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Undocumented builders face unchecked exploitation amid Trump raids: ‘It’s more work, less pay’ In a new series on undocumented workers, construction laborers tell the Guardian fear is fueling wage theft and workplace abuse

[Rogelio said his employers cut their rates by 30% to 40%. Other laborers told him they had endured similar treatment.]

If the point is really to get rid of undocumented workers, then every time a worker is deported their employer do a little time in jail.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If we confiscated all wealth over 999 million dollars from all the billionaires in the US, they would still be wildly wealthy and we would raise over 4.5 trillion dollars. Which is, coincidentally, the amount that Congressional Republicans recentlyvoted to increase the debt ceiling by.

Silhouette of dragonfly resting on the other side of back-lit cloth.

The risk of unmitigated climate change leaving earth unable to support colonies over a time frame shorter than that in which they can become self-sustaining is significant. I suspect that overshoot- wearing out one's planet, collapsing your civilization- is the reason for Fermi's paradox.

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I think we can have colonies supported from the home planet within decades. Although the most hospitable places on Mars are far less hospitable than the worst parts of Antarctica, I like the idea of Mars colonies. I'd much rather have Kim Stanley Robinson than Elon to decide how we do that.

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I think the time frame for self-sufficient space colonies will be no less than centuries. I can't see it happening in just decades. All attempts to simulate self-supporting environments with humans in them here on this planet have failed to date.

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Well, there was that bit about Donna Brazile giving Hillary the debate questions ahead of time. www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/417...

"He then did whatever he could to ensure that Donald would win the election".

Now he didn't. He told his supporters to vote for her. I started out backing him and ended up going door to door for her the weekend before the election. Half of us who showed up to do that were former Sanders supporters.

Wouldn't this be more a classic machine learning problem than something you would expect to use a large multimidal model for? That would be AI but not generative per se.

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We are observing the reason for the Fermi paradox.

Graft scars on my pear tree from grafts made 3 and 27 months ago.

Defusing Showdown With White House, Judge Requests Updates on Deported Man (Gift Article) Clashes — both inside the courtroom and over the department’s refusal to comply with her demand for a road map to release Mr. Abrego Garcia — left open the possibility of a standoff in the future.

"Foreign affairs... involves sensitive country-specific considerations wholly inappropriate for judicial review."

-DOJ lawyers

Trump cut a deal to send prisoners to El Salvador and Trump could get this man back with one phone call. He just doesn't want to.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

O.1 percent is 1000 ppm. That's actually a huge shift when it comes to carbon. We are seeing issues at 400 ppm and 600 will be enough to dramatically change the climate.

Gosh, Joe, I've been a "loser" too, if by that you mean broke, but there is no point at which I would have compromised my values and demonstrated for something I didn't believe in for a few hundred bucks.

The one graft that worked is coming along nicely. The two things I thought when I did this one were "these cuts/this fit is perfect" (I had just adjusted the graft cutter) and "both this graft and my tree seem to be starting to bud out. I bet this is just a little too late".

Beautiful AI fail found at www.smallspacegardeningbasics.com/when-to-harv... Pro tip, if you are having AI write your website content at least proofread it.

Picture of graft with leaf buds starting.

Grafting.

Spiderwort and citrus.

Do not torch Teslas. Ethics aside, they aren't selling, and every one that burns is another insurance claim paid out to Tesla.

I've seen it argued that we can trust Musk because as a billionaire he doesn't need the money. Guys, if it were about need he would have stopped at a few tens of millions. Acquiring billions is a sign of a hoarding disorder every bit as much as keeping decades of old magazines.

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I have texts from senator Schumer's campaign committee but his staff can't be bothered to answer the phone. Even Neal Dunn's staff manage to answer the phone. I really believe Chuck wants nothing from rank and file Democrats except our money.

According to the Customs and Immigration website, permanent residents are protected by all laws of the United States, your state of residence and local jurisdictions.

That would include the constitution, where the first amendment calls out "persons", not "citizens".

Sourdough. I'm getting better at scoring baguettes.

FSU scrubbing DEI keywords from websites. Here's what the president says. FSU has taken a deep dive into its websites, scrubbing them of keywords such as “women,” “diverse,” “systemic” and “cultural relevance.”

My Alma Mater gives in without a fight www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

FSU scrubbing DEI keywords from websites. Here's what the president says. FSU has taken a deep dive into its websites, scrubbing them of keywords such as “women,” “diverse,” “systemic” and “cultural relevance.”

@floridastateuniv.bsky.social is giving up in advance. www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

You connect the dots.