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@jared.leeong.me

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They're all "free market this, free market that" until China makes an EV that can charge from 10-70% in 6 minutes. Cowards.

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Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS

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Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year. Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants. They are good for society and the economy.

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it’s incredibly blackpilling to me that it takes rising gas prices and rising gas prices alone to have people turn against the war in iran, and not the american government murdering thousands of children and civilians in iran. americans are incredibly selfish

I think we should all remember that we have DIRECT LINES of communication to the offices of our federal representatives and that we need to use them to demand answers and accountability of our government.

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NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

404media.coThis App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses NearbyThe creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

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Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. (Published April 2023)

propublica.orgClarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP DonorIsland-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me tha...

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Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

It's remarkably empowering to have to write a presentation about yourself. I get so lost in my day to day I forget how much I've actually accomplished these past years

People claiming that SNAP is inefficient and "riddled with abuse" say that there are 186,000 dead people on the benefits list. Sounds like a lot until you realize SNAP services a total of 41.7 MILLION participants. 186k is less than half a percent of total beneficiaries

I realized the value of LLMs aren't just for building glorified chatbots but rather having a programmatic way to extract INTENT from natural language

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Reminder - Social Security is *your* money. You pay into it so you can collect it later. If the government shuts it down on a whim, without paying you back, that is theft.

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BREAKING: Acting Social Security commissioner Leland Dudek says he is consulting with the Justice Department about shutting down the agency. Dudek told the Washington Post: “Unless I get clarification, I’ll just start to shut it down. I don’t have much of a choice here.”

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“Operation Whirlwind” What’s Happening Now? In 2025, Operation Whirlwind was launched under Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin to investigate alleged threats against employees of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).