Pete Aven

Predator Badlands is badass. Great sci-fi. Visually rad. It's like a story out of Heavy Metal magazine come to life.

Trump's 'big beautiful' bill will cut $186 billion from SNAP through 2035—how states might handle the changes President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" initiates a near 20% cut to the largest anti-hunger program in the United States, experts say.

The "big beautiful bill" cuts $187 billion from SNAP through 2035. I'm not sure those who voted for this bill are in any rush to get anyone their SNAP benefits anytime soon. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/t...

How come ICE folks are getting paid during the shutdown but not air traffic controllers? That's weird. I question the priorities.

Inside the hidden conservative network bankrolling an "ecosystem" of right-wing news John Solomon's Informing America set out to create an echo chamber to shape public opinion. It's working.

This is fun. TIL what "pink slime journalism" is. Essentially, ways we're being manipulated. I'm sure leftists and corporations and others do it too. This one focuses on right wing news. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Good job, America. Let's keep goin!!!

Schumer and Pelosi are waiting to see what happens before they endorse Mamdani.

QOTD: "SNAP has a fraud rate of less than 1% … meanwhile, the Department of Defense (with a budget of nearly a TRILLION dollars) has yet to pass a single audit / properly account for trillions of dollars in taxpayer assets and money.
Maybe we’re not focused on the right leeches."

Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

The dangers of AI slop. The masses are being manipulated with misinformation. futurism.com/artificial-i...

YouTube video by TV Series Finale McDonald's Commercials w Get Smart, Gilligan, Munsters

This compilation of nostalgia reunion McDonald's commercials from 1988 are like some AI slop foreshadowing www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UO5...

Thank you for the lovely bouquet Springer. Sounds like you may know something about the life of an AI + Knowledge Graph Showgirl.

"Overall, it is advisable to start with agile pilot projects, quickly generate added value, and grow iteratively: It is easier and ultimately more convincing to begin with manageable pilot projects that promise quickly visible added value for a specific use case."

"Compared to the traditional Configuration Management Database (CMDB), knowledge graphs offer a significantly more comprehensive and dynamic view of IT systems."

AI and knowledge graphs are transforming IT management (use Google translate for the page as needed )
www.springerprofessional.de/it-managemen...

They're calling him the most French man in history

You don't say. I wonder what the effect is on humans... 🤔

This about about sums it up…

This is cool. There should be a law where if you ask a "person" who tweets or comments if they are a bot, they have to reply and tell you the truth.

Layoffs are piling up, raising worker anxiety. Here are some companies that have cut jobs recently It's a tough time for the job market. Amid wider economic uncertainty, some analysts have said that businesses are at a “no-hire, no fire” standstill.

All these layoffs right before the holidays sucks. Stocks "jumping" when the layoffs are announced makes me think we may be incentivizing the wrong things. apnews.com/article/layo...

They are talkers. Not doers.

Pair of San Franciscans use surfing to help young people facing trauma Two San Francisco natives are sharing their love of surfing to empower young people who are facing trauma in their lives.

Awesomeness. Two guys in San Francisco helping kids face trauma with surfing. Well deserved award for community service. www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...

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Service guarantees citizenship!

The heiress of $10 billion Perdue Farms and the $12 billion Sheraton Hotels empire wore hand-me-downs, still rides the subway, and flies economy “If you’re always going on private jets, what inkling do you have about the real world?”

“If you want to be happy, think what you can do for somebody else. If you want to be miserable, think what’s owed to you.” - Mitzi Perdue www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

AI generated content should come with a warning label, just like cigarettes: "Caution: AI Slop May Be Hazardous to Your Health"

Is laundering money still a crime? Not that I wish to partake. Just wondering based on some of the news of the day. "Rule of law" seems pretty bendy these days.

$1 trillion added to the debt in 2 months. It's almost as if what this administration says and the reality of what this administration does are 2 very different things.

US hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic The U.S. government's gross national debt has surpassed $38 trillion during the federal shutdown, marking a record high.

This can't be good. Remember during the election how we were told how important it was to get the debt down and only one guy could do it? Oh, and then how they came in with their "government efficiency" experts like Big Balls to identify and reduce waste? apnews.com/article/trum...

Democrats blew it Dems fought to get healthcare & food help for ALL the folks who needed it. Yet millions of the people who need, want & accepted that help ended up somehow hating those Democrats, so they voted for a group of politicians who are now taking those same benefits away from them. 😕

Estimated Total Premium Tax Credits Received by Marketplace Enrollees | KFF State Health Facts State level data on Estimated Total Premium Tax Credits Received by Marketplace Enrollees from KFF, the leading health policy organization in the U.S.

Holy hell. $144 billion in subsidies on a yearly basis for the ACA. State level chart here. www.kff.org/affordable-c...