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One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

How Trump Is Wreaking Havoc on the Student Visa System The Trump administration is upending the student visa bureaucracy to deport foreign students. University officials are struggling to keep up.

“The administration has been sowing terror in the hearts of international students. Now that’s spreading to school officials as well,” he said. “It’s all part of this revenge-driven policy.”

Trump Administration = Domestic Terrorists

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denmark should say “GET F——D $1000 A DOZEN”

time to invest in carrier pigeons.

no sympathy

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For my Patreon blog, I wrote about Trump's speech and why he kept circling back to trans people over and over. www.patreon.com/posts/trans-...

“It is I, the Grey Lady!”

FDA meeting to choose flu vaccine composition canceled without explanation | CNN A March meeting of outside advisers to the United States Food and Drug Administration to discuss the composition of flu vaccines for this fall’s flu season has been canceled, a member of the advisory ...

oh shit. they really are trying to kill us. www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/h...

There Is No AI Revolution Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei hav...

Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn.
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If you want to make America Healthy Again, you don’t cut Medicaid or Medicare.

NPR headline stating “Trump wants to lower the cost of IVF. New executive order seeks ideas to do that”

well since NIH has been gutted i assume DOGE will get working on this once someone tells the 19 year olds what a uterus is.

LA resident here. this burns :(

They want to destroy the universities because they believe that it's the universities that are turning kids away from far-right reactionary cultural preferences. Thus they want the universities either indoctrinating young people into far-right beliefs, or they want them gone.

seconding github for now, possibly zenodo depending on how often you want to release new versions/updates.

It’s not even the fact that Marko Elez was caught for racist tweets, what Elon and JD Vance object to is the idea that he should be accountable at all.

None of them asked him to apologize. Vance even bristled at the idea on behalf of Elez. They want to not just be above the law, but above criticism

GovWayback: access historical versions of U.S. government pages by replacing ".gov" in the URL with ".govwayback.com" https://govwayback.com/

Amazon’s outlook underwhelms as it forecasts ‘lumpy’ cloud growth in years ahead Amazon shares slid after the online-retail and cloud-services giant offered a first-quarter outlook that came up short of Wall Street’s expectations while forecasting bumpy trends in its cloud busines...

Amazon, as with other big tech companies, still plans to spend a ton of money on AI.
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FCC Investigates SF Radio Station for ICE Reporting, Sparking Press Freedom Fears | KQED Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said the agency is investigating San Francisco-based KCBS for its coverage of immigration enforcement actions in San José.

"Trump-appointed commission chair Brendan Carr said he opened the investigation after KCBS shared the live locations and vehicle descriptions of immigration officials on Jan. 26."
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How unfillable is the hole in your soul that one could be the literal richest person in the world and then be upset that America has an agency that helps the poorest in the world?

I heard someone say Musk wants to be president which can't happen and trump wants to be the world's richest man, which can't happen so they circle each other like a binary star system.

A US Attorney is saying that he will prosecute anyone who who targets Musk employees. Meanwhile, a Heritage Foundation-affiliated organization has a website that literally lists federal employees as "targets."

Don't hold your breath for prosecutions.

holy crap

“There was no way to predict this” says only country in the world where Donald Trump was already President once.

Quote. "Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity. " - Audrey Hepburn

The bad news is that the source code for how the US Government runs all its finances is going to get dumped onto some Russian-run archive site

The good news is it’s in COBOL, which no scriptkiddie can hack

New waffle house economic index just dropped

i love this

Elon Musk’s Bureaucratic Coup Welcome to the “rapid unscheduled disassembly” of the United States government.

I wrote about Musk and this bureaucratic coup as plainly as I could. There's reporting in here & the particulars are overwhelming but what's happening is so clear: He's not trying to run the federal govt like a software company He's trying to turn it into a political weapon. (gift link)

Rfk jr has done all the stuff that it was rumored that one kid in middle school who wore the same danzig shirt everyday did