Patrick Hruby

One way the Anthropic/DoD saga ends is that Palmer Luckey somehow rebrands an existing AI tool as like WarriorAI and gets a bajillion dollars for software that doesn't work

they really are the dark side but its the spaceballs version

My Trade Secrets today. The Trump tariff refunds saga is blackly comic. About 20% of tariffs levied on Chinese exporters are paid directly by those exporters. So they get a refund windfall, having largely passed the tariff costs on to US co.s & consumers. I know, right?

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my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

finding out one of your least favorite NBA players of all time didn't even have his own bit is an invigorating hit of hateration

that this gets called “thinking” is why this is where we’re at

What a time to be alive

What should be apparent, at this point, to all watching is that this is Government-as-Racketeering. It's their one, and only approach to education, to elections, to State's Rights, to tech, to media, to polls. It's all just extortion, all the way down. And it works because nobody who matters cares.

This feels like another instance of the ol' "maintenance isn't flashy and nobody cares about it until the bridge fails" problem you see basically everywhere. I wish we had a general solution for it

This guy gets it.
Seriously though, this feels like a moment of transition from the post-911 era into something darker, more Torrian, and more focused on policing American citizens

Really hard for me to read this without thinking about recent news that the Pentagon is struggling to spend (!) the extra $500 billion(!!) it was somehow just handed (!!!) in addition to its regular gargantuan budget

Once again, these are not problems that can be solved by new laws & more court orders. This president & his senior staff do not follow laws or court orders.

What a time to be alive and also Milo Minderbinder

How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal To hold 5,000 human beings.

When the Trump administration awarded a $1.26 billion contract to operate a new detention center in Texas, it made headlines. Why?

Because the company that won the job was so small, it operated out of a single-family home in Richmond, Virginia.

"The sport should be called goalie."
- Jamie McLennan

This was an interesting piece, with a midpoint swerve into This Is Also What The Nazis Did. However, I think it kind of buried the lede:

Haunting Canadian images

The conclusions about student cognition aren’t the interesting part for me so much as the money being spent on youth surveillance that isn’t leading to better learning outcomes. Teachers are being laid off, schools & libraries are closing, books are being banned.

There’s nothing better in sports spectating than watching athletes who are actually and visibly having fun out there

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.

The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

In all seriousness: if you take the time to understand HP’s printer ink fuckery, you’ll basically understand the fuckery that’s pervasive across our economy

Maybe it’s worth highlighting that this is/has been project of ending legal immigration because legal immigration since 1965 has been less white. It’s never been about “enforcement of laws” although restrictionists found that focus on undocu ppl helped legitimize their ethnic cleansing project.

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John Roberts's legacy is spending literally decades putting a genteel face on a movement to replace representative democracy with sloppy authoritarianism, and his reward is getting absolutely stomped out in the White House briefing room. Pathetic. Good riddance.

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

*my favorite, yikes

did they even consider how this would play out in suburban diners outside of busan?

ok but how is the opposition party supposed to win over his supporters now, have they even thought about that