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Looks delish! Missed out on that treat today, but A picked up a few other delights. Wooden Bakery is consistently SO EFFIN' GOOD!

"make sure we have the right people voting" would have been an absolutely five alarm fire thing to say before we fell into this Overton hole (window feels long gone).

Here's Jacob's story if you're interested.

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

We could’ve had Sonia

[frantically raising hand] ooh, ooh. I know. Because Americans have a constitutional right to vote but don't have a right to open a bank account or drive a car.

It would be great if the top two stories about the executive branch were not a huge multinational child rape coverup and the establishment of a gulag of concentration camps

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

If y’all need cams on your porches, may I suggest hardwired closed circuit cams.

I never liked the idea of the employees of any company being able to see whats happening on the cams in/near my home. It’s creepy.

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ring-security-cameras-gave-employee-full-access-customer/story?id=99737142

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ring-security-cameras-gave-employee-full-access-customer/story?id=99737142

Creepy af.

Screenshot of Amazon customer support chat getting refund for a Ring Floodlight Cam https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4jc9xz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Screenshot of chat with Amazon customer support getting refund for a Ring product bought in October 2020 https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4k6nqk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Infographic telling Ring customers they can get refunds for their purchases through Amazon

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
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she's only an improvement over baker in that she's not actively trying to murder the mbta. other than that, I can't tell the difference.

Okay, but for real. I had a J. Jill funnel neck wool sweater arrive just last week from Poshmark. $18 +shipping!

It’s giving Korematsu

The Anoka County observer who provided us the video said, “Hearing from a federal agent actively out here detaining people, I thought it was very surprising to hear that essentially their plan is to take away as much of our voters as possible so our state can’t remain blue.”

U.S. Southern Command @Southcom on Twitter On Feb. 5, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @SecWar @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear

All prior boat-strike announcements credited President Trump or Secretary Hegseth.

This is the first for which Southcom's commander assumes responsibility for one of these extrajudicial killings. The Senate just confirmed Gen. Donovan, on January 30.

34 known strikes, >=129 dead.

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

LET US FUCKING GOOOOO

Case 1:24-cv-09429-KPF Document 227 Filed 02/05/26 Page 1 of 33 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK FLYCATCHER CORP. LTD and FLYCATCHER TOYS, INC., Plaintiffs, -V.- AFFABLE AVENUE LLC, doing business as CJ DIST; OZMOS COMPANY LLC; EYTAN GROSSMAN, doing business as EYG DEALS; CREATIVE REWARDS INC.; JOSHUA CHAVEZ, doing business as ONESTOPFASTSHOP; TOP EXPERIENCE COMPANY LLC, doing business as WE PAY COST LLC; PRETTY PRINCESS LLC, doing business as NORVI; AYANEE LLC; FORTUNA KG LLC, doing business as FORTUNAKG; JASON MANAGEMENT LLC; JOAN ALEXANDER SORIANO, doing business as PRIMECHOICEMART; A WAHABI CORPORATION, doing business as MCPROFITS; MODA ORIGINAL LLC; VALLEY BODEGA WHOLESALE INC.; EYAD WAHBY; SAM SHAMLOO; S&N GLOBAL SUPPLY INC.; VALUE VALLEY WHOLESALE LLC; ADAM HAMIDA; and JOHN DOES 1 to 25, Defendants. 24 Civ. 9429 (KPF) OPINION AND ORDER KATHERINE POLK FAILLA, District Judge: In June 2025, Steven A. Feldman, counsel for Defendant Affable Avenue LLC ("Affable"), filed a brief in support of Affable's motion to dismiss that was peppered with false citations. Concerned about both the genesis of these misstatements and counsel's delay in correcting them, the Court issued an Order to Show Cause. Perhaps not appreciating the gravity of the situation, Mr. Feldman responded to that Order with a submission that appeared to have been created by generative artificial intelligence ("Al"), and that itself contained a false citation. The Court's response was stern and unmistakable: "Mr.

Case 1:24-CV-09429-KPF Document 227 Filed 02/05/26 Page 2 of 33 Feldman [wals not excused from this professional obligation [of verifying that the cases he submitted to the Court were valid] by dint of using emerging technology." (Dkt. #169 at 4). Mr. Feldman persisted. A few days prior to the Court's hearing on the Order to Show Cause, Mr. Feldman submitted a proposed reply brief in further support of Affable's motion to dismiss. Once again, his brief contained false citations. And at the August 22, 2025 hearing, Mr. Feldman was unable to respond directly to, much less answer, the Court's questioning about his submissions. Mr. Feldman has not, and apparently cannot, learn from his mistakes. And while the Court does not oppose the use of Al to assist in legal research and writing, it must take a stand where, as here, counsel repeatedly files submissions with false citations because counsel refuses to verify those submissions. This Court can do no more. For the reasons that follow, the Court sanctions Mr. Feldman pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 and the Court's inherent powers by striking Affable's submissions and entering default judgment against it.

Hey, so, I don’t do civil litigation, is it generally considered good when the judge does this?

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It really is a determined, systematic effort to take everything the government does that people might find helpful or worthwhile and destroy it

I fully disassociate for a solid 30 minutes (while my skin turns red in the shower) every morning. It’s functionally therapeutic at this point.

1981-2017 digitized from libraries catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00053...

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

brb buying a year's worth of bottled water

Wapo was a catch and kill purchase.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

wtf? this is our data! bring it back!

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.