Joseph Chiu

Ronald Reagan: “Anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American…This, I believe, is one of the most important sources of America's greatness.”🇺🇸🇺🇸

This is an aspect that I underappreciated. Creating a system which allows for some freedom to explore new ideas...

When you set your computer to compile a big project and didn't have to look in at it to see when it was done...

Industry-Backed Legislation Would Bar the Use of Science Behind Hundreds of Environmental Protections Two bills in Congress would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from using hundreds of chemical assessments completed by its IRIS program in environmental regulations or enforcement.

NEW: While all eyes are on Trump and DOGE, a bill recently introduced in both the House and Senate would cripple the EPA's ability to regulate. It's a very serious threat and experts told me it could pass

www.propublica.org/article/legi...

kind of a wild story from @adafruit.com about a russian company hijacking Arduino libraries to boost SEO for their online store blog.adafruit.com/2025/03/05/f...

Welcome to the #GOPKakistocracy.
No transgenic mice allowed!
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The US federal government has become the world's largest toxic workplace. This is simultaneously abuse of the American taxpayer and abuse of public employees...so they get it twice.

Even Reagan wouldn’t have stood for this shit.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Would that constitute idolatry?

DOGE to cancel government contracts that help veterans, records show Records show among the 875 contracts were arrangements to help medical services, fund cancer programs, recruit doctors and provide burial services to veterans.

Veterans Affairs Secretary Douglas A. Collins took to social media to tout sweeping cuts to contracts that he said would save the department nearly $2 billion.

But the 875 contracts on the chopping block help cover medical services, fund cancer programs and provide burial services to veterans.

I would not trust them. But they are convenient. Good enough for Non-Achival use.

Look everyone...it's fine. Clearly this isn't a conflict of interest because if it was Elon would recuse himself.

Move along...move along.

I remember seeing this drone video a few years ago and thinking "we'll never run SLAM on that".... but here it is, complete with dense reconstruction (single camera, unknown calibration, no IMU). MASt3R-SLAM is absurdly robust.

Twenty microSD cards, separated into groups of 15, 5 and 1.

Bought microSD cards recovered from returned security cameras, 50 cents a piece. (For Raspberry Pi, Jetson, 3D printers, etc.)

1 defective card. Of the remaining 19, 5 of them had videos on them from people's homes.

Always do at least a quick wipe of your data before disposing your electronics!

If there’s a next time, I hope people back the person & the party actually fighting for them instead of crying that it wasn’t enough or fast enough. Progressive means making progress. Getting it done, but it takes time.

Hold folk’s feet to the fire, but don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
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Because of DOGE, countless Americans are going to die.

ICYMI 👇

Captures it perfectly.

The Official DOGE Website Launch Was a Security Mess Plus: Researchers find RedNote lacks basic security measures, surveillance ramps up around the US-Mexico border, and the UK ordering Apple to create an encryption backdoor comes under fire.

ICYMI: the official DOGE website launch was a security mess. Two web developers, working independently, found it was possible to push updates to the DOGE.gov domain, which claims to be an official US government website.

Dozens of CFPB Workers Fired in After-Hours Blitz Some affected employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were notified with an email that addressed them as [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division].

I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people.

wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

YouTube video by HGModernism You're not addicted to tiktoks/reels, you're addicted to the scrolling

I watched this video this morning and it really has been instructive for understanding, well, a lot of behavior.

youtu.be/bNOol5OTasw

DOJ leadership has put all Public Integrity Section lawyers into a room with 1 hour to decide who will dismiss Adams indictment or else all will be fired. Sending them strength to stand by their oath, which is to support the Constitution, not the president’s political agenda. 🇺🇸

@arturo182.bsky.social designed a 3d-printed breakaway header tool which I've been using for years. I wanted to make a new design inspired by his original work. www.thingiverse.com/thing:6948716

Hegseth’s rough start: Pentagon chief faces protest at U.S. base abroad The question isn’t why the defense secretary faced pushback at U.S. European Command headquarters; the question is whether he’ll see more protests soon.

📌I was the managing editor at Stars and Stripes and can tell you that Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base.

📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.

Justice, FBI ousters remove longtime experts from daily threats meeting Trump administration shake-ups at the Justice Department and FBI have eroded continuity on national security matters, people familiar with the situation said.

Nearly all the career officials who attended the Justice Department’s daily session for years — including during the first Trump administration — have been removed from their positions, gutting much of the expertise usually there to brief the attorney general, FBI director and top deputies.

Analysis | Trump and Musk can’t seem to locate much evidence of fraud They keep justifying their bold moves as combating fraud, but they have been unable so far to point to much of anything that’s actually fraudulent.

Trump and Musk keep justifying their moves as combating fraud, but they have been unable so far to point to much of anything specific that’s actually fraudulent, by Aaron Blake www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...