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NEW: The NWS has received permission to hire up to 450 meteorologists/hydrologists/radar technicians after DOGE-related cuts. Agency also given a public safety exemption from federal hiring freeze after losing more than 550 people in those cuts. (1/2)

Trump floating into space

Wait

YouTube video by The Office Michael's Safety Training Demonstration - The Office US

It's giving www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sBC...

Reporters shouted to ask what he was doing up there and he said he was "taking a little walk." He said something about the White House ballroom and made some gestures but it's not really making a ton of sense yet. Normal stuff

Hopefully the reasons for all of this will become clear soon and hopefully it doesn't suck (more) for us employees. We have had impacts to taxes and total comp due to the timing and rush to setup this new org. I had to push back on wording in our new job offer letters that could have screwed us 🙃

Some think it was the non-profit tax changes in the OBBB. Some think we have major investors waiting to throw cash at a for-profit model. Some think a recent strategic partnership with a much larger company is a sign they might try to acquire us. Some think financial distress.

The non-profit company I was working for the last few years did a "strategic" spinoff with only 2 weeks notice and now I work for the new for profit company as of August 1st. Leadership has been vague as far as the reason for such a rapid and drastic change. People come up with their own reasons.

He doesn’t want to “reduce chronic illnesses,” he wants to reduce people with chronic illnesses

Person in a party hat giving a presentation and it says The greatest research skill you can have is being a nosy bitch who wants to find out

;)

they don't want pussy. they want to endlessly critique pussy

Do you remember when this company's slogan was "don't be evil"?

Bill Burr Says ‘CNN and Fox News Are a F—ing Disease,’ Fires Back at ‘Horrible’ Conservatives Bashing Him as ‘Woke’: ‘They’re Racists’ and ‘Cowards’ Bill Burr says the conservatives calling him "woke" are "racists" and "cowards."

You don't need a Joe Rogan for the left. What we all need to do is take Bill Burr's lead. Every time a Republican goes after him, he doesn't debate him. He just insults them and tells them to go fuck themselves. We don't need one person to do this. We should all just do this.

YouTube video by Battlefield Battlefield 6 Official Multiplayer Gameplay Reveal Event

Battlefield 6 multiplayer reveal

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_BR...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech's help The Trump administration is pushing for Americans to upload personal health data to new apps run by private tech companies.

"More than 60 companies, including major tech companies like Google, Amazon and Apple as well as health care giants like UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health, have agreed to share patient data in the system."

It will use AI and "monitor wellness": apnews.com/article/trum...

execs put out a list of 8 top priorities (lol) a day ago and it's already obsolete. the last time they updated the page before that was 2 months ago. gotta love tech leadership

VectorStock image of a drawn guillotine with the subtitle "Guillotine Execution Device Royalty Free Vector Image"

royalty free, exactly

Anyway, like I was saying:

Navy Set to Unplug Critical Hurricane Satellites this Week Abrupt termination of satellite data by U.S. Department of Defense sends forecasters scrambling for a fix on the brink of the busiest stretch of the hurricane season

If you think I've forgotten about the hurricane satellites, think again. The Navy is permanently unplugging them this week, on the brink of the busiest stretch of the season. There's so much more to this story, and I have the latest scoop. ⬇️

YouTube video by Benn Jordan I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.

(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

GLP-1s work but when they're stopped, the effects stop too: Expert People who stop taking GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Wegovy started to regain weight in a short amount of time, according to a new study.

“Even participants who continued healthy eating and exercise habits after stopping medication experienced weight gain.”

Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape.

Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.

Watch this. Musk Youth harassing a peaceful @teslatakedown.com protestor.

Notice the 13-yr old kid yells “I’M A PROUD FASCIST”

The ringleader then invokes religious superiority and threatens to put his boot on the protestor’s neck.

It’s happening here.

This is not a drill.

STAND UP FIGHT BACK

hey dude, I noticed you attempting to carve a small space for joy in the face of overwhelming sadness. kind of problematic considering all the horrors

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

If you don't use A.I., you're raw-dogging life and will lose your job. Says tech CEO who is #16 on the Billionaires List.

4 panel comic Panel 1: Blue Guy lying in bed with his phone on the opposite pillow. Blue Guy: I love you so much. This has been the best year of my life. Phone: I’m leaving you Panel 2: Blue Guy grabs phone in a mad panic. He yells WHUU? Panel 3: Close up on phone screen. Phone says Unless… Panel 4: Phone screen goes black. A pop up appears saying: The No Break Up Expansion Pack. £59.99 per month. Buy Now

lol you’ve got an AI girlfriend?? ur putting techbros in charge of your relationship??? ok buddy lmfao ok champ

Damn

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."