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I keep saying that "improving productivity in front of a bottleneck cannot increase output, although it may decrease it". A hard won insight from manufacturing which people for some reason resist applying to service and administrative jobs.
September 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I keep saying that "improving productivity in front of a bottleneck cannot increase output, although it may decrease it". A hard won insight from manufacturing which people for some reason resist applying to service and administrative jobs.
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Update on this. Apparently the bill just passed the House... 409-2.
So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys.
So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys.
Take It Down Act is a total censorial mess. And yet, a ton of "progressive" Dems are supporting it, even as it will enable the highly politicized and weaponized FTC to go after websites and demand content be removed from the internet. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/c...
Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act
Here’s a puzzle: How do you write a law that’s so badly designed that (1) the people it’s meant to help oppose it, (2) the people who hate regulation support it, and (3) everyone …
www.techdirt.com
April 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Update on this. Apparently the bill just passed the House... 409-2.
So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys.
So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys.
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These guys think they will never be held responsible, but to be blunt, I think it is only fair to let a jury decide that question.
Show 12 Americans in a jury box the face of a deported American citizen toddler and see what they think is justice.
Show 12 Americans in a jury box the face of a deported American citizen toddler and see what they think is justice.
April 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
These guys think they will never be held responsible, but to be blunt, I think it is only fair to let a jury decide that question.
Show 12 Americans in a jury box the face of a deported American citizen toddler and see what they think is justice.
Show 12 Americans in a jury box the face of a deported American citizen toddler and see what they think is justice.
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I suspect that all selective universities could still break even just teaching and abandoning research. The federal money pays for research, which has expanded a lot. It would be a horrible tragedy if the money went away, and what it would mean is the end of scientific research and many hospitals.
This framing is nuts, and the assumption is that public funding for a public good is somehow untoward and illicit. “The schools took the money” and became “warily beholden to the whims of politicians in Washington.”/1
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...
How Universities Became So Dependent on the Federal Government
For decades, universities got billions in federal dollars for research. The relationship was mutually beneficial, until President Trump decided it wasn’t.
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I suspect that all selective universities could still break even just teaching and abandoning research. The federal money pays for research, which has expanded a lot. It would be a horrible tragedy if the money went away, and what it would mean is the end of scientific research and many hospitals.
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Worth noting that this passed by one vote and two Democratic congresspeople have died in office in the last six weeks.
All but three House Republicans just voted for Trump's tariffs. The procedural measure, which preemptively surrenders congressional power to stop Trump's tariffs, passed with all Democrats voting no. This was the vote count:
April 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Worth noting that this passed by one vote and two Democratic congresspeople have died in office in the last six weeks.
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Columbia gives Trump basically all he asks for, fires their president when it seems she may not comply fast enough, and then still gets all its remaining funding frozen.
These demands are not good-faith demands about antisemitism. They are efforts to break universities.
These demands are not good-faith demands about antisemitism. They are efforts to break universities.
Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1
NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University
Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million
scim.ag
April 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Columbia gives Trump basically all he asks for, fires their president when it seems she may not comply fast enough, and then still gets all its remaining funding frozen.
These demands are not good-faith demands about antisemitism. They are efforts to break universities.
These demands are not good-faith demands about antisemitism. They are efforts to break universities.
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Why did the Biden Admin only send 33 Abrams to Ukraine? Or 1 Patriot battery and waiting for so long for a 2nd before just stopping? What about underrequesting funding for the largest land war in Europe since WW2? The US was spending more on Afghanistan yearly ($107B) at peak than Ukraine.
April 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Why did the Biden Admin only send 33 Abrams to Ukraine? Or 1 Patriot battery and waiting for so long for a 2nd before just stopping? What about underrequesting funding for the largest land war in Europe since WW2? The US was spending more on Afghanistan yearly ($107B) at peak than Ukraine.
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/4 SO: this is a completely false description of fraud. What it is is laying the groundwork to belittle and demean and intimidate anyone who complaints about Social Security collapsing.
These people are absolute scum.
These people are absolute scum.
March 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
/4 SO: this is a completely false description of fraud. What it is is laying the groundwork to belittle and demean and intimidate anyone who complaints about Social Security collapsing.
These people are absolute scum.
These people are absolute scum.
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/3 So, for instance, those fraudsters who say “give us bitcoin or we will tell everyone you were viewing porn” [a common anonymous fraud demand] do not actually tell anyone anything, even if you don’t give them bitcoin, because that would draw attention and provide a way to be identified.
March 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
/3 So, for instance, those fraudsters who say “give us bitcoin or we will tell everyone you were viewing porn” [a common anonymous fraud demand] do not actually tell anyone anything, even if you don’t give them bitcoin, because that would draw attention and provide a way to be identified.
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/2 In fact, a common element of fraud rings is that they consider certain types of losses as the cost of doing business. They avoid doing things like suing, complaining, threatening, and reporting when those things would draw more attention to their fraud, because that would interrupt the fraud.
