“I’ll gladly pay a bit more to have a stable, reliable, safe source of drinking water with updated infrastructure.”
Readers Respond to Rising Water Bills
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What the Trump administration has been doing to the federal government, in one chart. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
A *second* federal judge has blocked the U.S. Postal Service from implementing Trump's executive order limiting mail balloting. "Plaintiffs have demonstrated … there is an increased risk that a significant number of otherwise appropriate absentee or mail-in ballots will ultimately not be counted."
Second federal judge freezes Trump mail ballot order with U.S. Supreme Court poised to weigh in
The nation’s highest court already is considering the administration’s appeal of an order by U.S. District Court in Boston.
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This story about Don Jr. wedding … www.propublica.org/article/dona...
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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BREAKING: Judge Nichols, a Trump appointee in Washington, D.C., has *blocked* the administraiton's mail-in ballot plan, saying USPS lacked the authority to issue it. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
Listen I for one think it's cool that they're going into the bathroom at Applebee's, kicking open the stalls and slapping a television contract on the lap of whoever is taking the biggest shit
60 Minutes@60minutes.bsky.social · 14h agoNew correspondent Ross Douthat says "no story looms larger than the latest developments in artificial intelligence." The technology and its impacts will be a major focus of 60 Minutes reporting.
"Everyone hates us and everything to do with AI and we aren't making any money while simultaneously lighting billions of dollars on fire. Better slow down to help out humanity" Sure guys.
I'm convinced that this is just a big a reason for the tariffs as any (misplaced) economic claims: Tariffs give Trump discretionary power, and he likes being the sort of guy who can use govt power on a whim to impress people (in this case), or in return for other favors.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h agoTrump on his golf course announces he’s going to take tariffs off Irish whiskey. I guess our trade emergency is over!
I wrote about the four-hour documentary about the world’s most dangerous man. (Gift link) #TIFF26
Some People Think Elon Musk Snapped. The Controversial Four-Hour Documentary About Him Suggests Something Else. (Gift Article)
Alex Gibney’s movie has an unfortunate twist.
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If this was even remotely true, if they were developing AI at all they'd be doing it in a faraday cage in a bunker down a mineshaft in the most remote desert on the planet and not in the middle of San Francisco next to Louie's Bar and Grill and Uno Dos Tacos. Just completely unserious people.
brasidas@brasidas.bsky.social · 2d agoAnthropic's models run on terabytes of VRAM. It's not going to "just copy itself to other computers."
“That's the greatest horror, is to be pretentious.” FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA on aspiring to create great Art, and the risk when doing that of going up your own ass. 85 Candles today for the legendary Director 🎂
I’m not a culture critic but this obsession with rebooting things is a sign of deep malaise. Let’s just cultivate new things. Nobody is going to be improving on Point Break.
‘Point Break’ Series Greenlit By AMC & France’s Canal+ From Alcon
This comes after Deadline revealed in December that it was developing a series based on the iconic Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves surf heist thriller.
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One of my favourite Record Stores in the world: Amoeba Music — Haight Ashbury, San Francisco
I don't usually bother with books like regime change, I figure anything I need to know will make it into reviews and so on, but it's honestly pretty fascinating to read it all as a narrative. Trump is exactly as dumb and venal as you have imagined as an outside observer just watching the news.
The Raids Texas AG Ken Paxton sent armed State Police to invade Hispanic voting-rights organizer homes. One target: an 87-year-old retired teacher who criticized his mail-ballot rules. That's not security. It's Jim Crow Voter Suppression. 🧵 newrepublic.com/article/1853...
GOP: If We Can’t Win, We’ll Cheat. If We Can’t Cheat, We’ll Intimidate
Last week in Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton unleashed police raids of the homes of Hispanic voting activists. Get ready for more of this.
newrepublic.com
This interview with @timnitgebru.blacksky.app about all the recent doomer announcements from the AI companies is excellent. Two huge points: They do this to distract from the real harms. These safety researchers aren’t talking about people committing suicides or targeting Palestinian with bombs.
Katie Hinde@mammalssuck.bsky.social · 3d ago"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...
There have to be so many prosecutions. This all can’t just be forgotten or papered over.
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d agoJUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Trump's longtime biographer says insiders are leaking details on Pete Hegseth’s “weird conduct” because everyone besides the president wants him out.
Pentagon Rebels Leak ‘Colonel Vodka’ Hegseth’s ‘Weird Conduct’
An insider says a “growing rear-guard rebellion” wants Pete Hegseth fired, but one big hurdle remains.
thedailybeast.com
For the same cost as widening i5 through the Rose Quarter we could have the world's tallest statue standing on Ross Island. One of those two things benefits the city, and it isnt the freeway.
1 million Portlanders by 2045 🌲🌧️🦫🚲🚇🚰@bradleyclover.com · 3d agoYES! YES! YES!
I'm going to suggest that Pedocon theory is not really "theory" anymore, expect maybe in so far as you can say gravity is a theory.
Convicted sex offender offered opening prayer at rally for GOP Senate nominee in North Carolina
A North Carolina pastor who led the opening prayer at a recent campaign stop for Republican Senate nominee Michael Whatley is a registered sex offender, twice sentenced to prison
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