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Jackal. GenXer. Avid knitter and stoker, beginner in embroidery. I don’t automatically follow back. I block a lot.

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kaylarudbek.bsky.social @kaylarudbek.bsky.social · Feb 9

Quit saying that the DOGE incels are underage. “A person who commits a crime while aged eighteen or older may not be tried under the Act but must be proceeded against as an adult.” United States v. Smith, 675 F. Supp. 307, 312 (E.D.N.C. 1987) www.justice.gov/archives/jm/...

117. Federal Juvenile Delinquency Code

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Perfidia Cool Springs Galleria @fancycwabs.bsky.social · 9h

“The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 6d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 6d

They’re loving it. Your health care is not on their minds.

Screenshot from Politico: SPOTTED: Thune, Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso and other GOP pals dining last night at swanky Capitol Hill hotspot Bistro Cacao — where filet mignon and magret de canard go for $45 a head and the cabernet sauvignon list ranges from $60 to $750 a bottle, per Playbook’s Adam Wren. Fine dining on the first night of a government shutdown?

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 1d

Canceling energy projects like this, including wind farms, is an immense waste of money.

Additionally, of course, it takes the US out of the technology competition.

Lose-lose.

James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · 1d

DOE appears set to terminate tens of millions in funding for Project Cypress and South Texas Direct Air Capture Hub, the two big projects in the US DAC Hubs program.

The US is set to cancel funding for two major direct-air capture plants

he terminations cut tens of millions of dollars that Climeworks, Heirloom, Oxy and others were depending on to develop carbon removal projects in Louisiana and Texas.

www.technologyreview.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18h

"Energy dominance," you say?

As of this year, *China is exporting more clean-energy technology than the US is exporting the dirty stuff*.

The future is green energy & China, not the US, is set to dominate it.

China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance

China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.

www.bloomberg.com

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap, y’all. mRNA tech not only cures (some) cancer. It might cure (some) vision loss. What’s next? Weight loss? Gray hair? Abolishing reality TV?

Golden Age of Science right now. And some folks want to kill it stone dead.

Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 8d

The accompanying editorial tells the sad truth that is largely being ignored
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 21h

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 21h

Subtweet without malice but in response to something that happens a lot:

When people point out that something is illegal or full on unconstitutional, it's not because this admin cares, it's because you should be aware.

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kaylarudbek.bsky.social @kaylarudbek.bsky.social · 13h

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Sinister Golden Bear 🎃 @sistergoldenbear.bsky.social · 15h

Cutting spending was always a pretext for dismembering the government while simultaneously hoovering up as many lucrative government contracts to Musk-owned companies.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 17h

Elon Musk said he was going to cut spending by $2 trillion dollars, but instead spending is higher this year than we thought it would be before Trump took office. Truly incredible stuff.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 18h

CBO fy2025 projections for deficit/spending/etc are out

Some issues make simple comparisons apples-to-oranges, so I'll do apples-to-apples & explain in the thread

Relative to pre-Trump projections:
-Primary deficits ⬆️ $34 bn
-program spending ⬆️ $97 bn
-revenues ⬆️ $63 bn
www.cbo.gov/publication/...

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kaylarudbek.bsky.social @kaylarudbek.bsky.social · 13h

I also can’t wait for AI to start trying to file trademark applications; even the current USPTO still comes down hard on trademark mills…

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 14h

and also says that it doesn't count if the claim arises from an alleged violation of "another's trademark or related rights"

so, you know, all those intellectual property rights of third parties except that those that were violated after you prompted the software, or anything like a trademark

Covered Claims
Claims covered by
indemnity
obligations
[x] Provider Covered Claims include any action, proceeding, or claim that
the Output—when generated and used by Customer according to the
terms of the Agreement and the AI Addendum—violates,
misappropriates, or otherwise infringes upon the intellectual property or
other proprietary rights of another person or entity.
Without limiting the indemnity exclusions in the Agreement, Provider's
obligations as an Indemnifying Party will not apply to Provider Covered
Claims that result from: (a) use of Output in combination with data,
software, hardware, equipment, technology, or other products or services
not provided by Provider; (b) Input; (c) Customer's use of the AI Services
in breach of the Agreement or the AI Addendum; (d) modifications to the
Output that were not made by Provider; (e) Output that Customer knew
or should have known might violate, misappropriate, or otherwise
infringe upon another's intellectual property or other proprietary rights; or
(f) a claim that use of Output infringes another's trademark or related
rights.

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kaylarudbek.bsky.social @kaylarudbek.bsky.social · 13h

I didn’t spend years studying science and law to let some jumped-up autocarrot plagiarism machine tell me how to practice my profession

Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 16h

The bros are at it again! and make no mistake, they are LITERALLY calling it "Vibe Lawyering"

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 14h

Rooting for Illinois to do to Confederate invaders exactly what they did in the first go-round.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 14h

We need more leaders, Dems and (come ON!) even Republicans to speak up this way.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15h

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 3d

LETS DISCUSS SOME LITERATURE FROM 1916.......(airhorns) the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io/the-inevitab...

The Inevitable Consequences of Sculpting your own Girlfriend

What My Fair Lady's original novel teaches us about AI Support my Writing with a Tip A sculptor, Pygmalion makes a woman, Galatea, out of clay. Because she is made to his exact standards, she is imp...

the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 4d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Lucas Brown Eyes @lucasbrowneyes.bsky.social · 6d

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10.

Windows 7 use is surging 5x now.

AI is product poison.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 2d

Thugs

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Self Guided Adversarial Imagery Meditations @bankuei.bsky.social · 1d

So here's a thing.

Every time police in general, spend time and effort assaulting, chasing, and convicting innocent people... The actual criminals that harm people are running free.

Not just now, not just this directed harm by the Klandministration.

Folks marched about this my whole life.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d

“A federal team in El Paso that once pursued child traffickers has been disbanded.

“A task force in Kansas focused on stemming fentanyl has been redirected.

“Highway checkpoints near the border—on roads identified as major drug-trafficking routes—have gone unstaffed”

🎁
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s Immigration Push Diverts U.S. Agents From Drug, Money and Sex-Crime Cases

Federal investigators are resigning, and morale is low, as they juggle complex cases and detain migrants.

www.wsj.com

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 1d

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

Her contempt is extraordinary.

Trump thinks he's a king. He believes he's accountable to no one. Not Congress. Not the American people.

And so when his people testify before the Senate, they act like they are bound by no rules and no laws.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

DURBIN: You won't even say whether you talked to the WH about this?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any internal conversations with you

D: They're going to transfer TX Guard troops to the state of Illinois. What's the rationale?

B: I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

I am not a constitutional scholar but I am pretty sure “the president my personally levy taxes and choose what they fund” is not in fact what the founders intended

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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