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Place I volunteer with here in Durham can tell you what they didn't get, too. Locals have stepped up to fill gaps, but that's an entirely different scale so each dollar's not going as far. Still, glad Durham has a big heart.
#ICYMI: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detailed the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program. (Published Oct. 2025)
I'd pay to listen to @edzitron.com interview James Boyle (author of The Line scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_book...) and explore the legal edges of what all this machine learning means. Just let 'em talk about Disney suing Midjourney for a while, and maybe more people think harder about all this.
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When I was part of the vanguard for "coming out" announcements multiple times, I had a moment. I'm an accepting guy but not, like, a snuggly and supportive guy. I realized that if my honest, respectful, baseline acceptance put me at the leading edge of treating them nicely ... they were owed better.
I like people in general and I hate bullies and busybodies. Later, as I got to know more trans folks, I realized that the ones I met just wanted to live the quiet, unobtrusive life that I took for granted. And that honestly made me want to help more.
I watched "Knives Out: The Glass Onion" (again) yesterday and it really is the movie of our times, right now. That you can identify each of "The Disruptors" IRL, multiple times, is nuts. Just remember (mild spoilers) - Miles Bron is an idiot. youtu.be/4HT5Wn1JcUM?...
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I need to know what Google thinks of me, as a person, such that my discovery stream this week contained this. music.youtube.com/watch?v=wPlO... My favorite part of the whole artistic presentation is "again." Motown parody DOES seem to fit I guess, but just ... what? 😳
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Elon Musk’s team posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts. Now it has deleted all of the five biggest “savings” on that original list, after The New York Times and other media outlets pointed out they were riddled with errors.
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Allow me to interpret a relatively technical post for y'all. cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-expos... "DOGE bros wanted to firehose government data into their snake-oil AI bullshit, but networking is hard, so they just hooked up crazy sensitive servers to the interwebs." (12ft.io helps you read)
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