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Shameful. Labour talk about difficult decisions and tough choices. The choice this time? To cut the foreign aid budget. Why are the 'difficult choices' never taxing the wealth of the super rich?

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A version of Microsoft Word with banner ads and surprise video pop-ups that doesn't let you save files to your computer. Just the thought of this is painful www.theverge.com/news/618278/...

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The fact some people think this is a dad bod is the reason the rest of us have body confidence issues

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Having a great time with the government AI consultation.

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this action has already murdered ~14,000 adults and ~1,500 children pepfar.impactcounter.com bsky.app/profile/bran...

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When Herbert Hoover was Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s he realized that collecting and publishing data for private businesses helped the economy because everyone had a better understanding of how to allocate resources. DOGE is destroying a fundamentally conservative government resource.

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In good news...

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So are we losing the World Cup or Olympics over this? Because if another country did it, it would be an outrage

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Ouch. I'm glad judges are pushing, but at some point they need to get over their habitual deference to the government and handle this as they would most cases, to wit: "Counsel, step outside the courtroom, get on your phone, and bring someone here who can answer my questions. You have one hour."

submitted 16 hours ago • 97 comments

What's the word for when a government tries to take a population that exists and make them not exist?

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Remember when the WH insisted that global HIV prevention & treatment was exempt from the freeze? When it seemed MAYBE they understood that cutting off medicine could put the entire planet at risk of drug resistant HIV strains? Wrong. Elon Musk’s interns were simply shutting payments off manually.

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Whenever the history of AI is written, I really hope the infamous Glasgow "Willy Wonka Experience" (1 year old today) features You can't find a better example of the pitfalls of AI "hallucinations" than AI inventing a malevelont ghost character and inserting it into a classic children's story

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The DOGE kids really do need to face serious consequences on the other side of this

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Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.

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Have you seen the new edition of my book Human Transit? Now, the ebook is on-sale for $4.99 only through March 2. It's been called the most useful introduction to public transportation issues for the curious general reader. 🧵1/

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Fascinating thread about something I've not considered in ages, since moving to the UK - root beer!

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Fun fact: The Daily Mail spent years stealing mine (and other bloggers) photos and running them with the caption: "Copyright: Internet" (So while I'm pro this sort of thing, let's not pretend the papers are acting in anything other than self-interest)

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The sound of constitutional silence.

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Two of the creators and stars of Operation Mincemeat - the Olivier-winning musical currently SMASHING IT on Broadway, after storming the West End - came to the London premiere of Murder for Dummies, and had these lovely things to stay! Watch the show today! murderfordummies.com

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How Dan Bongino went from InfoWars to deputy director of the FBI www.wired.com/story/dan-bo...

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They’re not called Rare Earth Metals because they’re scarce, but because as a group of elements they took a long time to isolate. It’s an antiquated English use of rare meaning “widely distributed or isolated” that died in Victorian times.

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Some people will look at this and only see how foolish it is. But what it also is an attempt to set up a blameless, unaccountable arbiter by inserting automation into a “decision making” process. And tbh I wish more people at more news outlets would call that out.

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Time to start putting some DOGE-bros in jail for contempt

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This includes facts that would strongly support two cases now before the courts alleging that Musk/DOGE are exercising government authority in violation of the Appointments Clause. @mattbaidc.bsky.social in WaPo with details on USAID "tightly controlled" by DOGE⤵️ h/t @samsteindc.bsky.social

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Today’s news leading up the “least surprising, most alarming” quadrant of the matrix:

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God help us.

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munchkin: is it true you were her friend? glinda:

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NEW PIECE: Since early on this crisis I've thought about the fastest warning signs of mass payment failure or mass impoundment. I pursued "deep background" calls with former or current Federal Reserve/Treasury/Banker informants to find out. This is the result www.crisesnotes.com/how-can-we-k...

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Tomorrow is the deadline for the Government AI copyright and the creative industries consultation. It's important! It's long, designed to exhaust creatives, so I've made my response public here so people can use it as a template to get through it faster: tristangraywrites.com#/AIConsultat...

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Missed this over the weekend - super excited to see this after hearing the @killjamesbond.bsky.social review...

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So they can’t just ignore him and continue working? No one can tell him fuck off?

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Darren Grimes was born in 1993

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we all knew this was coming but it's still insane to see

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i hate that it's gross AI slop. i hate that it's "LOL TRUMP GAYYYY" but the message and the looping, can't-turn-it-off bit are great.

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LMAO this is the Guardian all over. It’s only “austerity-driven cuts” if the Tories do it, otherwise it’s just sparkling efficiency savings

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I understand and appreciate the sentiment I do but thats not what it means either. The idea of being aware of systemic racism being made a byword by the right only to be sanitized as general good heartedness demonstrates how concepts are drained of vigor. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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One year today since that willy wonka experience

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In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

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The man on stage chillingly says: „She spoke up and now she doesn’t want to suffer the consequences“, mocking her, as unidentified men drag a woman and zip-tie her under the sheriffs orders, because she had dared to peacefully speak out during a town hall. This is fascism.

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