Is there anyone out there that is mapping any delayed or cancelled federal payments ? Would be really interesting to see which towns and cities are going to be hit
For those of you traumatized by the previous post, a cat picture.
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Man greeted by Otter Pup in the water
Here are some nice mushrooms
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Doug Mills is one of the greatest to ever do it.
This is America, 2025 In one weekend (!!), one New York Times photographer, Doug Mills, travels from Gitmo to the Super Bowl to take two unforgettable images of where we're at as a nation
This is the most potato fox I've ever seen 🤣
Tell me you're redlining without telling me you're redlining
The US DOT says it's planning to prioritize areas with high marriage & high birth rates for funding. Our new analysis @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows this would disproportionately fund: —Communities with a higher white resident share —Low-density areas —High-income areas —Car-dependent areas
This frog looks like he’s gonna grant you a wish 🐸
The AMA has a YouTube page where you can catch up on all the fun, ongoing TB & bird flu outbreaks, since the CDC is no longer allowed to do that: youtube.com/watch?v=HlPB...
and added to starter packs 👍🏾👍🏾
“It’s time for OpenAi to return to its open source, safety-focused force for good it once was.” What. A. Guy. (Spoiler alert: he’s lying)
Playing D&D with friends and inevitably we talk politics a bit. DM: "Let's focus! We are talking about the monsters we can slay; not the ones we can't."
film still #46 Britt in the tent.
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Thank you Meta for finally addressing my biggest problem with your apps (they protect my privacy too much)
A memo at Meta states privacy teams will have less authority to delay products and previous privacy decisions will be reviewed, as some are overly "risk-averse" (Kalley Huang/The Information) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Gold standard: out. Goo-koo standard: in?
Among other reasons, censorship is bad because a lot of these terms are used multiple ways. “Confirmation bias” is the most common logical fallacy, for example - I’d like the folks at NSA to be particularly attuned to it.
2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted. This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
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The official Krypto shirts are available on DC shop now! Modeling by Jen, Stevie, and me. shop.dc.com
OK, why not, transit wonk thread. In a huge metro area like Chicagoland, transit exists (and lots of it is great!) but for the suburbs, it really only caters to an old kind of commuting. Even if people are willing to transfer from Metra to the L to get elsewhere downtown - that's still downtown.
And even in my case, where I'm leasing an office of my own accord, the kind of office I want would, if it were close to the train station downtown, would be ridiculously expensive. So my car expenses actually save me some money. This is a problem.
It's a long post, but it's Charity at her best. She explains why diversity, despite it being flawed and lagging, is an important signal for an organization's values
I have a new blog post up: "Corporate 'DEI' Is An Imperfect Vehicle for Deeply Meaningful Ideals" charity.wtf/2025/02/10/c... I know a lot of people are feeling incredibly scared and demoralized right now. I get it; I am too. (Who knows if my marriage will still be valid in two years?)
So today I noticed that Adobe Illustrator has a dedicated setting for …the color of the Share button in the title bar and I just can’t stop imagining possible scenarios that led to this being added to the product. 🥲
The Shadow Over Cyberspace: With your meatspace mind unraveling, time is running out -- barter with gods, embrace the deathless aeons, or go offline permanently in this modempunk horror story. fictionfactorygames.itch.io/the-shadow-o...