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Social Security has a payment accuracy rate of over 99 percent. Only 0.3 percent of Social Security benefits are improper payments, which are typically caused by mistakes or delays. That's better than any private insurance company. www.cbpp.org/blog/setting...

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I wrote about how particularly ridiculous it is that Senate Democrats, led by Dick Durbin, think the priority should be repealing Section 230 and undermining the very open internet we need more than ever right now. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

Smart person: "you have to pick your battles and keep your powder dry" The enemy: invading your territory on multiple fronts and rapidly advancing yes, please do!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 4 days ago • 1007 comments

The Freedom of Information Act is an essential pillar of transparency and democratic accountability for the US government. Eliminating the capacity to comply with laws in general, and FOIA specifically, is a ticking grenade under our democracy.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

It seems that scammers are taking advantage of the concerns about Social Security and privacy. This email is circulating—it's a scam. This is a reminder not to click on links from emails purporting to be from the government. If in doubt, go directly to the source and log in.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Privacy advocates have long resisted attempts by governments and corporations to collect and store citizens' personal data. This is the reason. To prevent authoritarian, unaccountable, secret police from knowing everything about our lives and using our data against us.

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.

submitted 19 days ago • 75 comments

Elon Musk fired a disabled Veteran with 3 tours of duty from his job serving other Veterans at the VA. Elon’s companies get billions from defense contracts. He’s happy to profit off our servicemembers - but when he can no longer make money off them, he kicks them to the curb.

submitted 5 days ago • 300 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 5 days ago • 1065 comments

She’s right. I mean, imagine if Donald Trump could be extradited to Russia and jailed if Putin didn’t like how Trump was running America. Nobody would think Trump could govern. I recognize this is a very silly hypothetical. Trump would never govern in a way that would disappoint Putin.

submitted 10 days ago • 20 comments

Well fuck.

submitted 10 days ago • 103 comments

Scrolling a news feed and I actually said "oh no." I know legalese feels daunting but "simplifying" a contract with AI means it definitely removed important context. CC @kathryntewson.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Seems futile to point this stuff out anymore, but Musk and Trump holding a photo op to tout all the “corruption” DOGE has found on the same day Trump’s DOJ announced it would no longer investigate foreign governments who try to bribe U.S. officials was some real Orwell-level messaging.

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

The FAA and SpaceX hid the fact that they list yet another rocket this month. Not only that, but the FAA is not going to investigate either. And there’s your reason for forcing out the head of the FAA.

submitted 13 days ago • 342 comments

Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady in a commercial trying to solve the problem of hate.

submitted 14 days ago • 18 comments

Fuck off T-Mobile, fuck off into a fire forever

submitted 14 days ago • 47 comments

When MAGA liars say, "I'm not familiar with that," why don't anchors immediately stop the show, give them a 2-minute tour of social media posts, articles and videos as documentation, and then re-ask the question? It would be good TV. But anchors don't want to embarrass the guest. Because ... access.

submitted 14 days ago • 109 comments

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 14 days ago • 145 comments

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

submitted 16 days ago • 75 comments

There are a bunch of “that’s what they voted for” in the comments and I am once again reminding you that kids did not vote for anything. Kids cannot help having dipshit parents, and kids will be the ones suffering. I understand that excising empathy feels better but come ON, y’all.

submitted 16 days ago • 109 comments

hey cnbc, i'm pretty you don't rack up $1.2m credit card debt because of inflation

submitted 16 days ago • 17 comments

I've written for years that we should be more forgiving of old social media posts. Otherwise, we freeze people in the worst versions of themselves. But when the ugly posts are from the last half-year, that's obviously not old news: that's evidence of a person who needs to change!

submitted 16 days ago • 28 comments

Wait LUKE KUECHLY somehow didn’t make the Hall of Fame. Luke Kuechly. Are you serious.

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

Love getting pop-ups on my still functioning PC that it'll be obsolete by Microsoft's decree in October.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Perhaps if he had not spent so much time playing video games so that he could be the #1 video game player he would know that the answer to this question is "All of them."

submitted 18 days ago • 634 comments

Light News Day

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

I feel there should be more panic over… checks notes… deporting US CITIZENS to be imprisoned in El Salvador

submitted 19 days ago • 16 comments