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Yeah, sounds like someone just trying to self-justify continuing to be in favor of the Musk.

Reminds me of this post I was reading yesterday, which introduced a (supposedly) relatively new term called Competitive Authoritarianism, though tbf he makes it clear also that he did not create the term - it goes back to some stuff written before Trump's inauguration and used Hungary's...

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/17/doge-staffer-violated-treasury-rules-by-emailing-unencrypted-personal-data/

Seems ICE and Border Patrol are starting to ignore the courts in more cases than just the Venezuela stuff: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/us/brown-university-rasha-alawieh-professor-deported.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4k4.1b9y.4ZGvHoyhTvxN&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

https://infosec.exchange/@knightsbridge/114178367320979752

A naga is a snake taur.

https://www.everylibrary.org/statementimls2025

From a news broadcast on Swedish TV: Note how they titled Putin here. Video here: https://hachyderm.io/@anderseknert/114166048146183746

A couple of those would be tricky in the real world: Mostly thinking of the 51% majority vote to remove one. In a vacuum it makes sense, but once political parties get involved and you end up in a situation where one has that simple majority, they can just eject all the opposing party. That...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/

Just saw word about a paper that was throwing out a theory that could point that electromagnetics and gravity are the same thing, but seen through different mathematical lenses. Antigravity, here we come.

https://newrepublic.com/post/192660/trump-fbi-charge-climate-organizations Habitat for Humanity is among the groups targeted. The charges in question are financial fraud. Won't make it through the courts probably but it'll definitely be draining them of money to pay for the cases(barring any...

Good summary of today's bucket of slag: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/13/trump-tariffs-doge-layoffs-recession-economy-live-updates/82321690007/ The interesting parts to me here: 1) At least 6 agencies have been ordered to reinstate all the "fired" employees. Not all of...

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/openai_data_copyright/

A shutdown might actually be best case, because if operations are paused, DOGE can't wreck things further, and ti gives the courts time to do their thing. (And even under shutdown, essential services will continue to work IIRC). Especially considering R Congresscritters are trying to sneak...

https://www.404media.co/nasa-yale-and-stanford-scientists-consider-scientific-exile-french-university-says/

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/epa-rollback-environmental-regulations-zeldin-rcna196112

https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2025/mar/11/growth-fears-grip-markets-us-recession-hurt-dollar-confidence-vacancies-ftse-pound-yen-business-live-news Related, regarding the "Continuing Resolution" they're trying to push through to keep from government shut down due to hitting the debt...

https://journa.host/@w7voa/114141427466825550 https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv0511-18 Also I don't know if it's the smartest idea to let all your experienced -offensive- hackers go full free agent...