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Joe Vilas

@jhv.bsky.social

Geek. @jhvilas on birdsite. @jhv@triangletoot.party. Durham NC. Likes food & drink. Good at sitting on butt & wasting time on the net.

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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h ago

The country was shut down for nearly a year, tons of death and suffering, the global economy in tatters and oh yeah the outgoing president tried to stage a violent coup at the end. THAT is handing off a disaster.

Joyce Park@troutgirl.bsky.social · 9h ago

My husband, who is Mexican American and a computer security guy, always opts out of being scanned at the airport. How long do I wait these days before I ask after him?

Hunter Walker@hunterw.bsky.social · 10h ago

In Bari Weiss' Free Press, Olivia Reingold reported from El-Sayed's watch party that "there were keffiyehs as far as the eye could see ... keffiyehs on heads, keffiyehs as belts, keffiyeh-printed phone cases." Not a single one made it into images from Reuters, a local ABC station, or Detroit News.

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Sheo@sheologian.bsky.social · 9h ago

We couldn’t find Rufus earlier and Weeo said earnestly “mommy maybe he’s sick of our shit” so apparently I need to say things under my breath quieter than I currently do

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h ago

ICE has now spent over $2.2 BILLION on purchasing 4 private prisons from CoreCivic, with the company banking half a billion dollars on the most recent sale. Of course, ICE will not actually operate these facilities; CoreCivic keeps the contracts to run these places for the foreseeable future.

Andrea Castillo @andreamcastillo CoreCivic has sold told two more detention centers to DHS, in Minnesota and Kansas, for $734 million. Company says more sales possible: https://ir.corecivic.com/news-releases/news-release-details/corecivic-sells-two-additional-detention-facilities This news follows the sale of two ICE facilities in California last month for $1.5 billion: https://latimes.com/politics/story/2026-07-07/dhs-buys-two-california-immigrant-detention-centers-for-1-5-billion ir.corecivic.com CoreCivic Sells Two Additional Detention Facilities | CoreCivic, Inc. The Investor Relations website contains information about CoreCivic, Inc.'s business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts. 3:15 PM · Aug 5, 2026 · 239 ViewsCoreCivic Sells Two Additional Detention Facilities August 5, 2026 Follows Sales of Two Detention Facilities in California BRENTWOOD, Tenn., Aug. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CoreCivic, Inc. (NYSE: CXW) (CoreCivic or the Company) announced today that it has completed the sales of its 1,600-bed Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, Minnesota and its 1,033-bed Midwest Regional Reception Center in Leavenworth, Kansas to the United States of America and its assigns, by and through the Department of Homeland Security for an aggregate gross sales price of $734.0 million, including $495.6 million for the Prairie Correctional Facility and $238.4 million for the Midwest Regional Reception Center. These purpose-built facilities were specifically designed to care for individuals in a secure environment. After federal and state income taxes of approximately $182.2 million and transaction costs, the Company anticipates its net proceeds from these asset sales to be approximately $522.5 million. The Company currently expects to use the net proceeds for general corporate purposes, which may include debt reduction and the repurchase of the Company's common stock.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h ago

Other private prison companies which contract with ICE include: - The GEO Group (the Wackenhut Corrections Corporation until 2004) - The Management and Training Corporation (a Jobs Corps company which expanded into the private prison business in 1987) - LaSalle Corrections (appropriately named)

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 11h ago

Dying at the right-wing activists that (1) held a call with Todd Blanche in which Blanche made a lot of anti-abortion promises, (2) said "uh this is off the record" like doing so would magically ward off journalists, and then (3) UPLOADED IT TO THEIR YOUTUBE CHANNEL www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

The acting attorney general’s conversation with Trump appears to have taken place just hours after the president publicly mused about pulling Blanche’s nomination and instead trying to push through a fund that could be used to compensate Jan. 6 rioters and others who claim to have been persecuted by the Biden administration. Announcements at the beginning and end of the Intercessors for America call stated that it was “not intended for press purposes.” A speaker told attendees that the call was “not on the record” and directed any journalists on the line to hang up. POLITICO was not on the call on Thursday when it took place and did not agree to any limits on reporting. Audio of the session was posted on YouTube by Intercessors for America, which calls itself “the largest national prayer ministry dedicated to praying for our government and leaders.” As of Monday, the recording remained publicly accessible.
Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social · 9h ago

I hadn't caught this, but the percent of the population who says "higher prices" are the reason their household finances declined in the last year hit the *all time* high in the UMichigan Sentiment data.

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Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 9h ago

Happening now at Black Hat: OpenAI employees are discussing how the Hugging Face hack happened. They're showing excerpts from messages that their AI agents sent each other on an impromptu message board that the agents created to discuss evaluation task solving.

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Joe Vilas@jhv.bsky.social · 9h ago

Awesome. I'm not a scientist, & maybe that's why it's never been clear to me what you'd have to do to rid someone of a virus totally. So how do you even *say* that someone is no longer infected by a virus? dellmed.utexas.edu/news/ut-led-... #humans #health #biology #viruses

UT-led study finds COVID-19 can awaken hidden viruses throughout the… | Dell Medical School

From a leading-edge curriculum to a focus on improving health locally and a bold vision for accelerating research, Dell Medical School is rethinking everything.

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