Bweer

Post by Aaron Rupar summarizing an NBC interview in which a reporter presses a Trump administration official about easing oil sanctions benefiting Russia, with a split-screen image of the journalist and the official during the interview.

Trump never met a favor he couldn't do for his pal Vladimir.

The same way they purchased all those warehouses to process ICE detainees is the same way they could temporarily house the homeless and start a database where they can process them to figure out what services they need or don’t need slowly fixing homelessness.
But nope. Keeping us poor is profitable

Last November, the agency said it would spend $2.25 million to buy 25 Chevrolet Tahoes that would be emblazoned with ICE's new logo and used for recruitment purposes as the agency moved to hire 10,000 new deportation officers following the several vehicles it debuted in August. The Chevy contract was given to a prominent Republican donor, Rick Hendrick, owner of Hendrick Motorsports in North Carolina. It was not completed, meaning that other companies were not allowed to offer proposals and prices that they could fulfill the order for. An additional $174,000 to $230,000 was given to three companies to wrap the vehicles in their new markings.

That’s $90,000 per Tahoe before the ICE wrap. A base Tahoe MSRP is $63,495. The top trim High Country model with every option including Magnetic Ride Control is $86,495. Taxpayers enriched a campaign donor for about $650,000 of fleecing for ICE wrapped vehicles that will never be used.

🚨 BREAKING: The DOJ has "indefinitely paused" the unsealing of the final Epstein files, citing "regional instability" and "national security" regarding the Iran conflict.

If you had ANY REMAINING doubts that this war is a distraction to cover up his involvement in sex trafficking—
maybe now???

That's how I view the world & Ukraine… Not many willing to help us, but everyone wants our assistance… Sorry, but the world truly doesn't deserve Ukraine.

cool!!

Drawing in procreate of Toa Lewa

Toa Lewa
#ariartaccount #marchofrobots #LEGO #BIONICLE

‘The Most Dangerous Man in the World’ Mojtaba Khamenei, a candidate to succeed his father as Iran’s supreme leader, is no reformer.

Now would be a good time to read @graemewood.bsky.social on Mojtaba Khamenei:

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Mojtaba Khamenei is widely considered to be more hardline, ideological, and violent than his father.

Donald is smart that way.

This quote isnt just out of touch or disappointing, its fucking dark. Gay people are not a conversation parents need to have with their kids? Knowing gay people exist doesnt require therapy??

Any parents who thinks that way needs to have their kids removed ASAP. Get in a volcano, Pete.

It's why Kash Patel fired all the experts tasked with preventing Iranian reprisal terrorism, and Trump put a 22 year-old grocery clerk in charge of the terrorism prevention program (see: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

a black and white edit that reads "the future includes trans people". around the text is a floral pattern. the image is grainy

the future is for trans people

And the previous presidents who screwed them over had a far better reputation for truth and reliability than the Trump regime. But still screwed them over.

"Hey Kurds, it's the United States. Remember us, from all the betrayals? Anyhoo, would love it if you all could march into this thresher for us. Let us know."

Trump abandoned the Kurds in Turkey to let them get slaughtered after they defeated isis for us. Now USA promises them a country inside Iran. Weird

We Need To Take Trump’s Rhetoric Seriously, But Not Literally vs. Have That Guy Killed Almost every day, the establishment seems to get it wrong trying to use Donald Trump’s words to paint him as a dire threat to our democracy. What so many fail to see—and what his supporters have long ...

We Need To Take Trump’s Rhetoric Seriously, But Not Literally vs. Have That Guy Killed

cute!

rida's touch

Screenshot of an X post by Adam Cochran reacting to Hillary Clinton’s deposition, suggesting she outperformed questioners. The embedded C-SPAN post quotes Clinton saying Trump was held civilly liable for sexual assault and that the behavior fits a pattern. Below is a video still of Clinton seated at a hearing table, gesturing with her hands, with a lower-third banner referencing a House Oversight Committee investigation.

It did not go as planned.

it's time once again for that evergreen Calvin Trillin poem: "The Kurds are in the way again"

The Kurds are in the way again,
And so, to our dismay again,
If we begin a fray again,
As it appears we may again,
It seems we must betray again
The Kurds: They’re in the way again.

Tats

I feel bad for any team hitting difficulties right now but I think it's a sign that the industry needs to move away from live service games all competing for all your time and money. It's not sustainable imo.

Sucks to hear about Highguard, not my kind of game but people losing jobs rn is shitty.

I want people who are a part of making (supposedly) mid or bad games to still be employed.

This gives away the whole game, as people have been warning for years and years. This is identity erasure of a whole class. the precedents for having documents revoked by group…are not good.

The treasure was the friends you make along the way

oh my god she's perfect!

youtu.be/rskYeDxUobs?...

Using foundation models in national security contexts may introduce unique concerns threatening human rights. For example, a government’s ability to train models on citizens’ data obtained through commercial data brokers that would otherwise need a warrant, court order, or subpoena to obtain may allow governments to further exercise coercive powers that are automated through AI decision-making [6]. Such use may subvert due process, exacerbated when inaccurate outputs inflict unjust harms on civilians. Appropriate interventions may include the extension of data minimization principles to include purpose limitations on the collection, processing, and transfer of personal data to third parties for intelligence purposes.

The Atlantic notes how the Pentagon wants to "analyze bulk data collected from Americans." From our "Mind the Gap" paper 2024, a snippet I have come back to what seems like dozens of time at this point.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

This strikes at a core principle of the American republic, one that has traditionally been especially dear to conservatives: private property. Suppose, for example, that the military approached Google and said “we would like to purchase individualized worldwide Google search data to do with whatever we want, and if you object, we will designate you a supply chain risk.” I don’t think they are going to do that, but there is no difference in principle between this and the message DoW is sending. There is no such thing as private property. If we need to use it for national security, we simply will. The government won’t quite “steal” it from you—they’ll compensate you—but you cannot set the terms, and you cannot simply exit from the transaction, lest you be deemed a “supply chain risk,” not to mention have the other litany of policy obstacles the government can throw at you.

Good point from Dean Ball on Pentagon/Anthropic and why the real stakes go even further than AI www.hyperdimensional.co/p/clawed

neat!