TGL 07

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

Making goulash for dinner to celebrate the fall of Orban!

"I think we should invest in our own people," says the toady from the administration that has slashed billions of dollars in federal funding for colleges and universities.

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Sisyphus but every day he unsubscribes from marketing and promotion emails.

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33

Gop policy ⤵️

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.

This is what failed Republican policies look like. #VoteThemOut

One thing everyone can do right now is call your member of Congress or visit them and demand they sign discharge petition #6 to force HR 2550 to a vote. That bill reverses this and is cosponsored by an outright House majority (222 cosponsors). And the petition has 209 signatures. We need 9 more.

That's how you can tell human authors from AI. AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off. Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.

I just finished -and recommend - Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico.It's a millennial version of George Perec's "Things, A Story of the Sixties" and captures the feeling of living a life mediated by social media and how the search for authentic experiences has led to the homogenization of everything.

Disaster.

The same people demanding you present a photo ID to vote are perfectly fine with letting you be arrested, handcuffed & thrown into a van by armed men wearing plain clothes, face masks & presenting no identification of any sort.

A “shift” never happened. A chaotic raid at a worksite and a warrantless sweep in our communities have the same outcome. Bullshit rhetoric aside, they’re hunting us down while we’re trying to feed you. Who’s actually in charge?

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

I’m so confused by the folks who said that raising the minimum wage would increase the price of every day goods while also being okay with tariffs raising the price of every day goods… I reckon they are okay paying higher prices as long as it doesn’t help anyone making a minimum wage.

Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

Hey you know how people made the Tesla brand radioactively toxic and crashed its entire corporate structure? You can do that with authoritarian brutality and with neoliberal oppression and exploitation. You chase these motherfuckers from society until all that’s left is something real and better.

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

“I’ve been disappeared because a rainforest killing plagiarism machine picked me out of a hat”, coming to a dystopia near you

Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

As you look at the stock market crashing further this morning, remember that this president plans to balance destroying your retirement account with removing the safety net so his handlers can pay less in taxes. Happy Monday.

Very important thread for attorneys who are members of the DC Bar.

EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason

it's also funny to me that "PhD" has become code for "really smart person", rather than what it is, which is "person who has advanced their field through original research", which is something AI can't do

In case you are wondering what Project 2025 says about workers' rights, check this out. It's worse than you can imagine: betterinaunion.org/project-2025

BREAKING: A federal judge in California has ordered OPM to rescind memos calling for the mass termination of probationary employees, saying the agency overstepped its legal authority and must inform other agencies it lacked the authority to issue such a directive.

The BBC is quite correct.

How many child cancer researchers did they fire to pay for this?

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"Elon Musk is stealing from the entire American public, stealing our data. Stealing the services that we all rely on. They're going to use everything they supposedly save to justify massive tax cuts for themselves." - @fedworkersunited.bsky.social #SaveOurServices

It’s not a “savings” if you’re getting fewer services in exchange. I’m still paying the same taxes!