D. Hicks

Sorry, I can't come into the office because my cat would be sad.

The chatbot UI was such a profound mistake

The bigger problem imo is the way the tool presents results as opinions and not summaries, leading to the idea the tool is "agreeing" with you. We need to think of this more as search than conversation, where if we say "find me someone agreeing with me" we get that.

Ive watched this about 100 times.

This is why the internet was invented.

Right here.

Peak content.

The history of the press on this is the Trump campaign released a plan saying they would do what they are now doing and people did the math and said that means massive detention centers everywhere yet every headline about it was "With Project 2025 some Dems think they having a winning issue"

1. Build huge subscriber base by telling them their $ supports democracy.
2. Don’t establish other revenue sources.
3. Rug-pull subscribers by pushing opinion side to the right.
4. Subscribers leave, revenue falls.
5. Enact crippling newsroom cuts.

Ka'ra the tuxedo cat stands in her blue and white cardboard scratcher house, leaned in intently as she scratches at the floor. It is covered in little cardboard bits, as is the space just outside the front door. She's staring at the floor and her little white hands as she makes a huge mess.

rE doin my floors.

Whoever figures out how to sterilize milk will be so famous they’ll probably name the process after them.

A good heuristic for data science debates -- and any scientific debate, really -- is to trust the people who are talking to you about levels of statistical uncertainty rather than the people making bold, relatively simplistic prescriptive claims.

It gets much worse in the present context when you learn the age of the girl

“You are hereby invited to look at my cute little face.” Tuxedo cat lying on a messy bed, surrounded by stuffed animals and an embroidered pillow.

The you are hearby invyted to looke at mine cute littol fase.

If you've been around for a while, you know that one of my incremental positions is that any law enforcement official that fires a gun is automatically done with that job. Doesn't matter why you fired it, you only get to do it once, then you have to go get a real job

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What if one wants DISOBEY but Jeremy

Carol the brown fluffy cat staring down at Puffin, a white fluffy puppy obliviously chewing a blue toy

Close up of Carol plotting

Toilet training Puffin to nose a dog doorbell to ask to go. She rings it, she gets taken outside.

Carol has started pressing the button. Then staring at us.

Unsure of her intent: does she think button entails “Now I get to go out” (she’s indoor only)?

Or “Remove the white devil from my house?”

Porque no los dos

As I've said many times, I think the Nobel Prizes are Bad and we should feel bad about the space they take up in our collective psyches. They're racist (and Eurocentric), sexist, and very tied into the Great Man myth of science.

[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:

I don't think body cams are gonna fix things

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

Flanked by Democratic and Republican lawmakers, Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris addresses the media at the state Capitol in Sacramento about a series of bills that aim to DUI fatalities and injuries in the state, on Feb. 2, 2026. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters. Hed:

A bipartisan group of state Assembly members today announced a package of bills to crack down on dangerous drivers and address some of the roadway safety issues CalMatters uncovered as part of its ongoing License to Kill series. bit.ly/4abDayu

📸 Fred Greaves

People have been shouting for years that no one should be a billionaire, that wealth on that level is personally poison and societally catastrophic, and now we have millions of terribly written emails demonstrating in the clearest terms that every one of those shouts was impossibly correct.

"On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: “America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions.”1 More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President Washington’s vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. See 8 U.S.C. § 1254a (TPS statute). It provides humanitarian relief to foreign nationals in the United States who come from disaster-stricken countries. It also brings in substantial revenue, with TPS holders generating $5.2 billion in taxes annually. See Part VI. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has a different take. [screenshot of tweet].

