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The DOGE mindset, perfectly encapsulated in one tweet. Destroy incredible public assets for a short term sugar high that would not come remotely close to ending the national debt

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Did you know that the COVID-19 pandemic caused ⚡⚡⚡ lighting ⚡⚡⚡ strikes to decline a lot across the globe? Why? Less travel ➡️ fewer anthropogenic aerosols in the air ➡️ fewer clouds ➡️ less lightning. So when the world paused during the pandemic, storms got notably less intense. Cool, eh?

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

"I spoke with a few congressional staffers who said that they had tried using Bluesky as an alternative to Twitter after Twitter was purchased by Elon Musk, but they gave up after their bosses kept getting yelled at by Democratic users angry at their impotence" www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...

submitted 1 day ago • 334 comments

Good morning from Tofu

submitted 2 days ago • 299 comments

Reminder that odometer fraud is a federal felony and a state felony in all 50 states.

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

An Amazon-backed AI model tried to blackmail engineers who threatened to shut it down, a safety report revealed In tests, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 would resort to "extremely harmful actions" to preserve its own existence

submitted 3 days ago • 134 comments

“A construction worker in south Alabama says he was forcibly detained Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who claimed his proof of U.S. citizenship was fake.” www.al.com/news/mobile/...

submitted 4 days ago • 835 comments

Big: The final version of a randomized, controlled World Bank study finds using a GPT-4 tutor with teacher guidance in a six week afterschool program in Nigeria had "more than twice the effect of some of the most effective interventions in education" ("equating to 1.5 to 2 years" of standard school)

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Yeah it's an incredibly provincial attitude from Americans. In the global context, the swings against the incumbent party in the US were trivially small compared to the punishment voters offered almost every other incumbent party regardless of ideology. Tweaking policy or message was just not enough

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

submitted 7 days ago • 5069 comments

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

submitted 10 days ago • 290 comments

DOGE claimed 40% of SSA phone calls were fraud. After digging through 110,000 of them, they found just two. Not 2,000... two, and they were just flagged as 'possible fraud'. DOGE’s $160B “savings” actually cost taxpayers $135B, meaning the fraud hunt cost much more than it saved.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments