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

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This is a very bad time to take immunity away from small online communities that aren’t run by Meta and Musk

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It took six reporters to conclude that these numbskulls "don't fully understand" government contracting. For weeks now it has been patently obvious that not a one of them has even the faintest grasp of how procurement works.

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I know the Ukraine the Latest crew are still on X, but listening to them grappling with US abandonment of Europe is truly like watching history unfold in front of you. 4 weeks of this admin has so fundamentally altered global perception of US & our trustworthiness podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...

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Talking with @karenho.bsky.social about <waves> all of this, made me realize the following: As a 40 something year old, it's fathomable that I can just outlast fascist 78 year old grandpa. But fascist 53 year old billionaire is an unavoidable problem.

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The lawsuit brought by Rumble and Trump Media against Brazilian Supreme Court Justice de Moraes is fascinating in ways that will need a long thread to unpack. 1/ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

If you are a cis person please take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

A great post on how posts get from one person posting to all the people they're following. Also what happens when people do wild things like follow tens of thousands of other accounts, and the tradeoffs that have to be made to keep things running smoothly.

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I wrote up a post about how we hugely improved the write performance for Bluesky's timelines/following feed. If you want to learn more about how we did it, check it out. Some nuggets in there about embracing imperfection in some parts of a system to scale better. jazco.dev/2025/02/19/i...

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

A good thread about Substack's political foundation 🧵 (Get off Substack.)

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The top criminal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington quit today, citing pressure by the Trump administration to open what she viewed as an improper criminal probe of a federal contract. ca.news.yahoo.com/senior-u-pro...

submitted 4 days ago • 170 comments

🎙 Started streaming on #Bluecast! https://www.bluecast.app/user/@knowtheory.net?t=listen

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Dang I wonder which presidential adviser has a business that relies on minerals

submitted 6 days ago • 34 comments

This is an incredibly grim ending to the Munich Security Conference where EU & NATO leaders get together to discuss their common efforts. www.yahoo.com/news/munich-...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨 Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.

submitted 6 days ago • 289 comments

If you're an engineer that's curious about what it's like to scale Bluesky, give this pod a listen! Autumn and Justin are such fun hosts too

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RFE/RL - Ukrainian President Zelenskyy arrives in the Middle East as the US prepares to hold talks in Saudi Arabia with Russia on how to end Moscow’s war with Ukraine, but Zelenskyy says Kyiv wasn’t invited and that he has no plans to participate in those discussions. www.rferl.org/a/trump-us-r...

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This is cool www.instagram.com/reel/DExnDTm...

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Just reflecting on how wild it is that Vernor Vinge published A Fire Upon the Deep in 1992. There are ideas in the book which I still find wild (Zones of Thought in particular), and that he was dreaming this shit up before Google existed is pretty incredible.

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Unclear to me why, but @bsky.app seems to throw 500 errors if you try to load posts in Google's Rich Results test crawler: So like, Google results will never directly know @faineg.bsky.social's unhinged sensuality bsky.app/profile/fain... search.google.com/test/rich-re...

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Firing all employees with less than a year of experience in their current role is typical of a mindset that just cares about maximizing a metric of loss and that assumes someone will pick up the slack and keep things going. For business, that’s often been government. For government, that’s nobody

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Jose Barco, a decorated U.S. Army veteran once based out of Fort Carson who served 2 tours in Iraq, was taken into custody last month by ICE because his citizenship papers, which were supposed to be processed while he was in the Army, were lost. Read his story:

submitted 9 days ago • 194 comments

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this is your atproto PDS

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I'm late to this but I genuinely can't tell if this is performance art, or if Fallout launched an ARG: www.realtor.com/news/unique-...

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This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

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To understand what happened when a Black Hawk and a CRJ crashed in D.C. on Jan. 29, we made a 3D model, using flight data and air traffic control transmissions, and interviewed with five former Black Hawk pilots to recreate the crew's likely view. wapo.st/4htyTJf

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@abtran.bsky.social this 3d recreation is great, man. Your team does nice work

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AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

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Christ www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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