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Meet the new Deputy Chief of Staff at the CDC.
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Meet the new Deputy Chief of Staff at the CDC.
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Over the last few weeks, the IRS has rolled out coding tests to its hundreds of technical staff. Meanwhile, DOGE operatives are working to slash regulations across government.
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
December 2, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Over the last few weeks, the IRS has rolled out coding tests to its hundreds of technical staff. Meanwhile, DOGE operatives are working to slash regulations across government.
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
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DOGE may no longer be moving across the government in a move-fast-and-break-things blitz, but its affiliates appear to be digging in for the long haul—and Silicon Valley–shaped fingerprints remain all over the way agencies continue to be run.
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:56 PM
DOGE may no longer be moving across the government in a move-fast-and-break-things blitz, but its affiliates appear to be digging in for the long haul—and Silicon Valley–shaped fingerprints remain all over the way agencies continue to be run.
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While several media reports have suggested that DOGE has all but fizzled out, it’s far from dead. DOGE affiliates are scattered across the federal government. Meanwhile, the DOGE ethos remains fully in force.
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:56 PM
While several media reports have suggested that DOGE has all but fizzled out, it’s far from dead. DOGE affiliates are scattered across the federal government. Meanwhile, the DOGE ethos remains fully in force.
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Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
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#1 - you’ll be able to download the latest OS and bug fixes for several years. Android phones are often limited to the OS they came with, thanks to the carriers 😡
#2 - some apps work on the iPad & the Mac, so you don’t need to repurchase tools based on where you’re working
#2 - some apps work on the iPad & the Mac, so you don’t need to repurchase tools based on where you’re working
December 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
#1 - you’ll be able to download the latest OS and bug fixes for several years. Android phones are often limited to the OS they came with, thanks to the carriers 😡
#2 - some apps work on the iPad & the Mac, so you don’t need to repurchase tools based on where you’re working
#2 - some apps work on the iPad & the Mac, so you don’t need to repurchase tools based on where you’re working
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Russia never respects its neighbours, and has an extensive track record of violating every treaty it signs.
December 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Russia never respects its neighbours, and has an extensive track record of violating every treaty it signs.
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How naive. They promised something like that in 1994.
Never ever trust Russia. Lawlessnes is part of the culture.
Never ever trust Russia. Lawlessnes is part of the culture.
December 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
How naive. They promised something like that in 1994.
Never ever trust Russia. Lawlessnes is part of the culture.
Never ever trust Russia. Lawlessnes is part of the culture.
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So then, Trump really is working for the Kremlin, but it is not for him to demand anything of Ukraine.
December 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
So then, Trump really is working for the Kremlin, but it is not for him to demand anything of Ukraine.
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Microsoft: 30% of our code is now written by AI!
The code:
The code:
December 1, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Microsoft: 30% of our code is now written by AI!
The code:
The code:
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Putin is a war criminal, a terrorist, and a murderer. He ordered the genocide of the Ukrainian people. He is responsible for the kidnapping of thousands of Ukrainian children. Hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost because of him. Putin is the Hitler of our time.
December 1, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Putin is a war criminal, a terrorist, and a murderer. He ordered the genocide of the Ukrainian people. He is responsible for the kidnapping of thousands of Ukrainian children. Hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost because of him. Putin is the Hitler of our time.
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The most disturbing part of the so-called “peace plan” is that there isn’t even a hint of punishing Putin for his crimes against humanity.
December 1, 2025 at 4:40 AM
The most disturbing part of the so-called “peace plan” is that there isn’t even a hint of punishing Putin for his crimes against humanity.
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The Trumps are using the Oval Office as their own personal ATM machine, and anyone who says otherwise is lying to you.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
December 1, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The Trumps are using the Oval Office as their own personal ATM machine, and anyone who says otherwise is lying to you.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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REMINDER: The Epstein Files Transparency Act requires Trump to release all the Jeffrey Epstein files by Dec 19. That means Trump has 18 DAYS left to release ALL the Epstein files--including hard drives of surveillance footage secretly recorded by Epstein at his houses of people who entered.
November 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
REMINDER: The Epstein Files Transparency Act requires Trump to release all the Jeffrey Epstein files by Dec 19. That means Trump has 18 DAYS left to release ALL the Epstein files--including hard drives of surveillance footage secretly recorded by Epstein at his houses of people who entered.
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With my next SCOTUS argument little more than one week away, I will be writing less often between now and the 9th. In the meantime, subscribe to Democracy Docket to support the team's invaluable work. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
December 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
With my next SCOTUS argument little more than one week away, I will be writing less often between now and the 9th. In the meantime, subscribe to Democracy Docket to support the team's invaluable work. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
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HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT ebook for $2.99 at Bookshop!
FYI @bookshop.org has a sale on Ebooks for less than $4, including @scalzi.com's Kaiju Preservation Society (drm free), Hiding in Plain Sight by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, Somebody's Daughter by @smashfizzle.bsky.social and lots of other great fiction, romance, etc.
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November 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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And in so doing, HE created the dictatorship being run by Trump's mobsters.
The Supreme Court empowered billionaires, blocked voters, and ran interference.
How John Roberts brought back Donald Trump
The Supreme Court empowered billionaires, blocked voters, and ran interference.
www.motherjones.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
And in so doing, HE created the dictatorship being run by Trump's mobsters.
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The Supreme Court empowered billionaires, blocked voters, and ran interference.
How John Roberts brought back Donald Trump
The Supreme Court empowered billionaires, blocked voters, and ran interference.
www.motherjones.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Supreme Court empowered billionaires, blocked voters, and ran interference.
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That's the idea! Wrecking the biggest threat to autocratic domination.
It will take America *decades*—not merely years—to recover from what these robber barons did to us.
They destroyed our government, caused untold pain to the average American directly and indirectly, and used our money as their piggy bank.
And all of it *should* have been criminal.
They destroyed our government, caused untold pain to the average American directly and indirectly, and used our money as their piggy bank.
And all of it *should* have been criminal.
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
That's the idea! Wrecking the biggest threat to autocratic domination.
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this means nothing. they stand for nothing
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
this means nothing. they stand for nothing
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This protective corporate culture is far from being unique to 3M, it’s ubiquitous. I’ve seen it even in a couple of the smaller companies that I have worked for. Profits and perception always outweigh any deleterious effects of their products on the environment or the public.
November 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This protective corporate culture is far from being unique to 3M, it’s ubiquitous. I’ve seen it even in a couple of the smaller companies that I have worked for. Profits and perception always outweigh any deleterious effects of their products on the environment or the public.
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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
www.propublica.org
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
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Browser Extension 'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It's 2022
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/29/1838252/browser-extension-slop-evader-lets-you-surf-the-web-like-its-2022?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Browser Extension 'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It's 2022
"The internet is being increasingly polluted by AI generated text, images and video," argues the site for a new browser extension called Slop Evader. It promises to use Google's search API "to only return content published before Nov 30th, 2022" — the day ChatGPT launched — "so you can...
news.slashdot.org
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Browser Extension 'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It's 2022
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/29/1838252/browser-extension-slop-evader-lets-you-surf-the-web-like-its-2022?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed