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
is the goal merit or is the goal segregation?
Pete Hegseth's DOD has decided to recruit at an NRA event rather than a Black Engineering event. www.military.com/daily-news/2...
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For those of you traumatized by the previous post, a cat picture.
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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
Here are some nice mushrooms
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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
I referenced this the other day at an event and got the sense that most people had never heard of it, but looking to be ahead of its time! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aUt...
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...
Free speech baby
1. EXCLUSIVE Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work
“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)
in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
Folks. These brains are broken.
it is a design flaw that this guy walked away without a scratch after he hit a pole because he was playing candy crush during fsd
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Nice try cartoon villain! I’m not… falling for it.
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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
film still #46 Britt in the tent.
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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
Talking with about how we have to feed the middle class.
At at time when the very idea of content moderation is under assault, I wrote about an effort that gives me hope: a $27 million project to transform trust and safety with open-source tools in the same way that open source transformed cybersecurity www.platformer.news/roost-open-s...
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SCOTUSblog cofounder Tom Goldstein was rearrested today after prosecutors alleged that he secretly received over $8 million in cryptocurrency and paid out $6 million in recent days. Prosecutors argued that he presented "an urgent risk of flight." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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You've likely heard about the dangers of vaping, but how does it compare to smoking cigarettes? In today's episode, what we know—and don’t know—about the risks of vaping. Listen here 🎧: buff.ly/4jTuHEb
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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...