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John Harbaugh on relationship with Lamar Jackson: 'Ask him, he'll tell you. We love each other' https://www.nfl.com/news/john-harbaugh-on-relationship-with-lamar-jackson-ask-him-he-ll-tell-you-we-love-each-other…

Trump appointees question White House ballroom's design and scale, ask to see 3D models | PBS News https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-appointees-question-white-house-ballrooms-design-and-scale-ask-to-see-3d-mo…

Trump appointees question White House ballroom's design and scale, ask to see 3D models
Some of Donald Trump's handpicked appointees who have a say in his White House ballroom project asked questions Thursday about its “immense” design and scale, even as they broadly endorsed the president's vision for a massive expansion.

Ask your MP to support a UK Digital Sovereignty Strategy https://action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-britain’s-digital-backbone-—-ask-your-mp-act
My MP won't sign EDMs (waste of public money he claims!) but …

Protect Britain’s Digital Backbone — Ask Your MP to Act
Take action! What’s the problem? The UK’s digital backbone. The cloud services, data systems, and platforms that underpin government, public services, and democratic processes is dangerously reliant on a small number of foreign tech companies. Much of this critical digital infrastructure is controlled by US-based firms such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Palantir, whose services are embedded across government and the public sector. Other key providers are based in Israel and China. Toget…

finding all regex matches has always been O(n²). even in the engines built to prevent it
every regex engine that promises linear time breaks that promise the moment you ask for all matches. the problem has been there since the 70s, hiding in plain sight.
— by ian erik varatalu
🤔 https://iev.ee/blog/the-…

Hi journalists (and finance people), I’m sorry but I have to ask: don’t you understand that he’s just lying?

Sources: OpenAI staff discussed prioritizing sponsored content in ChatGPT when users ask relevant queries and created mockups with ads in sidebars or as pop-ups (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-ads-push-starts-taking-shape<…

OpenAI’s Ads Push Starts Taking Shape
OpenAI executives have kept a tight lid on how the company could show advertisements to users of its popular ChatGPT chatbot, leaving the broader digital ad industry eager for clues. Behind the scenes, staff are working through key details. Employees have discussed ways to tweak AI models to ...

Before you ask a diffusion model to barf up a banner image for your article, please consider searching one of the many existing sources of fine & free media:
• Public Domain Image Archive
• Openverse
• Wellcome Collection
• Digital Bodleian
• Getty Open Content Program
• Wikimedia Commons
#publicdomain

Depending upon whom you ask, Moscow Idaho hosts either a Calvinist utopia or a patriarchal cult in which women must submit or face discipline at home and at church.
At the center of it all is notoriously controversial Douglas Wilson, the firebrand pastor who’s been presiding over his Mother Kirk fiefdom for more than 40 years. 
To learn about Christ Church’s culture of abuse and social control, VICE has interviewed 12 former and current church members and Logos students, and rev…

Inside the Church That Preaches ‘Wives Need to Be Led with a Firm Hand’
Evangelical pastor Douglas Wilson wrote that men “conquer” and women “surrender.” Christ Church survivors are starting to speak out.

Huh, Free Speech Union leader being interviewed on RNZ by Jesse Mulligan right now... Wonder if he'll ask about FSU's Atlas Network connections? The FSU leader is very dark on NZ gov't talking about leaving Twitter as a platform. She's saying the gov't needs to be where the people are... I think this is a deeply flawed position.

Worked with an #acting #coaching client on material that isn't very optimistic on the page, but when I ask them to fight for a happy ending with the words, it gained an immediacy, they had a spontaneity I never expected and couldn't take my eyes off of. Counterpoint can be so cool.

I was using the Python csv library for a script but decided I should dig into the pandas DataFrame stuff instead.
It was more complex, and it took me awhile to figure things out, and I had to read a bunch of web pages explaining things.
But in the end, I am 100% happy I did it that way.
I did not want to ask some AI/LLM for the answers, or to write the code for me.
Because for me, the struggle and the journey is part of creating something worthwhile.

It is not fun to live right above a meth lab.
Ask any #Canadian .

An incredibly important read on inclusive workplace design
"Inclusivity begins with the basics of workplace design. (...) Before you talk about “next-gen workplace experience,” ask yourself: can everyone see, hear, move, breathe and focus here without struggle?"
https://www.leesmanindex.com/arti…

Parallel realities - Leesman
We walk through the same doors, sit in the same meeting rooms, and log into the same systems. Yet the workplace experience can differ dramatically.

