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Hyperscalers have bought all the hard drives available for the rest of 2026. What is in stores is all that is left. If you mean SSDs, the Chinese brands are decent, but even those are 2x the price they were a couple months ago. Buy now.

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:

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Screenshot of an X.com post by Acyn (@Acyn) quoting an exchange: Vance says a group isn’t targeting people based on skin color; a reporter cites a police chief saying off-duty officers who are people of color were targeted and asked for papers; Vance says it’s a concern and they need to find out if it happened. Below is a video thumbnail of JD Vance speaking at a press podium; a CNN-style “BREAKING NEWS” lower-third references a debate over entering homes without a judge’s warrant.

“I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention…”
— JD Vance on why he amplified false claims about Haitians eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.

Doesn’t like to refresh on its own.

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

Screenshot of an X post by “Read Raising Expectation…” saying “You don’t reform the Gestapo, you abolish them and try them for their crimes.” Embedded is a quoted post from “Home of the Brave” stating that ICE Associate Director Marcos Charles says individuals ICE agents encounter near a “target” are “fair game” for interrogation. At the bottom is a TV interview still showing a man seated, with “60 MINUTES” text on screen.

Shut ICE down, remove the leadership, break DHS apart, and investigate their crimes.

Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.

Wouldn’t that be the opposite problem?

This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model.

ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.

A petit bourgeoisie you say, that sees its lifestyle and social position under threat you say? Finding exterior enemies and explanations from a rapidly growing facist movement, you say?

Nope. Doesn't ring a bell.

Don’t give up hope. You are young enough that the Fallout timeline may still apply.

the only good thing about this part of the horrible shooting story is that it may turn out to be a gut shot for the carcass of @cbsnews.com and that's great. and unlike the ICE goon CBS has real internal bleeding.

Bold of you to assume we make it out of January.

I wrote book reviews for a while for the WSJ well over a decade ago, and Bari Weis was my editor. One of her special tricks was to try to insert a sharp rightward slant into my essays *after* it had been copy edited, as a way of slipping her viewpoint in at the last minute.

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This should honestly be a legal requirement for discontinued products.

YouTube video by Luke Stephens LIVE Another 'Grand Theft Auto 6' delay is possible... #gaming #gta6

Luke Stephens interpreted your comment about the game not being “Content Complete” at this stage as a red flag that it may not make its 2026 launch date: youtube.com/shorts/h0P4Q...

Democrats should run on the fact that their opposition is literally killing Americans and destroying the country.

It’s not hyperbole. That’s the message they should be blasting out to media every day.

They are killing Americans and destroying the country. They hate our freedom. They hate democracy

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said.

That is called murder when they do that.

Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%

Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%

Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.

As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

I have worn a mask in public for over 5 years. My husband has had profound, life-changing long Covid for over 4 years, and now our kid does as well. I can’t imagine I will stop masking unless their circumstances change. And for what it’s worth I haven’t had even a cold for the last four+ years.

Andrew Kadel @DrewKadel@social.coop My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen. Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again: When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?" If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing! But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else. It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

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They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars. Tracing the fallacy of 911 call analysis through the justice system, from Quantico to the courtroom.

They called 911 for help.

Police and prosecutors used the junk science of "911 Call Analysis" to decide they were liars.

(Published 2022)