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Mike Beasley

@mikebeas.com

Full stack developer. https://www.mikebeas.com @shades.mikebeas.com for Destiny 2. @updatekit.mikebeas.com for Apple Shortcuts.

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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h ago

Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.

tomwellborn3rd@wellborn.net · last mo.

Congress funded the CDC's Alzheimer's work, the sickle cell and epilepsy data programs and a rape prevention unit, and Vought simply will not release the money. Grassley told him to his face he lacks the authority. The pocket rescission alone took 4.9 billion.

Mike Beasley@mikebeas.com · 2d ago

Threads has this cool feature where you can post something and then all replies to it require you to manually approve them. It’s great for situations where you want to tell a lie but you don’t want to have to deal with people correcting misinformation in the replies!

Mike Beasley@mikebeas.com · 2d ago

i think they shouldn’t do this. i think they should continue not covering his events. he doesn’t say anything of value to the people at them, and a blackout shows him they’re not messing around.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d ago

The TV pool coverage has resumed today. The assignments are alphabetical, so CNN is next after CBS today. The situation continues to be fluid, however, and the press pool could resume the blackout if the White House tries to restrict access again.

Mike Beasley@mikebeas.com · 3d ago

Baffled by this Ted Lasso plot where they can’t get a doctor to look at a player’s ACL. Is this some kind of British medical thing I’m too free to understand? Just go to an emergency room. Do they not have emergency rooms? Are their emergency room doctors not able to do an MRI?

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d ago

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work. On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen. "As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests. "You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens." Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 3d ago

From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."

Mike Beasley@mikebeas.com · 3d ago

noticing that ai fans seem to have the same sort of mentality as donald trump fans. very cult-like, very strange. always jumping to the defense of the machine for whatever reason, even when people have valid concerns or complaints or issues.

Mike Beasley@mikebeas.com · 3d ago

communities won’t solve anything, calling it now

Jake Gold@jacob.gold · 4d ago

@toni.bsky.team probably time to declare a "code red" and get Bluesky Communities launched ASAP. I'm as blue-pilled and optimistic as it gets, and I deeply respect *everyone* I worked with on the team, but even I'm getting worried about how many chances remain. Feels too slow to win at this pace 🙁

Scott Nover@scottnover.bsky.social · 4d ago

SCOOP: Justifying its ban of Politico, the White House said the news outlet used anonymous quotes from a "senior administration official." But those quotes were provided to Politico and other outlets by the White House during a background briefing. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The White House cited anonymous quotes in Politico ban. It was the source.

In a letter defending its ban of Politico, the White House critiqued a report based on a press call it conducted, where reporters were told not to name the speaker

washingtonpost.com

Mike Beasley@mikebeas.com · 4d ago

[ben shapiro boy scouts meme] “It’s not real intelligence.” “Where is that written?” “In the name ‘artificial intelligence.’”

Mike Beasley@mikebeas.com · 4d ago

after i switched to my new phone, venmo has sent me a notification nearly every day saying “welcome back, here’s what’s new since you’ve been away” — why is it doing this????

Mike Beasley@mikebeas.com · 5d ago

i set siri to canadian english and it turned off all apple intelligence system-wide. only downside is siri uses candian spellings now. hopefully there’s a way to turn intelligence off while still using the correct language at some point.

Mike Beasley@mikebeas.com · 6d ago

You can see the window title change well before the content updates. There’s a noticeable lag when clicking things. If I had a React behaving this way I would fix it. But this is a “native” app that comes built-in on the Mac. This is horrible and reflects poorly on the state of Apple’s software.