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Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

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You can’t have a strategic crypto reserve because there is no strategic use of cryptocurrency.

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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Let's say their names: * General CQ Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: FIRED FOR BEING BLACK * Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE * Admiral Linda Fagan, Coast Guard Commandant: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE All replaced by less qualified white guys.

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Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need

submitted 12 days ago • 117 comments

Turns out I like gaming conventions far more when I know just enough people to feel comfortable

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New, from me: DOGE's mass firings of probationary employees are a masterclass in how not to manage public organizations. They don’t have a plan to fix what they are breaking because they don’t understand or care about the damage they are doing. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...

submitted 17 days ago • 94 comments

This is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen in my life

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A lot of people on here keep fantasizing about the moment Trump "fires" Elon Musk because Musk has stepped out too far in front of him and I'm sure that feels good, but after watching the last Musk/Trump presser I think it's worth considering that we are essentially watching a coup via elder abuse.

submitted 19 days ago • 118 comments

This is a smart thread

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i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

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"My formative experiences were a childhood encounter with UFOs in a cornfield and being born again at age thirty-six. I’ve been an absolute freak for longer than you’ve been alive."

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Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

submitted 25 days ago • 142 comments

As the forces of hatred are on the march, my promise is this: Our trans neighbors will continue to be safe, protected, and welcome in Minnesota.

submitted 26 days ago • 601 comments

My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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"The decline of America’s creditworthiness has been a stop-start process every time the debt limit approaches. But now, DOGE will get it done for good because the teenagers tracking the US government’s credit card balance have killed countless Neuralink monkeys."

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Right now we’re witnessing the difference between authority and power. Elon Musk does not have the legal authority to do any of the things he is doing. He is not authorized to shut down USAID. He is not authorized to take over OPM. He has no legal authority to access all our data and payments.

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"The lawsuit noted the city has paid nearly $80 million in the last two decades due to unconstitutional use of force by MPD officers and that the city’s 12 costliest settlements from 2006 to 2012 resulted in no officer discipline."

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This is completely bonkers and I want an entire documentary just about how they made it

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While Brianna has been tweeting from her garage with multiple porches, I’ve been walking around Washington DC in 15 degree weather, talking to people who hate me. It’s literally what I do. I know more about the spectrum of political thought outside of trans people than she does.

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If I had to do karaoke with any celebrity I think I’d pick weird Al

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Sam Darnold found his destiny. It was in the toilet: defector.com/sam-darnold-...

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"Remember this device" is the elevator door close button of the internet.

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The discussion about Doordash right now turns out to be a grim illustration of Silicon Valley's disruption business model: roll out a new service that operates at a loss on a huge pool of venture capital, starve all existing alternatives, create a monopoly that feels "essential," crank up prices

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I wrote about how Congress has turned into a senior center. How many AOCs are never elected because 80-year-olds refuse to step down? How many young lawmakers don’t acquire leadership roles — and miss out on years of experience — because seniority is prized above anything else?

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Again, I must recommend everyone wondering how this will go, read "Character Limit" by @kateconger.com and @rmac.bsky.social. The near total lack of intellectual curiosity about how things work combined with the absolute confidence that he understands stuff he does not, is a dangerous combo.

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It only took me 21 seasons, but I finally made it to a MNRG bout

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What I thought would kill me, by age: 0-20: Russian nuke 20-30: AIDS 30-50: Terrorists 50-present: the people who copied off me in high school.

submitted 82 days ago • 97 comments

This story is uh, insane www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...

submitted 91 days ago • 407 comments

It’s really just that when the right is talking about tech they are talking about the employees and the left is talking about the bosses. Everything becomes legible under that construction. bsky.app/profile/radl...

submitted 96 days ago • 41 comments

I briefly put principles and values aside to make a saltier, crankier case for leaving X: Elon Musk is uniquely insufferable holapapi.substack.com/p/x-out

submitted 107 days ago • 185 comments

It's tempting to imagine that this could finally be the indefensible incident that leads to the end of MPD's decades-long reign of ineptitude, racist action/inaction, and violence, but we've probably all been burned too many times to even hope for it.

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Your periodic reminder that Minneapolis police are rotten to the core.

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Today is World Standards Day. Except in the USA, which will celebrate World Standards Day on Nov 14

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The more I talk about the election the more shocked I am by how many people memory holed 2016-2020. Every day was a new horror. New emergencies popped up constantly. I fundamentally don’t understand how people seemingly forgot about all of it.

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