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The checks and balances between legislative, executive, and judicial houses, as designed, all assume those houses would never all be controlled by the same people at once. And none of them were ever designed to be fast. Also...

I actually had screenshots from a base of mine that used to have lighting issues so I can almost 1:1 show the improved base lighting: Old: New:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/369 And here's the bill to eliminate the federal Department of Education

My next comm was actually inspired by one of my favorite streamer's phrases(borrowed from an old song): Luck be a lady That inspired this little piece from https://www.furaffinity.net/user/nitrods/ of Jasmine at the Fortune's Wheel casino in Sigil racking up some wins at their dice tables.

https://infosec.exchange/@ozdreaming/113924781631554059 https://infosec.exchange/@ozdreaming/113924798688558122 https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/el/le/yr25ltr0131.asp

https://newrepublic.com/post/190983/top-treasury-official-quit-elon-musk-fight-payment-system https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/

https://infosec.exchange/@Fringedcrow/113924419459600009

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/792 Dumbest bill I've heard of, but at least it's not something actively malicious.

Mastodon posts do embed, but it embeds like a normal webpage preview rather than like how Twitter posts do. That one might be trickier to detect for also, given the multitude of instance names out there(rather than just having to check for twitter.com or bsky.app in the URL), but it would be...

Nothing really new here, but interesting to see the perspective of someone who knew him personally before he became really well known:

Federal abortion ban bill just hit the House. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/722

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-rolls-out-deepseeks-ai-model-azure-2025-01-29/ Napkin math says it's about 30 times cheaper to run than OpenAI apparently, so it's obvious why they're doing it. Means it's going to be harder for Sam Altman etc to pull strings...

Also loving the random sharkticon and the nod to the whole FIRRIB/FIBRIR thing

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/27/white-house-pauses-federal-grants/

A CDN isn't that, it's multiple computers placed all over the world, so when you request the data it pulls it form the nearest server so it loads faster, and doesn't concentrate it all in one place where it can be flooded. The cloud is basically a bunch of someone else's computers in the same...

https://www.404media.co/opm-memos-to-federal-employees-metadata/

Nah, it's the same old sparkling autocomplete it looks like from testing, it just only slaughters 2 lakes instead of 8 to do the same task(because China can't get advanced chips due to US export bans, so they actually had to -optimize- instead of throwing more money at more hardware)...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cjr85l2e4l4t

In my case at least, it's my day job. I work in IT.