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@cdarwin@c.im
2026-06-04 06:02:13

Trump said Wednesday that he will nominate Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general,
tapping his former personal lawyer who has aggressively pursued the Republican president’s agenda while leading the Justice Department in an acting role.
Trump said at a dinner at the White House that he plans to nominate Blanche formally on Thursday, according to a video of the event posted on social media by a White House aide.
“We are going to make him permanent attorney general,” Trump …

Trump says he's nominating Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general
President Donald Trump says he will nominate Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general, tapping his former personal attorney who has aggressively pursued the Republican president’s agenda while leading the Justice Department in an acting role. Blanche sought quickly to position himself as the favorite for the permanent job after Pam Bondi’s firing in April, accelerating investigations into Trump foes and announcing a nearly $1.8 billion fund meant to compensate the president’s allies for …

@adrianco@mastodon.social
2026-06-04 22:51:33

I spent some more time working on Retort, ran a lot of experiments and tuned the output evaluator to measure what I think is important. Did the LLM implement the full spec? Is there good test coverage and working tests? How long did it take, and how much did it cost? Easy to run your own experiments, and test on your own code, with statistical (ANOVA) modeling of the results.

How reliable, fast and expensive is each version of Claude Code (Sonnet through Opus 4.8-fast)
Every few weeks a new frontier model tops the leaderboards, and the implicit advice is “upgrade.” Sites like llm-stats.com rank models well…

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-06-03 20:35:47

District attorney challenges new Georgia law that removes party labels in Atlanta-area elections (Kate Brumback/Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/georgia-dis
memeorandum.com/260603/p83#a26

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-05-04 20:03:32

The Justice Department is running out of attorneys.
The nation’s largest law office has repeatedly asked for delays in arguing its myriad cases,
and in doing so has accidentally divulged a massive staffing crisis raging underneath the surface.
In an obscure civil lawsuit dug up by independent journalist Scott MacFarlane, a Justice Department attorney revealed that
“the Appellate Section has lost over 40 percent of its attorneys since February 2025, due to retirement, r…

Trump’s Justice Department in Crisis as Thousands of Lawyers Quit
The massive exodus has caused a huge backlog in work.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-04-03 05:45:56

Trump Ousts Attorney General Pam Bondi (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-oust
memeorandum.com/260403/p6#a260

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-05-03 17:00:57

Acting attorney general says indictment against James Comey goes beyond seashell photo (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)
nbcnews.com/politics/justice-d
memeorandum.com/260503/p26#a26

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-06-04 02:20:51

Trump expected to nominate Todd Blanche to be attorney general (Politico)
politico.com/news/2026/06/03/t
memeorandum.com/260603/p138#a2

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-06-04 02:20:51

Trump plans to nominate Todd Blanche as attorney general, source says (MS NOW)
ms.now/news/trump-to-nominate-
memeorandum.com/260603/p137#a2

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-06-03 18:10:47

Trump suggests he will make Todd Blanche permanent US attorney general (Robert Tait/Reuters)
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j
memeorandum.com/260603/p63#a26

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-06-04 01:40:47

Trump soon expected to nominate Todd Blanche to be attorney general, source says (CNN)
cnn.com/2026/06/03/politics/tr
memeorandum.com/260603/p128#a2