I want to make sure people know that in the U.S. a Presidential executive order is not a law. It is an internal memo from the head of the Executive to others in that branch. The President has no constitutional authority to legislate or adjudicate the law. 1/
Pluto’s ice mountains, frozen plains and layers of atmospheric haze backlit by a distant sun, as seen by the New Horizons spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
"You don't always win when you fight, but you always lose when you don't."
- Rachel Maddow tonight on the law firms that surrendered vs. the law firms that fought.
Words to fight by.
I really cannot stress enough how much of an unexpected marketing gift the term "vibe coding" has been for us.
Some of y’all forgot that guys wearing no identification, driving rented unmarked minivans, kidnapped Americans off the streets in Portland in 2020, and it shows.
When you see the POTUS or people who support him saying things like, "man who could have asked for a better start to this presidency," you might go "whuh?"
But if you take a look at the useful Project 2025 Tracker, they've made incredible progress on their policy goals in a remarkably short time. I encourage everyone to explore this site, because it kind of puts all the awful in one place.
Denmark has not found it relevant to spend tax payer money on a large military base on Greenland. Instead Denmark gives a yearly grant of 620 million dollars to the 57,000 Greenlanders, which is spent on everything in the Greenland budget including having free healthcare, free access to universities in Denmark AND a well functioning police force.
Vance now abuses that fact to claim that Denmark has not kept Greenland safe, and therefore Greenland should become American.
In an age of information, the truly subversive act is to think slowly.
You can hardly find a studio the works of which are so thoughtful, kind, and intentional as Studio Ghibli. To stripmine that for its aesthetics, to take a piece of cardboard and paint it like food and say "See, doesn't this taste just as good?" is more than missing the point, it's barbaric, dystopian. It's an insult to life itself. #OpenAI
Holy shit.
Just wow, wow, holy shit:
Completely rewriting a multi-million line COBOL codebase that has life-or-death consequences for real people in the space of a few months, using gen AI?
I’ve been writing software for 40-some years, and I have to say: this may be, without exaggeration, the stupidest software-related idea I’ve ever heard from leadership.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/
WIRED · DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated and a robot rolled out, holding a golden disc in a transparent sleeve.
"Greetings! We found your sound recording. We enjoyed it, and have made one for you in return."
It placed the disc on the ground and returned to the spaceship, which took off.
The physics dept head wanted to have a little thank you lunch for students who volunteered for a university fundraiser event that we were both involved in a couple weeks ago. Since it's almost baby goat time, I suggested we hold it at my farm, so now I have and event called "Physics goat party" on my calendar.
Just as I was walking into the MSNBC studio we received word of the federal court order stopping VOA’s parent agency from further attempts to terminate, reduce the size of the work force, place on leave or furlough any of our employees or contractors. https://youtu.be/8xT5VVBuvlc
If you don’t think this administration is so incompetent or callous as not to do this, you haven’t been paying attention.
Greenland right now
A good percentage of my friends are Nazis. That percentage is zero; that’s a good percentage of Nazi friends to have.