So we're now doing out and out racism from the US government. The quieter racism is a thing of the past. RE:
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Q: There are many people who fit the criteria of fleeing persecution. Afghans for example. But they're being denied refugee status. So why such an ...
So, the dispute this morning about whether or not the Capitol Police blocked DOGE dudes from entering the US Copyright Office is increasingly sounding like one where there's a lot of "well, technically..." but the overall gist of it was true. RE:
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Kate Knibbs (@knibbs.bsky.social)
SCOOP: On Friday, the US Copyright Office released a blockbuster report on AI training. On Saturday, the USCO director was unceremoniously fired....
Lots of people talking about this, but, uh... not enough people are talking about his willingness to talk without a lawyer present. RE:
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“The reason they’re doing [this] is to try to create an environment of fear, to try to get people like myself... to shut the fuck up,” Piker ...
Holy shit. There is some tab among my 400+ tabs that suddenly, without reason, appears to have started playing a podcast... twice? Like it started randomly, and then 30 seconds later, it started again? So it's the same podcast repeating over itself AND I CANNOT FIND THE TAB. HELP.
Apparently at least one US Attorney is willing to admit in federal court that he does not know where the clitoris is. RE:
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown (@enbrown.bsky.social)
actual exchange from a federal court case: a US Attorney asking where the clitoris is
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As someone who has spent a big part of my life actually writing about issues related to "abundance," my take is that the book is a slapdash attempt to justify random policies the authors like, rather than a principled understanding of where & when abundance works & where it fails. RE:
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Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
My take on "Abundance" is that every time I hear the authors speaking about the book, it sounds like a dispatch from an alternative universe where ...
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Who is the official score keeper for the ratio Hall of Fame, because we have a clear entrant... https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreihb2dmkaw33qtwurqdpxv6ieou5wmi2xstfauszmjmw4spzlb4vja
This morning the official Library of Congress Bluesky account (and yes, it's official: [www.loc.gov/connect](
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 )) posted a video of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden... who Trump fired last week. RE:
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Library of Congress (@librarycongress.bsky.social)
In a video recorded early last week, 14th Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden honored the work performed by the Library's staff, the heart of the in...
Vaguely recalling how we spent many years with the biggest scandal in the world being that *false* claim that Biden had accepted a few million in bribes. [oversight.house.gov/the-bidens-i...](
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Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social)
lol “getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE,” yeah that’s the problem my guy
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Well, when you put it that way... RE:
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Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social)
we have a secretary of -transportation making it more dangerous to travel -education making kids stupider -defense making us more vulnerable to att...