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Huge swathes of the internet were taken offline on Monday after an outage at an Amazon Web Services data center in Virginia that hosts millions of apps and websites.
Major Outage Plunges Internet Into Chaos
Over 500 major apps and websites went offline after an error at an Amazon data center.
trib.al
October 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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igorsushko.bsky.social
💥 In a joint operation, Russian Freedom Legion and Ukraine's GUR defense intelligence struck Russian oil platforms in the Black Sea with air drones launched from naval drones.
Russian Freedom Legion is composed of Russian soldiers fighting on the side of Ukraine against Russia.
October 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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timkellogg.me
Strong Platonic Representation Hypothesis

All embedding models, given large enough scale, can be translated between them without paired data

Security implication: Embeddings aren’t encryption, they’re basically plain text

arxiv.org/abs/2505.12540
This side-by-side plot compares two visualizations of the same dataset’s embeddings: on the left, the original embeddings; on the right, latent representations generated via a transformation method (here labeled vec2vec). Left: Original Embeddings • Two clearly separated clusters of red and green points. • The clusters represent two distinct groups (e.g., classes, domains, or modalities). • Gray lines show strong alignment or correspondences between red and green points—suggesting some shared structure or matched pairs. • However, the clusters are far apart, meaning the original embedding space encodes strong domain-specific separation (e.g., red and green are treated as different). Right: Latent Representations (vec2vec) • The same points are now more uniformly mixed in latent space. • The tight clustering by color is gone; red and green points are distributed throughout. • This suggests the vec2vec method has projected both groups into a shared latent space, removing domain bias and aligning semantically similar items regardless of origin. • It’s indicative of embedding alignment, domain adaptation, or representation unification, where cross-domain items are mapped closer together based on semantic similarity. Implication: vec2vec successfully transforms the original domain-specific embeddings into a common space where structural similarity dominates over origin (color), enabling better transfer, comparison, or fusion between domains.
May 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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esqueer.net
The editorial completely omits the fact that the Trump has nuked nearly $400 million in LGBTQ related research and has explicitly banned any and all funding for transgender health. But they ignore all that while they call for "better research" that is now banned and defunded.
May 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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anne-s-kim.bsky.social
I wrote a book about this. This would be bad.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
DOGE wants businesses to run government services ‘as much as possible’
Elon Musk’s effort is pushing privatization — a longtime goal for conservatives and for Silicon Valley alike — across federal agencies
www.washingtonpost.com
March 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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skiles.blue
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. 🧵
March 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
(🧵) How Elon Musk betrayed America: a thread from a Musk biographer and former federal criminal investigator.

Please share widely, here and elsewhere. This will be long.

Author bio: www.sethabramson.net/bio
Latest book: sethabramson.substack.com/p/proof-of-d...
March 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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mcuban.bsky.social
This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start

Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.
asiegel.bsky.social A Siegel @asiegel.bsky.social · Mar 2
More accurate, fewer words;

"There are plenty of contractors going under".

A friend furloughed 75% of staff (furlough w/paying for health insurance for three months), 50% exec pay cut, 25% rest of staff to keep as many people w/salary.

PS: Wasn't 18F a government office, not a contractor.
March 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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mcuban.bsky.social
If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.

It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.

They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.

I’m happy to invest and/or help
March 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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nateo.bsky.social
At this point yes, you do have to hand it to Bill Kristol, longstanding Republican operative and leading proponent of the US invasion of Iraq, who is doing far more in his personal capacity to publicly defend trans people than the Democratic Party, the nominal opposition to Trump
February 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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esqueer.net
Bill Kristol is doing more to defend trans people than the Democratic party. Schumer and Jeffries haven't said a damn thing.
February 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
More of this, please! We need law professors with integrity and backbone to call out colleagues who attempt to launder Trump’s unconstitutional cruelty through bullshit originalism. And to do so in blunt terms without the cloak of polite formalisms that obscure the depths of hackery on display.
BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP AND THE DUNNING SCHOOL OF UNORIGINAL MEANINGS Evan Bernick, Paul Gowder, and Anthony Michael Kreis * ABSTRACT This essay critically surveys the recent debate surrounding birthright citizenship in the United States, particularly in light of arguments presented by legal scholars Randy Barnett and Ilan Wurman. Under the guise of "originalism," Barnett, Wurman, and others propose an ahistorical, revisionist interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause. They suggest that the term "jurisdiction" should be understood as "allegiance," seemingly to give the veneer of legitimacy to the Trump Administration's view that the children of undocumented immigrants may not be American citizens. The essay argues that Barnett and Wurman's approach, which attempts to radically redefine the historical understanding of citizenship, is methodologically flawed and undermines core principles of constitutional law. Tbe critique exposes the inaccuracies and inconsistencies in their position and scrutinizes the scholarly merit of new theories of birthright citizenship that are wildly inconsistent with constitutional text, history, precedent, and unbroken tradition. The essay concludes by examining the professional responsibility of legal scholars to engage in rigorous, fact-based historical analysis rather than politically motivated reinterpretations that threaten to destabilize fundamental constitutional rights.
February 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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esqueer.net
I will keep repeating it. Elon Musk is the most dangerous man in the United States. He is a clear and present danger to every American citizen. What he's doing will make you sicker, more exposed to extreme weather, and more likely to die.

