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Netflix’s Reed Hastings Gives $50 Million to Bowdoin for A.I. Program (Gift Article) The Netflix co-founder said he wanted his alma mater to become a leader in studying the consequences, and guiding beneficial uses, of artificial intelligence.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/t...

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Kristi Noem accompanied ICE on a raid this morning, styling a flak jacket to keep her safe in the extremely dangerous area of (checks notes) Arlington, Virginia

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

Trump and Musk Hunt for Corruption, Very Selectively Spending that the White House does not like is being labeled fraudulent. At the same time, President Trump is rolling back anticorruption efforts and ethical standards for himself and allies like Elon...

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

la taco has always owned for culture and food but now they’re also doing impact journalism on the owner of the la times & how to respond to ice raids. this is the future of journalism. i’m not even in the country and i’m a subscriber.

Listen to Secretary Pete. And remember, these are our funds. These are our courts. And these are our streets.

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Grassley was at Mar-a-Lago last night. My guess is that Trump is going to plug this funding hole with direct cash payments to farmers that voted for him rather than the old arrangement where the food actually served a purpose to feed hungry people around the world.

GovWayback Access historical versions of U.S. government websites from before January 20, 2025 via the Wayback Machine

This guy created a tool to make it easy to pull up a pre-Musk/Trump version of various federal government websites.

The genius is how simple it is: He just registered "govwayback.com" and then created subdomains which redirect to pre-1/20/25 Wayback Machine versions.

govwayback.com

Tech bros cheering on the cuts to grant funding built businesses and wealth on the back of decades of university R&D work. Much of that knowledge was given away to the public. This is basic pulling-up-the-ladder nonsense via rewriting history. They owe the public, not the other way around.

Elon Musk wants to cut government spending. Tesla and SpaceX benefit from it Over the last 16 years, Musk's business deals with the government total nearly $20 billion, according to federal contracting data.

DOGE plans to slash about as much ($4B) from NIH, and hence from universities and medical centers, as the government gave SpaceX ($3.8B) last year.

It's not about the money and government "waste."

It's never been about the money or government "waste."

www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

Opinion | The Assault on Diversity Readers discuss diversity, equity and inclusion in the military, the government and in corporations.

I was in the room. Women serving in combat isn't some kind of DEI. It's well rooted in logic and Ash Carter saw that. Stephanie Carter knows better than anyone and read her take www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...

It is far superior in every way.

Excellent explainer on why the NIH indirect rate cut matters, as well as why it is illegal.

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Purging the Government Could Backfire Spectacularly Donald Trump might miss the bureaucrats when the next crisis hits.

Not could. Will. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

STEP 1: Donald does something stupid.

STEP 2: Donald is surprised there are consequences.

STEP 3: Donald backs down.

STEP 4: Donald lies, claiming things already agreed to are new concessions he forced by the stupid thing he did.

STOP 5: REPEAT

For all those making excuses or lessening the deleterious impact of Musk and Trump

Gonna launch myself into the sun.

Trump signs executive order to create sovereign wealth fund U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ordering the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments to create a sovereign wealth fund.

Oh great, state-run media. Feels First Amendment might like a word. www.reuters.com/markets/weal...

One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it *should* be about 10%.

The actual number is less than 1%.

Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.

Good for her! Billionaire Jennifer Pritzker donates Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Emil Bach House and neighboring home to Loyola University

DEI is when a woman or non-white person who is qualified for a job receives that job. The meritocracy is when a 19 year old gets to run the United States government because he posted the dankest memes

There has never been a larger gap in my (admittedly quite short) professional life between how lay folks and law profs are talking about what is happening in government right now. So much of what Trump is doing is just blatantly illegal — often in several ways at once.

This has been a very racist week

I used to work for an elected official as the person who answered their emails. I can tell you from personal experience, if even twenty or thirty people all call an official in a day, they start panicking. This stuff does help.