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In Testimony, Top Texas Republican Remembers Another Conversation With GOP Mapmaker Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: A top Texas Republican revealed in federal court Monday he didn’t tell legislators about a phone call with the national GOP operative who drew the state’s new gerrymandered congressional map. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

Ok, rvest was where I was gonna start as well, if i find any life changing tools on my journey I shall pass em along :)

Ooh! What tools are you using regularly? This is my next big learning project

All of which is to say, I should probably clean up this repo a little bit if other people are going to be looking at it 😅😅😅 because right now it definitely is built and commented for a single idiosyncratic user!!

Also I played around with the LaTeX file and built a matching cover letter QMD — labeled with CL — But I haven’t quite solved how to turn off some of the TeX elements for the CL that I do need for the CV.

GitHub - pricele2/quarto-mps9506: template / sandbox to learn quarto to replace ms word template / sandbox to learn quarto to replace ms word - pricele2/quarto-mps9506

Yes! I forked Michael schramm’s work and then adapted like crazy and relabeled my repo something innocuous since it’s not a private repo and I didn’t want colleagues asking questions about why I’m working on a resume 😅

github.com/pricele2/qua...

“Now we have no more cookies to eat,” said Toad sadly. “Not even one.”

“Yes,” said Frog, “but we have lots and lots of will power.”

“You may keep it all, Frog,” said Toad. “I am going home now to bake a cake.”

Cool, looking forward to it!! Thx for the link!

“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..”

@marketwatch.com
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

Maybe not! Just ran across this package for Rmd/Word earlier this week

bsky.app/profile/noam...

The Trump Administration Is Coming for Nonprofits. They're Getting Ready As the Trump administration threatens them, liberal nonprofits have been quietly preparing to do everything from surrendering 501(c)(3) status to relocating outside the US.

New from me! The Trump administration is gearing up to take aim "radical left" institutions aka nonprofits that work on everything from democracy to climate change. The industry is bracing for the hit.

@wired.com

www.wired.com/story/the-tr...

I’m consistently frustrated that the conversation around AI has become:

“Here is this hammer.”

“I LOVE HAMMERS! HAMMERS ARE THE BEST TOOL EVAR!”

“Be careful not to hit your fingers with the hammer - that can hurt.”

“Whyyyy do you hate hammers?!?”

First we created a culture where you don't have to understand basic statistical ideas and methods to analyze quantitative data from samples. This was a wonderful innovation, as it removed barriers to publishing whatever the fuck you wanted. Using "AI" to just invent the data is the next logical step

What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them? A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right

What a perfect formulation:

“This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

when I worked in an independent bookstore, the owner told me the most stolen book was one about getting your first period and if I saw anyone walking out with it, I should just let them go.

Wow

I get this reply a lot. I think people who don't study computer science genuinely do not understand how it's taught.

You *have* to understand logic gates. In Berkeley, students are also made to learn assembly. Less about the language, more about principles. www.theargumentmag.com/p/chatgpt-an...

INTERVIEWER: As you know, we are a nation beset by myriad horrors. What are you doing to fight back?
SCHUMER: I have been reaching out to the horrors, many of which are friends, in hopes of working together on this for all Americans. You demand we descend into hell? Well ok, but let's do it right.

Ezra Klein: There's a Rick & Morty quote I really like.

Ezra Klein: It goes like this, "Why would a pop-tart want to live inside a toaster? That would be like the scariest place for them to live."

Ta-Nehisi Coates not saying anything

Ezra Klein: Because in the episode they go to a neighborhood where everyone is a pop-tart and they live in toaster-houses.

The gaslighting is wild. THEY control the White House, the House, and the Senate—yet always find a way to blame Democrats for their mess.

The so-called “$1.5 trillion wish list” is about protecting health care, food assistance, and housing. (1/2)

a rainbow with the words " be more you know " and a star Alt: a flying rainbow with the words " the more you know " and a star

Aha! Gracias!

Things I will always find curious are largely limited to the practical!! Not the judge-y

Ok but how does one drink a coffee through that headgear…?

https://api.army.mil/e2/c/downloads/2022/08/05/90d128cb/active-component-demographic-report-june-2022.pdf

The US military is only 50% white (and it's 15% female) so Hegseth launched an attack on the majority of troops.

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

Now might be a good time for Democrats to remind people that when they return to power they will not hesitate to prosecute people who murder civilians.

okay which one of you jokers called Mr. Trump and said you were Canada

Morning Digest: Kansas Democrat may run for Senate if GOP gerrymanders her seat Rep. Sharice Davids would be the most prominent Democrat to run in a state where Republicans haven't lost a Senate race in nearly a century

Sharice Davids has hinted that if Republicans gerrymander her district, she might run for Senate instead