Thomas
@varroadestructor.bsky.social
Calgarian with a berner. Views my own.
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CATO INSTITUTE:
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
December 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
CATO INSTITUTE:
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
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The supposedly dastardly Chinese algorithm that required everyone to lose their minds and set fire to the first amendment for this law also remains owned and developed by bytedance and is leased to the US consortium under this deal. So, y'know, congrats everyone, great job
December 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The supposedly dastardly Chinese algorithm that required everyone to lose their minds and set fire to the first amendment for this law also remains owned and developed by bytedance and is leased to the US consortium under this deal. So, y'know, congrats everyone, great job
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Just making things up as they go along.
If this were continuous improvement, we'd say they were building an airplane while flying it.
This populist policymaking is more like like removiny the bolts mid-flight and replacing them with duct tape, ideology, and wishful thinking.
If this were continuous improvement, we'd say they were building an airplane while flying it.
This populist policymaking is more like like removiny the bolts mid-flight and replacing them with duct tape, ideology, and wishful thinking.
December 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Just making things up as they go along.
If this were continuous improvement, we'd say they were building an airplane while flying it.
This populist policymaking is more like like removiny the bolts mid-flight and replacing them with duct tape, ideology, and wishful thinking.
If this were continuous improvement, we'd say they were building an airplane while flying it.
This populist policymaking is more like like removiny the bolts mid-flight and replacing them with duct tape, ideology, and wishful thinking.
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The EU manages to be simultaneously irrelevant AND do much to obstruct peace.
Once you accept that logic is the tool of the imperialist, it all becomes clear.
Once you accept that logic is the tool of the imperialist, it all becomes clear.
Can there be a better demonstration of the EU's performative irrelevance? They spent weeks negotiating with each other the issuance of 90bn euro debt which the EU cannot afford that will do nothing to win the War and much to obstruct Peace. www.ft.com/content/e569...
EU agrees €90bn loan to Ukraine after frozen Russian asset plan fails
Money to be borrowed against bloc’s budget after leaders fail to agree on proposal using Moscow’s funds
www.ft.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The EU manages to be simultaneously irrelevant AND do much to obstruct peace.
Once you accept that logic is the tool of the imperialist, it all becomes clear.
Once you accept that logic is the tool of the imperialist, it all becomes clear.
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As I've said before, it's a fault in me, but what I can't stand most in this Century more than the murder, dystopianness and corruption... is all the lying. To me, the pure shamelessness of the Axis of Lies and the ease with which the liars get away with it is the worst sign of species-wide decline.
🤡putin on Ukraine: “We do not believe that we’re responsible for the death of people because we did not start this war.”
December 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
As I've said before, it's a fault in me, but what I can't stand most in this Century more than the murder, dystopianness and corruption... is all the lying. To me, the pure shamelessness of the Axis of Lies and the ease with which the liars get away with it is the worst sign of species-wide decline.
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A second en banc case in as many days where Judges Oldham and Ho find themselves on separate sides. This is Oldham complaining about Ho’s concurrence
December 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
A second en banc case in as many days where Judges Oldham and Ho find themselves on separate sides. This is Oldham complaining about Ho’s concurrence
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2026 Folgers jingle just dropped
[waking up]: fucking hell
December 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
2026 Folgers jingle just dropped
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May the odds be ever in your favor
Trump announces an "unprecedented four-day athletic event" with "one young man and one young woman from each state and territory"
December 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
May the odds be ever in your favor
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51%(!!!) of the Google Discover feed is now AI. community.marfeel.com/t/google-dis...
Google Discover’s Shift to AI, Youtube and X: What Publishers Are Losing
New data from the Marfeel Discover Monitoring shows Google Discover is no longer a publisher-first surface. It’s becoming an AI platform with YouTube and X absorbing real estate that once went to news...
community.marfeel.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
51%(!!!) of the Google Discover feed is now AI. community.marfeel.com/t/google-dis...
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This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it.
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:05 AM
This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it.
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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I honestly expected more from a FIFA Peace Prize recipient
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I honestly expected more from a FIFA Peace Prize recipient
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This gave me an idea. If LLM can truly reason, someone should be able to train one on only texts preceding a major scientific discovery, then have the LLM reason the rest. No need to speculate on if LLMs are capable of novel discoveries. Test them on existing ones.
www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA...
www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA...
