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So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.

If true, then fucking yikes.

Last fall, @propublica.org and @documented.net broke the story that Russell Vought, Trump’s current budget chief, said he planned to put career civil servants “in trauma.”

Now, we're investigating the full extent of Vought's impact on the federal government. We need your help… 🧵 1/

What kind of advise is "We don't know what is going on, disable your VPN server" ?
Also a 0day is not "a security bug that was discovered and exploited before the vendor could patch the issue".
0day is a vuln that is not publicly known.
A known vuln that the vendor did not care to patch isn't 0day.

Trump says undocumented immigrants do farm work "naturally" because "they don't get a bad back."

Mississippi's Declaration of Secession similarly said slavery must be protected because "by an impervious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun."

In my book, I show that an eviction can ruin someone's life *even if it never happens.* A mere eviction FILING—even one dismissed in court—can destroy your credit and lock you out of housing for years.

That's why I say people aren't "falling" into homelessness. They're being pushed.

"It's just fields and fields of gray ash."

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"Whatever cancel culture was, it did not involve literally sending the secret police to kidnap celebrities and ship them off to prison in El Salvador....But Williams will not allow looming fascism to distract him from the sacred work of punching left."

New state, local cyber grant rules prohibit spending on MS-ISAC | StateScoop In its final year, the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program bars states from spending their funding on services provided by the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center.

It's not hyperbole or exaggeration to say the explicit stance of the Trump administration is explicitly that states' election administrators are not to have dedicated hubs to share cyber threat information, or at least if they are they have to fund such a project completely on their own.

Do you follow baseball? Do you not follow baseball? It does not matter. Please listen to Phillies announcer John Kruk, with the team up by ten runs and not much happening, talking about what he learned at the Franklin Institute. You will not be sorry.

Crypto ATMs fueling criminal activity, Treasury warns The Treasury Department warned that the massive increase in the number of crypto ATMs — convertible virtual currency kiosks — has been accompanied by a spike in the number of operators who fail to com...

Many operators of crypto ATMs "fail to register with FinCEN as money services businesses despite being legally required to do so."

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White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

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Who needs exceptionally high data quality on carbon dioxide distribution and crop health? Not Americans, apparently, willing to simply lay down and let Trump do whatever extraordinarily stupid thing he wants to do next.

2019 – 2024 – Repeated denials and discovery stonewalling Through years of communications with the police, the plaintiffs and the court through the investigation and later the discovery process for the lawsuit, Tesla never mentioned that it had all the data that explained how Autopilot saw the crash, which everyone was seeking, sitting on its servers for years. The facts are: Tesla had the data on its servers within minutes of the crash When the police sought the data, Tesla redirected them toward other data When the police sought Tesla’s help in extracting it from the computer, Tesla falsely claimed it was “corrupted” Tesla invented an “auto-delete” feature that didn’t exist to try explain why it couldn’t originally find the data in the computer When the plaintiffs asked for the data, Tesla said that it didn’t exist Tesla only admitted to the existence of the data once presented with forensic evidence that it was created and transfered to its servers.

This whole story is insane. Tesla apparently did everything it could to avoid providing the data it had about its Autopilot crash. This is just a snippet and there's a lot more. electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...

'They chained me to the ground': Detainees at Alligator Alcatraz allege harsh punishment by guards While the new Everglades migrant detention center fends off complaints about its living conditions, some detainees claim guards are also doling out discipline for questioning rules — including standin...

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Youre arguing for puppeteering the corpse of a child. There is no reality where that is a sane act.

this may literally be the one subject on the planet on which everyone is aligned in this way

I’m not sure you could get these poll numbers with “the sky is blue” or “two plus two equals four”

Donald Trump melted down this morning when I told the truth on CNBC about how his economy is devastating working families.

This ought to be good.

cactuscloudsart: Today I discovered a woman called “Angie the ICE Chaser” on TikTok and she literally just follows ICE vehicles in her car. They become increasingly erratic in their attempts to lose her (breaking so many laws on camera) and they never do. She is single handedly striking terror into ICE agents across LA. She also follows them through neighborhoods honking her horn and shouting “THEY ARE ICE!” out her window. There is a GFM for gas money and the legal fees she is fully expecting to come around.

Who needs Superman when heroes like this walk among us?

Their (understandable) grief has given way to this cruel pantomime of him. A digital Weekend at Bernie’s-ing of a child.

Hey Jim. Quick question. What the fuck is wrong with you

Molly of Denali en.m.wikipedia.org On May 9, 2025, it was announced that production of the series will end after the fifth and final season due to the termination of the Ready-to-Learn grant by President Donald Trump.

Reading up on my kids' current favorite show

This has been an ongoing issue for decades now. There needs to be a comprehensive overhaul to MWR facilities to prevent the installation of these machines.

Hell, Ive spent most of my life hearing stuff like this from OLDER people. With younger people its pretty easy to just be like “I lived through this” to get them to stop. But an older person misremembering or misinterpreting what actually happened? Way worse.

Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too maybe it's anti-innovation, maybe it's just avoiding hype. But one thing is clear, I'm completely done with hearing about AI.

Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too

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A horrible Esheresque endlessly collapsing monstrosity of a building that has very impressive physics and looks like it's melting. I hate it. I think the Guggenheim guy designed it.

This is meant to be a hospital for people with degenerative brain conditions so why did they build a hospital that itself has a degenerative brain condition, I'm going to have nightmares about this design

So lets do some example math here that Oz is trying to pass off:

1. Current US prices: 100% more than EU
2. Increase EU prices by 30% tariff
3. New US Prices: still 100% more than EU because tariffs are levied ON IMPORT, its just now the everyone pays 30% more.

This is objectively stupid.

Autobiographies and books on slavery at risk for removal from Charleston historical site gift shops National Park Service staff marked 10 books sold at gift shops in the Fort Sumter, Fort Moultrie and Charles Pinckney historic sites for content review.

Censorship at other historic sites too. Stories about history of slavery in SC, firsthand accounts from former enslaved people and story of a Freedmen’s school are among works flagged by National Park Service staff for review — and potential removal — at three historical sites in the Charleston area

In the past few weeks, the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has referred to "ethnic cleansing" and "concentration camps" in Gaza, while a former Israeli Attny Gen, a former Israeli general, and one of Israel's most famous authors, have all said it's a genocide in Gaza.

Me: "So which country should @aoc.bsky.social go back to?"
Mick Mulvaney: "She's an American citizen."
Me: "So why did Trump tell her to go back to her country?"

I asked former Trump WH chief of staff Mulvaney if he ever challenged his then boss on his racist tweets.
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I am 34 today. I have been on this earth 34 years. The bullshit has not let up. Does it?

Unironically this might be the turning point against AI (very sad it took this)