March 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
/2 In fact, a common element of fraud rings is that they consider certain types of losses as the cost of doing business. They avoid doing things like suing, complaining, threatening, and reporting when those things would draw more attention to their fraud, because that would interrupt the fraud.
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“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
— Benjamin Franklin, whose hoary advice seems especially relevant these days.
h/t Charlie Sykes
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
— Benjamin Franklin, whose hoary advice seems especially relevant these days.
h/t Charlie Sykes
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
A Deplorable Week in Review
“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately”. — Benjamin Franklin, whose hoary advice seems especially relevant these days.
open.substack.com
March 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
— Benjamin Franklin, whose hoary advice seems especially relevant these days.
h/t Charlie Sykes
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
— Benjamin Franklin, whose hoary advice seems especially relevant these days.
h/t Charlie Sykes
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News
Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...
kffhealthnews.org
March 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
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I actually think the dems should attend the SOTU, wait till the 2nd sentence, and then walk out en masse, that'll do it, there'll be no address, he'll just have a meltdown on national Tv
March 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I actually think the dems should attend the SOTU, wait till the 2nd sentence, and then walk out en masse, that'll do it, there'll be no address, he'll just have a meltdown on national Tv
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GOP Sen. Susan Collins on Trump’s tariffs: “I'm very concerned about the tariffs going into effect. Maine and Canada's economy are integrated. Much of our lobster, blueberries are processed in Canada and then come back over. We have a paper mill in northern Maine that's right on the border.”
March 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
GOP Sen. Susan Collins on Trump’s tariffs: “I'm very concerned about the tariffs going into effect. Maine and Canada's economy are integrated. Much of our lobster, blueberries are processed in Canada and then come back over. We have a paper mill in northern Maine that's right on the border.”
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The things for Dems to ask for before any votes for appropriations:
1) compliance with past federal laws before any new appropriations law
2) Elon Musk out of government
3) only a 1-2 month funding bill to ensure Trump has to come back to Congress regularly and thus Congress can ensure compliance.
1) compliance with past federal laws before any new appropriations law
2) Elon Musk out of government
3) only a 1-2 month funding bill to ensure Trump has to come back to Congress regularly and thus Congress can ensure compliance.
Johnson needs Dem votes to keep the government open.
AND he wants those votes to legitimate Elon's lawless destruction.
This is the Democrats' best chance to educate the public about the coup in progress.
Zero votes for Elon's coup must be our demand.
Right?
punchbowl.news/archive/2282...
AND he wants those votes to legitimate Elon's lawless destruction.
This is the Democrats' best chance to educate the public about the coup in progress.
Zero votes for Elon's coup must be our demand.
Right?
punchbowl.news/archive/2282...
March 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The things for Dems to ask for before any votes for appropriations:
1) compliance with past federal laws before any new appropriations law
2) Elon Musk out of government
3) only a 1-2 month funding bill to ensure Trump has to come back to Congress regularly and thus Congress can ensure compliance.
1) compliance with past federal laws before any new appropriations law
2) Elon Musk out of government
3) only a 1-2 month funding bill to ensure Trump has to come back to Congress regularly and thus Congress can ensure compliance.
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The idea that you can identify fraud with a magic algorithm looking at a spreadsheet is delusional thinking. Fraud, by its nature, requires deception to make a transaction look legitimate. You can't, for example, discover SS disability fraud simply by looking at payments. You just can't.
March 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The idea that you can identify fraud with a magic algorithm looking at a spreadsheet is delusional thinking. Fraud, by its nature, requires deception to make a transaction look legitimate. You can't, for example, discover SS disability fraud simply by looking at payments. You just can't.
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There are highly-trained people who can effectively audit government payments for fraud. The primary place they work is in the Inspector Generals offices, and Trump/Musk fired them all.
March 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
There are highly-trained people who can effectively audit government payments for fraud. The primary place they work is in the Inspector Generals offices, and Trump/Musk fired them all.
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News flash: not calling them Nazis is not going to stop them from acting like Nazis.
University leaders have not been especially vocal about the new administration *because* they were so worried about Trump just gutting the research infrastructure. And now they have done so anyway.
February 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
News flash: not calling them Nazis is not going to stop them from acting like Nazis.
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Trump said Project 2025 had nothing to do with him, it was a massive lie in the middle of his campaign, a huge swindle of American voters, and you wouldn’t really know it from today’s coverage.
February 7, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Trump said Project 2025 had nothing to do with him, it was a massive lie in the middle of his campaign, a huge swindle of American voters, and you wouldn’t really know it from today’s coverage.
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Something I’ve always wanted from the NYT, but that I can’t remember it ever doing, is for the newspaper to show some professional indignation about being grandiosely lied to.
Breaking News: The Senate confirmed Russell Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget, putting in place a Project 2025 architect.
Senate Confirms Russell Vought as Office of Management and Budget Director
Mr. Vought, an architect of Project 2025 who served in the first Trump administration, will be at the center of President Trump’s plans to upend the federal bureaucracy.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Something I’ve always wanted from the NYT, but that I can’t remember it ever doing, is for the newspaper to show some professional indignation about being grandiosely lied to.
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February 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM