Mary and the moon

2 headlines from this week

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Never fund DHS again. Abolish it completely.

If someone wants to moan about "but but we have to ____" yeah fine we can discuss a new department, but *this* department has to go.

Are we fkn great again?

This is interesting. It’s from Caolan Robertson, an independent reporter on the front lines in Ukraine.

That is what war is for him… entertainment.

Idiot Donald Trump to allies *before* he realized that Iran might block the Strait of Hormuz, which would drive up gas prices and drive down his polls:

“We don’t need your stupid help, losers!”

Idiot Donald Trump to allies *after* Iran does exactly that a week later:

“HELP! HELP! HELP!!!”

Report: Israel warns US it is running dangerously low on interceptors Officials tell Semafor that Israel had already entered the current war with limited interceptor supplies after using significant numbers during last summer’s fighting with Iran

Report: Israel warns US it is running dangerously low on interceptors www.ynetnews.com/article/rk3c...

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

1. Let me see if I have this right. The Russians are now helping the Iranians kill Americans, first by providing “targeting information,” according to the Post.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Amid Crowded Skies, FAA Kills Rule Aimed at Regulating Space Junk The agency once said that pieces of space debris “pose a significant risk,” but the Trump administration has backed off a rule that would have required companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX to remove rock...

An FAA rule proposed during the Biden administration would have required companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX to safely remove spacecraft from orbit within 25 years of launch.

The Trump administration recently killed the rule.

This is everything

When Felicia publicly supports her sisters who were victimized by Bill Cosby, then I’ll be interested in her opinions on sisterhood. Until then she can zip it.

Best ad for Volkswagen - their car survived a Russian attack on #Ukraine.

> @reuters.com

Hilarious that in the same post threatening the media for spreading "hoaxes and distortions," the FCC Chair calls Trump's 1.5 percent margin in 2024 "a landslide election victory."

In a 2020 FBI document of the Epstein files, a confidential human source (CHS) alleged that Jeffrey Epstein was a co-opted Mossad agent trained as a spy by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.”

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.

404 has been churning out really important and entrepreneurial reporting. This is typically excellent.

This moment from Feb 2025 may go down as one of the most prescient exchanges in modern diplomatic history. Zelenskyy warned Trump that while the United States may feel protected by an ocean today, a time could come when America would need help in war. Trump scolded him instead.

If he beat and completely decimated Iran, both militarily, economically, and in every other way, why do ships need help going through the Strait of Hormuz?

He is begging like a dog, one might say.

This war and Trump’s alienation of our allies may go down as among the greatest foreign policy failures of any presidency in history.

I analyzed the Proud Boys donor list. The most common occupation was real estate (realtor, mortgage broker) — the same parasitic class that was over-represented among Jan 6th rioters.

"Our trans siblings deserve our support and encouragement, endorsement and vindication now more than ever as the rising tide of transphobia threatens to engulf not just trans people but everybody who associates with them." Stephen Fry in a video message for Transmission

I know some disagree but someone like Stephen Fry changing his mind and doing a complete 180 after supporting She Who Must Not Be Named, is a good thing and is evidence that attitudes are changing.

Solidarity with @kschake.bsky.social. The US military gains nothing from this systematic banning of scholars. It snacks of fear of facts- another sign that there is a design of ideological indoctrination.

Happy Pi Day!

Not a single line he won’t cross

An utterly shameless person

Sinema acknowledges affair with Senate bodyguard while in office The acknowledgement is part of a legal filing to dismiss an “alienation of affection” lawsuit against the former senator from Arizona.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Let's say this
I've met Kyrsten Sinema
I worked on her campaign
She always talked the good talk..
But in truth...always sleazy &
always a narcissist
We thought we were working for a Democrat
Boy did we find out 🤬
SUE THE HELL OUT OF HER