Laura

Oh wow

868: The Hand That Rocks The Gavel

ICE snatching people off the streets is dramatic and infuriating yet even more insidious is what's happening in immigration courtrooms. Excellent podcast on the sad state of affairs spotify.link/A2RgkYGQBXb

AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

Useful word, thank you!

Post from Jojo: Holy fuck. Seb Gorka is his pick to be senior director for counterterrorism. Seb fucking Gorka, who was denied security clearance in the last Trump administration… Seb fucking Gorka who has ties to a Nazi-allied organization in Hungary… The. Director. Of. Counterterrorism.

Well this seems bad.

What is the name of this show? I love real estate p*rn

Republicans in states with extreme abortion bans are now trying to cover up the DEATHS of women that died because of their extreme abortion bans.

Just watched yesterday. Great movie. But yeah, a longer cut of what happened at the steakhouse was warranted

Israel Targets, Injures One of the Only Journalists Left in North Gaza in Strike Al Jazeera reporter Hossam Shabat had just arrived at a house that had been bombed when Israel struck it again.

"Israeli forces injured one of the only journalists left in north Gaza on Tuesday in an airstrike, after the military publicly threatened the Al Jazeera reporter with assassination in October."

The documentary premieres tonight on HBO / Max.
The article referenced looks really good - I haven't finished reading it yet

This, plus @ronanfarrow.bsky.social new documentary Surveilled should have you adopting at least this one habit: restart your phone once a day.

Birds of a feather

How are you feeling now, 2 months out? I'm likely getting mine done soon

logo of the reality show, The Apprentice. It shows an outline of New York buildings, the outline of a man running with a briefcase, and a drawing of Donald Trump, the star of this game show.

FLYNNE: What they used to call reality shows?
NETHERTON: I don’t know. Why'd they stop calling them that?
F: Because it got to be all there is.
N: Yes. She’s descended from that. Reality TV. It merged w/politics & performance art.
F: I think that already happened, back home.
— The Peripheral (2014!)