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impossible not to root for someone skating to the John Williams "JAWS" music

The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.

Mercedes F1 boss calls out 'total bulls**t' as engine saga goes to vote Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has accused rival Formula 1 manufacturers of ganging up against his team to put pressure on the governing FIA to change the engine rules, but says it will make no difference.

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has accused rival Formula 1 manufacturers of ganging up against his team to put pressure on the governing FIA to change the engine rules, but says it will make no difference.

A funny thing about my politics is that I often find myself trying to defend people I disagree with on the basis that people are fighting with strawmen versions of these arguments instead of what people actually say.

This thread and the quoted posts going back to the original are doing the thing.

Despite its positioning as the trustworthy, “nice” AI lab, Anthropic is as big, ugly and wasteful as OpenAI, and Dario Amodei is an even bigger bullshit artist than Sam Altman. It burns just as much of its revenue on inference (59% - or $2.79 billion on $4.5 billion of revenue, versus OpenAI’s $2.5 billion (62%) on $4.3 billion of revenue in the first half of 2025, if you use The Information’s numbers), and shows no sign of any “efficiency” or “cost-cutting.” Worse still, Anthropic continually abuses its users through varying rate limits to juice revenues and user numbers - along with Amodei’s gas-leak-esque proclamations - to mislead the media, the general public and investors about the financial condition of the company. Based on an analysis of many users’ actual token burn on Claude Code, I believe Anthropic is burning anywhere from $3 to $20 to make $1, and that the product that users are using (and the media is raving about) is not one that Anthropic can actually support long-term. I also see signs that Amodei himself is playing fast and loose with financial metrics in a way that will blow up in his face if Anthropic ever files its paperwork to go public. In simpler terms, Anthropic’s alleged “38% gross margins” may, if we are to believe Amodei’s own words, not the result of “revenue minus COGS” but “how much a model cost and how much revenue it’s generated.” Anthropic is also making promises it can’t keep. It’s promising to spend $30 billion on Microsoft Azure (and an additional "up to one gigawatt”), “tens of billions” on Google Cloud, $21 billion on Google TPUs with Broadcom, “$50 billion on American infrastructure,” as much as $3 billion on Hut8’s data center in Louisiana, and an unknowable (yet likely in the billions) amount of money with Amazon Web Services. Not to worry, Dario also adds that if you’re off by a couple of years on your projections of revenue and ability to pay for compute, it’ll be “ruinous.” I think that’s he’s right. Anthropic cann…

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Reactions Mixed At Lafayette's Mardi Gras Over A Turtle On A Parade Float During Mardi Gras in Lafayette, a float parading a snapping turtle brought smiles and some worries about animal care, highlighting important conversations on animal rights.

The controversy has not gone unnoticed.

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I would describe the reaction to Robin Vos' retirement from many on the left in Wisconsin today as downright jubilation. What a day. What a damn day.

In memory of Gregory Beckerleg, also known as Bryan Gregory, American rock musician, guitarist, and founding member of The Cramps, who would have turned 75 today.

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LSU gets the win over Ole Miss. 😊

But it's "newsworthy" to treat AOC like a fucking dumbshit because she said "um"

Georgia Is Letting a Railroad Seize Land a Black Family Has Owned For 100 Years Descendants of enslaved people are fighting an attempt to use eminent domain to carve a spur through one of Georgia’s largest Black‑owned farms.

In the 1800s, a slave owner purchased over a dozen people in Georgia and set the foundation for his family’s generational wealth

Generations later, a railroad company owned by one of his descendants is using eminent domain to seize land of Black farmers

The news cycle around AOC’s “gaffe” is, in my humble opinion, a clear manufacturing of a “gaffe” where there was none. But it’s indicative of the belief undergirding a lot of MSM that if one “side” is behaving badly, the other “side” must be positioned as doing something wrong, too, for “fairness”

Wealthy white people basically staged a coup in this county.

New Platform Lets You Gamble on CCTV Footage Gamblers there are betting on how many vehicles are crossing a specific point in live CCTV footage in a crypto casino.

This is so dark.

A painting of a bird beside the text "honestly, i've already heard dumber fuckin' ideas this week"

A Cautionary Note to Fellow Dems From an AIPAC Target How big-money super PACs are warping Democratic politics—and how to fix it.

Tom Malinowski argues in an op-ed for the Bulwark that, in response to AIPAC using Republican donor money to intervene in Democratic races, Dem leadership (including, presumably, the AIPAC-endorsed and backed Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer) should disavow the organization and refuse its support.

UH students lose several gender-neutral bathrooms, as university begins enforcing Texas bathroom bill

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Damn. ALS is a devastating disease. My heart is with Rebecca Gayheart and their children.

S/O to Laila Edwards for becoming the FIRST EVER BLACK AMERICAN hockey gold medalist!!!! 🙂‍↕️✊🏾✊🏽✊🏿🥇

It passed. And services got cut.

I had a feeling of Déjà vu in 2016, when Bernie types said the exact same thing about the Supreme Court.

