This is Mr. Every-Accusation-Is-A-Confession speaking.

Could the phone companies really be using that number for unsuspecting customers? I would think they’d block assigning that one. I don’t know anything, though.

Sure sure, but as a fossil fuel executive, answer me this: What if we burned the wind turbines for warmth instead?

Trump said Tuesday that it’s a “good thing” Kent resigned over his objections to the war with Iran, deriding him as “very weak on security.”

Yeah, I’ll say. What a loser! What kind of numbnuts hired that guy, anyway?

You give somebody who’s used to living paycheck to paycheck a few million bucks and they will spend it.

So they become job creators?

Is the goal to become a rich asshole? Or is the goal for everyone to make $19/hr?

Well I guess those are definitely the only possible outcomes, aren’t they?

We could view this as “MS pushes for stupid direction that clued-in tech people are opposed to,” or we could view this as “MS gives up on native apps because everyone else of consequence already has.” I hate it but I have eyes.

If AI enhanced coding is really so great, we might expect to see a Renaissance of small, efficient native apps, even on platforms like Android. I’m not holding my breath, though.

The term “kill chain” reduces the slaughter of human beings to an engineering problem. It tacitly admits that modern militaries are murder factories. If we had caught ISIS or a drug cartel speaking and thinking this way, that would be a Fox News headline for months. What a dispiriting bit of jargon. It tells so much more than it says.

Stovepiping.

But do we believe that the pooper-in-chief was hanging on every word coming out of the intelligence apparatus in the hours after the first bombings, alert for any rumor that could be leveraged for the noise machine? Or is it more likely one of the many wormtongues in his orbit whispered this in his ear?

This article doesn’t seem very clear on the figures, it uses 200,000 as both the number of immigrant drivers in the US and as the number of immigrant drivers who stand to lose their licenses, even though not all immigrant drivers are facing this.

Of course, this potentially raises the wages of likely GOP voters – birthright and naturalized citizen drivers – at the expense of drivers who can’t vote. And it does it by breaking promises to the very people who embody the GOP’s idea of “good” immigrants. It’s division all the way.

So, next up, the way things have been going: “Windex cured my kid’s autism, now Google is censoring me!”

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I did this with gemini to so…

I haven’t got any experience with, or any paid access to, these LLM things.

Can you get Gemini to give you the figures (since there are only two for each year) and a URL source for those figures, along with the chart? I’m just thinking the output could be specified in a way that made it easy to double-check, and that could be an education, however double-checking turns out.

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That headline, “left him at a cafe,” is offering the regime some scrap of moral cover that is not justified by any facts of the case, as far as I can see. There is barely a reason to bring this up in the story, let alone the headline. That’s just the NYT kissing the regime’s ass.

This takes some effort, some talent. If you asked me to write a headline that made ICE look ever so slightly less evil, I would not have considered this, I wouldn’t have that creative capacity. Someone has made this their mission in life, to paint the murderous thugs of ICE in a gentler light.

So the national anthem tells us we’re “free” and “brave.” Maybe it’s time to update that.

The Center for Biological Diversity noted that this order would mark the first time that the Defense Production Act was used to force an oil company to restart out-of-use Infrastructure and to disregard the state permitting process.

So this must be that “free market” I hear so much about?

I’m concerned in a general way that the federated design of Lemmy / Mastodon etc. is by its nature (arguably even by its intent) likely to lead users to construct isolated media bubbles. But I don’t know how to improve it. I’m not going to subscribe to a (hypothetical as far as I know) fascist community just to “broaden my mind,” that wouldn’t work.

It’s hard to know how much of the division we see and feel is meatspace division facilitated by social media, and how much of it is social media reflecting divisions in meatspace. There’s no reason to suppose the answer would be simple or easy.

Remember when the alt-right guys were prosecuted for their khakis-and-polo-shirts, escape-by-blending-into-a-crowd uniforms that demonstrated malice aforethought?

No, me neither.

Its not climate its just weather, bro. The climate has always been changing, bro. Solar? The sun doesn’t even shine at night, bro. Your insurance company is just ripping you off, bro. Not every species deserves to make it, bro. How about this April snowball, bro?

…it wasnt a slippery slope. They didnt make laws a little bit invasive … before slowly nudging it further

I disagree.

There was a certain (large) amount of government surveillance and eavesdropping going on before the GWOT, which was used as an excuse to massively expand it. There was already inspection and security and traveler record-keeping at airports before the GWOT, which was used as an excuse to expand those. CBP had long had the legislative authority to do all kinds of nastiness within 100 miles of a border before the GWOT, which was used as an excuse to step their activities up, to legal limits and beyond.

In every case, an initial claim of urgent, exceptional authority was used to create both the physical infrastructure and the cultural permission required to make later, expanded claims of urgent, exceptional authority much easier to implement when an excuse presented itself. That is the slippery slope, we really slid way down it, it’s a real phenomenon. It doesn’t have to be smooth or gradual, it can happen in jerks and waves. It doesn’t have to come as a result of a plot, a plan, a deliberate conspiracy, it can be an accretion of individually opportunistic acts.