> for a large share of actual product work, the person who can say "here is what done looks like, prove it without seeing my rubric" is more valuable than the person who can write the code.
> Implementation is what AI is getting good at. Knowing whether the result actually solves the real problem is not an engineering judgment call, it is a domain judgment call.
Reposting to call out those two quotes and agree that this matches my experience as a staff developer…

Things I somewhat dislike about #Fedora Linux:
Its inconsistent approach to shipping new major versions upstream released as regular updates.
New major versions of kernel, firefox, thunderbird, and kde are regularly shipped as regular updates, mesa often as well (except when it's not 🙄) – gnome, libreoffice and a few other things otoh are never updated.
This "neithe…

Big Questions From Small Minds
A fun, weekly science podcast for curious kids and their grown-ups, where kids ask big-brained science professors curly questions about how the world works...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/big-qu

Funny how Claude won't even tell you the lie when you ask it to: https://claude.ai/share/b659efd6-cf81-4bb4-9cb9-4d3ee882b0c0

I know that following a hashtag is part of the Mastodon protocol itself, but since I'm in @… the majority of the time - it feels like it would be cool to:
- Offer a "follow for a week" / month option
- "We'll ask you when time's up"
mechanism (maybe the ask part is configurable? maybe the client could also just handle it when next it runs?)
I hit this time and time again for moment in time events where during the thick of it, I'm invested and interested - conferences, world news, etc - but after which there's no more signal in the hashtag and it's just detritus putting load on a server somewhere.
Ideally this is something that should be in the protocol itself, but it feels like similar to quote replies that @… could bring a better user experience in advance of adoption of something like that

Please support a very reasonable ask from the organzers:
Minnesota economic blackout organizers push to take demonstrations nationwide
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/22/minnesota-economic-blackout-ice?CMP=Share_…

Please support a very reasonable ask from the organzers:
Minnesota economic blackout organizers push to take demonstrations nationwide
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/22/minnesota-economic-blackout-ice?CMP=Share_…

Traditionally it's hard to bring yourself to watch these because you know it's going to be depressing af. But then you overcome the revulsion and by the end you ask yourself why is this show not in advisory position in any serious government. F that thief and liar Musk. This is the DOGE any government needs.
S13 E01: Olympics, ICE & DHS: 2/15/26: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

I read this, and I thought, she should try the Fediverse. But then I thought again. I present as male here (because I am). So would I see this misogyny here even if it was a problem? So I'd like to ask, would young women actually be better off here?
> I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous | The Guardian

Tech workers ask their bosses to ‘call the White House’ over ICE raids

Tech workers ask their bosses to ‘call the White House’ over ICE raids
A public letter signed by hundreds of tech workers said CEOs must “pick up the phone” to press Trump to pull back ICE deployments.

Website: we'll keep asking you every time you visit about your cookie preferences, over and over again, until you finally accidentally click "Accept all Cookies", and then we'll never ask you again and bury that setting so deep you'll never figure out how to change it.
#TrackingCookies

For years, this man didn’t knew of the dangers that drinking energy drinks might cause. While doctors confronted to his extremely high blood pressure didn’t bother to ask.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/12/man-shocks-docto…

> I would ask the rhetorical question: “do you really think that twenty years from now everyone is still going to be going around all day staring at little rectangles in their hands?” At the time it seemed obvious to me that the answer was no.
> Reader, I have changed my mind.
https://nealstephens…

My Prodigal Brainchild
Reflections on the latest and greatest Death of the Metaverse

California Democrats Ask Kristi Noem Not to Reopen FCI Dublin as an Immigration Jail (Tyche Hendricks/KQED)
https://www.kqed.org/news/12073633/california-democrats-ask-kristi-noem-to-not-reopen-fci-dublin-as-an-immigration-jail
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p97#a260219p97

Eight states ask a district court judge for a temporary restraining order to stop the Nexstar-Tegna merger, after Nexstar said the DOJ and FCC approved the deal (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/eight-states-as…

Human as a subprocessing unit #i18nFails
i18nfails.1a23.studio/posts/human-as-a-subprocessing-unit

Human as a subprocessing unit | i18n fails
Why using AI when you can just ask humans to do your stuff

I guess not enough people are using the slop functions built into WhatsApp if they felt the need to make the mandatory button larger and more intrusive

What I don't understand with all this age verification stuff in systemd and other places is, if I want to know how old a person is on my software/website, why would I ask the OS?

qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…

Alex Vindman is not a man to hold a grudge.
Ask him about the bullying, intimidation and retribution meted out by Donald Trump and Maga acolytes following his appearance as a key witness in the first of the president’s two first-term impeachments, and he almost shrugs it off.
“I’m an optimist by nature. I’m more focused on the future than the past, and this idea of vindictiveness or grievance is completely opposite of my personality.
-- Now, accountability is essential …”

RE: https://follow.ethanmarcotte.com/@beep/115939302721314540
When people from other parts of the US ask what they can do to help Minneapolis, this is the first thing I always tell them: Get organized NOW. Form your community networks NOW. You have no idea how important it’s going to be. You have no idea how much a head start will help.

A colleague called me and said that he was sent/redirected to me from another unit with the words "Ask Franz if this is possible. If he doesn't know an answer, then there is no answer"
I'm really not sure about my role in the company sometimes. 🤔

Google: KI-gestütztes "Ask Photos" kann künftig einfach abgeschaltet werden
Bei der Suche nach Bildern in Googles Fotos-App lässt sich bald einfach zwischen KI-gestützer und klassischer Suche wechseln. Nutzer hatten sich beschwert.

#androiddev is there any place where I could ask some Google dev about WorkManager's behaviour on Android 15 ? We're having some issues related to background network access (https://

Ok, been bothering me for a while, so I gotta ask. How come my ⌚️ can detect if I’m on a walk or a bike ride, but not working out?
Drives me crazy.

Smart, sharp-edged writing about the scenario where your customers’ and shareholders’ interests are in direct conflict. #genai
https://petapixel.com/2026/03/14/adobe

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen's Legacy Differs Dramatically With Who You Ask
An unending search for more money.

@… i guess i can live without bob and moe, but angleton? we hardly knew ye, thou were so intriguing. if you do any more laundry content, angleton as a protagonist would be something i'd ask santa^Wyou for... ;)

"More fundamentally, we must ask why so much of official Britain, and especially its security establishment, keeps clinging for dear life to the United States, behaving for all the world like someone stuck in an abusive personal relationship"
#Trump
#WarCrimes

Google launches Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational feature for iOS and Android in the US and India that lets users ask "complex, real-world questions" (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/893262/google-maps-gemi…

You can now ask Google Maps ‘complex, real-world questions’ — and Gemini will answer
Google Maps announced two new AI-powered features: Ask Map and Immersive Navigation, letting users ask conversational questions and upgrading the navigation setting to include more details.

Privacy concerns surface as Las Cruces police ask residents to register security cameras https://cbs4local.com/newsletter-daily/privacy-concerns-surface-as-las-cruces-new-mexico-police-ask-resi…

Privacy concerns surface as Las Cruces police ask residents to register security cameras
Las Cruces police are asking residents to voluntarily register their home security cameras in a new effort that the department said will help investigators...

UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says she is "minded to" intervene in DMGT's takeover of The Telegraph and may ask Ofcom to look at the impact on media plurality (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/

It's #GrindayFriday so it's time I mention a gross, wild one I keep going back to (that's also catchy, groovy and riffy as hell, just ask @…).
The second LP by Chicago's FULMINATE, this is 'Postoperative Decline' from earlier this y…

I think the most neglected thing about helping others is that you should actually ask what kind of help they need. "Helping" without actually understanding their needs is inefficient at best, and outward harmful at worse.
While this is an important thought in general, it also applies to creating patches for #FreeSoftware.

10 March, Westminster debate: Ask your MP to support a ban on fur https://respectforanimals.org/10-march-westminster-debate-ask-your-mp-to-support-a-ban-on-fur/

@… Ask me how many times someone other than me has, in my presence, used or mentioned using a debugger (As contrary to inserting a bunch of debug prints in the code).
Zero. It’s zero times.

Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what the fuck your country is doing bombing innocent Brown people halfway around the world.

before you are two pairs of hips. one doesn't lie, the other doesn't tell the truth. you may ask them each one question. shakira shakira.