“Scare tactics.”

Look, the fact that it scares you doesn’t make it a “scare tactic,” you colossal bunch of idiots.

This doesn’t sound like the Wesley R. Dingus I know

Ohio GOP mayor accused of sniffing underage relative's underwear Butler Mayor Wesley R. Dingus faces two misdemeanor voyeurism charges following a Richland County investigation. The case unfolds as he remains on bond in a separate felony matter.

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On February 13, 2026, Petitioner [REDACTED] filed a Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus. Dkt. 1. The same day, the Court issued an Order to Show Cause requiring Respondents to respond to the Petition no later than February 17, 2026. Dkt. 4 at ¶ 1. That order also required Respondents to file all their supporting documentation by February 17, 2026. Id. at ¶ 2. On February 18, 2026, Respondents late-filed their response to the Petition along with a declaration and single exhibit. Dkts. 5–6. Around two hours later, the Court issued an order requiring Respondents to file a declaration and exhibits references in the late-filed Response but not filed with the court, along with a declaration explaining the reason for filing late, within 24 hours. Dkt. 7. Respondents finally filed the balance of their supporting documentation by 4:06 P.M, February 18.1 Dkt. 9. Respondents never moved the Court for an extension of time to file their response or supporting documentation. Third Declaration o f[REDACTED] in Response to Text-Only Order ECF No. 7, Dkt. 10, at ¶ 9 (hereinafter “3d. [REDACTED] Decl.”). They never even contacted Counsel for Petitioner to inform him of the late filing. In the declaration, of 1 The declaration explaining the cause for late filing was not filed until 11:06 P.M. that night. Dkt. 10.

Assistant U.S. Attorney [REDACTED], Counsel for Respondents offers a host of limp excuses for filing late. First, AUSA [REDACTED] admits he was fine with violating the Court’s scheduling order, instructing his staff that it was okay to “file before midnight if possible or early Wednesday morning.” 3d. [REDACTED] Decl. at ¶ 3. His excuse for the late filing of the response itself is risible: support staff was offline and, in [REDACTED] own words, “I do not know how to file documents through CMECF.” Id. This is no excuse. The Court’s order makes no exception for staff unavailability or the failure of an attorney to know the basic functions of their profession.2 See Order to Show Cause, Dkt. 3. Further, Counsel for Respondents admits he was not prepared to file all of the documentation the Response relied upon even at that late date. As he points out, he only requested a copy of the travel document after the Court’s order to respond further. 3d. [REDACTED] Decl. at ¶ 6 (“Upon receipt of the Court’s Order, ECF No. 7, I immediately contacted ICE and requested the travel document referenced in the [REDACTED] Declaration as it had not been provided to me earlier.”). It is troubling that Counsel for Respondents knowingly referenced documents he did not have, had not seen, and seemingly had no plans to see until the Court ordered them produced. See, e.g., Response to Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, Dkt. 5 at 2, 4 (hereinafter “Response”). Besides the potential ethical issues that filing without ever seeing relied-up evidence raises,3 it evinces a total lack of respect for Petitioner’s rights and the Court’s order. Counsel for Respondents apologies to the Court and below-signed counsel for the late filing. 3d. [REDACTED] Decl. at ¶ 10. Wherefore Petitioner, who has been unconstitutionally detained for two months? 2 Counsel for Petitioner will note that he can somehow manage to file documents through CM/ECF himself without the resources and might of the Federal Government…

Feds blew a deadline in one of my habeas cases. Didn't file everything until 4pm the next day. Court ordered the AUSA to explain why he filed late. His response? It was 11:30pm and “I do not know how to file documents through CMECF.”

My response below:

GOP Rep. Mackenzie on Trump's economic and immigration policies Both the House and the Senate are out of town this week, but what they have heard from constituents at home will matter when they return on Monday. One key swing vote belongs to freshman Republican Re...

Both the House and the Senate are out of town this week, but what they have heard from constituents at home will matter when they return on Monday. https://to.pbs.org/4kHJrqq

The world’s most valuable company is close to finalising an equity investment into the ChatGPT maker, as part of a new funding round. ft.trib.al/EKltLUl

Powerful MAGA

Today 73 years old 💝 🔥 🍀
Happy Birthday to the one and only Kristy Marlana Wallace aka Poison Ivy Rorschach, co-founder of the American punk rock band The Cramps, born on this day 1953 in San Bernardino, California.

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I can't think of any immigrant in American history who has assimilated worse than Musk. The guy hates most of the people here and wants to hurt us, has open contempt for our traditions or values, and has spent billions trying to destroy our culture to replace it with that of his foreign childhood.

Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation Guardian review of US justice department files reveals Epstein interacted with six CBP officers. The officer investigated denied any knowledge of trafficking underage girls

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented.

Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

We know that Trump is going to repeat the “I’ve been exonerated on Epstein” line every single day forever because that’s what he does.

Would it be totally outrageous for someone then to simply ask him who it was that exonerated him so we can get some clarification on that?