So says the official responsible for overseeing the TPS program. And one of those (her word) “damn” countries is Haiti. Relevant here, three days before making the above post, Secretary Noem announced she would terminate Haiti’s TPS designation as of February 3, 2026. See 90 Fed. Reg. 54733 (Nov. 28, 2025) (Termination). Plaintiffs are five Haitian TPS holders. They are not, it emerges, “killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies.” They are instead: Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer’s disease, Dkt. 90 (Second Am. Compl. (SAC)) ¶ 1; Rudolph Civil, a software engineer at a national bank, id. ¶ 2; Marlene Gail Noble, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department, id. ¶ 3; Marica Merline Laguerre, a college economics major, id. ¶ 4; and Vilbrun Dorsainvil, a full-time registered nurse, id. ¶ 5. They claim that Secretary Noem’s decision violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. § 706(2), and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Government counters that the Court does not have jurisdiction, and, in any case, the Secretary did not violate the law. Plaintiffs seek to stay the Secretary’s decision under 5 U.S.C. § 705 pending the outcome of this litigation. See Dkt. 81 (§ 705 Mot.). To decide their motion, the Court considers first whether it has jurisdiction. It does. See Part II. It then considers: whether Plaintiffs have a substantial likelihood of success on the merits; whether they will be irreparably harmed absent a stay; and whether a merged balance of the equities and public interest analysis favors a stay. See Part III. Each element favors Plaintiffs. See Parts IV, V, and VI. Plaintiffs charge that Secretary Noem preordained her termination decision and did so because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants. This seems substantially likely. Secretary Noem

has terminated every TPS country designation to have reached her desk—twelve countries up, twelve countries down. See Section IV.A.2. Her conclusion that Haiti (a majority nonwhite country) faces merely “concerning” conditions cannot be squared with the “perfect storm of suffering” and “staggering” “humanitarian toll” described in page-after-page of the Certified Administrative Record (CAR). See Section IV.A.3.a. She ignored Congress’s requirement that she “review the conditions” in Haiti only “after” consulting “with appropriate agencies.” 8 U.S.C. § 1254a(b)(3)(A); see Section IV.A.1. Indeed, she did not consult other agencies at all. See id. Her “national interest” analysis focuses on Haitians outside the United States or here illegally, ignoring that Haitian TPS holders already live here, and legally so. See Section IV.A.3.b. And though she states that the analysis must include “economic considerations,” she ignores altogether the billions Haitian TPS holders contribute to the economy. See id. The Government’s primary response is that the TPS statute gives the Secretary unbounded discretion to make whatever determination she wants, any way she wants. And, yes, the statute does grant her some discretion. But not unbounded discretion. To the contrary, Congress passed the TPS statute to standardize the then ad hoc temporary protection system—to replace executive whim with statutory predictability. See Section I.A. As to irreparable harm, the Government contends that, at most, the harms to Haitian TPS holders are speculative. But the Department of State (State) warns [screenshot]

Dkt. 100 (§ 705 Reply) at 20–21.4 “Do not travel to Haiti for any reason” does not exactly scream, as Secretary Noem concluded, suitable for return. And so, the Government studiously does not argue that Plaintiffs will suffer no harm if removed to Haiti. Instead, it argues Plaintiffs will not certainly suffer irreparable harm because DHS might not remove them. But this fails to take Secretary Noem at her word: “WE DON’T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.” See Section IV.B.2.b. Finally, the balance of equities and public interest favor a stay. The Government does not cite any reason termination must occur post haste. Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight. She complains of strains to our economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our healthcare system. Her answer? Turn the insured into the uninsured. This approach is many things—in the public interest is not one of them. For the reasons below, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs’ Renewed Motion for a Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705, Dkt. 81.

Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction.

It's a tour de force:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

As someone else on here I don't recall pointed out: incontinence is a common fate for us all and one of the indignities of age, but there is no one in the world less sympathetic than Donald Trump.

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Some of my Irish ancestors came to San Francisco during the Gold Rush, so you know that whole thing with colonialism and potatoes

Stop Blaming DoorDash for the Affordability Crisis One DoorDash Discourse to rule them all: Food away from home is down. Groceries are up. This is especially true for young people. Affordability is a real problem.

DoorDash Discourse is entirely wrong.

Since the pandemic, percent spending on groceries are up, food away from home is down, and this is especially true for young people. Trends point to food affordability being a real problem.

Dig into the CEX with me!
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"Because Amy peed there" when you have no idea who or indeed what Amy is

Maybe after we oust the fascists we can work on creating an effective, accessible health care system. My family has "good" insurance and fairly minimal medical needs but managing appointments, prescriptions, and insurance takes many hours every month.