Minteh playing like he doesn’t believe a second yellow is possible. Aside from a dive, nothing has been egregious, but he’s accumulated enough to ask questions.
#LFC

All i ask is for reliable public transit, why is that too much to ask?

"Questions reveal the most about the people who ask them so keep asking: You might learn something about yourself."
- Chancellor Nahla Ake, Starfleet Academy
#StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy

Some people distrust what they do not grasp.
Three possible solutions are:
- ask multiple independent experts
- gain an understanding yourself
- get comfortable trusting anyway
The caveat is that #expertise and #knowledge is extremely hard to verify.

"They didn’t ask why didn’t you tell Iran, they asked why didn’t you tell your allies. Is that so hard to understand?"
Also, the coping trumpist bots in the comments explaining to everyone he just told her "the truth", while he's probably telling a hundred lies a day. Full MAGA dementia 😬
Trump Makes Pearl Harbor Joke In Meeting With Japan’s Prime Minister - The New York Times

@… let’s ask claude—wait

No matter how you twist or turn it, Mr Drumpf has done one good thing for the world.
It has made the rest of the world take a look at themselves and ask one very critical question: "Do we rely too much on USA?"
And I think that in most cases, the answer has been "Yes. Yes, we do", and many countries has already started the process of changing this.
So, credit where credit is due, I suppose...

"Solar farms can be havens for rare plants. Just ask the threecorner milkvetch."
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Solar farms can be havens for rare plants. Just ask the threecorner milkvetch.
Just ask the threecorner milkvetch. The rare plant is thriving at a solar farm near Las Vegas, perhaps because the panels slow evaporation.

Tech workers ask their bosses to lobby Trump over ICE crackdowns
Silicon Valley staffers at some of the world’s most valuable companies
are among hundreds of technology workers who called on their employers to lobby the White House
to withdraw federal immigration agents from U.S. cities in a letter published with more than 200 signatures on Tuesday.

The letter, signed by people who work at companies including Google, Amazon and TikTok,
pointed to how tech chief…

Tech workers ask their bosses to lobby Trump over ICE crackdowns
A public letter signed by hundreds of tech workers said CEOs must “pick up the phone” to press Trump to pull back ICE deployments.

Why is this unilateral ? EU should exactly ask for the same biometric materials from US.
#europe #us
htt…

"Ask not what A Group of Employees can do for you. But ask what can
All Employees do for A Group of Employees."
-- Mike Dennison

I would like to once again ask people to please not spoil for @… what he hasn’t discovered yet, thereby ruining my plans for future posts :P
you are not an all-powerful entity, the whole point of this account is kel fending for HIMSELF

RE: #startrek

The mining companies trying to destroy our Connemara landscape and communities for profit are at it again.
They were here in 2019 and they're back again. We still say No Mining Research in Joyce Country and Connemara!
Join me in signing this petition.

End mining research in Joyce Country and Connemara
I ask our government and Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications; Darragh O'Brien to reconsider the issuing of prospecting licences in the Connemara area, and more specifically in The Barony of Ross, (PL4563 & PL4564) within Joyce Country; REF: M. A. 312/7 These prospecting licences are intended to be issued to Gold Note Minerals c/o BTU Metals Corp. for base metals, barytes, silver, gold and platinum group metals. While these prospecting licences only permit the boring of...

OK, #Zig language people, where's a good place online to ask dumb newbie questions about Zig?
What I'm thinking of trying to build as an experiment is this:
https://git.journeyman.cc/simon/post-s

paged space objects
Paged space objects will be a generalisation of cons space objects. A page — all pages will be of the same size — will comprise a header, followed by an array of objects. All the objects in a given page will be of the same size. The number of objects in a page is simply the number of ...

If only all online stores would have those little pop-ups that ask for your e-mail for a newsletter or an auto-playing video while you scroll etc... I would save SO MUCH MONEY. Because once those trigger on a homepage, I'm just ctrl-w out of there.

UNIX philosophy: do one thing well
Linux philosophy: do 11 things mediocrely, never ask users what they need or want, and if anyone ever complains, respond with "pull requests accepted [smiley face]"

I know I'm sharing just an example.
I run into this at least 60–70% of the questions I ask.
Indeed, I am not asking AI to give me a function to concatenate strings. Given my other experience, I would definitely review whatever code before putting it into my projects. https://hachyderm.io/@al3x/116097158521816333

Environmentalists ask to block Trump grant cuts tied to DEI | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/environmentalists-ask-to-block-trump-grant-cuts-tied-to-dei/

This is what social media (and the internet) exists for.
(Also glad that Rami has bridging turned on, so I can repost it here easily! 😁) https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jye22xkea3jqsabskhfec347/post/3mf3ngx67rs2k

Rami Ismail (رامي) (@ramiismail.com)
It's almost time for Ramadan, as Muslims tonight peered to the crescent moon to see if the month of Ramadan starts tonight or the day after. As with every year, I'm starting this thread so that people can ask questions, and learn about Ramadan from one person's perspective of it.

❝Mullin had to roll over and show his belly in a humiliating display of submission to the popular will. … Ask yourself: when have you ever heard the Trump administration apologize like this before?❞ https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/116261988936072053

RE: #midterms2026 #Democracy

Russia’s economy has entered the death zone - Alexandra Prokopenko - Economist
#Ukraine

⏰ 60 SECONDS to answer TRUMP'S question – what did the AMERICAN ask? #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/15/seconds-to-answer-trumps-question.html

As Space Tourism Looms, Scientists Ask: Should We Have Sex In Orbit? https://www.404media.co/as-space-tourism-looms-scientists-ask-should-we-have-sex-in-orbit/

There are two kind of people who want AI:
The ones who don't understand what “one can never hold an AI responsible for anything” means for whatever they ask an AI to do for them¹, and the ones that fully understand “one can never hold an AI responsible for anything” and want it to be used for exactly this reason.²
__
¹and the impact this can have on themselves from their bank account to their health
²for the impact that can have on their bank account, and especially…

One of the toughest things to judge when considering a new job or a new role is, basically, “Will this crush my soul?” Here’s a simple list of questions you can ask to help improve the odds that your next gig will be less soul-crushing: https://anildash.com/2026/01/12/will-that-job-…

How to know if that job will crush your soul
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

After a backlash, Google adds a toggle to let Google Photos users return to the "classic" search experience instead of the newer AI-powered "Ask Photos" option (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/goog

Google gives in to users' complaints over AI-powered 'Ask Photos' search feature | TechCrunch
The option appears on the Google Photos Search screen and lets users pick which experience they want.

Democrats ask Pentagon about Iran school strike and role of AI (Courtney Kube/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/democrats-ask-pentagon-iran-school-strike-role-ai-rcna263083
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p57#a260312p57

"It takes money to kill bad guys,"
US Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth says
when confirming that Pentagon would ask Congress for $200 billion for Iran war.
The department sent the request to the White House, though Hegseth said
the reported figure "could move."
https://b…

Euronews (@euronews.com)
"It takes money to kill bad guys," US Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth says when confirming that Pentagon would ask Congress for $200 billion for Iran war. The department sent the request to the White House, though Hegseth said the reported figure "could move."

Now officially shopping for an organization, ideally in Canada but absolutely out of US jurisdiction (Europe OK), to provide Web & DNS support. We have a few mostly-dormant WordPress blogs and static sites, a bunch of identity-supporting DNS records, and that's about it. Nothing very high-traffic, should be an easy ask. Would prefer something that demonstrates resilience and stability by having been around a few years.

I would like to once again ask people to please not spoil for @… what he hasn’t discovered yet, thereby ruining my plans for future posts :P
you are not an all-powerful entity, the whole point of this account is kel fending for HIMSELF

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116075240282086322
Relying on a single platform is bad (ask any YouTuber) but outsourcing your own skills to a platform is end-game terrible.

So sad to loose James Van Der Beek so young who I really loved on Apt 23. The ability to parody yourself that hard takes real skill.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUoR_x4EkTm/

In a letter, six Democratic senators ask David Ellison to save communications with Trump, his family, lobbyists, and the DOJ about Paramount's pursuit of WBD (Rohan Goswami/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/19/2026/senate-democrats-th…

Exclusive: Senate Democrats threaten Paramount-Warner probe
Dissatisfied with Paramount CEO David Ellison’s written testimony, the Democrats are preparing a deeper probe if they take control of the Senate in the midterm elections.

Cuba rejects U.S. Embassy request to bring in fuel, calls it ‘shameless’
The Cuban government this week refused a request by the U.S. Embassy in Havana
to import diesel fuel for its generators,
calling the ask “shameless,”
given the Trump administration’s fuel blockade on the island,
according to diplomatic cables reviewed by The Washington Post.

The denial could force the embassy to order nonessential staff to leave Cuba in May
or “possibly earlie…

Cuba rejects U.S. Embassy request to bring in fuel, calls it ‘shameless’
An effective U.S. oil blockade has worsened the island’s energy crisis. The U.S. Embassy in Havana, too, is feeling the effects.

Is it too much to ask to live out the rest of my life without hearing some guy in a video utter “so, let’s get into it” ever again?

This crew I'm printing with
(shout out @mostlybree.kitrocha.com @lefttheprairie.bsky.social and @bibliogrrl.bsky.social )
are the real deal.
Whistles free for groups all over the country.
You can ask for whistles or help supply printers with filament here:
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RE: https://mas.to/@Ask_aubry/116201990578968401
mention of sexual assault, but in the context of good news

In the old days you could solicit for remote sysadmin jobs by including the pitch in your distro's README

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes announced he was
"no longer MAGA,"
even though he was headed to Mar-a-Lago on Friday to ask Donald Trump for a pardon.
While guest-hosting for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Monday,
Rhodes revealed that he had broken with Trump over the war in Iran.
"We can't shut our eyes to the obvious role of the influence of Zionism in our government,
of the Israeli people, intelligence services,
Mossad, a…

Oath Keepers founder 'no longer MAGA' after Iran war: 'If I lose my pardon, so be it'
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes announced he was "no longer MAGA," even though he was headed to Mar-a-Lago on Friday to ask President Donald Trump for a pardon.While guest-hosting for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Monday, Rhodes revealed that he had broken with Trump over the war in Iran."We...

Every time you see a news article mention AI in conjunction with news of layoffs or a bad hiring market, remember: that’s less than 5% of jobs cut, at least according to that report.
Ask the reporter why they’re not blaming fascists instead, because…well, I’ll bet you’ve got more data on your side than they do.
/end

Sources: the US cyberattack that plunged Caracas into darkness during the Maduro mission shows its offensive capabilities; Senators plan to question officials (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/poli

Cyberattack in Venezuela Demonstrated Precision of U.S. Capabilities
Senators are expected to ask Lt. Gen. Joshua M. Rudd, President Trump’s nominee to lead the U.S. Cyber Command, about the mission in Caracas.

The United States is a global superpower,
and its military trains for war in every domain.
During my years as a military educator, I saw American officers wrestle with any number of scenarios designed to challenge their thinking and force them to adapt to surprises.
One case we never considered, however, was how to betray and attack our own allies.
We did not ask what to do if the president becomes a threatening megalomaniac who tells one of our oldest friends, Nor…

The U.S. Military Faces a Reckoning on Greenland
Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do.

There’s a lesson here, perhaps, about the tangled relationship between what is •typical• and what is •correct•, and what it is that LLMs actually do:
When medical professionals ask medical questions in technical medical language, the answers they get are typically correct.
When non-professional ask medical questions in a perhaps medically ill-formed vernacular mode, the answers they get are typically wrong.
The LLM readily models both of these things. Despite having no notion of correctness in either case, correctness is more statistically typical in one than the other.
3/

Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war
In an enormous new ask that is almost certain to run into resistance from lawmakers opposed to the Iran conflict,
The Pentagon has asked the White House to approve a more than
$200 billion request to Congress
to fund the war in Iran,
according to a senior administration official,

That number would far surpass the costs of the administration’s massive airstrike campaign to date
and …

Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war
That figure would far surpass the costs of the U.S. airstrike campaign to date and aims to boost production of critical weapons depleted in the conflict, people familiar with the matter said.

Democrats ask what happened to millions earmarked for Trump’s library
Congressional Democrats are opening a probe into millions of dollars private companies pledged to Donald Trump’s planned "presidential library",
asking what happened to the money
👉after the original fund was dissolved last year.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts) and Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut) and Rep. Melanie Stansbury (New Mexico) wrote Monday to the leaders of
ABC, Meta…

Democrats ask what happened to millions earmarked for Trump’s library
ABC, Meta, Paramount and X reportedly agreed to pay at least $63 million in settlements with the president. The original fund was dissolved last year.

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