Roger Allan Ford (he/him)

LESS THAN HALF A SCARAMUCCI

YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING: As good as the hype says. Amazing film. Way funnier than I expected.

So, does anyone know if calling yourself “general counsel” of a California organization would violate California’s unauthorized-practice-of-law statute?

"AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO"

Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...

This is the perfect newspaper feature story. A-plus. Five stars.

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There are no words for how angry this story makes me. Academic freedom is dead in Texas public universities.

6/ Weeks later, Kao tells his team Collins committed to getting the company $32M in naval contracts.

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

There should be a Tetris game on your car’s dashboard you control with the steering wheel and you get points multipliers for how fast you’re driving

A robot in a store in Russia was teased and entered 'Street Fighter mode':

Podcast ad: “Hey Tampa! Class it up with Crocs!” 😒

“insisted that it was easy to understand what was needed and also that there was no time to write down the requirements” ahahahahahahahaha

Chris Christie just said on ABC that no American troops have been killed in the Iran war, which feels like news to these at least 18 service members and their families

You shut your dirty mouth

Holy shit!!!

Ok this is embarrassing. Iowa and Montana are seeking to file an original-jurisdiction complaint in the Supreme Court to sue the twelve states that are trying to block the Warner Bros / Paramount merger. Ashley Keller and Adam Mortara should feel ashamed. deadline.com/wp-content/u...

"I argue that slop is a symptom of a world currently dominated by the cultural structures of kitsch and cute, which uses spam as a logic of production in a crowded media environment." Lucie Chateau, The evolution of slop and brainrot aesthetics... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“The solution Trump settled on, according to three people familiar with the meeting, was to lean into the Democratic strategy of focusing on himself.”

Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton

How to approach an unknown language in the ocean? Here’s one of the first cases of AI interpretability leading to a scientific discovery -- in whales.

COYOTE VS. ACME is awesome. Tons of fun. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Highly recommended.

So, the shock gloves didn't just come out of nowhere. I don't even know what to say: www.3newsnow.com/central-omah...

What an interesting lede in this WSJ story about Luigi Mangione’s guilty plea www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Does the White House know what “exquisite” means?

A federal judge in Washington state has sanctioned ICE $5,000 in compensatory damages and $11,000 in attorneys fees for illegally transfering a man twice in violation of her orders. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Forbes Union statement regarding The New York Times’s reporting on Randall Lane:

Mail ballots are much less prone to fraud than Fifth Circuit opinions, it seems

the reviews are beginning to roll in from nextdoor

We are at the “r/finance is posting fancams of Chair Powell set to Taylor Swift” point in the cycle of regret over Temu Greenspan.

It looks so much worse

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

Whooooooa cool. May need to move “replace the gas stove with induction” up the to-do list.

Amazing story about how it looks like the Trump administration may have fixed the National Civics Contest for high-school kids to prevent Aangad Singh, “the brown kid in the turban,” from winning.

Amazing story about how it looks like the Trump administration may have fixed the National Civics Contest for high-school kids to prevent Aangad Singh, “the brown kid in the turban,” from winning.

Trump earlier today at the dignified transfer of U.S. Army service members killed in Jordan and Iraq. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

If you are under the age of 50, then for more than half of your life, the President has been born in 1946.

i love when a press release headline sounds like it was written by an aggrieved fish

Federalists getting nervous about the Electoral College?

Aren’t you fighting like hell to kill a billionaire tax in California?