From the LocalLLaMA community on Reddit: Training an LLM only on 1800s London texts - 90GB dataset
Explore this post and more from the LocalLLaMA community
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December 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
This gave me an idea. If LLM can truly reason, someone should be able to train one on only texts preceding a major scientific discovery, then have the LLM reason the rest. No need to speculate on if LLMs are capable of novel discoveries. Test them on existing ones.
www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA...
www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA...
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I love the absurd mismatch between the grand tone of the film and its subject. Is there a less substantial person on Earth?
December 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I love the absurd mismatch between the grand tone of the film and its subject. Is there a less substantial person on Earth?
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I remember writing years ago about a then-new initiative by Amazon to disrupt local government procurement of things like office and school supplies. Turns out Amazon's become very popular with school districts, and it's using dynamic pricing to rip those schools off.
prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...
prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...
Amazon Has Been Conning School Districts out of Millions - The American Prospect
Amazon Business is billed as a convenient one-stop shop for schools. Reality is more expensive.
prospect.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I remember writing years ago about a then-new initiative by Amazon to disrupt local government procurement of things like office and school supplies. Turns out Amazon's become very popular with school districts, and it's using dynamic pricing to rip those schools off.
prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...
prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...
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NEW: Pardoned January 6 rioters have been advising Justice Department officials how to pursue – and perhaps prosecute – the very prosecutors who helped put them behind bars.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
December 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
NEW: Pardoned January 6 rioters have been advising Justice Department officials how to pursue – and perhaps prosecute – the very prosecutors who helped put them behind bars.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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ICE Accidentally Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers, Which Is Definitely A Normal Thing For The Government To Do
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/12/ice-accidentally-publishes-a-watch-list-of-immigration-lawyers-which-is-definitely-a-normal-thing-for-the-government-to-do/
ICE Accidentally Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers, Which Is Definitely A Normal Thing For The Government To Do
This is... disturbing.
abovethelaw.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
ICE Accidentally Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers, Which Is Definitely A Normal Thing For The Government To Do
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/12/ice-accidentally-publishes-a-watch-list-of-immigration-lawyers-which-is-definitely-a-normal-thing-for-the-government-to-do/
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The problem with all arguments of this sort is that they effectively rewrite the statute to exclude critical limitations. If a statute says "the president may do X on condition Y," but no court may second guess a presidential determination that Y obtains (even if it plainly does not)...
JUST IN: 24 red states back Trump on Alien Enemies Act detentions, argue his declaration of an enemy 'invasion' can't be questioned by courts. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
RedStatesCA5WMMAmicus121525
www.documentcloud.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The problem with all arguments of this sort is that they effectively rewrite the statute to exclude critical limitations. If a statute says "the president may do X on condition Y," but no court may second guess a presidential determination that Y obtains (even if it plainly does not)...
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The bear is now one of the renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web
December 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The bear is now one of the renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web
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Love the extra burn of it being a yahoo story.
December 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Love the extra burn of it being a yahoo story.
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I’m not a doctor, but feels like *actual* early intervention in frostbite cases would entail giving people warm shelter before amputation becomes necessary.
Like, how much later than “amputation required” can intervention be?
Like, how much later than “amputation required” can intervention be?
Alberta Minister of Assisted Living and Social Services Jason Nixon says rising frostbite amputations on his watch are a sign of the system working as intended.
Another important frostbite story by @taylorlambert.ca
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Another important frostbite story by @taylorlambert.ca
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
December 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I’m not a doctor, but feels like *actual* early intervention in frostbite cases would entail giving people warm shelter before amputation becomes necessary.
Like, how much later than “amputation required” can intervention be?
Like, how much later than “amputation required” can intervention be?
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Opinion | Trump’s crude remarks about Rob Reiner are unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner.
December 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Opinion | Trump’s crude remarks about Rob Reiner are unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner.
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America, you've spoken loud and clear: you do not like being stabbed in the dick with an ice pick. But what if stabbing yourself in the dick with an ice pick is the only way to fight, idk, climate change or whatever?
December 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
America, you've spoken loud and clear: you do not like being stabbed in the dick with an ice pick. But what if stabbing yourself in the dick with an ice pick is the only way to fight, idk, climate change or whatever?
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All subtlety is out the window this season, I see.
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM
All subtlety is out the window this season, I see.
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Really thought-provoking work here
I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 16, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Really thought-provoking work here