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this is an important point - data integration doesn't just happen at one level of government. so while the states have their own structures, federal data fuckery will cause problems for states & counties, which will cascade to cities & towns too

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This is the kind of thing that should get people fired. Instead, they continue to RIF the public servants that exercise the care and caution in their jobs where this would never happen. DOGE is a bunch of hacks.

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“Double-checking” AI doesn’t cut it, says @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social in @technologyreview.com. When an AI model draws conclusions from opaque, massive data sets, human oversight becomes a myth; and for military intel, a dangerous myth.

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If you are actively culling your library to keep books like "The Bell Curve" while removing criticisms of the book, you are building a white supremacist library.

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When you are one hundred percent committed to battling anti-semitism:

submitted 2 days ago • 98 comments

This is happening. They are building the Elon Musk infinite money machine.

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How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

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All praise to @apha.org for being the first major organization to call for this. #RFKJr is a public health menace.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Evil shit from a moron. Taking advantage of distraught parents looking for something, anything to blame, and spreading vaccine fears and skepticism to the rest of the country.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

I really try not to watch this stuff, but just a glance at the framing and lighting makes it look like they are trying to revive “The Apprentice” as a cabinet meeting. It’s all optics and aesthetics.

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"I'm a rich guy likes to buy access to public officials, and its a lot easier to do that with the Trump administration" is a compelling message.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Who's getting rich off this engineered volatility?

submitted 4 days ago • 197 comments

We can completely dispose of “let’s bring back American manufacturing” as the reason for these tariffs right? Should we look at this as anything other than market manipulation by a serial bad actor?

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Injecting some mirth into an otherwise dark timeline. He looks like a conductor out there, ready to start the 2nd movement of the symphony. And gets a tie on the road at River Plate!!

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Has anyone gotten so bad with browser tabs that they regularly close like 60 of them without even checking what they are?

submitted 4 days ago • 720 comments

happy confederate surrender day to all

submitted 4 days ago • 123 comments

Ok what’s going on here? Yields are going up which means bond prices are going down. Fewer buyers of the world’s safest asset. Normally when the economy slows, there’s a flight to safety, not away from it. Means the world may be abandoning America. We are flirting with a true crisis.

submitted 5 days ago • 438 comments

This is withholding of Social Security benefits. This is your money they’ve stolen.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

All of this, all of it, is illegal. Congress appropriated that money, OUR money, to support research and invest in America’s future innovation. It is not up to anyone in the Executive Branch to block it whenever they feel like it. The other co-equal branches of government have a duty to end this

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DHS/ICE has sought gov and commercial data sources over the years (with varying degrees of success—which are worthy of discussion), this is the worst escalation of that pattern yet

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Here is the MOU itself storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... I don't know how we repair the many breaches of trust from this administration

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For those of who remember that Facebook basically destroyed a big chunk of the digital news industry by faking their video views reports ... yeah this isn't terribly surprising.

submitted 6 days ago • 28 comments