Marcus

Marcus

@pralitemonk.bsky.social

Currently: Web Developer, student. Previously: Writer, copy editor, CDL driver.

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NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.

wired.comA 28-Year-Old DOGE Operative Gutted USAID. HR Had No Record of Him Working ThereDespite the agency's human resources department saying he hadn’t even been onboarded, Jeremy Lewin oversaw the destruction of USAID. It’s not clear he had the legal authority to do so.

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NEW: An army of volunteers and activists across the US have been training for months to face down ICE at the polls on election day. The message they have for the Trump administration? "We're ready" 1/ www.wired.com/story/massiv...

wired.comMassive Groups of Volunteers Are Ready to Face Down ICE at the PollsFrom heat maps to Signal chats to war rooms, volunteers across the US are ready to act if federal immigration agents show up on Election Day.

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I’ll save you the hate click to note that the author is an interior designer with a podcast and a new book to sell, so just keep on walking

Lol but wait, the new York times said it went up 14 fold????

WIRED@wired.com

Anthropic’s S-1 filing is hundreds of pages long—and it leaves out quite a few financial details. “Anthropic owes investors more information,” one analyst tells WIRED.

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it feels truly insane that it’s not

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

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NEW: Anthropic’s filing appears to partly walk back the co-founders’ pledge to commit 80% of their personal equity holdings in the AI startup to philanthropic causes. Those acts, the filing suggests, are “voluntary, revocable expressions” that “do not constitute binding obligations.”

motherjones.comAnthropic's founders pledged to donate most of their stock. Their IPO tells another story.The AI giant's new filing calls the promise a "revocable," non-binding "expression" that depends on market conditions.

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The $105 million donation is the largest in NPS history. It came from the largest data-center backer in the world. The contribution is raising questions about the role of private philanthropy as data-center development transforms the rural West. @mountainjournal.bsky.social #yellowstone #datacenter

wyofile.comInside Yellowstone National Park’s historic gift from data center developers - WyoFileThe $105 million donation is the largest in National Park Service history. It came from the largest data-center backer in the world.

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if you put a 404 Media sticker on a door at a property being managed by Sotheby’s, please know that the front desk person is now emailing me asking how to get it off

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As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

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Airbnb went from a cheap way to crash in a spare bedroom or rent a vacation house for a weekend and turned into "what if hotels openly hated you and acted like they were doing you a favor by letting you give them hundreds of dollars to stay there, and also it's more expensive"

Caroline Haskins@carolinehaskins.bsky.social

Airbnb is banning its hosts from making guests do things like “stripping the bed, taking trash offsite, or washing and putting away dishes.” The hosts....are not taking it well: www.wired.com/story/airbnb...

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70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

theatlantic.comThe Man Who Saved the Internet YesterdayOndřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.

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how all of these conversations would actually go

Philip Bump@pbump.com

Even if this were viable as a concept (that there's an afterlife; that it allows conversations with others; that enslavers are going the same place as you), who cares? Oh, are you mad at me, Ben Franklin? Tough shit.

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it took four hours and emails across three agencies to determine if a simple, polite email invitation was legitimate, in case you're wondering whether AI has improved efficiency in my field

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this describes one of my closest friendships. 20 years of us sending each other the most heinous stuff we can find.

Bits@bitshammer.bsky.social

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "If you call somebody from that part of the world 'Mohammed,' you're about 65% sure to get it right. So if you have any problem with names, just call the guy Mohammed, you'll probably be right."

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Aftermath is almost entirely supported by paid reader subscriptions. If just 2,000 of the 132,000 following this account signed up (for just $5.80 per month on an annual plan), or 2,000 of the 27,500 'free' newsletter recipients, the website would change fundamentally! aftermath.site/landing/

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Polymarket is taking bets on whether the seven Cornell students accused of raping a student will receive a felony sex crime charge. Among the athletes endorsing Polymarket: LeBron James, Derek Jeter, Eli Manning, Sue Bird, Reggie Bush and Richard Sherman. frontofficesports.com/article/poly...

frontofficesports.comPolymarket, Athlete Endorsers Under Fire Over Cornell 7 Market“This case, and sexual assault on college campuses more broadly, are deeply important issues,” a Polymarket spokesperson tells FOS.

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If we tax Elon Musk and his fellow billionaires appropriately, every child in America can have healthcare, education, and a well funded social safety net instead of some racist billionaire’s pathetic pr stunt

CNN@cnn.com

Elon Musk has said he will give every child in America a stake in SpaceX, his $2 trillion aerospace and artificial intelligence company, as tech firms face intensifying scrutiny over their impact on society. https://cnn.it/4yWTjTJ