Maryland Poppa

Definitely be wary of any such thing that asks for photo ID to be uploaded...and anticipate what you may need before online is the only option.

“They said,’Colleges only provide accommodations for students with physical disabilities.’ This is a lie I’ve seen this creator and others say. What’s disappointing is it’s so easily disproven.” Read more on Substack.

Substack post title is "Lies and Misreprestations About College Disability Accommodations: Breaking Down Misinformation." The classic distracted boyfriend meme shows the he favors internet misinformation over a disability expert.

There are a LOT of people online lying about college disability accommodations or missing important nuances about who gets what, and why. Whether they're doing it out of ignorance isn't important - they can do real damage. In this post, I show what they get wrong: https://bit.ly/LDAdSS17

#EduSky

Senators Reveal That Feds Have Secretly Reinterpreted The PATRIOT Act We had mentioned, briefly, the amendment that Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall had tried to push for with relation to the renewal of controversial provisions of the PATRIOT Act, however didn&#8217…

The deal Sam signed is the kind of deal someone who doesn't know how the NSA lies by telling you what you want to hear, but then secretly changing their definition of the plain English words in the contract.

www.techdirt.com/2011/05/26/s...

I'm pretty sure jacking up oil prices was at least a small factor in the admin's decision to do this war

And, too, that the justification for the mass kidnappings and deportations is 'this is what America voted for'.
But they also voted for 'no new wars'...so...guess its once again whatever excuse is convenient, no consistency, pure hypocrisy.
I hate this admin more than I've ever hated anything

80s nerd memories I relish

Then maybe next bill will be refreshingly low 😉

Underrated

There is supposedly another round of auto 'rebates' coming this month for some, next month for others. Like previous, i think maybe -$45 on average? But may depend on usage.
My last bill was steep, most expensive ever in 25 years here.
This bill comes the 15th so will see.

Not for everyone but
Gmail fwd to Thunderbird 😁

As it should be.
Now just gotta find a place that sells players

I knew the fella would become a pet... ;)

Agreed, tho not just foreign power, surely many that are simply domestic maga-aligned as well

The National Security Agency, which oversees much of the country's intelligence gathering and processing, conducted a classified review in November 2024 of large language models, including Grok. It determined Grok had particular security concerns that other models, including Anthropic's Claude, didn't, people familiar with the review said. Its conclusion served as a red flag that deterred some parts of the Pentagon from using Grok, the people said. The use of Anthropic's Claude in the U.S. military's operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro last month intensified its tense dispute with the Pentagon.

The NSA conducted a safety review and determined Grok particularly and specifically sucks.

I agree.
I get the worry tho, the disappointments are such big disappointments (Sinema, Fetterman, ugh)

Cool. Bloomberg could use a little...authenticity?
But no violin clip in there? Yet? Its coming, right?
Congrats!

bsky.app/profile/mdpo...

And typical of this regime, not just simply cancel the contract like a normal disagreement, but *punish* by declaring them some sort of commercial threat.

(well ok they are but ya know what I mean)

Ppl are not addressing the 'RUN' part.

Have you tried Kanopy?

I've not viewed it in a while, still same movies I gathered for a decade until, uh, 2006?
But just checked and Plex is still up and running on my NAS!
(but not connected to TV so weekend project defined)

Never closer to subscribing than wanting to read this

Every corner of the deportation machine I take a peek at, I find layers and layers of rich people getting richer

Wait why cancel Netflix cause they didnt want to overpay or whatever?
Paramount was already on the ban list 😉

They were on Kimmel last night. I didnt know who these influences were til Jimmy mentioned their group.

I wasn't impressed with their responses. Disappointing considering how much I hear their pod promoted.

After Nov elections, Congress needs to pass a lot of civil rights laws.

They should put Trumps name on the titles of all bills...so if pres wants to veto, he may think twice before killing the Trump Equal Rights bill...

A constant cycle.

So Trump does the same but the crash is much more widespread. Ds elected '26 and '28...then what? Fixes = more hard times, people are stupid....Rs elected again?

Uuuuugh.

I dislike Doomer stuff too but this longer term thought distresses me a bit.

Since politically aware (Reagan era), Rs pull econ levers to increase the wealth gap, temp riches, then economy crash. Ds elected to fix it, raising costs and debt. Oh no! Vote in Rs, levers, crash, Ds fix it...

😞

Thanks. Blocked that account