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And yes, the url for the 404 page has "deicodetalkers" in it. Vile. Just vile.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

1. EXCLUSIVE An internal Social Security Administration memo, dated March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, lays out a plan to sabotage the agency. The memo itself predicts "service disruption," "operational strain," and "budget shortfalls" will result. Follow this thread for details. 🧵

submitted 19 days ago • 227 comments

The distance between a legal resident who's not a citizen being deported without due process and a citizen being deported without due process is a hell of a lot shorter than many folks seem to believe, and when it does happen to a citizen, just remember it started here and who was quiet in response.

submitted 19 days ago • 137 comments

Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.

submitted 24 days ago • 167 comments

Epic idea

submitted 25 days ago • 569 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 27 days ago • 593 comments

Now that the influential bigot who did a Hitler salute publicly claimed that organic protests against his malfeasance are secretly controlled by a list of foreign Jews, some of whom aren’t even alive today, are we allowed to call him a Nazi, or is there something even Nazier we have to wait for?

submitted 27 days ago • 129 comments

submitted 27 days ago • 561 comments

on feb. 28 FAA gave spacex permission to fly Starship again despite SpaceX not having completed a mishap investigation into its jan. Starship explosion — maybe it’s worth figuring out what went wrong & how to mitigate that before flying again? www.cnbc.com/2025/02/28/f...

submitted 29 days ago • 18 comments

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

submitted 30 days ago • 901 comments

the thing about “democrats should take popular cultural positions” is that what constitutes popular is a function of an interaction between the public and elites. if a faction of elites start screaming about a vulnerable minority and another faction says they have a point, this shapes the public.

submitted 33 days ago • 409 comments

Seems like Hegseth's Stand Down Our Defenses Against Russia order should be getting a bit more attention.

submitted 34 days ago • 456 comments

submitted 36 days ago • 144 comments

If your employer self insured, share this with your management. Your CEO doesn't realize they are getting ripped off on their pharmacy benefits. Here is how www.nasdaq.com/articles/elo...

submitted 37 days ago • 405 comments

All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

submitted 39 days ago • 2771 comments

The best part about the Model Y design facelift is that we’ll know beyond a shadow of a doubt who bought one after it came out the CEO of Tesla is a fascist out to destroy the country. 👀 insideevs.com/news/751503/... @patrickgeorge.bsky.social @insideevs.com @tlevin.bsky.social #teslatakedown #ev

submitted 40 days ago • 5 comments

Hey, when random guys with no badges and no authority try to grab a protester and drag her away, that's when you put down the phone, get out of your seat, and fucking help her.

submitted 40 days ago • 347 comments

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

submitted 44 days ago • 422 comments

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 50 days ago • 428 comments

It’s very interesting how media outlets like 404 and Wired who do tech and not DC cocktail party circuit slop have covered the Musk angle best because their guiding light isn’t getting a ticket to next weeks book release party in Georgetown

submitted 50 days ago • 24 comments

the only way to save civilization is to make the government stop the investigations into my company and start giving it a bunch of money instead

submitted 51 days ago • 22 comments

Something you won’t find on Twitter.

submitted 54 days ago • 768 comments

PITCH: An updated version of the curse of Cassandra where she's describing things that are happening now, in front of everyone, but still isn't believed.

submitted 59 days ago • 80 comments

Shimon Peres' prophetic insight--and recollection what he told Putin: "Why is America great? America is giving; people think it’s because they are generous. I think it’s because they are wise. If you give, you create friends. The most beneficial investment is making friends."

submitted 59 days ago • 3 comments

When protestors uttered the slogan “defund the police” the national media had a massive freak out. But now that Trump wants to actually gut the FBI and (it would seem) illegally fire 1000s of people who work there, the same media sees it as a curiosity, a dull bureaucratic matter.

submitted 59 days ago • 125 comments

This whole story is horrific, and exactly what the demonisation of trans people and trans kids leads too. The targeting of women & girls who do not conform to gender stereotypes. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 59 days ago • 35 comments

Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…

submitted 68 days ago • 123 comments

You don't say www.psypost.org/transgender-...

submitted 72 days ago • 81 comments

🧵 THREAD: Our reporter spent the past year reporting inside the State Department, trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy: How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza?

submitted 79 days ago • 170 comments

I wonder if they debated making the third point of the plan “profit”

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk secretly negotiated a prisoner swap directly with Iran and Italy that prevented a terrorism suspect indicted by DOJ, who allegedly participated in a drone attack on American servicemen, from being extradited to the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/w...

submitted 79 days ago • 180 comments

"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission." Lina Khan really is That Girl.

submitted 79 days ago • 638 comments

JUST IN: The U.S. added 256,000 jobs in December, surpassing expectations and bringing the total for 2024 to 2.2 million. The unemployment rate dipped to 4.1%, and wages grew 3.9% over the past year, far outpacing inflation.

submitted 85 days ago • 1447 comments

Under Meta's newly relaxed moderation policies, women can be compared to household objects, ethnic groups can be called "filth," users can call for the exclusion of gay people from certain professions and people can refer to a transgender or non-binary person as an "it."

submitted 86 days ago • 44 comments

The year is 2038... I'm joining my 23rd social network in as many years. I am requesting an edit button, and the mods are telling me it's too risky because someone might get tricked into saying they hate something they love. The last social network eventually added one. So did the one before.

submitted 86 days ago • 20 comments

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

submitted 87 days ago • 672 comments

Congrats to NYT, WaPo, LAT, CNN, etc. for still being in the running for the final rose

submitted 113 days ago • 61 comments

Great summation of the many problematic plots of LOVE, ACTUALLY. (Folks, relax, it's just for fun.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=r53s...

submitted 114 days ago • 18 comments

Lunchtime!

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

This is an oligarchy. The founders never intended people to have this much power… EVER Stop the oligarchy

submitted 119 days ago • 1910 comments