Toots for NiftyLinks@federated.press account

Written by NiftyLinks on 2025-01-29 at 03:58

From Axios: #civilservants "received an email blast from the #opm Tuesday night stating they can resign from their jobs by Feb. 6 — nine days from now — and receive pay and benefits through Sept. 30."

https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/01/29/trump-federal-workforce-overhaul-buyouts-fork-in-road

Looks to be a deliberate repeat of #Musk 's "Fork in the Road" ultimatum from 2022 #twitter

[#]opm #trump

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Written by NiftyLinks on 2025-01-27 at 20:30

Further discussion of this on Blusky: https://bsky.app/profile/pbump.com/post/3lgqrtvqhds2r

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Written by NiftyLinks on 2025-01-27 at 20:25

Fwiw, I haven't verified that Noah Peters has anything to do with Project 2025. That comment may be wrong.

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Written by NiftyLinks on 2025-01-27 at 20:10

Edit: I couldn't verify Noah Peters's relationship with Project 2025.

And it looks like the initial email being discussed was authored by #project2025 members/actors/authors:

"The newest one was authored by Noah Peters (Architect of Project 2025). The RTO guidance is James Sherk (Heritage Foundation)Steven Hickman for the DEIA RIF memo (Hickman Family Foundation) . Colleen Heller-Stein for the initial 1/20 memo."

https://old.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1ibbbh7/this_was_posted_about_opm_in_our_union_chat/m9hlrnj/

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Written by NiftyLinks on 2025-01-27 at 19:32

"OPM has been taken over and compromised"

A #reddit post from an #opm #civilservant regarding the creation of a singular, direct email list to all federal employees and contractors.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1ibbbh7/this_was_posted_about_opm_in_our_union_chat/

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Written by NiftyLinks on 2025-01-26 at 17:23

[#]couchCoop #elden_ring has to be good, right?

https://gamerant.com/new-elden-ring-co-op-game-nightreign-fromsoftware-next-game/

[#]gaming #videogames

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Written by NiftyLinks on 2025-01-26 at 02:26

"Trump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying #HIV Treatment Worldwide"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/us/politics/trump-hiv-aids-pepfar.html

[#]publichealth

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Written by NiftyLinks on 2025-01-26 at 02:26

Largest #Tuberculosis outbreak in #USA recorded history in #Kansas. (Dating back to the 1950s)

https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/politics/government/2025/01/24/kansas-tuberculosis-outbreak-is-largest-in-recorded-history-in-u-s/77881467007/

[#]publichealth

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Written by NiftyLinks on 2025-01-26 at 02:25

[#]Alabama #Congress person Terri Sewell addresses removal of #tuskegeeairmen 's #history video from #usaf curriculum.

https://www.al.com/news/2025/01/sewell-calls-on-air-force-to-reinstate-tuskegee-airmen-video-not-dei-but-history.html

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Written by NiftyLinks on 2025-01-26 at 02:25

Play the note, hear the note, see the waveform and and the Fourier Decomposition/Modal Visualization. Freaking cool. Transforming, even. :D #gamedev #music

https://pelimanni.vuoro.dev/

Via: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@jonikorpi/113889570098466245

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Written by NiftyLinks on 2025-01-26 at 02:23

Too gorgeous not to share. Posterworthy, really. #photography based #spaceart

https://mastodon.social/@pomaranc/113891543234726445

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Written by NiftyLinks on 2025-01-22 at 16:45

[#]mlb and #npb great #ichiro snubbed by the biggest jerk in the #bbwaa in #hof vote

https://youtu.be/TrDACXBVX6E

[#]baseball #sports

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Written by NiftyLinks on 2025-01-16 at 17:17

Cross cultural icon, Mr. #baseball, the voice of the #milwaukeebrewers , actor, comedian, and former #stlcardinals catcher Bob #uecker has died.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/43439250/beloved-brewers-broadcaster-bob-uecker-dies-age-90

[#]mlb

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Written by NiftyLinks on 2025-01-11 at 21:32

KSP 2 Has Been Cut Loose

https://youtu.be/LDlGE3jMTWM

[#]kerbal #gaming #stray

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Written by NiftyLinks on 2025-01-09 at 15:33

This blog is about my personal journey (roughly chronologically) through 50 years of computer role-playing games (CRPGs)."

https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/

[#]rpg #crpg #gaming #videogames

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Written by NiftyLinks on 2025-01-05 at 04:28

[#]Messi getting a Presidential Medal of Freedom this early in his #mls tenure irks me.

And how the hell is the "messi" hashtag have zero mentions in whatever window that is relevant? Across just this server?

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Written by NiftyLinks on 2025-01-04 at 15:48

I have a strong suspicion that #LLM style #ai don't know when to shut up.

More technically, they don't know what they they don't know, so the string termination conditions aren't strongly derived from semantics.

Empirically this looks like "non-interactive Turing tests can ID LLM vs human at more than a random guessing rate by selecting the shorter/more factually dense response"

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