He is a dire threat to your life.
February 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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esqueer.net
Words cannot put into perspective just how insanely angry this makes me feel. [redacted]
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 28
Trump to Zelenskyy: "Don't tell us what we're gonna feel. You're in no position to dictate that. You're in no position to dictate what we're gonna feel. We're gonna feel very good and very strong. You're right now not in a very good position. You're gambling with World War 3."
February 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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esqueer.net
Elon is realizing he just pushed the US into an economic crisis and will cause a massive recession. So he's pushing to cook the books for his sycophants are cheering on a recession as necessary.
A screenshot of a tweet by Elon Musk (@elonmusk) discussing GDP measurement, suggesting that a more accurate measure would exclude government spending. He argues that GDP can be artificially inflated by inefficient government expenditures. Below his tweet, there is a tweet from Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) reacting to the Atlanta Fed's latest GDPNow projection, which now estimates a -1.5% contraction for Q1 GDP. The image also includes a graph titled 'Evolution of Atlanta Fed GDPNow real GDP estimate for 2025: Q1,' showing a sharp decline in the GDP estimate. The graph compares the Atlanta Fed GDPNow estimate with the Blue Chip consensus, depicting a significant drop in expectations around late February 2025."
February 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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esqueer.net
I'm so sorry to the world that this is the petulant leadership of our country. We will lose every single ally and deserve it.
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Feb 28
Fox reporting that Trump kicked Zelenskyy out of the White House
February 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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esqueer.net
The end goal is to destroy all of civil society. NGOs include everything from community clinics to civil rights orgs. It means the end of the ACLU, NAACP, and all advocacy orgs.

Elon is seeking to eliminate any and all independent sources of power outside of an authoritatian government he controls.
A screenshot of a tweet by Elon Musk (@elonmusk) stating 'Biggest scam ever.' Below his tweet is a retweet from Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) quoting Elon Musk in a discussion about government-funded NGOs. The quote reads: 'The government-funded NGOs are a way to do things that would be illegal if they were the government, but are somehow made legal if it's sent to a so-called nonprofit... It's a gigantic scam. Maybe the biggest scam ever.' The image also features a paused video at 1:42, showing Elon Musk in a black shirt speaking into a microphone during an interview with a red curtain backdrop, similar to the setting of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
February 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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esqueer.net
This is the first time in US history that a state has repealed statutory protections for a specific group.
nbcnews.com NBC News @nbcnews.com · Feb 28
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signs a bill that strikes gender identity from Iowa civil rights law, making the state the first to remove civil rights from a previously protected class.
Iowa governor signs bill removing gender identity from state civil rights protections
The move marks the first time a state has removed a protected class from a state law prohibiting discrimination.
www.nbcnews.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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esqueer.net
Number 14.
"A screenshot of a tweet by Shivon Zilis (@shivon), who has a verified account. The tweet, posted at 11:59 AM on February 28, 2025, has 445K views. In the tweet, Shivon mentions discussing with Elon Musk and, in light of their daughter Arcadia’s birthday, decided to publicly share about their son, Seldon Lycurgus. She describes him as 'built like a juggernaut, with a solid heart of gold' and expresses her love for him with a red heart emoji."
February 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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esqueer.net
Stenography for fascism.
February 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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bradmossesq.bsky.social
I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.
February 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM