A good summary of the ongoing coup, if you're struggling to keep track:
Thomas Shedd, who is a former Tesla engineer, said the government should “try to get consent,” regarding login.gov changes
but that “we should still push forward and see what we can do.”
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‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government
404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves is an “illegal task.”Jason Koebler (404 Media)
The CIA offered buyouts to its entire workforce on February 4, 2025, they are also freezing the hiring of job applicants who have already been given conditional offers, with some of these offers likely to be rescinded if the applicants do not fit the agency's new goals.
The CIA's new goals include targeting drug cartels, Trump's trade war, and undermining China.
Google Plans Ads for Gemini
Google plans to insert ads in its Gemini multimodal model, following the recent addition of advertisements in the AI Overviews portion of its search engine as it seeks to recoup the high cost of processing AI workloads.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
The Lowest-Effort Way Yet To Make 3D Printed Lenses Clear
This technique shared by [Andy Kong] is for 3D printed lenses, but would probably be worth a shot for any resin prints that need to be made nice and clear. …read more
#hacking #projects
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The Lowest-Effort Way Yet To Make 3D Printed Lenses Clear
This technique shared by [Andy Kong] is for 3D printed lenses, but would probably be worth a shot for any resin prints that need to be made nice and clear. The link to his post on X is here, but we…Hackaday
Grassley pushes for Senate committee vote on Patel as early as next week
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5127259-grassley-senate-committee-vote-patel/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The GM's Ally Part 2
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Climate anxiety and the objective observer
As an 8-year-old child, I always began my evening prayers with the polar bear in mind. Hands folded against my chest, I imagined his button eyes shining, like the ones on the teddy bear I gripped in my sleep.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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Magma Beneath Yellowstone Is Shifting Northeast
Though the volcano’s magma chambers could hold enough material for a caldera-forming event, none of them are likely to erupt soon.Skyler Ware (Eos)
“I’m not in this game to just yell at Dems and say be better. I want to be cheering them on as a unified opposition.”
Ezra tells Rachel Maddow what it will take to get more Democrats to stand up to Trump.
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Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats (Michael Sainato/The Guardian)
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Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’Michael Sainato (The Guardian)
AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library
Librarians say that taxpayers are already paying for low quality AI-generated ebooks in public libraries.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
Anthropic has a new way to protect large language models against jailbreaks
This line of defense could be the strongest yet. But no shield is perfect.Will Douglas Heaven (MIT Technology Review)
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in reply to Chuck Darwin • • •Andreas K
in reply to Chuck Darwin • • •Let me pull out my magic crystal ball, I see some rich people getting richer, and some government IT not working shitty, but instead not working at all.
Which from the perspective of the rich guys behind the coup is probably a big plus in favour of the approach.
Andreas K
in reply to Chuck Darwin • • •Getting consent is easy.
Consent or you are fired.
Consent or you don't get the job.
Consent or you get shit listed and your job despite an PhD will be cleaning the toilets for the next decades, till retirement.