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The flood of encomiums and morality tales about Elon's turn in Washington cldn't be more predictable, vapid & sickening. If you want a story, get me the story about the crisis comms team directing this. He ran anti-constitutional blitzkrieg thru the federal government, did massive harm, violated ...

submitted 15 hours ago • 97 comments

Nancy Mace: "None of the 15 genders on their form had male or female. They had something like 'cisgender male' and 'cisgender female,' and I don't even know what that means."

submitted 16 hours ago • 391 comments

I wouldnt be too quick to buy this. Musk got what he came for all along—our personal information. The world’s richest guy doesn’t walk away from a $250 mil investment empty handed. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

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submitted 84 days ago • 82 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 123 comments

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 4 days 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 4 days ago • 336 comments

Good morning from Tofu

submitted 5 days ago • 297 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 38 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 5 days ago • 135 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 6 days ago • 836 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 9 days ago • 13 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 10 days ago • 29 comments