About the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.
Rubio, fall guy?
Trump: “I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it. Other people handled it. But Marco Rubio’s done a great job. And he wanted them out, and we go along with that. We want to get criminals out of our country.”
March 22, 2025
Perhaps in response to the growing outcry over last weekend’s rendition of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under a legal justification a federal judge has found questionable, President Donald Trump last night told reporters that he didn’t sign the…Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
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#PięćPrzemian #PięćSmaków #KuchniaChińska #Tao
Czy #umami to #smak #ostry, czy po cichu zostały podmienione? Czy może od początku polskie źródła to źle tłumaczyły?
Ale kuchnia taoistyczna ma te 2000 lat z hakiem, a smak umami odkryto oficjalnie dopiero w 20. wieku.
To jak to jest?
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➡️ theguardian.com/environment/20…
More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UN
Floods, heatwaves and supercharged hurricanes occurred in hottest climate human society has ever experiencedDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
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Studies like this analysis of weather station data have shown that increasing heat and rainfall extremes are already far outside the historical climate.
Whether you like it or prefer to deny it.
nature.com/articles/s41612-021…
Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climateNature
I've just watched a family on the morning news, talking about the recent floods in their area (not the first, either). They were saying the local council, the state govt, the federal govt weren't doing enough to support them.
Not a word about how about we stop burning fossil fuel? Nothing about we can't continue the way we are, because these events are happening more often with greater impact each time.
People just don't get it.
#ClimateCatastrophe #climatecrisis
#słowanaopak #SłowaNaOpka #SłowaNaOkap
Okropna ilustracja, stworzona "na kolanie": odrazek.
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Friendica -> RSS
Hello,
I am trying create an #RSS feed, showing public messages from selected sources. Its destination is a news aggregator set on a #Wordpress instance.
My thinking was to make a #channel and use "regular" feed syntax petroskowo.pl/feed/network?cha…
Unfortunately, browser shows me "User not found" and the RSS import plugin at Wordpress obviously see nothing either.
What am I missing?
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Rather than make minor changes to lifestyle, we're studying refreezing an entire fricken glacier
technologyreview.com/2025/03/2…
Inside a new quest to save the “doomsday glacier”
Arête Glacier Initiative has raised $5 million to improve sea-level rise forecasts and explore the possibility of refreezing glaciers in place.James Temple (MIT Technology Review)
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I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
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There is a quasi-religion in Silicon Valley that views AI as godlike. This faith has always been parallel to Evangelical Christianity: it has salvation (transhumanism), the rapture (the technological singularity), and demons (Roko's Basilisk)
Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.
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Together, these two faiths crave the end of American liberal democracy and government. You can smell it at GSA.
They won't replace us with AI because 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍. They want our work to end. DOGE is firing us as fast as possible, and that is the whole plan.
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Listen: maybe I'm wrong and this is just the worst software deployment of my career, not actually a conspiracy against democracy.
Maybe these guys just don't see they are frittering away all product and service design knowledge in the agency. And don't even know that they lack this knowledge.
Honestly: From the 2013 failure of healthcare.gov to today, the government *almost* learned how to build software. We were close. Then a bunch of white men in suits swooped in to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Maybe they are just incompetent. But I think it's worse than that.
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On stage, Ehikian asked GSAi to "write me a plan to rewrite the FAR"
The FAR, Federal Acquisition Regulations, are laws that control how the gov't buys stuff. They are legendary in their complexity for a good reason: to prevent corruption. To protect taxpayer money from theft by beltway bandits.
The AI's "plan" to simplify the FAR was generic and unusable, of course. But it is a subject that Ehikian and DOGE keep returning to: Contracting. Acquisition. The money.
They want to file the corners off of the process that regulates government spending. They want to consolidate all government contracts in one place. And put AI in charge.
Yes yes yes!
(Said the bit in the movie Tron)
The point has never been to increase efficiency, it has been to eliminate AGENCY.
To remove the number of humans that would talk back. The chance someone has a good heart and would not serve, would not stop people getting needlessly hurt etc. To eliminate good conscience.
Why else would you think ”Christian Nationalists” are going on so hard about: ”The Sin of Empathy” right now?
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Thank you for this account. You may certainly be correct in your suspicion that the objective here is simply to gut government purchasing. But I see a historical aspect to the religious conviction that you describe.
Twenty-five years ago I was part of an effort (sponsored by the UN) to develop a standard environment for the exchange of business documents called ebXML. It was an open-standards internet follow-on to EDI.
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ebXML was sabotaged by Microsoft as a threat to their proprietary systems, but the creation of something that would work with human business processes was also resisted by a faction of zealots within the project who were working for an environment in which all the actual business transactions were between machines, without the need for human businesspeople at all. I can't help seeing the current push for AI in this space as a continuation of that way of thinking.
15 years ago I was the guy who wrote their "cloud transition plan," in which one of the major risks identified was "vendor will be unable to deliver.". One of the now-retired GSA old farts couldn't believe it.
" but they'll be OBLIGATED to!!"
Yeah, that doesn't fuckin' make them capable.
In the 1990s, we had an amusing (by which I mean sad) conversation with a guy who had made his money providing cleaning services in the City of London. He wanted to start a training academy to teach secretaries how to use the advanced features of Microsoft Word. We patiently explained that was a bad plan: most of those features were so bug-ridden that they were unusable. ‘But’, he exclaimed, ‘if that’s true, they’d get sued’. We just shrugged.
Odra osobą prawną? Trwa zbiórka podpisów na rzecz ochrony rzeki
Odra osobą prawną? Trwa zbiórka podpisów na rzecz ochrony
Odra osobą prawną? Trwa zbiórka podpisów na rzecz ochrony rzeki Odra osobą prawną – taki status może uzyskać rzeka na mocy obywatelskiegoIwona Szyprowska-Głodzik (Wodne Sprawy)
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