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Feels strange having a president who's a physical manifestation of your country's sins. Watching him rot and grow more grotesque by the day

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

'...a remarkable acknowledgment by an ICE officer of how daily target arrest numbers played out at the local level, and appeared to contradict the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials’ repeated claims that officers didn’t have quotas.'

This was clear but now there's first-party testimony

Minnesota Third Winter says TRANS RIGHTS

But kept 'liberty over tyranny' to really amp the troll

george lucas saying “still think trade route disputes are a stupid plot point bitch?”

A Democrat has won the mayor's seat in Boca Raton... by one vote:

It's also wayyyyy too close, hoping by '28 it's a +40

Screw the moon, I'm shooting for Jupiter + landing on Mars (before Musk does)

LFGGGGGGGGGGGG

A losing "FREE STATE OF FLORIDA" lottery scratch-off ticket abandoned in a rainy strip mall parking lot

I can't find words to express what an unlivable overcrowded far-right stucco-and-strip-mall shithole Florida really has become in my absence, but this losing "FREE STATE OF FLORIDA" lottery scratch-off ticket abandoned in a rainy strip mall parking lot probably makes the case better than I can

A tweet that reads “The new academic wealth gap isn't your university. It's not even your advisor's connections. It's who knows Claude can turn 50+ research papers into a thesis chapter in 3 hours and who's still manually coding qualitative data. I just watched a sociology PhD skip 8 weeks of analysis. Here are the 9 prompts they used:”

fuck this so much

we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere

a 2028 campaign ad where the average american voter is represented as the guy from memento but all the tattoos are like “every republican president destroys the economy and starts a war in the middle east“ or “trump was president during covid”

Heggy Pete steps up to the podium every day like "I'M FIGHTING THIS WAR TO AVENGE THE HONOR OF EVERY SECOND LIEUTENANT WHO DIDN'T MAKE GENERAL BECAUSE HE HAD A 2.3 GPA AND BEAT HIS WIFE."

I wasted my life reading books and shit.

This is also a glaring, huge, monumental security risk for our nation in so many ways I don't think I can thread them all into skeets

100%

That level of rhetoric (or general posture) just isn't coming from dem 'leadership' tho so I won't hold my breath for fear of passing out

In case this is Greek to you all this really means is the US government, Pentagon, defense depts., etc. decided that AI/LLMs were good enough on their own merits with (very likely) very minimal security and admin controls baked into their platform(s) and are realizing they fucked up pretty badly

Oh you didn't establish governance, monitoring, or quality scaffolding prior to unleashing AI?

Oh wait you also didn't really UAT anything or have any vehicles for reporting on functionality gaps?

Ohhhhh you're doing it ALL IN PROD?

Cool

Cool cool, makes sense, you got this

(1) The accused declared, ordered, or otherwise indicated that there shall be no survivors or surrender accepted; (2) The accused thereby intended to threaten an adversary or to conduct hostilities such that there would be no survivors or surrender accepted; (3) It was foreseeable that circumstances would be such that a practicable and reasonable ability to accept surrender would exist; (4) The accused was in a position of effective command or control over the subordinate forces to which the declaration or order was directed; and (5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here.

Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning:

Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime.

And recognized as such by the US Government.

From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

🚨 The Pentagon is now sending a Marine expeditionary unit — meaning thousands of marines — to the Middle East.

If you work at the Pentagon or in the armed forces, please text me on Signal: premthakker.35

Your anonymity will be protected.

He really did almost say exactly that hahaha

1) he's grayer than he's ever been; realizing time does do that, but I'm betting it's not simply that

2) this is desperate and laughable as fuck, especially considering six more body bags and a downed aircraft this week

3) he could go toe to toe with Russian or Israeli propagandists with this crap

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Some of my fav unis of all time, these are clean + nasty [complimentary]

Ope two alreadys I need more coffee

100%

Not to mention the foreign influence implications riddled in this kind of machine

Not that there aren't already a thousand vectors for such already, but jesus dudes you're really being quite bald faced and second-year-at-business-school about it all

The political culture of the contemporary GOP is indistinguishable from that of the school shooter community

John Solly Is the DOGE Operative Accused of Planning to Take Social Security Data to His New Job A whistleblower complaint alleges John Solly claimed to have stored highly sensitive Social Security data on a thumb drive. Solly and Leidos, his current employer, strongly deny the allegations.

SCOOP: John Solly Is the DOGE Operative Accused of Planning to Take Social Security Data to His New Job

w/ @telliotter.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/john-s...

Would be really nice if journos fucking asked about these things with any spine + without ambiguity

And I say that with as much concern as it deserves, not more, not less