GSV_Empiricist
@gsv-empiricist.bsky.social
Love math and programming (paid for C# but Python is my guilty pleasure, still trying to grok Prolog).
Smacked a time or two with the autism stick, don't get offended if I insist on calling your foot-powered digging implement a spade.
Smacked a time or two with the autism stick, don't get offended if I insist on calling your foot-powered digging implement a spade.
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This administration is willing to let people die of cancer if that’s what it takes to win the war on supposedly “woke” universities.
https://trib.al/xTrO3UA
https://trib.al/xTrO3UA
The MAGA War on Science Is Deadly—and It’s Just Getting Started
The administration’s anti-science posture has three different sources. Each is as extremist as the last.
trib.al
May 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This administration is willing to let people die of cancer if that’s what it takes to win the war on supposedly “woke” universities.
https://trib.al/xTrO3UA
https://trib.al/xTrO3UA
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Republicans are rewriting the infrastructure bill to make sure Elon Musk gets a fatter chunk of $42.5 billion in broadband subsidies and to kill requirements that the resulting broadband would be affordable.
This could delay broadband deployments by an additional two years:
This could delay broadband deployments by an additional two years:
Proposed BEAD Changes Could Delay Deployment by Two Years
How BEAD delays could impact broadband network rollout
www.benton.org
May 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Republicans are rewriting the infrastructure bill to make sure Elon Musk gets a fatter chunk of $42.5 billion in broadband subsidies and to kill requirements that the resulting broadband would be affordable.
This could delay broadband deployments by an additional two years:
This could delay broadband deployments by an additional two years:
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I had a simple question: Has President Trump increased has net worth since taking the White House? And if so, by how much?
The answer was more surprising than I anticipated. Simply put, he has more than doubled his net worth in 4 months.
Here's how:
The answer was more surprising than I anticipated. Simply put, he has more than doubled his net worth in 4 months.
Here's how:
May 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I had a simple question: Has President Trump increased has net worth since taking the White House? And if so, by how much?
The answer was more surprising than I anticipated. Simply put, he has more than doubled his net worth in 4 months.
Here's how:
The answer was more surprising than I anticipated. Simply put, he has more than doubled his net worth in 4 months.
Here's how:
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Opinion: The Ripple Effects of Shrinking U.S. Science
The Ripple Effects of Shrinking U.S. Science
Opinion | Severe cuts in research funding will cause a complex cascade of effects across the United States and the world.
undark.org
May 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Opinion: The Ripple Effects of Shrinking U.S. Science
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NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.
The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
www.wired.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.
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Ingenious 😂
FFS
FFS
May 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Ingenious 😂
FFS
FFS
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No kings, masters, overlords or any of that bullshit. Time to take the country back.
May 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
No kings, masters, overlords or any of that bullshit. Time to take the country back.
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Kamala Harris on “the big, beautiful bill:”
“It’s an agenda...a narrow, self-serving vision of America...where they punish truth tellers, favor loyalists, profit from their power, and leave everyone else to fend for themselves.”
Nailed it!
🔥
“It’s an agenda...a narrow, self-serving vision of America...where they punish truth tellers, favor loyalists, profit from their power, and leave everyone else to fend for themselves.”
Nailed it!
🔥
May 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Kamala Harris on “the big, beautiful bill:”
“It’s an agenda...a narrow, self-serving vision of America...where they punish truth tellers, favor loyalists, profit from their power, and leave everyone else to fend for themselves.”
Nailed it!
🔥
“It’s an agenda...a narrow, self-serving vision of America...where they punish truth tellers, favor loyalists, profit from their power, and leave everyone else to fend for themselves.”
Nailed it!
🔥
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Our exclusive investigation into how a group has turned a chatbot into a custom tool for convincing city councils to pull out of climate agreements.
And it's working.
And it's working.
A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding city councils with climate misinformation
Internal instructions accessed by Canada’s National Observer show that the chatbot produces tailored scripts, petitions, reports and even speeches for council chambers. The messaging is all framed to ...
www.nationalobserver.com
May 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Our exclusive investigation into how a group has turned a chatbot into a custom tool for convincing city councils to pull out of climate agreements.
And it's working.
And it's working.
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"This isn’t a removal. It’s not lawful under the Immigration and Nationality Act. It doesn’t conform to anything that was previously passed in legislation ... Essentially, he was disappeared forcefully."
Shipped to El Salvador: An Austin Immigration Lawyer on Her Teen Client's Forced 'Disappearance'
“Due process hasn’t been protected. The process that is set in place in this country that is the basis and foundation of our legal system was not allowed to work.”
www.texasobserver.org
May 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"This isn’t a removal. It’s not lawful under the Immigration and Nationality Act. It doesn’t conform to anything that was previously passed in legislation ... Essentially, he was disappeared forcefully."
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The Trump regime has gutted the govt; assaulted the constitution; apprehended immigrants off streets w/o due process sending them to foreign gulags; blown up alliances as economy hurtles towards uncertainty.
Yet here is POLITICO fawning over his media appearances while throwing shade at Biden.
Yet here is POLITICO fawning over his media appearances while throwing shade at Biden.
May 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The Trump regime has gutted the govt; assaulted the constitution; apprehended immigrants off streets w/o due process sending them to foreign gulags; blown up alliances as economy hurtles towards uncertainty.
Yet here is POLITICO fawning over his media appearances while throwing shade at Biden.
Yet here is POLITICO fawning over his media appearances while throwing shade at Biden.
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Her stats line up with CDC data…
May 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Her stats line up with CDC data…
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he could bar government scientists from publishing in the world’s leading medical journals, instead proposing the creation of “in-house” publications by his agency.
RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said the agency will create “in-house” publications instead.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he could bar government scientists from publishing in the world’s leading medical journals, instead proposing the creation of “in-house” publications by his agency.
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‼️ Ukraine's Defence Intelligence records 150 executions of soldiers in Russian captivity
Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence records 150 executions of soldiers in Russian captivity
Defence Intelligence of Ukraine has reported that the number of executions of Ukrainian soldiers on the battlefield is increasing – over 150 such cases have been recorded.
www.pravda.com.ua
May 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
‼️ Ukraine's Defence Intelligence records 150 executions of soldiers in Russian captivity
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A new analysis finds that projected growth from the GOP budget's tax cuts would only cover 2.7% of their $3.8T cost.
That's nowhere close to the cuts "paying for themselves."
Notice how nobody ever asks, "but how will we pay for it" when it comes to trickle-down economics?
That's nowhere close to the cuts "paying for themselves."
Notice how nobody ever asks, "but how will we pay for it" when it comes to trickle-down economics?
May 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A new analysis finds that projected growth from the GOP budget's tax cuts would only cover 2.7% of their $3.8T cost.
That's nowhere close to the cuts "paying for themselves."
Notice how nobody ever asks, "but how will we pay for it" when it comes to trickle-down economics?
That's nowhere close to the cuts "paying for themselves."
Notice how nobody ever asks, "but how will we pay for it" when it comes to trickle-down economics?
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I need this monopoly version...
May 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I need this monopoly version...
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Musk’s team was caught using a customized version of the Grok chatbot, without approval, to sift through sensitive government data inside the Department of Homeland Security. They used a modified version in an attempt to hide the fact that they were doing it.
May 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Musk’s team was caught using a customized version of the Grok chatbot, without approval, to sift through sensitive government data inside the Department of Homeland Security. They used a modified version in an attempt to hide the fact that they were doing it.
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The worst part is (the usual) skewing benefits for the rich: Yes, everybody gets a tax cut, but the tax cuts for the poor are peanuts—and the rich are getting not just personal income tax relief.
Republicans have thrown all kinds of things in that help those at the top.
https://trib.al/TOX5eu9
Republicans have thrown all kinds of things in that help those at the top.
https://trib.al/TOX5eu9
May 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The worst part is (the usual) skewing benefits for the rich: Yes, everybody gets a tax cut, but the tax cuts for the poor are peanuts—and the rich are getting not just personal income tax relief.
Republicans have thrown all kinds of things in that help those at the top.
https://trib.al/TOX5eu9
Republicans have thrown all kinds of things in that help those at the top.
https://trib.al/TOX5eu9
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Comedian Jon Stewart had a grim outlook for what the endgame of President Donald Trump's second administration could be, in an interview on the Bill Simmons Podcast flagged by The Daily Beast on Friday evening.
Jon Stewart fears Trump will 'burn our country down for insurance money'
Comedian Jon Stewart had a grim outlook for what the endgame of President Donald Trump's second administration could be, in an interview on the Bill Simmons Podcast flagged by The Daily Beast on Friday evening.The part that alarms Stewart most, in particular, is all the money that media outlets and ...
bit.ly
May 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Comedian Jon Stewart had a grim outlook for what the endgame of President Donald Trump's second administration could be, in an interview on the Bill Simmons Podcast flagged by The Daily Beast on Friday evening.
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“What Vladimir Putin did to Ukraine, that’s an invasion,” Ilya Somin, a law professor at George Mason University, explained. “On the other hand, illegal migration, or drug smuggling, or ordinary crime — that’s not an invasion.”
The “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy
The Trump administration is using the claim that immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process. A faction of the…
www.propublica.org
May 24, 2025 at 3:11 AM
“What Vladimir Putin did to Ukraine, that’s an invasion,” Ilya Somin, a law professor at George Mason University, explained. “On the other hand, illegal migration, or drug smuggling, or ordinary crime — that’s not an invasion.”
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The ICE detention center trespassing charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka were officially dropped this afternoon during a hearing in which a federal judge scolded prosecutors for nearly 10 minutes. Story: newjerseyglobe.com/judiciary/ju...
Judge dismisses Baraka charges, reprimands prosecutors - New Jersey Globe
A federal judge on Wednesday scolded federal prosecutors and announced he will dismiss trespassing charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka related to a
newjerseyglobe.com
May 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The ICE detention center trespassing charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka were officially dropped this afternoon during a hearing in which a federal judge scolded prosecutors for nearly 10 minutes. Story: newjerseyglobe.com/judiciary/ju...
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So you’re telling us the radical transparency people are against… transparency?
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
May 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
So you’re telling us the radical transparency people are against… transparency?
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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Murphy: "He's going to these 3 countries for a simple reason: These are the 3 countries that are willing to pay him. Traditionally a president might go first to Canada or one of our European allies, but those countries aren't willing to write Trump a check."
May 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Murphy: "He's going to these 3 countries for a simple reason: These are the 3 countries that are willing to pay him. Traditionally a president might go first to Canada or one of our European allies, but those countries aren't willing to write Trump a check."
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The US can't produce as many white supremacists as MAGA wants, so it decides to import them from South Africa. Not only are they imported free of tariffs, but the US government uses US taxpayer money to bring them in. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa
Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler
www.theguardian.com
May 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
The US can't produce as many white supremacists as MAGA wants, so it decides to import them from South Africa. Not only are they imported free of tariffs, but the US government uses US taxpayer money to bring them in. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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It’s not “corruption” unless it comes from the Quid Pro Quo region of France; otherwise, it’s sparkling “ethics concerns”
Corruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.
May 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
It’s not “corruption” unless it comes from the Quid Pro Quo region of France; otherwise, it’s sparkling “ethics concerns”