SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...
Both sets of dialog data are the results of source work by me, this is just currently not noted anywhere for the more detailed dataset because i forgot to ever confirm that on the record. I just wanted this to be clear because some people appear to be confused.
Here are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn't properly render the website.
ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.
Robby Starbuck is a far-right activist. Meta putting him in the position of being a "bias advisor" for its chat bot is insane.
Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 11mo agoMeta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor with a mandate to make the company's chat bot less 'woke.' www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...
After assuring undocumented immigrants for decades that they should pay their taxes honestly and their records would not be shared with immigration authorities, IRS now prepares to hand over their information to the Gestapo. Shameful. www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/20...
IRS nears deal with ICE to share addresses of suspected undocumented immigrants
The move toward information-sharing comes as President Donald Trump pushes his administration to use every resource to conduct what he hopes will be the largest mass deportation of immigrants in U.S. ...
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I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
THIS This is a very important article pulling together a fact pattern: people taking domestic flights ending up detained bc ICE, bc while they had pending legal immigration applications ICE alleged they were out of status. In some cases that seems correct — eg visa overstay — in others less clear.
Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · last yr.Folks are gonna dunk on the Trump voter and I get that but don’t sleep on the more disturbing part of the story:
I've tried multiple times to record a Common Sense show about what we are living through. I run into the same issue every time. It's not Trump...it's those who like him and what he's doing. I try to be a "solutions person",but I don't know what to do about THAT.It stops my recording cold every time.
Trump claims he “brought free speech back” after removing a man from exercising his free speech. #StateOfTheUnion
We'll say it again: No, 150-year-olds are not collecting Social Security benefits. #SOTU www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
No, 150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits
Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There’s a much simpler explanation.
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Just so we're clear was it not a crisis when it was the other way around?
The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · last yr.Young women are now consistently earning more than their male counterparts for the first time, according to a report that warns of a social “crisis” gripping young men
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
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You might not see it in the mainstream media, but over 10,000 people protested today at Tesla showrooms across the country, another 10,000+ rallied in support of national parks, and more than 1,000 gathered in Vermont to protest Vance’s visit.
the most ashamed i have felt as an American was recognizing all my Iraqi friends had a specific facial expression when talking about dead loved ones that meant, "they were killed by your military but i don't want to say that because we're buds and i don't want you to feel bad"
Charles Я. Davis@charliearchy.bsky.social · last yr.No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.
NEW - Rep. Mark Alford tells fired KC federal workers ‘God has a plan’ at hostile town hall Folks, I've been covering politics for a dozen years in Kansas and Missouri and this is probably the most intense, angry town hall I have ever seen www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
Rep. Mark Alford tells fired KC federal workers ‘God has a plan’ at hostile town hall
The Missouri Republican faced an angry crowd during a Monday town hall in Belton.
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Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics. Government wins are often *the avoidance of loss.* So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses *not* averted?
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
What’s the loss of a few million lives when proving a point takes priority? I was once a child refugee, surviving on USAID rations—without them, my family would have perished. I will never understand the deep-seated cruelty some people carry in their hearts.
Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 2y agoUSAID used to buy $2B worth of food from US farmers. Now, their food is just rotting away as poor people starve. And next year, many of these same farmers will be farming for government subsidies instead of food. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
folks really need to accept that "lawful" and "lawless" don't matter, what matters is being able to marshal and deploy force (force of capital, the force of arms, the force of a crowd...) none of the people running the country right now give a good goddamn about the law
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y agoReminder: this is completely lawless
I just started a monthly donation to the Internet Archive @archive.org
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
Senate Finance Committee@senatefinance.bsky.social · 2y agoNEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
Gonna be great to grow up and see this headline and be like "yeah my dad's a fucking idiot"
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2y agoAlways be grifting.
the people who built this thing need to be caned in public until they lose consciousness
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2y agoPart of the overall project with these systems in addition to eliminating critical thinking, is to water down anything transformative or radical.
