GenAI is a tech bubble of hype and absurdity. It runs on nothing but vibes and dollar signs in billionaire's eyes. But that's why we must resist it. We broke NFTs, we broke the Metaverse, we can break this nonsense too.

Gracie Abrams is good. Great even. But I cannot love her or be a fan because her dad ruined Star Wars.

Univ. of Tenn. students reporting on immigration status changes. Important student journalism — including noting what they were seeking and weren't told. "The Daily Beacon requested information on Tuesday regarding international students’ visa terminations. The university or ISSS did not respond."

4 international UT students, community members have had SEVIS status changed, at risk for deportation

Since President Donald Trump's inauguration, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement has begun changing the status of international students at universities nationwide.

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It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!

The Trump administration is: *breaking the law by not spending appropriated money from Congress *breaking the law by ignoring a court order *lying about it *killing people *silencing public employees who are pointing all of this out

Sam Stein@samsteindc.bsky.social · last yr.

NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

Dissolving USAid is committing genocide

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

"Moneyed ignorance loudly lectured exhausted experience," cnn.it/3F0rOBC

Zelensky bristled at his berating by Trump and Vance. After three years of war, what did they expect? | CNN

Trump and Vance have never seen war up close, but are still disgusted by it. They seem to have felt Zelensky, soaked in war’s horror for three years, needed a lecture about the peace anyone who had se...

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ppl getting angry at this but he's talking alliances and he's 100% right- you cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs

Jonathan V. Last@jvl.bsky.social · last yr.

America is over. There is no coming back from this. If we're lucky maybe we claw back some small-l liberalism for our daily lives. But even that might be too much to hope for. The rest of the world has to move on from us. They now know that the American people can't be trusted. They're right.

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

This is really something

Oh dear god

Capitalism has so thoroughly constructed a dehumanizing and brutalist structure that this authoritarian environment was inevitable without reform and a cultural sea change. We must stop Trump, Musk, and the sweeping international oligarchical movement, but the work goes beyond that.

"working to swiftly rectify the situation..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them

In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."

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This buffoon is my representative (not my vote!), and he represents thousands of employees at federal facilities in Oak Ridge, TN - the headquarters for the Manhattan Project. If anyone understands the value of NNSA, it should be him.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · last yr.

So Tim Burchett has done this whole "this is why your ratings SUCK" thing on CNN several times now. So this begs the question (or two) -- why does he keep going on to CNN if this is the case? And why does CNN keep inviting him on when this is what he does? www.mediaite.com/tv/gop-congr...

cc: @Gavin Newsome It’s time to build a CDC & NIH in California with the folks who were fired from the feds. In fact, I think each blue state governor needs to scoop up these scientists, healthcare workers and laboratory workers asap. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

Wow the @nytimes.com headline writers are really good at gymnastics 🫠

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It is the darkest of all possible humor that Disney is publicly rolling back their DEI initiatives and removing content warnings from older, racially-insensitive work on the same week that they are releasing a new MCU movie with a Black man as Captain America.

This is from a 2020 presentation. Now it's just the chaos we live in, and no such description is needed.

Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

Is there anyone out there that is mapping any delayed or cancelled federal payments ? Would be really interesting to see which towns and cities are going to be hit

The average Fox News viewer has no idea that Musk is tearing down a system that allowed this country to rule the world for the past 75 years. And when their standard of living slips dramatically in the next five years they still won’t understand because their TV will blame it on some poor scapegoat.

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did

Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist.

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None of this is legal.

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

The Trump’s campaign promise was to finish the job they started on Jan 6 and this is what it looks like.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”@ryanjreilly.com · 2y ago

The guy overseeing USAID was identified two years ago as a Jan. 6 participant who entered the Capitol through a broken window. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

An EEOC admin. judge sent a fiery all-department email this AM alleging: 1. Trump's exec orders & instructions to target private citizens with them are illegal. 2. the judge had sent an earlier email with a similar tone yesterday that later vanished from their sent folder & colleagues' inboxes.