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🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Anonymous Marine and sometimes-lawyer When I'm not complaining about my new boss, I like classical music, Kansas City sports, and niche regional foods (no posts are intended to violate 10 U.S.C § 888) (views mine, not of DoD)

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Fighter-Lawyer Concept @fighterlawyer.bsky.social · 3d

For the record, this is a pro-Big Boy National Guardsman account. Solidarity with all my fellow servicemembers, even when I make fun of your silly mustache.

Fighter-Lawyer Concept @fighterlawyer.bsky.social · 50m

Well, there's a reason one of our duties as lawyers is to educate the public. It's something I did not appreciate until our current time.

Fighter-Lawyer Concept @fighterlawyer.bsky.social · 6h

This but now it's suburban Philly

Fighter-Lawyer Concept @fighterlawyer.bsky.social · 17h

Like stories from the damn Holocaust

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 23h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

Fighter-Lawyer Concept @fighterlawyer.bsky.social · 17h

I prefer the real AI Shaq
youtu.be/8TDN9o0ZKds?...

"SHAK SHAKER SHAMILLION" AI SHAQ WTF COMMERCIAL

YouTube video by davyforce

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 19h

not only that, but when Dems do get organized and pay creators who are pushing aligned content, all of a sudden it becomes an attack line against them. meanwhile Russia literally pays conservative commentators and they are cool with it

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 1d

Charlie Kirk was a terrible person, but his prowess at organizing was astonishing.

Democrats, progressive and moderate, are using tactics from the 1970s.

Republicans spend hundreds of millions on networking, jobs, and outreach every year. Democrats waste their money on obsolete stuff.

flux.community @flux.community · 1d

Charlie Kirk was a religious extremist and an advocate for mass censorship of academics he hated.

But as a political organizer and creator of opportunities for his comrades, there's much that can be learned from what he did. @matthewboedy.bsky.social discusses on the latest Theory of Change

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Fighter-Lawyer Concept @fighterlawyer.bsky.social · 23h

I guess she impeeded the ICE agent's bullets

Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 1d

A Chicago woman shot multiple times by U.S. Border and Customs Protection agents was indicted by a grand jury on federal charges of impeding a federal officer with a deadly weapon.

Chicago woman shot multiple times by a US border patrol agent indicted by federal grand jury

A Chicago woman shot multiple times by U.S. Border and Customs Protection agents was indicted by a grand jury on federal charges of impeding a federal officer with a deadly weapon.

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Fighter-Lawyer Concept @fighterlawyer.bsky.social · 1d

a group of people are standing in front of a large screen with a picture of a man 's face projected on it .

ALT: a group of people are standing in front of a large screen with a picture of a man 's face projected on it .

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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Fighter-Lawyer Concept @fighterlawyer.bsky.social · 1d

RETVRN
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Boardwalk empire - KKK members slaughtered

YouTube video by Mind Rot TV

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d

The thing about this that's worth recalling is that it *wouldn't* even offend most Americans: just the group of reactionary grifters who make money by being professionally offended online.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...

The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

www.polygon.com

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

“We refuse to pay the troops and also we’re doing indiscriminate firings of people for no reason”

I’ve never seen an administration so faithfully committed to self-immolation in my entire life

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Yet even if these data centers get built - and one analyst told me only 30% of them are viable - they are dead weight debt vehicles of what will be near-obsolete GPUs that *everybody* has been buying - all built for AI compute demand that doesn't exist.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...

And Even If They Build Them, These Projects Are Dead Weight Debt Vehicles
Private equity firms make money by investing in things that they eventually sell, with the average holding period being around 5.8 years.

How, exactly, does that work when you’re building data centers full of GPUs that will, after five years, be five generations behind?

How, exactly, does a private equity firm cash out on an asset that everybody else appears to be building, and who exactly do they sell it to?

And what happens if the GPUs inside die after three years? Who pays to replace them, and what do they replace them with?

In the best case scenario, we’re watching a situation where private equity investors pile tens or hundreds of billions of dollars into assets that start decaying the second that they’re built, ones that are commoditized by the very nature of the supposed “popularity” of generative AI and the single vendor — NVIDIA — that everybody is buying GPUs from.

There is little to differentiate one data center from another outside of its location, and at some point you have to wonder if that will matter when only one company — OpenAI — appears to actually need these massive amounts of compute.

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Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 1d

Triumphal Arches are for people who win wars, not folks who give Afghanistan to the Taliban.

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Fighter-Lawyer Concept @fighterlawyer.bsky.social · 1d

You break in to find the drugs, then you go get a warrant.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

We’re doing studies to prove it (* not how studies work)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d

It’s an insane world where militarizing your own civilian streets and ordering extrajudicial murders on the high seas doesn’t get you a prize.

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Fighter-Lawyer Concept @fighterlawyer.bsky.social · 1d

Not at all to diminish Machado, but I find it so poetic that Trump's ridiculous campaign to get a Nobel Peace Prize ends with it being awarded to a Venezuelan woman.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

Weird that a campaign of murdering Venezuelan fishermen didn't win him the Nobel.

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Fighter-Lawyer Concept @fighterlawyer.bsky.social · 1d

It costs a lot, violates the law repeatedly, but at least it doesn't deliver on anything useful, either.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

NEW: Nevada could’ve fined Elon Musk’s Boring Co. more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

www.propublica.org

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 1d

Donald trump can still win the Nobel Peace prize if Mike Pence has the courage

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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 1d

A senior North Korean diplomat who defected two years ago painted a grim picture of life in the hermit kingdom as he described his disillusionment and escape from the totalitarian regime.

www.stripes.com/theaters/asi...

No ‘free life’ in North Korea, even for the elite, former diplomat says in Tokyo

A senior North Korean diplomat who defected two years ago painted a grim picture of life in the hermit kingdom as he described his disillusionment and escape from the totalitarian regime.

www.stripes.com

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Fighter-Lawyer Concept @fighterlawyer.bsky.social · 1d

This is the arguably the oldest form of football.

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 1d

Micah Parsons sounds off on the Eagles spamming the tush push 👀

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Fighter-Lawyer Concept @fighterlawyer.bsky.social · 1d

I can't find the video, but someone once filmed his Tesla center display interpreting a passing train as a line of cars.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that it would investigate how Tesla’s semi-autonomous driving software handles railroad crossings as part of a wide-ranging investigation of incidents where the agency said Tesla vehicles have violated traffic safety laws.

Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents

NBC News reported last month that Tesla vehicles using Full Self-Driving software sometimes fail to stop for train tracks.

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Fighter-Lawyer Concept @fighterlawyer.bsky.social · 1d

I get that he decides to not believe that diversity in backgrounds leads to better decisionmaking as an institution (i.e., one that is more lethal). But you cannot hope to recruit a volunteer force from the United States—one of the most diverse societies to ever exist—if you dismiss diversity.

Fighter-Lawyer Concept @fighterlawyer.bsky.social · 1d

Diversity is our strength, by the way. That has been the case since the begining.
And "diversity" does not mean "disunity," as the SecDef claims in bad faith. The counter "unity is our strength" is about as dumb as the "the Civil War was about states' rights" argument. Unity in what, Pete?

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