Jody O'Donnell
@gimpslice.com
Technical SEO consultant living in beautiful Central Oregon. Former 19K, 19D, 12B, 68W, OR State Trooper, network engineer, web dev, and Tech SEO @ Google Cloud. https://gstechseo.com
My wife and I celebrated our 30th anniversary on the Oregon Coast. We had an amazing dinner at Side Door (Gleneden Beach) of steamer clams, crab cakes, prawns, panko fried halibut on risotto. My wife is amazing and we have had more good years than bad years. The yardstick of any long marriage.
linkedin is where unbaptized babies go when they die
Rav@rvbdrm.com · last wk.Discovering new levels of LinkedIness
Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.
The Assault On Science Funding Continues
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Next Dem admin could achieve a lot of social good just by relentlessly cracking down on scams and bullshit via existing laws for four straight years.
5 Raw Quotes From America’s Largest Raw-Milk Dairy Owner
I toured Mark McAfee’s Raw Farm for a story about raw milk’s foothold in America despite its health dangers. Here’s what he told me about recalls, outbreaks and his relationship with the federal gover...
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The bill represents Democrats’ newest attempt to decriminalize the drug nationally.
Marijuana ban targeted again as Oregon senators, Democrats push to end federal prohibition
The bill represents Democrats’ newest attempt to decriminalize the drug nationally.
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Free newsletter: The OpenAI Bubble, my comprehensive, 15k word thesis about why the AI Bubble and the AI Trade were inflated by OpenAI and can't exist without OpenAI, who will be the victims of the bubble bursting, and how we can stop it from happening again. www.wheresyoured.at/the-openai-bubble/
The OpenAI Bubble
Thanks for reading this week’s free Where’s Your Ed At newsletter. As I said last week, I’m taking the rest of this week off, so there won’t be a premium on Friday. That said, if you aren’t already a ...
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BREAKING: E. Jean Carroll just received Trump's $5 million — plus interest. Despite Trump's repeated attempts to block Carroll from receiving the money, $5,625,005.48 was disbursed to Carroll's legal team this week. www.ms.now/news/e-jean-...
E. Jean Carroll finally gets Trump’s $5 million — plus interest
Despite the president’s repeated attempts to block Carroll from receiving the money, $5,625,005.48 was disbursed to Carroll’s legal team this week.
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The Oregon Coast is one of my favorite places on earth. No private beaches for the entire length of the west coast. While it isn't tropical, it is a place of immense beauty and access. The surfing isn't bad either.
Nation Turns 250 Despite Presence Of Irish https://theonion.com/nation-turns-250-despite-presence-of-irish/
In a ruling that surprised some court observers, justices in a 5-4 decision found that nothing in federal laws blocks states from counting ballots that are postmarked on or before an election, but received afterward.
Oregon and Washington can continue to accept late-arriving ballots under Supreme Court ruling
The Supreme Court ruled nothing in federal law prohibits Washington, Oregon and other states from accepting ballots that arrive via mail after Election Day.
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Republicans just sent ICE and Border Patrol ANOTHER $70 billion, while leaving families out in the cold. I'm fighting for a vision of the future where families can thrive, and billionaires pay their fair share.
This type of thing is absolutely illegal because it erodes trust in our financial systems. Now think of the number of sitting US Congressional folk who do this all the time. And the President. All the time. We need real reform. abcnews.com/US/google-em...
Google information security engineer charged with using inside information to make $1M on Polymarket
A Google staffer fraudulently made more than $1 million by using inside information to place Polymarket bets on what users were searching for on Google, authorities say.
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Maybe I curate my friends the same way: I tend to try to avoid assholes and nazis. It isn't about being in a bubble, it's about finding tribe that doesn't make you roll your eyes every other sentence.
Corey Atad@coreyatad.com · 2mo agoi think, end of the day, the real problem with Bluesky is that most of its users are here *because* they want to be in a bubble. and they can tell themselves that it’s just about not being around Nazis it supporting Musk, and that’s part of it, but also there’s a palpable desire to be ensconced.
The Marketplace of Ideas people immediately forcefully shut down all dissent, bought all media, sued & fired all critics & arrested & caged journalists reporting on their heinousness as soon as they got control & all of this was entirely predictable & people who warned of it were called overreactors
I am old enough to remember hearing several hundred times how this war would be ended in 24 hours. Now...walk away. Who knew ending wars could be so hard? What a deal maker we elected!
NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com · 3mo agoUS State Secretary Rubio said the US has suspended three-way talks with Ukraine and Russia on ending the war, saying Washington sees no point in continuing meetings that produce no results and does not want to be pulled into an endless negotiation cycle. #Ukraine
A consistent voice for the LGBTQ community before the labels existed. The US Congress needs more like him.
Reuters@reuters.com · 3mo agoJUST IN: Former US Representative Barney Frank, a quick-witted Democrat who gave his name to a landmark financial reform bill after the economic crisis of 2007-2009, has died, his sister Ann Lewis said. He was 86 reut.rs/4dz8qZR
Trump deserves no credit for dropping this lawsuit. He's doing it to set up a $1.7 billion slush fund for right-wing political violence. If Trump follows through, it will be the most brazen theft of taxpayer dollars by any president in history.
CNN@cnn.com · 3mo agoPresident Trump drops $10 billion lawsuit against IRS amid talks of establishing a fund to compensate allies targeted in DOJ investigations https://cnn.it/4nzNwOZ
Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.
Ari Berman@ariberman.bsky.social · 3mo agoBreaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow
BIG: Senator Wyden and I fought for critical youth mental health care funding for Central Oregon, and ground has been broken!
Central Oregon's First Youth Residential Mental Health Crisis Facility Moves Ahead - The Source - Bend, Oregon
After clearing a major funding milestone last year, Central Oregon’s first residential treatment facility for youth in acute mental health crisis is moving ahead with a new anticipated opening date of...
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This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.
Who hated him so much to give him this landing spot?
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3mo agoRaiders select quarterback Fernando Mendoza with the first pick in the NFL draft.
Model collapse was supposed to be a training problem. Something slow. Something that unfolds across generations of models. Something researchers could warn about in papers while everyone kept shipping. That's not what's happening. New on The Inference: theinference.io/p/the-ourobo...
The Ouroboros Learned to Cite Itself
Everyone’s been watching the wrong pipe. The synthetic content is already in the retrieval layer, and the answer engines are laundering it as fact.
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Fantastic article on our IRL AI Echo Chamber. Combine this with NYT's article on how often AI generated responses are inaccurate or ungrounded, & you have trained LLM's on high error rates in the information. It's not Skynet that's gonna kill us, it's this crap. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/t...
How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews?
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Lily Ray 😏@lilyray.nyc · 4mo agoI tested how easy (and fast!) it is to get fake information to appear in AI Overviews, ChatGPT & other LLMs. I also spoke to NYC & BBC about these problems. I wrote about all this about more in my latest Substack: The AI Slop Loop. Check it out: lilyraynyc.substack.com/p/the-ai-slo...
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The Oregonian@oregonian.com · 4mo agoLori Chavez-DeRemer, who previously represented Oregon’s 5th District in Congress, stepped down as U.S. labor secretary this week.
My mom literally had this on our refrigerator reflecting how she saw our careers going.
THE FAR SIDE DAILY@bot.cowtools.org · 4mo agoHopeful parents
