep America safe and running. Also, Trump: Give DHS a budget of up to $200 million to run anti-immigrant ads that repeatedly thank Trump for leading an immigration crackdown. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 20 hours ago • 24 comments

But please. Continue telling us how “there’s no evidence” and we need longitudinal studies to prove what is plainly evident to anyone working with students.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Spoiler: The glue is failing in freezing weather. Because they used glue on the Cybertruck.

submitted 1 day ago • 236 comments

This well-referenced page includes personal stories from those terminated, with links to share your story. Congressman Ro Khanna and the House Science Committee are surveying the impact of these cuts.

submitted 20 hours ago • 5 comments

What question? There's no fucking question. Elon views government as an impediment to his supervillain dreams, so he bought it to destroy it. It's pretty fucking clear.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., said on Friday that it was investigating U.S. Representative Cory Mills, a Republican representing a district northeast of Orlando, in connection with a report of an assault on a woman this week.

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

Tom Krause is in charge of both a sensitive government payment system and a company that has millions of dollars’ worth of active contracts with various federal agencies through distribution partners, a WIRED review finds. Conflicts posed by this are unprecedented in the modern era, experts say.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

If you really wanted a Philosopher King, America, he was RIGHT THERE.

submitted 1 day ago • 167 comments

BREAKING: Trump loses the first emergency plea of his second term at the Supreme Court. The case concerns Trump‘s removal of Hampton Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Think we're going to get into social media quote graphics business. Everybody else just does this while we're cutting woodland creatures out of stock photos. Work smarter not harder.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

Totally normal things to say

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Midwestern public service announcement: in very cold weather a slice of cheap-ass bologna will freeze to a car and damage the finish in a way that can't be buffed out. Especially a car that's allegedly stainless steel that gets discolored by ordinary rain! Source: (REDACTED)

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

US stops sharing flu data with WHO amidst one of its worst flu seasons www.newscientist.com/article/2469...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

the “computer expert” who owns X — where hundreds of millions of posts are sent a day — thinks computers can only do a few things at a time

submitted 1 day ago • 129 comments