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Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
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.@zachweinersmith.bsky.social and I will be at the Fairfax, VA Barnes & Noble tomorrow for a book signing. :)

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Yes, there is a limited-edition tote.

And yes, we do hyphenate certain compound modifiers such as “limited edition.”

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I've thought of having a separate git account for the bot commits vs my commits. Aider does something like that, the bot commits on each bot edit. Other than that I got nothing.

Authors/Credits are for solving a different problem (laws) and the law isn't settled on what crediting a bot even means.

I use this service religiously. glad to see the government is actually investing in improving it rather than defunding it

The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis A new analysis suggests that the Cybertruck might lead to 17 times more fatalities than the infamous Ford Pinto.

"At the current rate of horrible fiery deaths, FuelArc projects the Cybertruck will have 14.52 fatalities per 100,000 units — far eclipsing the Pinto's 0.85. " - futurism.com/the-byte/cyb...

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Exclusive | China Is Choking Supply of Critical Minerals to Western Defense Companies Beijing is squeezing the flow of key elements needed to make defense systems, a sign of the leverage China has over the U.S. military supply chain.

More than 80,000 parts that are used in U.S. Defense Department weapons systems are made with critical minerals now subject to Chinese export controls

www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

Wasting energy on space heating, cooling and transit does challenge us on a cultural level, so it doesn't bother people.

Angleland, more like Denmarkland, am I right?

Kevin Hall, uncensored: Top nutrition scientist on clashing with MAHA and what he actually eats 'They’re not interested in the science': Former NIH nutrition scientist Kevin Hall on how his work with MAHA fell apart.

Kevin Hall says NIH tried to silence his nutrition research. With his lab closed, he’s revealing how ultra-processed foods impact public health.
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How We Cut 40% in NAT Gateway Costs Further analysis uncovered valuable insights that allowed us to reduce NAT costs by 40%

medium.com/zesty-engine...

One part of how NAT Gateways work on AWS that many don't understand is that calls to AWS services from within a VPC will go over NAT Gateways unless you setup VPC Endpoints to allow a more direct connection to these AWS services from your VPC. (1️⃣/3️⃣)

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Vast majority of "spider bites" are MRSA, ie. bacterial infection from a break in the skin for any reason. Keep an eye out for fever.

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Managing the Unmanageable

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I think this is a code

DOGE cost the government $21 billion by injecting chaos into the system

www.washingtonpost.com/documents/b2...

By the topics that get amplified here and not on Mastodon, I figure BlueSky is full of nation state propaganda bots. That used to be the sole domain of twitter, so hurray?!

Did you know you can download the data from DOGE Track? There even is now a basic API! (more to come there)

dogetrack.info/about/downlo...

Pets are being abandoned, surrendered amid Trump’s immigration crackdown The heightened need is colliding with a shelter system already stretched thin by post-pandemic overcrowding, chronic staffing shortages and plummeting adoptions.

Because of the mass deportation activities going on pets are being abandoned in the streets and overwhelming animal shelters

wapo.st/3UKkVc0

Nope, true story. And for a job in my team recently we were surprised to see several candidates come up with the same working but uncommon (and bloated) solution. So we asked ChatGPT and it gave us the same answer… This ended the process for these candidates.

Me three months ago:

Covering kids with peanut butter is mean alright

So, as a guy who stuck his neck out a bit to do a pro-immigration book, the *most* frustrating thing is that the people who are general pro-immigration also see it as low salience. They won't vote based on it, not locally, not nationally, not in a general election, not in a primary.

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

"Before January 2025 there had been no—zero, zilch—interest in killing off USAID. It wasn't something Trump ran on. It wasn't envisioned in Project 2025. It was only once Elon Musk decided that USAID was evil that destroying the agency became a policy goal for the Republican party."

In sum,

1. Labor market remains remarkably strong and stable to now, tho some signs of weakening

2. Employers frozen by uncertainty like deer in headlights, unwilling to hire or fire because they don't know what's coming at them. Market frozen in place, good if employed, tough if unemployed.

Combine them into a 3 hour YouTube video.

LLM use is hard work, but for the right lazy moron it is copy paste. Evaluating LLM use is a brand new skill, but recognizing sloth and indifference to work quality obvious.

Promotional image for the A City on Mars book signing.

Get your copy of A City on Mars signed in person in Fairfax VA on August 5th!
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PyPI Phishing Attack: Incident Report - The Python Package Index Blog Follow-up on the recent phishing attack targeting PyPI users.

Incident Report of the recent #PyPI Phishing Campaign

TL,DR:
• PyPI was not breached
• PyPI users were targeted with phishing emails
• A single project saw uploads with malicious code and those releases have been removed

blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-0...

#Python #OpenSource #Security