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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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 👍🏾👍🏾
A serval cat takes the initiative to calm a cat down [📹 F1 Savannah Kittens]
“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.
Replacing the classy David Rubinstein with a suck up lapdog is never going to make a fatally insecure man what he will never be. Trump is certainly culturally relevant in this cheap & cheesy moment, but not in the ways that matter and endure when it comes to the arts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/a...
I recently turned 60 years old. Seems impossibly ancient. And yet. Even now, I find I can still learn new things. For example: It’s Jemaine Clement, not Jermaine.
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."
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?
The official Krypto shirts are available on DC shop now! Modeling by Jen, Stevie, and me. shop.dc.com
If they don't start talking like this again they're going to keep floundering until there's nothing left
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Democrats need leaders who remember that the most electorally successful president of all time was *despised* by big business
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Talking with about how we have to feed the middle class.
On Threads, I started to become convinced I was shadowbanned given how little engagement my posts were getting. Here, I pretty often think “ok, this one is a little *too* popular, how do I turn it off??”
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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NEW: Plaintiffs in USAID case tell Judge Nichols that the Trump administration is violating his temporary restraining order: they say USAID employees on administrative leave haven't been reinstated and are still locked out of computer systems. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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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?)
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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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. 🥲