Dan Robitzski

2024-2025 Literacy Statistics | National Literacy Institute Literacy Statisitics

Fun fact: 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level.

You have to actively remember literally over half the US adult population is *unable to perceive subtext*

www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...

"The questions leftists ask about AI are: does this improve my life? Does this improve my livelihood? So far, the answer for everyone who doesn’t stand to get rich off AI is no."

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters.

The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

Two epee fencers bump butts

Two epee fencers bump butts

Two epee fencers bump butts

Two epee fencers bump butts

Butt Bumps from Div 1 Men's Epee at the @usafencing.bsky.social NAC this weekend

Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu

Every time www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/08/...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Exodus: The shrinking federal space workforce In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million. The 13% drop in staffing is the largest single-year decline since the end of World War II. In total, more than 5,000 people who were part of the federal space workforce left their positions. Senior executives with decades of experience retired alongside younger staffers whose posts were eliminated or who sought opportunities in the private sector or academia.

Exodus: The shrinking federal space workforce

In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million. The 13% drop in staffing is the largest single-year decline since the end of World War II. In total, more than 5,000 people who…

Exodus: The shrinking federal space workforce At least 5,000 federal workers left their positions in the U.S. space workforce last year. These are some of their stories.

Over 5,000 members of the federal space workforce left their positions one way or another last year. @spacenewsinc.bsky.social just published an incredible package of profiles featuring eight of them. spacenews.com/exodus-the-s...

Found out today that Alex Klokus, the guy who founded Futurism - my first staff reporter job out of j-school - took meetings with Epstein (and apparently they shared a doctor). Cool stuff!

I guess Bezos saw "Democracy Dies in Darkness" as a mission statement, huh

lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

From: Casey Wasserman < To: ''Maxwell, Ghislane' Subject: Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 14:06:04 +0000 Where are you, I miss you. I will be in nyc for 4 days starting april 22... can we book that massage now? *** Because email may be altered electronically, the authenticity of this message Casey Wasserman voice fax

To: From: Sent: Subject: Casey Wasserman Thur 4/3/2003 2:14:44 PM Re: RE: Title: Re: RE: Never... take me! Will you be in nyc when I am there? -Original Message-. From: gmax Sent: Wed Apr 02 23:19:49 2003 To: Subject: Re: RE: Umm - all that rubbing - are you sure you can take it? The thought frankly is leaving me a little breathless. There are a few spots that apparently drive a man wild - I suppose I could practise them on you and you could let me know if they work or not? + just for the record the cigar concept currently has pride of place in my bedroom! + Just in case you are curious, I am now in Brazil - have you been here? Gix Original message attached.

To: *gmaxign From: Casey Wasserman Sent: Mon 4/7/2003 11:30:08 PM Subject: RE: Title: Message or something like that. *--Original Message-- From: gmax [mailto:gmax1@mindspring.com] Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 4:34 PM To: Casey Wasserman Subject: RE: What foggy enough so that you can float naked down the beach and no one can see you unless they are close up? At 04:23 PM 4/7/2003 -0700, you wrote: june gloom is the common phrase...very foggy in the AM, usually burns off in the afternoon...but still in the high 70's, low 80's... I like Carbon Beach the best, and of course, that is where my house is...and it is the best and nicest beach and closest to the city which is nice. ---Original Message--- From: gmax [mailto Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 4?28 PM To: Casey Wasserman Subject: RE: Max will be relieved - Stephen Shapiro just called and is going to find out what is available in June to rent in the 3 different areas along the beach. I said I would look at all 3 and would make a decision based more on the house than the area probably. Do you have a view? I don't know anything about Malibu or LA for that matter. Anyway, regardless of that, Stephen told me that the weather is normally lousy in June -Is that right? What does lousy mean? Is it just hazy? Plse explain to the foreigner Gx PS - I can't sleep - where are you when I need you? - At 04:06 PM 4/7/2003 -0700, you wrote: that can be the exception...but only one. ----Original Message----- From: gmax [mailto: Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 3:12 PM To: Casey Wasserman Subject: RE: What about Max? - At 02:39 PM 4/7/2003 -0700, you wrote:

To: From: Casey Wasserman Sent: Mon 4/7/2003 5:04:09 PM Subject: RE: Re: RE: Title: Message Among all my desires, that combination is pretty low on the list.. ХОХО *-Original Message From: gmax [mailto 1 Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 2:51 PM To: Casey Wasserman Subject: RE: Re: RE: Thank you - I'll call Stephen tom and see what he has available and then make a plan to come out and check out the local real estate. I'll let you know what he says, and then you can guide me as I really know nothing about the area - if there is a better bit etc. Now I have just made you my LA tour guide! I am going to go to London from here and then back to NY - can I bring you anything from London? I know you probably do not have the same Kitkat, cheddar cheese or baked bean problem I do - but you never know. My friends who come to visit me always bring a red cross (that is what they call it) food package for me Kisses Gx Stephen Shapiro is the best agent for the beach, his phone is picking a week to be in LA is a really good idea.. i think you The only thing that i want from paris is you. ---OriginalMessage From: gmax Sent: Sunday, Apnil 06, 2005 6:56 AM To: Casey Wasserman Subject: RE: Re: RE: I am looking forward to seeing you to - JE has just asked me to find a house to rent for 2 weeks (I am sure I will have to take it for longer) in Malibu in June. Who is the best real estate person to talk to - let me know. JE says I should pick a weck to go to LA and look? Thought you might like to know I am now in Paris - can I bring you back anything from here?

Here are a few of the emails from Casey Wasserman, current chair of LA28, to Ghislaine Maxwell in the latest Epstein files drop

LA rules

We live in an era where the powerful appear to have lost all grip with reality - and yes, I do think the dual forces of the Internet and AI have much to do with that.

My latest here (and I sure wish current events related to this topic would stop escalating):

Anyone who has read Copaganda knows that we are in the crucial early moments of virality after an extra-judicial police murder. It's extremely important for ICE that the media plays along with the idea that what happened is contested and there are multiple perspectives.

This is the video.

Grok is not a human representative of X, therefore should not be quoted as if they are a human representative of the company. The company’s AI chatbot generated CSAM of users bc human beings programmed the AI to allow such things

What are we doing here

Shocked! Shocked, I say!

Rockets owners expand talks to buy, move Sun

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

The Wall Street Journal article where they con the AI vending machine is very funny because we all wanna trick a robot into giving us a PS5 but ultimately they are just doing research and PR for Anthropic's push for Agents even if they are making fun of them because it's the Wall Street Journal.

An American journalist helped facilitate RFK Jr's ingratiation into Trump's world and kept secret disqualifying information on him that could have kept him out of major policy, which impacts millions of people.

Business Insider: Elon Musk says AI will end America's debt crisis within 3 years.

Forget the four-day workweeek, Elon Musk predicts you won't have to work at all in 'less than 20 years'

Elon Musk predicts energy-based Bitcoin to replace money.

Elon Musk predicts 'war in 5 to 10 years', warns it's 'inevitable.'

enough

"Because there is no legitimate war between the two sides, killing any of the men in the boats “amounts to murder,” said Todd Huntley, a former military lawyer who advised Special Operations forces for seven years at the height of the U.S. counterterrorism campaign."

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