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And please note that evacuation is never gratis—you always have to pay. Anyway, feeling awfully embittered toward the US regime at the moment.

NotebookLM. Deep Research mode on Gemini.

Also, Deep Think, but I don't have access to Deep Think *yet*.

Again, Americans are not “choosing” not to depart at the time. The airspace is closed.

There are at least 10,000 Amcits in Qatar alone, and the US government is saying we are on our own

He also introduced a bill that would codify Bivens (i.e., let you sue federal agents who violate your rights) and it’s gotten surprisingly little press

1 SEC. 2. REFORMING QUALIFIED IMMUNITY STANDARDS 2 3 FOR ICE AGENTS ENGAGED IN LAW EN- FORCEMENT ACTIVITIES. 4 Section 1979 of the Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 5 1983) is amended— 6 (1) by inserting "(a)" before "Every person"; 7 (2) py inserting "of' the United States or" be- 8 fore "of any State'l: and 9 (3) by adding at the end the following: 10 "(b) In the case of any action brought under this see- 11 tion or any other Federal law against an officer or agent 12 of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or U.S. 13 Customs and Border Protection engaged in law enforce- 14 ment- 15 16 17 "(1) no immunity defense shall be available if the facts alleged by the plaintiff would constitute excessive force in violation of the 4th amendment; and

Also no QI for ICE Fourth Amendment violations

And Claude Code is the GOAT, at least for the moment.

Google's research tools are extremely impressive, and I am very glad to have them, but their consumer-facing AI is inferior to Claude.

Obviously, Grok will never make the mistake of correcting Whiskey Pete's suuuuper genius plans.

Insult to injury: I have to get info together for my taxes this week

Just to recap from my soda-straw perspective:
My government started a war of choice that led to my home being bombarded by missiles and drones depleting our air defenses which they refuse to resupply while telling us to evacuate after our airspace was shut because their war put us in danger

The .su domain name was the Soviet Union's top level domain that was inherited by the Russian Federation who decided they'd prefer to use .ru and instead lease out .su to respectable entities such as the so called Donetsk People's Republic and the Daily Stormer

Anthropic is run by good ppl trying to make good AI. Give them a chance.

This whole clusterfuck may legit save AI from a vengeful public backlash, by giving us all an AI company that is showing genuinely heroic bravery against both the MAGA regime *and* the grossly unethical AI company that keeps getting in the news for killing its users in new and exciting ways.

I gotta hand it to Altman here, deciding to sign up to be the new face of the regime’s AI efforts right as they start an unpopular and out of control war with Iran was a real masterstroke in PR

bonus points for letting a major competitor position themselves as The Ethical AI Company

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The numbers aren't big, but it's this type of social safety net, involving current payments, that actually supports domestic consumption. Unfortunately, it is precisely this kind of current spending that is so hard for most local governments.

Shenzhen Wage Fund Payouts Hit Record High as Corporate Insolvencies Rise The city’s guarantee fund, serving as a buffer for employees of collapsed firms, paid out more than over $10 million in unpaid wages in 2024

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Caixin: "A government notice promising to cover the unpaid wages of a bankrupt electronics maker shines a light on a little-known safety net in this southern tech hub that is straining under the weight of rising corporate insolvencies."
www.caixinglobal.com/2026-03-02/s...

dawg

Russian mogul who called Ghislaine Maxwell his ‘soulmate’ is found dead in luxe Moscow pad Umar Dzhabrailov, a Chechen businessman and former senator, was found dead in a luxury Moscow apartment Monday after apparently killing himself.

nypost.com/2026/03/02/w...

Ash Vikrant (@ash.vikrant74) on Threads BREAKING: Esmail Qaani, head of Iran’s Quds Force, has survived all assassination attempts so far, and was even with Khamenei yesterday but escaped again. Now he has allegedly been taken into custody ...

www.threads.com/@ash.vikrant...

It successfully got the conversation past "maybe we could try one of these six or so things" to "okay let's give this one thing a shot". But, crucially, I shared it just with people I'd been talking to about it before, and they knew its provenance. I would never just blast it out under my name

Yeah, recently after a conversation with peers about a problem we want to solve I went and had an hour or so long back-and-forth with Claude and came back with a rough draft analysis+proposal. It was basically a proof of concept of an actual technical design document.

we very much did not allow the KKK to survive. we broke the back of the Klan and successor organizations under the same name had no continuity with the First Klan.

It doesn't even need to be intentional. Yet. This is a natural thing for them to glom onto later.

In general, the instinct to pass responsibility onto others for all your decisions is a great way to turn those others into scapegoats later, even if that's not currently the plan.

I will say that is probably not a great sign that the alternative reading of Rubio's statement is that they are intentionally attempting to create an antisemitic backlash to cover for their bad foreign policy decisions

I mean, at this point it's pretty clear that the ADL is fully on board with the Israeli's right's war on the concept of the diaspora.

"There are no Jewish Americans, just Israelis temporarily living abroad" is a horseshoe position held by both the key players behind Likud and American antisemites.

it is extremely funny that netanyahu, jolani, and zelenskyy are the three people on earth who are happiest about the iran attacks

don't think there's a better encapsulation of everything wrong with "working class politics" that a literal petit-borgeois business owner is somehow universally viewed as blue collar because he's a white guy with a few slurs under his belt

relatedly, the fact there are multiple accounts with .su domain names here [which gives money directly to the kremlin's genocidal & neocolonial war machine] and the fact i'm just supposed to coexist with those people is... not great