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Heckuva job, Oklahoma.

HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use Product development, internal operations among teams expected to be hit hardest.

Today's LLMs will never have an original thought or be capable of any actual creativity.

HP is being just as short-sighted as it was in 1977 with Steve Wozniak and the Apple I.

"Entry level workers out - 'AI' in" is a stupid mantra and a fool's bargain.

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going great

Tesla shareholders approve $1tn pay package for Elon Musk Chants of ‘Elon’ erupt after compensation plan approved despite opposition from several high-profile investors

greed greed greed

these tech bros will not be satisfied until they make 1793 great again

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‘I don't know who he is’: Trump struggles to defend one of his most scandalous pardons The president said that he pardoned Changpeng Zhao despite not knowing who he is. If he’s lying, that’s a problem. If he wasn’t, it’s worse.

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Voters divided on midterms despite broad Trump disapproval, poll finds Most Americans disapprove the president’s handling of top issues, and a majority say he has gone too far in exercising his powers.

Trump’s “disapproval is the highest in a Post-ABC poll since January 2021, a week after the attack on the Capitol.”

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Voters divided on midterms despite broad Trump disapproval, poll finds Most Americans disapprove the president’s handling of top issues, and a majority say he has gone too far in exercising his powers.

New poll:

Trump is underwater by 18 points overall.

And he’s underwater among independents by 39 points.*

* not a typo.

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Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.

NEW: Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.

Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

Time for a new generation of Pentagon leadership.

Whiskey Pete should go crawl in a bottle.

Argentine peso weakens to fresh low despite US interventions Currency gains sparked by estimated $400mn of US purchases melt away ahead of election for president Javier Milei

so that was money well spent then, hey? america firrrrst!

"The Argentine peso has fallen below the level it reached before the US Treasury began purchases this month, in a sign that the Trump administration’s financial support is failing to halt the currency’s slide..."

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‘Phased Out’—Google Confirms Bad News For All 3 Billion Chrome Users Is it time to quit the world’s most popular browser as privacy nightmare comes true?

Google's not even bothering to make a show of caring about your privacy any longer.

Tech firms will not bake personal privacy into the cake until they're forced to do so by legislation.

In the meantime, find an alternative to Chrome.

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‘Phased Out’—Google Confirms Bad News For All 3 Billion Chrome Users Is it time to quit the world’s most popular browser as privacy nightmare comes true?

Google's not even bothering to make a show of caring about your privacy any longer.

Tech firms will not bake personal privacy into the cake until they're forced to do so by legislation.

In the meantime, find an alternative to Chrome.

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Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...

NEW: From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russ Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term.

Vought has consolidated power to an extent that insiders say they feel like “he is the commander in chief.”

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a corrupt and reprehensible old man at a certain stage of cranial degradation

4D chess

donnie is a very stable genius

just fyi.

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CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

MIT is first school to reject Trump administration's agenda in exchange for funding benefits "With respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education,” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology president wrote in a letter.

MIT tells Trump to pound sand. I hope others decide to do the same.

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These moves are not great for the overall economy, either. A lot of those funds would have wound up back in the private sector.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Armed investigators visit man who sent postcard critical of Florida CFO Ingoglia The politically active couple expected a knock on their door because of their criticism of Trump and DeSantis, but not over a seemingly innocuous postcard.

Otto and Elise Hampel were Berliners who, in the early 1940s, used postcards to urge resistance against the Nazi regime.

They were arrested, convicted and beheaded.

(Their story is the basis for "Every Man Dies Alone," a brilliant novel.)

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And... what would you say... *constitutes* this tradition he's bucking? What exactly is it *constituted* of?

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

The surveillance state is here and growing.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...

China has made multiple investments in SpaceX.

Historically they've used these sorts of forays to conduct espionage.

In the case of SpaceX, that seems problematic for US national security.

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Psaki: "All around the world, Trump is the butt of the joke, and it's a little less funny to many people living here."

The assumption that the side “causing” the shutdown is destined to lose is faulty when the president is underwater on every issue, the economy is in decline, and he seems obsessed with everything but the shutdown issues (persecuting his enemies, politicizing the military, etc.).

color me shocked.

The president is lying

it's the 'emperor has no clothes' phenomenon