Daniel Buk

Major Outage Plunges Internet Into Chaos Over 500 major apps and websites went offline after an error at an Amazon data center.

Huge swathes of the internet were taken offline on Monday after an outage at an Amazon Web Services data center in Virginia that hosts millions of apps and websites.

💥 In a joint operation, Russian Freedom Legion and Ukraine's GUR defense intelligence struck Russian oil platforms in the Black Sea with air drones launched from naval drones.
Russian Freedom Legion is composed of Russian soldiers fighting on the side of Ukraine against Russia.

This side-by-side plot compares two visualizations of the same dataset’s embeddings: on the left, the original embeddings; on the right, latent representations generated via a transformation method (here labeled vec2vec). Left: Original Embeddings • Two clearly separated clusters of red and green points. • The clusters represent two distinct groups (e.g., classes, domains, or modalities). • Gray lines show strong alignment or correspondences between red and green points—suggesting some shared structure or matched pairs. • However, the clusters are far apart, meaning the original embedding space encodes strong domain-specific separation (e.g., red and green are treated as different). Right: Latent Representations (vec2vec) • The same points are now more uniformly mixed in latent space. • The tight clustering by color is gone; red and green points are distributed throughout. • This suggests the vec2vec method has projected both groups into a shared latent space, removing domain bias and aligning semantically similar items regardless of origin. • It’s indicative of embedding alignment, domain adaptation, or representation unification, where cross-domain items are mapped closer together based on semantic similarity. Implication: vec2vec successfully transforms the original domain-specific embeddings into a common space where structural similarity dominates over origin (color), enabling better transfer, comparison, or fusion between domains.

Strong Platonic Representation Hypothesis

All embedding models, given large enough scale, can be translated between them without paired data

Security implication: Embeddings aren’t encryption, they’re basically plain text

arxiv.org/abs/2505.12540

The editorial completely omits the fact that the Trump has nuked nearly $400 million in LGBTQ related research and has explicitly banned any and all funding for transgender health. But they ignore all that while they call for "better research" that is now banned and defunded.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

DOGE wants businesses to run government services ‘as much as possible’ Elon Musk’s effort is pushing privatization — a longtime goal for conservatives and for Silicon Valley alike — across federal agencies

I wrote a book about this. This would be bad.

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I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.

It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

(🧵) How Elon Musk betrayed America: a thread from a Musk biographer and former federal criminal investigator.

Please share widely, here and elsewhere. This will be long.

Author bio: www.sethabramson.net/bio
Latest book: sethabramson.substack.com/p/proof-of-d...

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start

Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.

It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.

They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.

I’m happy to invest and/or help

At this point yes, you do have to hand it to Bill Kristol, longstanding Republican operative and leading proponent of the US invasion of Iraq, who is doing far more in his personal capacity to publicly defend trans people than the Democratic Party, the nominal opposition to Trump

Bill Kristol is doing more to defend trans people than the Democratic party. Schumer and Jeffries haven't said a damn thing.

More of this, please! We need law professors with integrity and backbone to call out colleagues who attempt to launder Trump’s unconstitutional cruelty through bullshit originalism. And to do so in blunt terms without the cloak of polite formalisms that obscure the depths of hackery on display.

I will keep repeating it. Elon Musk is the most dangerous man in the United States. He is a clear and present danger to every American citizen. What he's doing will make you sicker, more exposed to extreme weather, and more likely to die.

He is a dire threat to your life.

Words cannot put into perspective just how insanely angry this makes me feel. [redacted]

A screenshot of a tweet by Elon Musk (@elonmusk) discussing GDP measurement, suggesting that a more accurate measure would exclude government spending. He argues that GDP can be artificially inflated by inefficient government expenditures. Below his tweet, there is a tweet from Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) reacting to the Atlanta Fed's latest GDPNow projection, which now estimates a -1.5% contraction for Q1 GDP. The image also includes a graph titled 'Evolution of Atlanta Fed GDPNow real GDP estimate for 2025: Q1,' showing a sharp decline in the GDP estimate. The graph compares the Atlanta Fed GDPNow estimate with the Blue Chip consensus, depicting a significant drop in expectations around late February 2025."

Elon is realizing he just pushed the US into an economic crisis and will cause a massive recession. So he's pushing to cook the books for his sycophants are cheering on a recession as necessary.

I'm so sorry to the world that this is the petulant leadership of our country. We will lose every single ally and deserve it.

A screenshot of a tweet by Elon Musk (@elonmusk) stating 'Biggest scam ever.' Below his tweet is a retweet from Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) quoting Elon Musk in a discussion about government-funded NGOs. The quote reads: 'The government-funded NGOs are a way to do things that would be illegal if they were the government, but are somehow made legal if it's sent to a so-called nonprofit... It's a gigantic scam. Maybe the biggest scam ever.' The image also features a paused video at 1:42, showing Elon Musk in a black shirt speaking into a microphone during an interview with a red curtain backdrop, similar to the setting of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

The end goal is to destroy all of civil society. NGOs include everything from community clinics to civil rights orgs. It means the end of the ACLU, NAACP, and all advocacy orgs.

Elon is seeking to eliminate any and all independent sources of power outside of an authoritatian government he controls.

This is the first time in US history that a state has repealed statutory protections for a specific group.

"A screenshot of a tweet by Shivon Zilis (@shivon), who has a verified account. The tweet, posted at 11:59 AM on February 28, 2025, has 445K views. In the tweet, Shivon mentions discussing with Elon Musk and, in light of their daughter Arcadia’s birthday, decided to publicly share about their son, Seldon Lycurgus. She describes him as 'built like a juggernaut, with a solid heart of gold' and expresses her love for him with a red heart emoji."

Number 14.

Stenography for fascism.

I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’ Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past associ...

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen...

Reminder that this nazi was involved with the Com, a child sextortion and cybercrime network. This is so, so bad.

Tracking the Trackers with Dr. Austin Kocher: Immigration, Borders, Power, and the State Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Another extraordinary exchange just now about "animus" in the court hearing on trasngender members of the military:

ICE's Latest Detention Data Shows Growth of Immigrants Targeted With No Criminal Histories – Exactly as Predicted ICE published new detention data today that reflects the outcomes of ICE's recent "enforcement surge." Let's take a closer look.

Takeaways from ICE's latest detention data:

- most growth bc of immigrants w/ no criminal history
- highest detained pop in 4+ years
- biggest biweekly increase in ICE-arrested detention numbers in years

austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-lates...