It would be comical if it wasn't so sad and anxiety inducing -- an idiot administration dancing to the tune of an idiot cult leader, treating the rest of the country as if they were idiots too, and 33% of the time they are right.
Sad that this even has to be said in this day and age. But such are the times we live in.
And his MAGA base will cheer him on for it, Susan Collins will be concerned, Speaker Johnson will be unaware, and life as we know it will go on as if nothing happened.
I would work out how to vote this one time regardless of the barriers thrown at us, and vote for representation that can reverse these things so we don't have these barriers going forward. Side effects include keeping our democracy, better quality of life, etc.
Is it because he doesn't know / hasn't heard anything about the Epstein files though?
Read and reviewed Software Engineering for Data Scientists by Andrew Treadway published by @manning.com hope folks find it useful -- sujitpal.blogspot.com/2026/02/book...
Fair point, although arguably they may have wanted to clean up Trump's mess first. But I agree with you about their bias for following protocol instead of taking decisive action to cut through the BS Trump/GOP threw at them and safeguard the future of the nation.
Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I think enough people did vote for VP Harris for her to win. I hope at some point the claims of election fraud perpetrated by the GOP with the help of Elon Musk are investigated and shared with the public (doubtful, going by what happened with Al Gore).
I don't know what else the Democrats or VP Harris could have done to warn American voters before the election. Biden (and then Harris) did position themselves as not Trump, but they did share plans of what Democrats would do if elected. Its just that "not Trump" was the bigger issue (as we see now).
Like so much of this administration, this would be laughably stupid if it wasn't so scary that such people have so much power, and that they have chosen to wield it so irresponsibly.
Not a lawyer, just someone who watches lot of legal / political drama on TV, but curious if a leak would mean that the evidence was obtained illegally and considered tainted (fruit of the poisoned tree) and therefore inadmissible in court? Therefore the insistence on doing everything by the book?
Well, Macron was a little bombastic today at Davos too
bsky.app/profile/pete...
This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.
Surprising that none of our anger is directed at the Republicans in the House and Senate without whose enablement none of this would have been possible? We the voters collectively chose not to give our Democrat representatives the power to be an effective check on this chaos, thats on us.
The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar
https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/01-cathedral-megachurch-bazaar/
*slightly* less shit? You think the Obama or Biden presidencies are *slightly* less shit than the two Trump presidencies? IMHO they may not have supported all your favorite programs, but at least they weren't actively working to destroy the country and its citizens and stealing us blind.
Read Transformers in Action by Nicole Koenigstein (and published by @manning.com) -- sujitpal.blogspot.com/2026/01/book... , hope folks find it useful.
I enjoyed Dilbert so I do not say this lightly -- Scott Adams is either stupid or a liar, and he thinks all of us are stupid that we would accept his lie without question. How does Democrats staging an insurrection to protest an election they won make any sense?
I attended @pydata.bsky.social earlier this month, and finally got around to writing my trip report. Appreciate any feedback, also if you think I missed a particularly good talk, please let me know so I can go back and re-watch -- sujitpal.blogspot.com/2025/12/trip...
Paywalled but agree. If every car on the road was self-driving, it may even be possible to eliminate accidents altogether, enable higher density, etc. We could even eliminate auto ownership if there are enough of these to ensure ride availability most of the time. But we need to get there first.
I can see this happening with a GOP admin. Notwithstanding their lies about how the importer would pay it, tariffs are a consumption tax like sales tax. Republicans like it because it favors the rich (they pay less as a percentage of their income than poorer folk), Democrats oppose for same reason.
You forgot Hyundai's Ioniq-5, 6 and 9. All good cars with performance comparable or better than Tesla models. Same true of your list, they are cars built by car companies, not a software company (run by a neo-Nazi).
How's that going though? I think they blew up at least 4 that we know of.
Event Planner in Chief?
Elon Musk -- the OG Captain Obvious!
Or maybe I am wrong, she may be a long suffering wife who just wants her marriage to work regardless. Maybe she remembers JD from when he used to be a halfway decent person and hopes he will revert. The recent public interaction between JD and Ms Kirk seems to suggest otherwise. My sympathies FWIW.
I think Ms Vance is enamored with being Second Lady, even if its for this admin, with possibility of being First, even if its through default. Briefly interacted with her mom when she was Dean of Sixth College at UCSD, a very nice caring lady. The apple really fell far from the tree with this one.
Only world leaders?
I attended Time Series Analysis (from OpenHPI) by Mario Tormo Romero, then read Time Series Forecasting using Foundation Models by Marco Peixeiro (from Manning), took me beyond ARIMA and into the world of Neural Networks and Foundation Models, here's my review - sujitpal.blogspot.com/2025/10/book...
I wonder how long they think they can continue doing this sort of thing with impunity. Even ostriches know that sticking your head in the sand doesn't work (I was going to say GOP is behaving like ostriches but TIL its a myth).
