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With Andor Season 2 dropping tomorrow, it's worth recalling that Season 1 contained the best bit of writing ever in Star Wars.

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paging @brianlfrye.bsky.social (here's the opinion: www.courtlistener.com/docket/68085...)

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Another customer service chatbot hallucinating with not great business consequences. Cursor’s chatbot cited a policy, user shared policy info on reddit, reddit users revolted because the policy was bad, policy turned out to not exist. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/c...

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Hearing the same from a direct source. People in Americorps being told they're done. It's over. No notice.

submitted 8 days ago • 117 comments

Has anyone else been subscribed to really gross, hateful Substacks without their consent? I'm a little freaked out, who would do that?

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Told the cashier I was “bringing cookies for the last day of classes,” and she asked if I had a job lined up for after graduation, so my day is made.

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I’m panicking a bit at the realization that Trump is spreading his tendrils of control to everywhere I could work (academia, law firms, government), and that it’s not a coincidence. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Trump and Musk are eliminating 90% of Social Security’s regional staff—and, at the same time, will now only post public updates from Social Security on a platform owned by Musk, where more than 90% of seniors won’t see them. Corrupt, cruel, and wrong.

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I’m not kidding; this is DOGE at work; multiple US citizens getting notices that they just leave the country because USCIS is revoking their humanitarian parole. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 12 days ago • 144 comments

One of our links is currently the fourth most popular across all of Bluesky. It is unbelievable how important judicial transparency has become.

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I posted about building a fun little Boolean search game I made in Gemini 2.5. www.ailawlibrarians.com/2025/04/11/v...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Fuck yes they are

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I wonder if I could structure an entire talk about all the AI-isms that really bug me? People love it when you explain something they thought was funny/resonant is actually problematic, right? so... which ones bug you?

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Really fun to have nonstop sports betting ads on the podcast I listen to w/my 7yo

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Document automation companies, it’s your time to shine. Anyone already building something like this?

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Hey cool, this is the kind of cancer I had (and that could come back). These people are vile.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Not sure if Palantir is a household name. It's time to resuscitate + integrate a decade's worth of warnings about these folks — e.g.,... www.wired.com/story/how-pe... www.bloomberg.com/features/201... www.opendemocracy.net/en/palantir-... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

Big news for students and anyone who works with students! In a clear play to hook students during finals time, OpenAI is giving two free months of ChatGPT Plus away to current students. Students can claim the offer at ChatGPT.com/students. (Sadly, the offer is not available to faculty/staff.)

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

This journey is cracking me up (as I wait for the storm to come through Columbus)

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When I hear "efficiency" this is always what I fear will be the end result--decimation of labor.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

submitted 22 days ago • 169 comments

All the Deep Research AI products worked pretty well by pulling from Casetext but looks like that’s not gonna fly anymore.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

The CDC Has Been Gutted. -the scale of this is beyond stupid and it's execution beyond mean. This is an epically dumb own-goal that will cause far more harm than its paltry savings could ever offset. www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

New — Here is a running list of Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) offices that have either been fully eliminated or gutted into non-functionality as a result of today's mass firings (provided to me directly by a CDC staffer):

submitted 22 days ago • 157 comments

An illustrated guide to what life was like before the Affordable Care Act. We had health care plans that didn’t cover health care, insurance cos. could refuse to cover pre-existing conditions, and little maternity care coverage. [kottke.org]

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

It’s honestly really funny that, at 32 years old, I suddenly and completely shifted my wardrobe to like 100% St. John. What a weird period of my life.

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Hi. I’m an expert in modernizing legacy government software systems. This is profoundly stupid and will definitely fail, and it’s just a question of whether our social security system fails along with it.

submitted 26 days ago • 220 comments

Oh thank goodness. Let's keep it going.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I mean… Yeah. Yeah they do. For entirely known and warned-about reasons. Yes. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 27 days ago • 35 comments

The situation at the NIH and for all biomedical and cancer cure research in the United States is MUCH MUCH WORSE than you realize.

submitted 27 days ago • 120 comments