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The States That Are Most Reliant on Federal Aid MoneyGeek’s analysis identified the states most reliant on federal funding and found an intriguing correlation between dependency and political leaning.

The average red state receives $1.24 in federal funds for every $1 contributed to the federal kitty. www.moneygeek.com/resources/st...

Something nerdy and pleasant to interrupt the morning doomscroll. #HobbitDay

Best thing I heard today, "Do not besmirch my hobby and my country with your treason masquerading as performative patriotism." I love smart #friends.

Not to mention a complete waste of taxpayer money. So much for government efficiency.

Insult to injury, now Hind Rajab's mother is in hiding for trying to speak publicly about the slaughter of her family by Israeli forces. mastodon.social/@QasimRashid...

(Background, since it got so little press in the US: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...) #Genocide

Well worth a repost. Note he backed the rampant vote suppression in North Carolina. Has to make sure he can keep day trading while on the taxpayer clock.

Princeton study titled, "Machine Bullshit: Characterizing the Emergent Disregard for Truth in Large Language Models."

I love this title of an actual Princeton peer-reviewed study. A good read, following a frustrating two weeks at work where OpenAI models incorrectly performed 57% of the calculations I gave them. arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07484 #MachineBullshit

Can Cash Transfers Save Lives? Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment in Kenya Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Very solid research here supporting the simplest way to help the working poor: give them some cash. (Not a popular idea in my home country where it's assumed everyone is on the grift.)

www.nber.org/papers/w34152

Portion of a ChatGPT 5 conversation where the human calls out bad math and after nearly a minute delay the AI acknowledges its figure was wrong.

For the third time this week. Congratulations #OpenAI. You've managed to create a computer that is bad at math. #ChatGPT5

(Part of an ongoing project to test various AI models' accuracy.)

I am so angry about this. My friend's mom, born in DC, now 86 yo, has been braving the heat every day to protest, just like she and many others of her generation did all through the 60s and 70s...way before this rich kid from Santa Monica was even born. #DCStatehood

The military occupation is happening now. DC was my home for a decade, a thriving and beloved city commonly used as a pawn for political maneuvering. (I recall a Senate Committee raiding our elementary education budget to gold-leaf some federal building.) Everyone should be protesting this.

Dial-up Internet to be discontinued Learn about why dial up internet has been discontinued.

End of an era. :( #IAmOld

help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued

An unarmed veteran was attacked from behind, sustaining injuries and being dragged into a Portland ice building.

Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won. Here are the numbers...

This is utter bs. There's no evidence of vote manipulation, it wasn't needed because of the gerrymandering and vote suppression: www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-v...

Congratulations Montréal!!

"Do what's asked or shut up."

I've had a enough fascism, thanks.

Israeli government official arrested in Nevada in internet crimes against children sting Tom Artiom Alexandrovich was released and returned to Israel after being charged with luring a child for a sex act

Finally some coverage on this incident at #BlackHat #HackerSummerCamp: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Now deleted LinkedIn profile for Tom Alexandrovich touting the presence and domination of TelAviv startups at the BlackHat conference.

Now deleted LinkedIn profile & post.

LVPD Press Release: www.lvmpd.com/Home/Compone...

https://www.lvmpd.com/Home/Components/News/News/2182/3754

So this happened in Vegas #BlackHat #HackerSummerCamp. Tom Alexandrovich, Executive Director of Israel National Cyber Defense, got arrested during a child sex sting operation by LVPD. No diplomatic immunity, but still quietly released and allowed to fly home before this press release. More below.

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Are you going to @defcon.bsky.social??

We'll be giving away 9500 print copies of Phrack!

Come by main stage Sunday @ noon to see @vacci.ne @richinseattle.bsky.social and chompie talk hacker history! This will mark the first time Phrack staff appear together on DEF CON’s main stage.

That sounds like a terrible system for minority rights. For example, what does a block of rural farm voters know about the needs of an urban district? And vice versa? Districting needs to be by community, not gerrymandered to dilute certain communities.

Staypuffed marshmallow pope.

Thank you so much for sharing this. I found myself unexpectedly alone just as the world shut down. Everyone was dealing with their own isolation and had no time for mine. Few reached out and fewer still do. I've grown to prefer it. I don't have to answer questions or make others comfortable.

I work in this industry and there's no evidence. There's plenty of other evidence-based issues we could be working on together such as the gerrymandering and vote suppression.

But spreading unproven conspiracy theories and non fact-based claims on the socials helped create this mess.

There's really not any evidence that the voting machines were tampered with. Now the next US election, with the FEC that oversees them gutted, that's another thing.

But for 2024, the money spent on social media misinformation, gerrymandering the voting districts, and suppressing votes worked.

The US doesn't hold the patent dictators using money and social media to manipulate their way to the top. Maybe read up on recent events in Myanmar and Russia?

How do you figure? We in the US, and all other democratic countries, need to examine how this mess happened.

It's ridiculous. I was involved with notifying voters in NC who were stripped from the voter rolls. Most were deployed military or elderly, and in "blue" areas. The new regulations are being selectively enforced which violates state and federal law. (Not that it seems to matter anymore.)

Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won. Here are the numbers...

Not exactly: www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-v...