Sean Massa

this is the future that liberals want etc.

Trump says he has “no idea” who he just pardoned President Trump reacts to condemnations of his recent pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao by claiming he doesn’t know who he is.

Newsletter: Faced with blowback over his pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, President Trump has offered a curious defense: he doesn’t even know the guy.

CBP Quietly Launches Face Scanning App for Local Cops To Do Immigration Enforcement The app, called Mobile Identify and available on the Google Play Store, is specifically for local and regional law enforcement agencies working with ICE on immigration enforcement.

We are speedrunning "the worst, most dangerous technologies trickle down from military to feds to local police"

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You want to democratize "going to therapy"? Make it "free" as in paid by socialized healthcare. You want to democratize "making art"? Give people money and free time to express themselves.

Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man.

Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia Competitor.' It is the antithesis of Wikipedia in every possible way, and it is not going to work:

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Last week, I wrote about Doublespeed, essentially a click farm that sells “synthetic influencers” to astroturf whatever product or service you want across social media, despite it being a clear violation of every social media platform's policy on inauthentic behavior. But that was just the tip of the iceberg. a16z’s Speedrun is also backing: Creed: An AI company “rooted in Christian Values” which produces Lenny, a “Bible-based AI buddy who's always got your back with wise words, scripture-inspired guidance, and a listening ear whenever you need it.” Zingroll: The “world’s largest Netflix-quality AI streaming platform,” which is another way of saying it’s a Netflix populated exclusively with AI Slop. Vega: which is building “AI-powered social orbits.” What does that mean? Not entirely clear, but the company has produced one of the most beautiful Mad Libs paragraphs I’ve ever seen: “We’re building the largest textual data moat on human relationships by gamifying the way people leave notes for each other. For the first time, LLMs can analyze millions of raw, human-written notes at scale and turn them into structured meaning, powering the most annotated social graph ever created.” Moona Health: an AI-powered Sleep care app the company says is covered by insurance. “Our AI-powered platform automates insurance claims and scheduling and analyzes sleep data – providing personalized session guidelines to therapists,” Moona says. Jooba: “The world’s first autonomous recruiting firm.” Margin: “The World’s first AI powered credit card.” Margin says “Customers earn points, with dynamic rewards that adapt to their preferences in real time.” First Voyage: A wellness app that gives you AI “mythological pets that turn wellness into play.” Axon Capital: billed as “DeepMind for Finance,” Axon says it has “pioneered brain-inspired, low-latency AI for financial markets.”

This is so bleak:

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CNBC headline: "Elon Musk’s AI-powered Wikipedia competitor goes live after a rocky launch". I've struck through "AI-powered" in red, and replaced it with "Wikipedia-powered"

Grokipedia attribution text: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License."

fixed that for you

It's Science.

What the heck?

Anatomy of a crypto meltdown October 2025 brought the most dramatic crypto flash crash of all time, but it was only a dress rehearsal for the systemic crisis the industry is building toward.

Newsletter: Anatomy of a crypto meltdown

October 2025 brought the most dramatic crypto flash crash of all time, but it was only a dress rehearsal for the systemic crisis the industry is building toward.

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Supreme Court ruling: "This Court now concludes that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption. That speakers may have influence over or access to elected officials does not mean that those officials are corrupt. And the appearance of influence or access will not cause the electorate to lose faith in this democracy."

Every now and then I go back and read the Citizens United ruling to see if it is as unhinged as I thought, and every time I do that I see it is actually far more deranged than I remembered.

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Legendary Final Fantasy Composer Nobuo Uematsu says he’s never used generative AI, and never will.

"I think it still feels more rewarding to go through the hardships of creating something myself."

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Ok, so this is a very big deal. Let’s thread it.

Chicagoland, if you're buying a whistle for safety reasons, keep in mind metal whistles are not great for cold weather use. Aim for a VERY loud plastic emergency whistle.

I keep a stash of these at my cabin for cold weather hikes:

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Parents at the neighborhood public school are lining the streets and offering children escorts home because of the very legitimate fear that our federal government will kidnap them

This is the lesson of 2025

Being a podcaster costs $40 for a decent mic and $18 per month for hosting. The hard part is having something interesting to say. Get a degree in that!

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
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an experian credit cscore chart showing a score of 850 after a +18 point change today

I didn't even think this was possible.

Anyway boys, I'm single.

The Shard of Opportunity is excited to announce the Complicated Opportunities Podcast. Join Irving and Kyle as they explore the Cosmere RPG and share advice, reviews, and stories to help both players and other GMs alike bring the world of Brandon Sanderson to life at their table.

Megabonk is $8.49 on Steam buff.ly/LrA0FJL

Deck verified

posting this again cause intro sale ends tomorrow and this game is a good time

How Ruby Went Off the Rails What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure.

How Ruby went off the rails: A deep dive into the ownership and governance drama of some of the most important open source projects in the world

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Life after cars, Chicago chapter

Mad props to @aldermanlaspata.bsky.social

YouTube video by Tom Tagliente Admiral Adama On Why We Separate the Military & the Police

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I never use each myself. I avoid looping if at all possible. I'd rather duplicate the tests and reuse logic in "before/beforeEach" if necessary.

I think Trek's point is that other people like to use each, but none of the test runners have a mechanism for running a single variant in code.

I did try a JS-forward approach, but the "only" gets more complicated because it has to know what the full set of cases were.

const cases = [ [1, 2], [3, 4] ];
for (let [input1, input2] of cases) {
test.only(
cases,
[1, 2]
)(someDescription, someTestBody);
}

I played with an API for this before seeing the comments. Mine is pretty similar, but I think you can do this without the nesting.

test
.each([ [1, 2], [3, 4] ])
.only([1, 2])
(someDescription, someTestBody);

Podcast: We're Suing ICE. Here's Why Our lawsuit against ICE; the rise of AI 'workslop'; Steam's malicious game problem; and Silk Song.

The 404 Media Podcast is up! This week:
- why we're suing ICE
- the rise of AI 'workslop'
- subscribers: Steam's malicious game problem and what we all think of Silk Song

Apple/Spotify/YouTube: www.404media.co/podcast-were...

chotiner’s real gift is very quickly revealing how many powerful and influential people are complete morons. Sunstein is asked about his friendship with Kissinger and it’s pretty clear that he’s never really thought about it.