It’s actually so much worse: they’re scared to TELL HIM THEIR REAL SHOE SIZES.
Because that is how he makes staffing decisions like “Who should be the Secretary of State”!!
"Trump gets donations, you get massive Ticketmaster surcharges — service fees, platinum fees, per-order fees, payment processing fees, facility fees, magical money-sh*tting unicorn fees — on top of already sky-high ticket prices." — @lizdye.bsky.social
Lance Shockley died by lethal injection last year. State courts have rejected prisoners’ requests for DNA testing in recent years.
“In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.”
"I’ve long assumed that before too long, AI might take my job. I just assumed that someone would tell me when it happened," @caseynewton.bsky.social writes.
Newton reports that in response to backlash, Grammarly will let "experts" opt out, but first they have to email the company. Seriously.
Grammarly declined my request to interview CEO Shishir Mehrotra today. But it told me that in response to criticisms, it will allow experts to opt out of the feature by emailing expertoptout@superhuman.com. The company gave me this statement over email: We’ve heard the feedback about this tool and appreciate the engagement from those who have taken the time to raise thoughtful questions about the functionality and the experts surfaced. We agree that the product experience can be improved for both users and experts. The agent was designed to help users discover influential perspectives and scholarship that add value to their work. We want the people behind those perspectives to have greater control over whether their name is used, while providing new ways for influential voices to reach new audiences. Our goal is to improve Expert Review to deliver this outcome.
NEWS: Grammarly tells me it will let "experts" like me opt out of having their names used against their will and for no compensation as part of its "expert review" feature www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...
Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.
Great resource for anyone engaged or interested in US AI policy and governance from @geomblog.bsky.social and his team www.brown.edu/news/2026-03...
More detail here: www.ms.now/news/justice...
Small drop in the ocean but I started using Kagi for search and it’s fantastic. It’s like Google before enshittification.
“‘Right now, under U.S. law, it’s lawful for government authorities to buy up commercially available information from data brokers and other third parties,’ said Samir Jain, the vice president of policy at CDT.”
The media, wholesale, derided President Biden’s pullout of Afghanistan as “botched” — over 120,000 people were evacuated, and 13 American soldiers were killed. His popularity took a nosedive and never recovered.
Just now: Texas Democratic Party says “hundreds of Dallas County voters are being turned away from the polls” because of new Republican-led requirements that they vote only in their precinct, rather than anywhere in the county #txlege
The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.
SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.
This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.
Senator Merkley to me on Trump’s war in Iran:
“This president has chosen to steal the power of the purse, breaking the Constitution; steal the power of taxation, breaking the Constitution; and now, stealing the power of War, breaking the Constitution.
I’m not sure, are we still a republic?”
A remarkable level of flouting of the remaining campaign finance rules, as everyone now knows enforcers are sleeping and SCOTUS will shrug away what’s left at some point
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...
Israel hacked security cameras, phones to track Khamenei - FT | Iran International share.google/YT0LnRFYKNMC...
just had extended debate at home about whether accomplice liability extends to assassination bets how’s your day going
For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
One way to read the AI/Pentagon news from last night (I covered it but didn't skeet) is that the Department of Defense wants AI to automate weapons and/or spy on Americans and that Anthropic would have the best AI to do that, but OpenAI is at least the second-best so they'll just use that instead.
January - Venezuela
February - Iran
March - Cuba
April - Greenland
May - Panama
June - Somalia
July - Canada
August - Mexico
September - Haiti
October - Norway (retaliation for not winning Nobel)
November - Colombia
December - Ukraine
Wouldn't want a little war to get in the way of a golf weekend.
“Roe will never be overruled….”
Hegseth strikes deal with Scouts: Girls allowed for now, DEI is banned In announcing the Pentagon’s agreement with Scouting America, the defense secretary assailed the group for welcoming transgender children but stopped short of saying they would be denied entry.
At least we know in the hours before the attack Hegseth was laser focused on keeping Americans safe
Donald Trump has said almost nothing to justify going to war against Iran. The real reason may be something he dare not speak of.
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THIS.
