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I forget where I first read it, but I think about it every single day: the hypocrisy is the point. The people in power changing their minds and values whenever it suits them makes them feel powerful. And you’d be amazed how few people actually believe in anything other than power
More than 30 years ago, a botched standoff in Idaho and a conflagration at a cult compound in Texas sparked hostility toward federal law enforcement by the right. Now President Trump is deploying agencies as an armed presidential force of sorts. https://wapo.st/49CyfaX
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"something is fundamentally broken with this squad. change is the only thing that might fix it—assuming it’s fixable at all." on the Knicks' descent into change-for-change's-sake purgatory: dailyknicks.com/knicks-sendi...
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There's an old saying in business that you should never launch an enterprise product on the same day as your CSAM scandal. But Elon didn't get to where he is playing by the rules
xAI launches Grok Business, priced at $30 per seat/month, for SMBs, and Grok Enterprise, whose price is not listed publicly, for larger organizations (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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I’m not opposed to Google having my feet pics, but they’re gonna have to pay up www.theverge.com/news/796308/...
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WHOA
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
Zuckerberg can spend billions poaching AI research talent, but they can’t buy a moral compass (Excerpts from a leaked internal Meta doc titled, “GenAI: Content Risk Standards ) www.reuters.com/investigates...
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And no small business owner has the clout to show up in the Oval Office and give the president a gold statue to catch a break.
“.. small businesses will have to pay an extra $202 billion a year on tariffs, which works out to about $856,000 per company ..” @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Imagine trying to explain to your 2020 self that, in 2025, you would be seeing “MechaHitler sponsored by Pepsi” on Twitter, except it’s now called X techcrunch.com/2025/08/07/e...