The dude really wants to buy his way into heaven with a last-minute, utterly unearned Nobel Peace Prize.

To me it looks like the Epstein scandal gives her a plausible way to transition to a presidential bid for 2028.

Yogurt

But it does highlight that any random brute could put on a mask and do this with no authorization whatsoever. It’s a fundamental human-rights and rule-of-law breakdown to fail to present a warrant. I agree that a warrant doesn’t ethically make the arrests anything short of monstrous, though. That kind of legalist can suck eggs.

Thank goodness that last pic is edited, the bird didn’t fall did it? (not ironic, I got worried about the bird and want a happy ending here)

I’m deleting Palantir, I think. I want Peter Thiel and his toxic ideology gone, and deleting Palantir’s data and software would meaningfully set back the timeline of unlawful surveillance of the American public by our current administration.

I feel like he got enough for it to be a huge bombshell report.

The mathmeticians already escaped to ArXiv. It’s open.

Subjectively, Lemmy’s communities are much more robust and have a lot more content than they did during the Reddit API exodus. I imagine there will be more people who choose to stay this time around.

While malicious compliance is definitely the optimal strategy, undermining the “legitimacy” of DOGE is also a decent strategy to take. It’s great news that Elon’s recent email gambit was (generally) a failure and he’s now trying to pretend it was just a joke. If a few more of their objectives fail in a suitably humiliating way, more agencies will be empowered to laugh them off. And I’d say having your own staff resign is humiliating enough.

Leetcode flashbacks

I’ve got the Pokemon Quartz pokedex. It’s pretty cursed.

Let’s see him get sworn in in jail and have to pardon himself.

Theorycrafting this - Tundra would be a nice name. So would Mesa, Fen, and Delta.

he literally tried it once already, we don’t really need to speculate if he’d go for it

I feel like ATC is one of those pattern-recognition constraint-satisfaction problem jobs where a (non-generative!) algorithm can probably do a pretty good job.

I like to listen to the Muckrake podcast for analysis of recent events.

Even effects-forward pieces like Jurassic Park still hold up because everyone on the island is a memorable character and the plot is exciting! Though it’s true that the constraints on effects might have caused that - the dinosaurs in that movie only had about 15 minutes of total screen-time, so they had to actually, y’know, write.

Even though my vaxxes are up to date, I caught the new variant recently. It was pretty nasty - a lot like strep throat.

Yep. One Pace basically just uses the manga for the storyboards without the extra bloat (though some exclusive anime segments got kept if they added to the experience), and the whole thing ends up being 40% shorter overall - and more importantly, it’s more dynamic and exciting to watch.