Rob Ogborn

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?

Now you know.

Solar power named the world’s cheapest energy source Solar energy is now so cheap it costs as little as €0.023 to produce one unit of power, a new study has found.

Solar energy is now so cheap it costs as little as €0.023 to produce one unit of power, a new study has found.

Caleb Williams runs like an illegal NASCAR version of Patrick Mahomes

VA ends contracts for most of its unionized employees The Department of Veterans Affairs has terminated collective bargaining agreements for most of its more than 350,000 unionized employees, including nurses, food service workers, technicians and janito...

ICYMI: The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Wednesday that it is terminating collective bargaining agreements with more than half a dozen unions that represent most of its more than 350,000 unionized employees.

The Bears' deployment of their skill players last years was...a little curious at times.

On the pod, @carmiev.bsky.social and I talked about how Ben Johnson excels at finding roles for his offensive stars. NFC North preview out now.

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Leavitt without a trace of irony: "When you have a totalitarian regime, you have to save face. I think any common sense, open-minded person knows the truth about the precision strikes on Saturday night. They were wildly successful."

🚨🚨A Trump political rally at Fort Bragg. Soldiers cheering attacks on the press and elected officials. And silence from U.S. Army leadership.

MG (Ret.) Paul Eaton calls it what it is: a stain on the military—and urges top brass to correct course.

Now.

I think there's a point to make here.

if you don’t know the history of Dodger Stadium you can’t fully understand what unfolded today. thanks @chrislhayes.bsky.social for the opportunity to share it.

Porthos: Where is he? I woke up and he was gone
Aramis: He left a note, says he wants be a line judge
Porthos: what the fuck. So now we're the 2 Musketeers. This is bullshit

Marie Harf nails it: Musk didn’t uncover waste—he fired Veterans, slashed Medicaid, and shut down aid to the world’s most vulnerable.

Now China’s stepping in—and Republicans are stuck defending a billionaire with a chainsaw.

This is the cost of cowardice.

MAGA friend tells me about his mentally unstable brother who got hit while riding his bike No insurance He is doing everything he can to make sure his brother gets things he has voted against his entire life and He doesn't understand why the system doesn't have any empathy for his situation

Sigh

Crabageddon looks almost certain

He is completely clueless about what he is doing.

(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para6 graph (2), no State or political subdivision thereof 7 may enforce any law or regulation regulating artifi8 cial intelligence models, artificial intelligence sys9 tems, or automated decision systems during the 10- 10 year period beginning on the date of the enactment 11 of this Act.

This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years.

from @404media.co

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THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS.

Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!”

Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.

Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program A little-known firm with investors linked to JD Vance, Elon Musk and Trump could get a piece of the federal expense card system — and its hundreds of millions in fees. “This goes against all the norma...

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Face meet leopard

PLEASE SHARE: Huge march for our veterans and to defend the constitution THIS FRIDAY, March 14th @ Noon in DC, and every state capitol.

I'll be at the one in DC! Come!

Chicago has added three interior OL (Joe Thuney, Jonah Jackson and Drew Dalman) while also beefing up its defensive line.

Ben Johnson's Bears are being bolstered in the trenches.

H/T @kfishbain.bsky.social

Me and my fellow Bluesky users reading this news

🚨Trump & Musk are gutting the government—Veterans are paying the price.

Join us Thursday, Feb 27 at 2:30PM ET for a VoteVets town hall with MG (Ret.) Paul Eaton, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, AG Nick Brown, Pat Young & impacted Veterans.

RSVP: act.votevets.org/signup/250225_vv_c4_em_townhall/

Claude 3.7, create a meme for crabs.

Now create a meme for crabs by crabs.

Now create a meme by an elderly crab that doesn’t get memes.

Now create a meme by crabs set in 3020

I love that Claude named the elderly crab, Bartholomew Crabapple

My favourite part of the new Captain America movie is when he tries to extort Wakanda for $500b in Vibranium rights before "ironically" teaming up with Hydra to own the libs.

Just a reminder that AI is so challenging to figure out because it is genuinely capable of doing PhD-level work in some areas while messing up basic tasks in closely related areas. And the abilities of AI are growing, but doing so unevenly.

This jagged frontier explains a lot of confusion online.

This was fun: "o1, build a simulator of a D&D guild hall. Persistent characters come in, get quests, interact with each other, leave & return, make it procedurally generated"

I kept asking it to add other ideas (relationships, etc) 8 times, got no errors, just worked each time. Desire-based coding!

I threatened to quit my job today unless they paid me this Friday... They caved and agreed. I'm the best negotiator.

Rural.gov used to be a resource for farmers and small hometowns to find resources.

Every person in agriculture needs to know that this administration betrayed them.

Which AI to Use Now: An Updated Opinionated Guide Picking your general-purpose AI

Every few months, I write an opinionated guide for general purpose users about which AI to pick, especially for newcomers.

Here is my brand new one, which I actually had to update multiple times in the few days I was writing it. Things are changing fast. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...