@jscottcory
Sometimes funny, sometimes thoughtful, makes mistakes. Husband, father, cat and dog dad. Grumpy, old, gay, and many other things: proud of all of 'em. @jscottcory in the Meta ecosystem. scory.blogspot.com
Don't make me feel more guilty than I already do, even knowing the farmer and the conditions for the pigs on the farm. It would be close to the infamous "Portlandia" chicken episode all over again.
Oink.
Before this nightmare is over we're going to see the same thing happening in *every* federal agency that collects and uses information about people.
I'm making char siu and I'm genuinely excited about it.
That's it.
Who's up for updating "Schoolhouse Rock" to bring a significant fraction of Americans up to speed on how government -- and everything else -- works?
Because it ain't gonna happen with NBC, Fox News, CNN, CBS, or ABC.
(PBS without the federally-funded CPB *might* pull it off.)
The question is: will Congress, the federal and state courts, and DOJ be prepared for and willing to do what's needed to undo Miller's work and prevent his enablers from ever bringing it back to life?
This is an issue, and one that needs to be discussed and agreed upon because investigation and prosecution of DHS employees and political appointees needs to be one of the priorities of a future DOJ, state AGs and the federal and state Courts. Congress will need to tread a fine line here, too.
There's at least one outcome where Ellison's investments all fail due to over leverage.
I won't cry.
100% this.
You can build very good, very solid LLMs *if* you curate the data carefully and train the models to recognize and report issues. But that means you need subject matter experts working alongside and having governance over both data scientists and engineers.
That's not happening.
We hear them every night in Washington, DC. You're not alone.
Yes. Related to this is the corporate capture of government functions by oligarchs and their enterprises. @donmoyn.bsky.social has written cogently about this here:
Before the gym: we have lived through an era of increasing impunity and an active effort to disguise accountability through multiple mechanisms, including enabling behaviors that value fealty over responsibility.
That needs to change, and change now.
Oh: Push day and 20 minutes of cardio.
In DC there's a similar pattern: many large businesses negotiate tax abatements or offsets for new development or moving into the District, while DC residents, particularly lower and fixed-income residents, have no corresponding reductions in income or property taxes. Potemkin progressive rates. :)
Explaining progressive taxation in plain language, and also explaining all of the ways our current federal, state, and local taxes frequently are *not* progressive and allow wealthy people and businesses to avoid paying taxes would be a great place to start.
They never ask the obvious question: Am I the asshole?
If they did (and acted on the answer appropriately) we would have a much better world.
Working in the garden. Cleaned the burner drip pans. Whittling down "the list." Better than doomscrolling *and* we'll have a garden and clean house heading into WW III.
SMH.
Nichols is a type I know well. Old school Reagan Republicans. Smart. Opinionated. Supremely confident in their knowledge and connections. Stunningly, absolutely unable to question certain issues even when they clearly conflict with other concerns.
We're here now because of them.
Correct, and her testimony yesterday likely triggered his actions, in part because he's been convicted of fraud and he knows they can follow the trail through her actions to him.
The best people.
Trump did purchase the Senate Confirmation Insurance Policy by selecting one of the Senate's own, even if he's a violent, corrupt, ignorant sociopath.
Having been convicted for fraud, his sensitivity to people committing fraud (that he recognizes) is likely very high. He (correctly) is afraid Noem's fraud could engulf his regime.
Additionally, federal agencies had become overly dependent on the advice and guidance of both technology consultants and vendors. There was a dearth of people experienced in and qualified for making decisions about what data and technology was needed to support programs.
It's an important issue.
Former CIO for a federal agency. This is an accurate statement, but there's more to it than the malfeasance of this regime. Government IT suffered from decades-long inattention to changing risks and needs and a lack of resources to manage, update and secure existing technology.
*You know that Ursula Le Guin myth about "Omelas"? Well this world is the opposite of that. There's this secret, ritual chamber holding eighty moguls in luxurious contentment, while the entire planet and everyone in it is in obvious suffering and decay
The blinking is the tell. She acknowledges the lie; she's lying about the regret.
The botox and filler hide everything else.
When the Ellison family businesses claim "too big to fail", start seizing their assets and removing family members and friends from the boards of Oracle, Paramount, and Netflix.
Hard to be a hegemon if you can't make others dependent on something you provide while simultaneously threatening them if they don't purchase from you.
Genius. True. Watch. Follow.
The voter suppression is intentional and in plain sight.
The Supreme Court will create a new reading of law to justify it.
The sentence is true if you strike "politics" as well.
I'll leave Florida out of this chat. 😂
Oh, for the days of "family values" Republicans ... wait, they were just as mendacious and hypocritical back then, too.