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The technical geniuses at DOGE strike again

If it's dark humour, it's pretty good. But hey, with hockey men? Who knows.

[me standing by the water cooler] hey new guys: workin' hard or hardly workin'? ha ha [a line of teenagers in SpaceX polos silently walk by carrying bankers boxes marked 'NUCLEAR CODES,' 'EVERYONE'S BANKING INFORMATION,' 'GOLD BARS'] ha ha thank god it's friday

Exemple #253 du rôle des médias dans la normalisation de l’impensable. Les mots comptent. Et accessoirement: ceci ne mène pas au retour à l’équilibre budgétaire mais à des dépenses additionnelles. 🧵 to come.

Trade Grades for the Hurricanes, Avalanche, and Blackhawks. Two teams take big risks. Also, the Blackhawks are involved for some reason.

Seems reasonable. If a human makes an error that results in people dying, they can expect to be sued or jailed. You good with being sued or jailed if your AI makes an error resulting in harm to a human or business?

Ichiro is now a hall of famer but he was also the funniest man in human history

You've just been thrown to your death by the Beatles.

Looks like Montreal will come in at about 1.66 murders / 100k population for 2024, about half the rate of NYC or Toronto and 1/20 the rate of a bunch of US cities. I do love the combination of living in a big vibrant city that's also very safe.

Your reminder that Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a Christmas movie.

Well, I’m sure American men losing tens of billions of dollars in a way that barely existed prior to 2020 didn’t influence their opinion on the economy or anything.

Tu quoque mi filia www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c...

[everybody:] “Nate, please don’t try to make this about Moby-Dick. Not everything is about Moby-Dick!” [vengeance-fueled antihero on obsessive doomed quest:]

Je me disais hier "oh, enfin un Noël blanc!" Bref.

maybe we’ve tricked him

doctor: lets test your reflexes me: thats a regular hammer doctor: then i hope theyre good

6 hours under martial law: a drunk scene report from Seoul www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...

Okay, so, just to give you an idea of the significance of Bluesky's traffic. Here's the last month. In general I'd get maybe 50-100 concurrent viewers on a story - 450 if I hit hacker news. Yesterday I had 200-280 for hours. To have this kind of ongoing traffic is insane

This is just corruption, in the most Merriam-Webster sense of the word, which of course means major newspapers will use language that obscures the simple truth.

one of the foundational posts of the last decade

A prescient moment