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the feds have an incredible conviction rate in large part because they don’t bring cases that aren’t ironclad really wondering if that starts to change, there might be some highly embarrassing losses in criminal court coming if they’re directing indictments with nothing behind them

submitted 12 hours ago • 15 comments

people have raised extremely serious problems with his story (namely, that Lucre watermarked the worst CSAM on earth and was clearly lying about how he acquired it) and the response is to be snarky about the bluesky pileon what is going on in the newsroom there

submitted 11 hours ago • 41 comments

One striking thing from this (excellent) report on a DOGE employee's use of AI is that everything about it is antithetical to sound software engineering practices—an engineer hurriedly deploying an unfamiliar tool to meet an impossible deadline for a problem domain in which he has no expertise.

submitted 19 hours ago • 21 comments

guys I really need you to read this. this is ART.

submitted 14 hours ago • 14 comments

Enough with the fucking “this is a distraction” bullshit. That’s your cowardice speaking. It is incredibly easy to say “These people are exactly the same as the messiest disasters you personally know, and would you want those people in charge of your daily budget? Your house? Your healthcare?”

submitted 22 hours ago • 72 comments

Say Peter I hear you like 'em young

submitted 17 hours ago • 79 comments

can we bring back shame? I think we should bring back shame

submitted 17 hours ago • 21 comments

note that this completely inverts the public justification for the deportation scheme. they claim they’re deporting criminals, but they deported Kilmar without knowledge of a crime, and now that they supposedly found one they’re bringing him BACK.

submitted 16 hours ago • 136 comments

New York Times stop writing puff pieces on reactionaries challenge: impossible

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

the funny thing is you sort of have to assume he hatched this plan expecting kamala to win and now instead of being a brilliant and showy attack at a sitting president it's an attack on an old man who has cancer

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Chris Nolan: In my film Interstellar I invented the agricultural crisis as a cautionary tale Eleven year old DOGE Commissioner of Science: At long last we have created the Agricultural Crisis from the sci-fi classic Interstellar

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

science has outrun famine and pestilence so far that people no longer remember we were running from them

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

You’re laughing, The social media intern was taken out back and shot after this tweet, and you’re laughing!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

note to self, nobody actually cares about water use. they don't care if the numbers are bullshit. it doesn't matter. it is a pretext to be angry and they do not care if it's true at all

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Thing about EVs is that, while they're mostly novel and might have some design flaws, fundamentally they have the potential to be driven hundreds of thousands of miles with very little maintenance

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

I find the marginally leftists types who tut-tut about zero-sum thinking re AI annoying when every VC is writing that they want to use the Labor Disciplinator 9000 to discipline labor. C'mon folx they're saying it right out in the open.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

banning something that millions of people use without planning to enforce the ban and then having your bluff called at the eleventh hour right before an opposing president is sworn in to reverse it is possibly the dumbest thing ever done by congress

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment