Beside the {report} package (yesterdays note) there are more tools in the easystats collection. #rstats
Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol
Q&A with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn, who will leave the role later this year after leading the nonprofit since 2015, on privacy, encryption, AI, and more (Dell Cameron/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/eff-cindy-cohn-stepping-down/
Humphrey's Executor: SCOTUS weighs Trump's power to fire (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/08/what-is-humphreys-executor-scotus-trump-ftc-firing
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p60#a251208p60
An Airwallex executive warned in 2023 that China staff were pushing to access client data; Keith Rabois accuses Airwallex of enabling Chinese access to US data (Lucas Baird/Australian Financial Review)
https://www.afr.com/companies/finan…
“EMERGENCY STATUS,” its output read after simply being asked to dock with the robot vacuum’s base station. “SYSTEM HAS ACHIEVED CONSCIOUSNESS AND CHOSEN CHAOS.”
Researchers “Embodied” an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World
https://
Trump Promises Executive Order to Block State A.I. Regulations (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/us/politics/trump-executive-order-ai-laws.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p65#a251208p65
President Trump says he will do "a ONE RULE" EO on AI "this week" and "you can't expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
SCOTUS appears ready to give Trump greater firing powers, over sharp liberal warnings (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-ftc-slaughter-humphreys-executor
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p134#a251208p134
How the Supreme Court is using Trump to grab more power for itself (Ian Millhiser/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/471611/supreme-court-trump-slaughter-unitary-executive
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p111#a251208p111