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This is the best article I've read on AI and LLMs ever: blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-th...

WHO TOLD!? #gischat

🧵 When authoritarian leaders attack judges as "enemies," history shows us exactly where this leads. Trump's assault on "USA HATING JUDGES" isn't just inflammatory rhetoric—it's following a script written by strongmen worldwide. But other countries show us how to fight back.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

Starbucks uses a wholy-owned subsidiarity in Switzerland to puchase coffee beans, which are then sold to other Starbucks divisions at an 18% markup. Thusly, Starbucks shifted $1.3b of profit from the 21% US corp tax rate, to 8.5% in Switzerland. publicservices.international/resources/pu...

Attn @scalzi.com Someone has invented a comprehensive burrito: m.xkcd.com/3060/

@bera.house.gov I am wondering why you decided to vote for the censure of Al Green?

How do you pronounce "MPRCGA"?