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@juddlegum #heWillStiffYou
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Thank you @popularinfirmation
Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) urged federal employees not to accept the offer, saying it was a trap. "The president has tried to terrorize you for about a week, and then gives you a little sweetheart offer if you resign in the next week," Kaine said on the floor of the Senate. "Don’t be fooled! …If you accept that offer and resign, he’ll stiff you.… That promise is worth nothing."
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Worth a re-read from 2017, cited in today’s @newyorktimes
This solicitous attitude toward corporations was part of a larger cultural shift in the business and legal world. Defending executives became an increasingly lucrative practice for elite law firms, which recruited star prosecutors from the Justice Department. Corporations accused of misconduct lawyered up, offering extensive internal investigations but erecting imposing defenses around individual executives. Banks cultivated plausible deniability, their internal oversight systems too feeble to pin responsibility on any individual; Goldman executives used the abbreviation LDL — “let’s discuss live” — to hide their traces.
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Hello #oakland #bayarea #immigration please read and pass on https://oaklandside.org/2025/01/15/oakland-ice-cbp-immigration-raid-rumors/
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From @paulkrugman
" Yes, California has problems, some of them big. There are pockets of social disorder, although the fact that so many luxury homes are burning tells us that many people who could live anywhere find greater Los Angeles a highly desirable place to be. More important, California suffers terribly from NIMBYism, which has led to grossly inadequate home construction, crippling housing costs and a lot of homelessness."
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From #HeatherCoxRichardson Trump has already expressed frustration that Carter’s death will mean that flags will be at half-staff for his own inauguration.
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"Indeed, Utah’s own Office of Tourism has long celebrated what it calls its 'Mighty Five’ national parks and even trademarked the phrase. It tells would-be visitors in a promotion for the parks to 'expect your time spent outdoors to result in soul-awakening experiences.' Together, those parks — Zion, Bryce Canyon, Arches, Capitol Reef and Canyonlands — now attract around 10 million visitors annually. There can be no disputing that visitors to these and other national parks and monuments in Utah are huge contributors to the Utah economy."
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Thank you #johnleshy of #californialawsf
Utah’s powergrab.
"The state’s lawyers also fail to mention that Utah’s own Constitution, adopted in 1895 just before its admission to the union, declares that its people 'forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands' within its borders.
"Last, Utah’s claim flies in the face of a string of post-Civil War Supreme Court decisions. In those rulings, the court has consistently found that Congress’s power over public lands under the property clause is, as the court put it in a unanimous decision in 1976, 'without limitations.' The title of one law review article succinctly framed Utah’s efforts this way: 'The battle to take ‘back’ lands that were never theirs.''”
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TY #ruthmarcus "And speaking of Trump’s rhetoric, Merchan had some choice words on that, again worth heeding and valuable to have on the record. Trump, contending that his 'contributions to this City and the Nation are too numerous to count,' asserted that his public service and character should weigh as important factors in dismissing the charges.
Merchan wasn’t buying — and he turned Trump’s claims of exemplary character on their head.
"'Defendant has gone to great lengths to broadcast on social media and other forums his lack of respect for judges, juries, grand juries and the justice system as a whole,' he wrote.
“'In the case at bar, despite repeated admonitions, this Court was left with no choice but to find the Defendant guilty of 10 counts of Contempt.'
"His conclusion?
"'Defendant’s character and history vis-a-vis the Rule of Law and the Third Branch of government must be analyzed under this factor in direct relation to the result he seeks, and in that vein, it does not weigh in his favor.'”
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@marcprecipice Stop the Jan 8 AC Transit board vote to censure Sarah Syed. https://actionnetwork.org/events/speak-out-at-ac-transit-board-meeting-to-stand-up-against-ac-transit-board-punishing-rider-advocate-board-member?source=direct_link&
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Two former senior military leaders told The Post the emphasis on technology eroded 8200’s “culture of warning,” where even low-level analysts could easily brief top commanders about concerns. This shift, they added, is a significant reason Israel was surprised by the Oct. 7 attack: An experienced female analyst who had surfaced Hamas’s battlefield plans for breaking into Israel’s borders was unable to get a meeting with the unit’s top commanders in time.
“The bottom line is, you can’t replace the guy who screams, ‘Listen, this is dangerous,’” with all the advanced AI technologies in the world,” said Caspit, the Israeli journalist who has interviewed every living 8200 commander for his book. “This was the hubris that infected the entire unit.”
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The latter approach won out. But the technologies, while widely recognized as promising, had limitations. Sometimes the sheer volume of intercepts overwhelmed 8200’s analysts. For example, Hamas operatives often used the word “batikh,” or watermelon, as code for a bomb, one of the people familiar with the efforts said. But the system wasn’t smart enough to understand the difference between a conversation about an actual watermelon and a coded conversation among terrorists.
“If you pick up a thousand conversations a day, do I really want to hear about every watermelon in Gaza?” the person said.
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From WaPo, Poetic names for death-dealing weapons:
Another machine learning tool, called Lavender, uses a percentage score to predict how likely a Palestinian is to be a member of a militant group, allowing the IDF to quickly generate a large volume of potential human targets. Other algorithmic programs have names like Alchemist, Depth of Wisdom, Hunter and Flow, the latter of which allows soldiers to query various datasets and is previously unreported.
Several of the division’s officers have long held concerns that the machine learning technology….An internal audit found some AI systems for processing the Arabic language [failed] to understand key slang words and phrases....
... In the Gaza war, estimates of how many civilians might be harmed in a bombing raid are derived...using image recognition tools to analyze drone footage alongside smartphones pinging cell towers to tally the number of civilians in an area, two of the people said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/12/29/ai-israel-war-gaza-idf/
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Okay fediverse, at the risk of creating a cascade of very technical toots and appearing naively ignorant of #apple-acia, is there a way to burn music CDs onto something that will let you play them on your iPhone? NOT music purchased through Apple but music purchased over decades at … er…. record stores.
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[#]BikeTooter #cycling #trikes my ICE trike the day I bought it from Alphabent in Sac 8 years ago. ~10k miles so far.
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From #HeatherCoxRichardson let this be said loud and clear HE LOST.
Meanwhile Trump and his team are announcing a complete reworking of the American government. They claim a mandate, although as final vote tallies are coming in, it turns out that Trump did not win 50% of the vote, and CNN statistician Harry Enten notes that his margin comes in at 44th out of the 51 elections that have been held since 1824. He also had very short coattails—four Democrats won in states Trump carried—and the Republicans have the smallest House majority since there have been 50 states, despite the help their numbers have had from the extreme gerrymandering in states like North Carolina.
More Americans voted for someone other than Trump than voted for him.
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“Fellow-citizens,” Lincoln reminded his colleagues, “we cannot escape history. We…will be remembered in spite of ourselves.” #HeatherCoxRichardson
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