Nikola
@maplemoss.bsky.social
Meditator, tree lover, software engineer
I’m just a cat, staring at its bowl, asking for it to be filled. 🐈⬛
December 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’m just a cat, staring at its bowl, asking for it to be filled. 🐈⬛
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I don't mean to put Simon on blast here, but having gone through these numbers more carefully, I think it illustrates a problem with a lot of LLM defenses: this is comparing the cost of the chips themselves processing a query to *the end to end transmission of streaming video*, including your TV.
November 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I don't mean to put Simon on blast here, but having gone through these numbers more carefully, I think it illustrates a problem with a lot of LLM defenses: this is comparing the cost of the chips themselves processing a query to *the end to end transmission of streaming video*, including your TV.
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Portland is not war ravaged.
Chicago doesn’t need to be “saved”.
Undocumented immigrants do not qualify for Medicaid.
People should not have to “prove they matter” to get healthcare.
ICE should not be allowed to cover their faces.
This shutdown is being done to save healthcare.
Chicago doesn’t need to be “saved”.
Undocumented immigrants do not qualify for Medicaid.
People should not have to “prove they matter” to get healthcare.
ICE should not be allowed to cover their faces.
This shutdown is being done to save healthcare.
October 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Portland is not war ravaged.
Chicago doesn’t need to be “saved”.
Undocumented immigrants do not qualify for Medicaid.
People should not have to “prove they matter” to get healthcare.
ICE should not be allowed to cover their faces.
This shutdown is being done to save healthcare.
Chicago doesn’t need to be “saved”.
Undocumented immigrants do not qualify for Medicaid.
People should not have to “prove they matter” to get healthcare.
ICE should not be allowed to cover their faces.
This shutdown is being done to save healthcare.
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Federal agents reporting to Secretary Noem have spent weeks snatching up families, scaring law-abiding residents, violating due process rights, and even detaining U.S. citizens.
They fail to focus on violent criminals and instead create panic in our communities.
They fail to focus on violent criminals and instead create panic in our communities.
October 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Federal agents reporting to Secretary Noem have spent weeks snatching up families, scaring law-abiding residents, violating due process rights, and even detaining U.S. citizens.
They fail to focus on violent criminals and instead create panic in our communities.
They fail to focus on violent criminals and instead create panic in our communities.
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If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
May 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
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🚨🚨🚨 I cannot stress enough how incredibly dangerous this is!!! Courts are slow but they are just now building cases that will likely lead to holding the administration in contempt and this language is designed to keep them from being able to enforce it!!!! This is an ALL HANDS ON DECK EMERGENCY!!🚨🚨🚨
Apparently the House budget bill *still* includes language aimed at barring federal court enforcement of most contempt findings. I wrote May 9 about how this not only seeks to get Trump agencies off the hook for recent misconduct, but imperils a wide range of vital legal and constitutional rights.
In Congress, a Move To Strip Courts of Contempt Powers
Contempt powers protect important rights. When the government tramples lawlessly on your interests, court orders—and the mechanisms for enforcing them—are often going to provide your only practical re...
www.cato.org
May 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
🚨🚨🚨 I cannot stress enough how incredibly dangerous this is!!! Courts are slow but they are just now building cases that will likely lead to holding the administration in contempt and this language is designed to keep them from being able to enforce it!!!! This is an ALL HANDS ON DECK EMERGENCY!!🚨🚨🚨
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As hurricane season looms, the effects of DOGE cuts on the U.S. alert system are a new menace, writes @juliettekayyem.bsky.social. “A nation best prepares for a crisis not by ignoring it and hoping it never happens, but by anticipating it and planning for it.”
This Tornado Mayhem Was a Warning
As hurricane season looms, the effects of DOGE cuts on the U.S. forecasting and alert system are a new menace.
bit.ly
May 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
As hurricane season looms, the effects of DOGE cuts on the U.S. alert system are a new menace, writes @juliettekayyem.bsky.social. “A nation best prepares for a crisis not by ignoring it and hoping it never happens, but by anticipating it and planning for it.”
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Student Makes Tool That Identifies ‘Radicals’ on Reddit, Deploys AI Bots to Engage With Them
🔗 www.404media.co/student-make...
🔗 www.404media.co/student-make...
Student Makes Tool That Identifies ‘Radicals’ on Reddit, Deploys AI Bots to Engage With Them
The tool scans for users writing certain keywords on Reddit and assigns those users a so-called “radical score,” before deploying an AI-powered bot to automatically engage with the users to de-radical...
www.404media.co
May 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Student Makes Tool That Identifies ‘Radicals’ on Reddit, Deploys AI Bots to Engage With Them
🔗 www.404media.co/student-make...
🔗 www.404media.co/student-make...
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like if a US exchange student in a foreign country (say, Turkey?) was imprisoned for six weeks because they wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper it would be a huge domestic story and an international incident.
May 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like if a US exchange student in a foreign country (say, Turkey?) was imprisoned for six weeks because they wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper it would be a huge domestic story and an international incident.
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May 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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I hope everyone knows that it's very easy for any social content platform, including Bluesky, to be a misery machine and that if you aren't intentional about it, they will absolutely decrease the positive impact you have on the world while making you less happy.
May 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I hope everyone knows that it's very easy for any social content platform, including Bluesky, to be a misery machine and that if you aren't intentional about it, they will absolutely decrease the positive impact you have on the world while making you less happy.
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McBride: If we summon our hope then we will find the light and turn this moment into what a friend from Florida once called a slingshot moment.. where we are pulled backwards but the tension and pressure of being pulled backwards ultimately propels us to destinations that we have not yet been
April 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
McBride: If we summon our hope then we will find the light and turn this moment into what a friend from Florida once called a slingshot moment.. where we are pulled backwards but the tension and pressure of being pulled backwards ultimately propels us to destinations that we have not yet been
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We apologize for the length of this post, but we felt it was important to share the full details with you.
April 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
We apologize for the length of this post, but we felt it was important to share the full details with you.
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NEW: Fourth Circuit shoots down the Trump administration’s efforts to appeal Judge Xinis’s order requiring it to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
“We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court’s recent decision.”
“We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court’s recent decision.”
April 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
NEW: Fourth Circuit shoots down the Trump administration’s efforts to appeal Judge Xinis’s order requiring it to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
“We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court’s recent decision.”
“We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court’s recent decision.”
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“What the Trump administration is doing is acting as a quasi judiciary. They’re rounding up people and effectively being judge, jury and executioner,” Asha Rangappa tells Ezra Klein.
“What the Trump administration is doing is acting as a quasi judiciary. They’re rounding up people and effectively being judge, jury and executioner,” Asha Rangappa tells Ezra Klein.
Opinion | The Emergency Is Here
Trump is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists. And he says he wants to send “homegrown” Americans there next.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“What the Trump administration is doing is acting as a quasi judiciary. They’re rounding up people and effectively being judge, jury and executioner,” Asha Rangappa tells Ezra Klein.
“What the Trump administration is doing is acting as a quasi judiciary. They’re rounding up people and effectively being judge, jury and executioner,” Asha Rangappa tells Ezra Klein.
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Days after a Louisiana judge ruled to allow the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil to proceed, and just hours after ICE abducted Columbia student and green card holder Mohsen Mahdawi, thousands held an emergency Passover Seder outside the ICE headquarters in New York City last night.
April 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Days after a Louisiana judge ruled to allow the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil to proceed, and just hours after ICE abducted Columbia student and green card holder Mohsen Mahdawi, thousands held an emergency Passover Seder outside the ICE headquarters in New York City last night.
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Someone in the crowd is in medical distress while nurses are on stage at the fighting oligarchy rally. The nurses rush off stage to give medical aid
April 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Someone in the crowd is in medical distress while nurses are on stage at the fighting oligarchy rally. The nurses rush off stage to give medical aid
How do I get added to the “Tariff market timing” signal group chat? 👊🇺🇸🔥
April 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
How do I get added to the “Tariff market timing” signal group chat? 👊🇺🇸🔥
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The federal government knows your mother’s maiden name, your bank account number, the student debt you hold and more. President Trump and Elon Musk are trying to connect these records, raising the prospect of creating a kind of data trove about Americans that the government has never had before.
How Musk and Trump Are Working to Consolidate Government Data About You
Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts.
nyti.ms
April 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The federal government knows your mother’s maiden name, your bank account number, the student debt you hold and more. President Trump and Elon Musk are trying to connect these records, raising the prospect of creating a kind of data trove about Americans that the government has never had before.
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Great local coverage from WFMJ on Tim Walz's huge event in Republican Congressman Mike Rulli's district in Youngstown Ohio last night:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH6a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH6a...
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz Holds Town Hall
YouTube video by WFMJ
www.youtube.com
April 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Great local coverage from WFMJ on Tim Walz's huge event in Republican Congressman Mike Rulli's district in Youngstown Ohio last night:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH6a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH6a...
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1. Major victory in Montana.
17 Republicans crossed party lines after a strong speech from Representative Howell to defeat a bill that would have charged parents, even those passing through the state, with felony child endangerment for their trans youth.
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17 Republicans crossed party lines after a strong speech from Representative Howell to defeat a bill that would have charged parents, even those passing through the state, with felony child endangerment for their trans youth.
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17 Montana Republicans Cross Party Lines, Defeat Anti-Trans Bill After Nonbinary Rep's Speech
Representative Howell delivered a speech against SB164, a bill that would charge parents with child abuse for providing gender affirming care even if they were merely driving through the state.
www.erininthemorning.com
April 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
1. Major victory in Montana.
17 Republicans crossed party lines after a strong speech from Representative Howell to defeat a bill that would have charged parents, even those passing through the state, with felony child endangerment for their trans youth.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
17 Republicans crossed party lines after a strong speech from Representative Howell to defeat a bill that would have charged parents, even those passing through the state, with felony child endangerment for their trans youth.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
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Claim by the White House:
The Supreme Court ruling made it “very clear” that Trump was “well within his constitutional authority” to carry out deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.
What the Supreme Court actually ruled:
The Supreme Court ruling made it “very clear” that Trump was “well within his constitutional authority” to carry out deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.
What the Supreme Court actually ruled:
April 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Claim by the White House:
The Supreme Court ruling made it “very clear” that Trump was “well within his constitutional authority” to carry out deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.
What the Supreme Court actually ruled:
The Supreme Court ruling made it “very clear” that Trump was “well within his constitutional authority” to carry out deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.
What the Supreme Court actually ruled:
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Obama: Imagine if I had done any of this. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials. Imagine if I had said to law firms that you will not be allowed into government buildings.
It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me
It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me
April 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Obama: Imagine if I had done any of this. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials. Imagine if I had said to law firms that you will not be allowed into government buildings.
It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me
It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me
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West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.
April 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.