so bluesky crashed when i was looking up info on the bryson fire. in less than 4 hours it went from nothing to over 200 acres. the fire is near malibu -- we knew this was a possibility, we just didn't know where
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We are closely monitoring the Bryson Fire in Malibu. While the fire is burning outside of the City of Los Angeles, the LAFD is prepared to respond to any fire threat that could emerge and has predeployed resources across the San Fernando Valley, Santa Monica Mountains, Hollywood Hills, and West LA.
Kroger just announced the largest layoffs in its history, with plans to cut 3,000 employees as it ramps up use of AI. Reminder that Kroger has spent $12.3B on stock buybacks since 2019 and paid its CEO $14M last year — 417x its median worker's pay. AI is turbo-charging corporate greed.
Kroger plans largest layoffs in its nearly 150-year history
The company's CEO said it was committed to "simplifying" operations and "deploying more resources where they matter most
newsweek.com
the death penalty - abortion contradiction... baby's are born without sin gay people choose to sin a murderer has committed a sin -- a baby must be born a gay person can be legislated against a murdered can be killed by the state
so another school shooting. bend oregon we need more gun control the gop have been making guns more accessible, in almost every state. more guns is not solving this problem. no other country has the no of mass shooting that we have - why? we don't have real weapons controls.
so listening to the next longmire audiobook and came across the wonderlic test. its a cognitive test the nfl gives all of it's potential players. 50 questions 12 minutes ---- let's ask trump to take it. see what score he gets. stop talking about the dementia test 🤦
so say the rivian segment - good. i still don't like the handles. you need to have full non powered handles that don't retract into the body. or if they do, there is a mechanical way to open the doors without power or internet..
whoever thought livestreaming an execution was a good idea?? i'm glad its not being shown. i wish they would imprison (? seems like the wrong word) him for the rest of his life.
Yes the dems should get rid of a bunch of loopholes in the tax code. The gop will stuff the code with more loopholes? Beats me —- When the gop cut tax rates they don’t get rid of loopholes. They cut rates and keep the loopholes. 🤷♂️ Sigh
So FBN bashing China. We need to work with them on some things while they work against us on others. Yeah this sucks but we can do both. Maybe we can’t deal with the current govt like we want. But we worked with Soviet Russia on some things while opposing them on most things…
so we are finding out that Zacharia is a con? she isn't a lawyer, but played on on tv for years? the entire admin are grifters trump is a magnet for characters like this.
trump and the gop think ice are winning them votes - they are not winning the gop votes. the entire country is watching ice deport people to places they didn't come from. the gop thinks this is acceptable? 🤦
⚠️Near-critical fire weather in the North and East Bay interior mountains as offshore winds overnight lead to dry humidities, poor overnight recoveries, and potential extreme fire behavior. Remember: one less spark, one less fire! #CAwx https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/2110533830654189793
so most of the time weather in cal comes from the west or the north, and runs down the coast from oregon, washington, british columbia, etc... we get some weather from the south, pineapple express, el nino and la nina, and the very rare tropical storm of some kind. ---
10 yr old article and it was peter thiel - billionaire loon --- said he was going to make a floating libertarian utopia figured out he couldn't do it? beats me. how was he going to feed himself? and his hundreds of minions? www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the...
The Tycoon Who Planned His Very Own Island Utopia in the 1970s
When governments buckle, stock markets collapse, and clowns run for president, a billionaire’s thoughts turn naturally to a favorite fantasy: private utopia....
atlasobscura.com
Trump is approximately 25% of the total us debt. But told us he would eliminate the debt in his first term… Sigh The Chinese govt is not trustworthy. They lie. No doubt. They have a debt problem. They make things. The us serves people, the service economy
So FBN lying to its viewers again. The ai companies said ai might do significant damage to society… It wasn’t politicians that started this. It was actual employees of the companies. They were telling us how badly the management was running their product… But claim it is Bernie Sigh
So who turned off ukraines access to starlink last night Musk? Hegseth? Someone else in the chain of command Very bad. Civilians were killed by Putin attacks intentionally… He’s not our friend. Putin is the bad guy.
Obama didn’t kick the can down the road. There were inspectors who could go in. Trump screwed up. FBN just lying to its viewers… Sigh
Gold won't hold above $4,000 over the next 3 months, warns Bank of America 🚨🚨 Gotta be bullish right?
so wait, i saw a pair of polls saying that dems might get the gov mansions in both texas and florida holy crap if that holds in this election and 2028, would the gop even get 200 electoral votes? i don't think its going to happen, but they are so bad at governing right now.
so pge is talking about cutting some areas electricity, because its very dry and potentially high winds ... and they are worried that some live cables might get knocked down and start some fires ... some of the bay area counties are included...
so jp morgan has blocked ais from accessing their clients data... how? some kind of anti scrapping software? a bunch of other banks need to do something similar. right after musk telling folks to scan their credit cards um... why aren't all of them doing this?
Um okay so anthropic is saying an agent or part of one might hijack a smart tv or appliance… And do what? Delete the existing software and rewrite the code in the appliance and brick it? To what end? What was the original request, that it decides to occupy…
After finishing the longmire novella audio book. Moved on to the next book in the series. Any other name…. Back to the more familiar story. Walt investigating a crime or potential crime.
so trump polices - no invasion something... - save america act - health care payments to ppl instead of insurance co - end no cash bail - death penalty for x, y, z - trans laws did anybody republican about these before trumps second term?