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The first website is still on the web, for now.

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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.

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

Federal agencies are scrubbing social media and removing posts, many with public comments on them. This violates the First Amendment. Those who have had comments deleted may have legal cause to sue the agency AND the employee that removed the posts.

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The destruction on the federal level will not benefit our nation. 18F was a model of innovation and efficiency.

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To observe the one day boycott, I did not buy a Tesla.

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SCOOP: Trump administration has been evaluating the costs of destroying or disposing of tens of millions of coronavirus tests that would otherwise be provided free to Americans. My story w/ Carolyn Y. Johnson. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 13 days ago • 133 comments

Guardrails? What guardrails?

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wapo.st/4jVWqEd

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I will say it again. The DOGE website is so insecure it should be legally designated an incel.

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

Breaking "the government" and replacing the "deep state" civil servants with AI bots programmed by 20-something right wing Elon fanboys may sound like a great idea until it's time to eat an egg or a chicken sandwich without fear of getting sick, or deal with a hurricane or get on an airplane.

submitted 23 days ago • 89 comments

This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake web.archive.org/web/20231206...

submitted 23 days ago • 156 comments

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

submitted 30 days ago • 362 comments

China be like TikTok didn’t work so here’s DeepSeek.

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I am reminded of this scene.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I’m calling it the Gulf of Denali.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

cordcuttersnews.com/sony-to-end-...

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Two recently published studies offer detailed insights into how fires in wildland-urban interface areas generate complex, long-lasting emissions that contribute to climate warming and public health risks Read more: cpo.noaa.gov/unique-smoke...

submitted 40 days ago • 5 comments

I started watching the original Salem’s Lot, but the it vanished from Max. Only the remake is available.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

submitted 40 days ago • 321 comments

This is just...supervillain behavior. I don't have the words for it.

submitted 39 days ago • 8 comments

and turning off my news app notifications. democracy dies in notifications.

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I turned on breaking news notifications for both Washington Post and New York Times. I think that was a mistake. #notificationnation

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And now.

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Mood youtu.be/47nkHeMGsuo?...

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

So, has someone saved all the climate data and websites from the feds? #askingforanation

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

May god have mercy on our souls.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Prolly going to go social media dark for awhile.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

What’s the difference between a gov controlling an algorithm, silently eliminating reach for things it doesn’t like, vs the same gov using its power, to demand that the platform remove the things it doesn’t like.? In China they are overt. With TikTok in the US, they control silently

submitted 43 days ago • 2296 comments

oh, youre here from tik tok? (chuckle's lightly ) Is that like reddit for babies

submitted 43 days ago • 779 comments

Even if the TickyTok returns, it won’t be the same and will soon reach the hellscape levels of Twitter or Facebook. brace! brace! brace! creators.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

I blame Thanos.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

ok but how am i supposed to fall asleep without watching one or two hundred 20 second videos

submitted 43 days ago • 115 comments

BREAKING: Snoop Dogg buys TikTok.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Did a social media platform go dark or something? What’s up with that?

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So here's what's cool about my job: Yesterday morning I said, "We really ought to have TWIN PEAKS available." So then a bunch of people scrambled, worked really hard, and now you can watch every episode of David Lynch & Mark Frost's original series for free on Pluto TV: pluto.tv/us/on-demand...

submitted 44 days ago • 275 comments

Conan O’Brien will be awarded the 26th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in March, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced Thursday. nyti.ms/42hpHCV

submitted 46 days ago • 328 comments

"Planetary Defenders." A new documentary will take viewers inside NASA's high-stakes program to protect Earth from stray asteroids. "Planetary Defense" will premiere at this year's Sundance Film Festival in Utah. >> www.nasa.gov/news-release...

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The amazing part isn’t just the wrong answer, but that the explanation it gives is accurate — and it simply doesn’t know that 27 is a smaller number than 32. Billions of dollars spent to make a black box machine that doesn’t know something elementary school kids know.

submitted 44 days ago • 140 comments

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submitted 47 days ago • 317 comments

I'm thrilled to announce that it is finally done: I can safely say that I am the first person in history to survive 15,000 years in The Oregon Trail, AND, with the incredible technical assistance of @moralrecordings.bsky.social , the first to successfully arrive in Oregon after doing so.

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Gavin Newsom launched a website to combat the wildfire disinformation spreading about Los Angeles, because people can’t be bothered to do a simple Google search before sharing nonsense. And because people suck! Get the facts: californiafirefacts.com

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Pizza Hut was the first company to offer online ordering, and that old website is still online for now - albeit nonfunctional.

submitted 51 days ago • 5 comments

I really, really don't want to do this, but let's do a bit (just a LITTLE BIT) of fact checking about what Zuck said on the Joe Rogan podcast, because this is something I not only followed closely, but also spent time talking to the actual people at Meta who dealt with this which WAS NOT ZUCK.

submitted 51 days ago • 113 comments