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I just zoom into the hacker tracker app maps on my phone. Had trouble loading them earlier though

The wildest thing about this era is watching so many institutions say out loud yeah, we’re done committing ourselves to excellence, we’re going to specialize in the coddling of mediocre white men

A Border Agent Wore Meta Smart Glasses to an Immigration Raid in Los Angeles

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Look, when you've been out of work for a long time, and also, you're an asshole...

New Death With Indignity Law Lets Terminally Ill Be Crushed By Falling Vending Machines theonion.com/new-dea...

De-ICEing your town A local organizer explains how to get involved and protect immigrants near you.

So many of you wrote asking for a primer on how to push back against ICE's presence where you live! So this week's Tuesday post skips the usual history lesson. Instead, I talked to Oliver Merino of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, who offered a lot of specifics on how to take action near you.

“Coding error” huh? Certainly not what the original iFramers of the Constitution had in mind. Our Fortran Fathers would not be ok with this.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Gabbard overrode CIA officials’ concerns in push to release classified Russia report CIA officials worried the release of the House Intelligence Committee report on 2016 Russian election interference could reveal top-secret spying techniques and sources. Tulsi Gabbard overrode their c...

Exclusive: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a minimally redacted version of a highly classified document on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election after an intense behind-the-scenes struggle over secrecy with the CIA.

ICE raided the Westlake Home Depot in Los Angeles this morning. LATU organizers snapped some photos from the raid—one sticks out: ICE agents rolling up in a Penske rental truck.

Wonder where they got the idea😬

Trying to avoid detection? Is this policy now? Are they now doing roving gangs in this?

Lol

New York Post # @nypost Follow Naked man wearing only balaclava and plastic clogs — and carrying sex toy on stick — terrifies European tourists trib.al/FoNxQP9

“if it’s this wooded path you wish to see, then you must answer my riddles three”

Entirely unsurprising.

For years companies have told me they are “dual-sourced”, only pointing to first/second-tier suppliers. If USGS/EU say 100% heavy rare earth refining and 98% gallium production happens in CN, you are NOT dual sourced.

This.

My baby boy's first wonky media mention.
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Listen, we are in a terrible and difficult time where the horrors can often feel overwhelming. Lean into the things that bring you joy. If that means that sometimes you're wringing that last drop of dopamine out of watching bad people suffer as the result of their poor choices, you do you.

Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China - Slashdot Microsoft announced last month that Chinese state-sponsored hackers exploited vulnerabilities in SharePoint to breach hundreds of companies and government agencies, including the National Nuclear Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security. The company omitted that SharePoint support...

People probably saw the report recently about people in China doing support on US Government systems, unknown to the USG.

As I said at the time to @briankrebs - don’t worry, there’s plenty of skeletons in that closest. Here’s another: https://slashdot.org/story/445166

I am really sick of all these pieces about the DOGE boys who uncritically and unthinkingly repeat the claim that they're "geniuses."

We have to stop regurgitating out the label of "genius" exclusively for a certain type of special white little boy.

A couple -- a small, surly little man in a black shirt and a tall, stacked blonde in a preposterously tiny sundress -- walk down the street smoking cigarettes.

A *chef's kiss* couple I saw on the street this morning

A screenshot from the insider flight notes, saying "To address your feedback, we are extending the functionality of Notification Center to secondary monitors. This means you will be able to see your calendar on any of your monitors as well as the option to show a bigger clock with seconds above calendar. You will be able to open Notification Center on any monitor by clicking the date and time in the system tray of your taskbar"

I'm glad this ability is coming back - I've missed having it

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america first is when you can’t criticize or boycott a government committing a genocide halfway across the world

Reeling over alleged child sex ring, Alabama community asks: ‘Did no one know?’ At prayer meetings and other gatherings, Bibb County residents have grappled with the realization that horrific crimes may have been happening in their town.

For some Bibb County residents, the uncovering of an alleged child sex trafficking ring has shattered a sense of small-town safety.

But experts say rural areas are among the places where people are the most vulnerable to trafficking and abuse.

I think really the story of the past ten years was people taking for granted 21st century liberalism was locked in and therefore you could just kinda be fashy for a laugh only to realize a moment too late Skinhead Steve wasn’t joking after all.

Dozens of people gathered in the parking entrance of the Broadview Detention Center Facility.

A woman holds a sign reading “IMMIGRANTS NOW / CITIZENS NEXT” but “NEXT” is crossed out and edited with red marker to say “Also Now!”

At least 70 people have already showed up to protest against ICE at the Broadview Detention Facility.

This is what showing up for your community looks like. Stand for your neighbors. Abolish ICE.

It's funny to think that my preference for urban living in areas with dense, mixed-used, walkable neighborhoods, multi-family housing, small businesses, and diversity probably stems from Sesame Street. Like an early education in Jane Jacob's urbanist theories.

DOGE has blown $21.7bn of tax payer money. https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/b256b202-ff01-48dc-a2d1-80b0e43fa87a.pdf

"He's a piece of shit, but let's get the political science stuff out of the way," Steven told me when I asked if he thought support of Tesla could be considered apolitical. "Elon Musk has platformed white supremacists and antisemites on X. He got rid of all the moderation. He put back accounts that were clearly neo-Nazis. He's changed algorithms to promote that type of hate. Him and DOGE did massive cuts in the government, including our civil services. He's cut cancer research. Did I mention he was a giant piece of shit?" "He's cut our aid to Africa, which Will result, without exaggeration, in millions of women and children and innocent people dying. Millions," he said. "I'm not a big fan of people who give the Hitler salute. I mean, I'm kind of fussy like that. He gave it twice at Trump's inauguration," he continued. "He's a Nazi. And he cheats at video games. You have another question?"

lol at this response to a “man on the street” interview with protestors at the Tesla diner

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

for many of the worst people in our politics, the only real belief they have is that it should be illegal for us not to like them