@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2025-10-31 12:36:03
Why there is no tsunami of waste #EV batteries. And look at the EV share in Ukraine 🇺🇦. Why it is important to get V2G/V2L working for older EVs right now.
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2025-10-31 12:36:03
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 17:37:34
@xankarn
Approximately 18% of SNAP recipients are over 60.
That’s over 7 million people.
A lot of those people have few options to generate more income.
Graphic from the USDA web page:
Also featuring a flagrant Hatch Act violation
http://www.ers.usda.gov/d…
@carloshr@lile.cl2025-11-30 14:27:46
El fin del mundo. Columna de Oscar Contardo.
https://wallabag.altgr.xyz/share/692c541585df01.51326218
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@HeidiSeibold@fosstodon.org2025-10-31 12:55:06
In this post, guest author Maxi shares her experience in reusing data and machine learning models.
The short version:
It's frustrating, because people don't share or don't even respond to a clearly "reasonable request". We cannot build on other researchers' work if they don't share anything. Model weights offer the possibility to share information without sharing sensitive data, but even those are not shared.
Check out the long version for mor…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-02 06:46:22
WSJ: US to share intelligence for Ukraine’s deep strikes in Russia as Trump administration weighs sending powerful weapons - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/02/wsj-us-to-share-intelligence-for-ukraines-deep-strikes-in-russia-as-trump-administration-weighs-sending-powerful-weapons/
@AdamCoffman@mathstodon.xyz2025-10-02 01:02:07
Cast of critters adds to mystique of PFW campus | Purdue University Fort Wayne 🐘 🐿️ 🦅 https://share.google/T9hABaY9aImTdZOxV
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2025-12-01 12:47:08
It is not difficult to think of military applications of brain implants. It is much more difficult to think of military applications of The vOICe sensory substitution. ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/share/692d8dd3-92e4-8004-aa8c-ca38c1fe2a38
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-30 16:30:33
Zhipu AI launches a share sale to raise ~$560M in a Hong Kong IPO at a valuation of ~$6.6B, which would make it the first LLM developer listed in Hong Kong (Themis Qi/South China Morning Post)
https://www.sc…
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social2026-01-01 12:25:55
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-11-28 08:34:00
Quick-Share-Bug stört Datentransfer zu Apple-Geräten
Quick Share ermöglicht nahtlose Dateiübertragungen auch zwischen Android- und Apple-Nutzern. Bei manchen Nutzern funktioniert das Ganze nicht, wie erhofft.
https:/…
@StephenRees@mas.to2025-10-31 19:50:27
From Bill McKibben
"Any conversation about Bill Gates and climate should begin by acknowledging that he’s been wrong about it over and over again. He’s explained that up until 2006—i.e., 18 years after Jim Hansen’s testimony before Congress laying out the science, and well past the point where George W. Bush had acknowledged its reality—he like Trump thought the whole thing was a crock."
@villavelius@mastodon.online2025-11-02 07:58:05
Democrats get to see what they've lost.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/01/barack-obama-democratic-party?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-10-31 15:30:23
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-12-01 10:35:01
Ah shoot. Last month I was so busy that I missed the release of D&D's Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn of which I have a new illustration to share.
I'll have to share it later this week when I have some time.
@hippyjo@c.im2025-10-31 19:27:54
Seriously.
We need more people speaking truth to power.
https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1ol3ozl/this_man_speaks_truth/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-01 11:45:39
The US book business faces challenges including AI slop, but print sales and e-book and audiobook revenue were stable in 2025, and 422 stores joined the ABA (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/books/b
@MartinM@norden.social2025-12-02 07:14:53
@haayman@todon.nl2026-01-01 07:35:17
Wat me blijft verbazen bij dit soort opdrachten, dat ze dan ook daadwerkelijk uitgevoerd worden.
Komt er niemand in opstand als er een bibliotheek vernietigd moet worden?
Research Library at NASA’s Goddard Space and Flight Center to Close Friday - The New York Times
https://www.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-01-01 17:23:25
Chevy Chase... the famously prickly comedian found a sympathetic adversary in the director of a CNN documentary about him. Their conversation with a reporter was … spirited.
✅ He’s Chevy Chase, and He’s Still Like That - WSJ (gift)
ht…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-11-30 14:58:18
Absolutely terrifying - Have we learned nothing from the history of antibiotic use in cattle pigs poultry?
EPA urged to ban spraying of antibiotics on US food crops amid resistance fears
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20…
@carloshr@lile.cl2025-11-30 14:15:39
La rendición del piñerismo.
Columna de Daniel Matamala.
https://wallabag.altgr.xyz/share/692c515f6fadb6.06713929
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@johnm@social.tchncs.de2026-01-02 08:27:07
#Worldle #1442 (02.01.2026) 3/6 (100%)
🔥 Aktuelle Siegesserie: 1 Tage
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/share
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-10-31 05:59:48
Jeered in Miami, McDaniel shares fans' frustrations https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46788952/jeered-blowout-dolphins-mcdaniel-share-fans-frustrations
@lilmikesf@c.im2025-10-02 04:54:56
In 2024 Jane Goodall Left This Message
‘Hope Isn’t Just Wishful Thinking’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/climate/jane-goodall-interviews.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qU8.6Zom.tQ7ncRpY92KO&…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-11-30 06:21:36
England is facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year.
Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for the worst water shortage in decades.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2025-12-31 08:06:51
Young Atlantic salmon seen in three English rivers for first time in a decade
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/30/young-atlantic-salmon-english-rivers-mersey-bollin-goyt?CMP=share_btn_url…
@davej@dice.camp2025-11-29 19:43:40
Tom Stoppard died. Well, that sucks. ☹️
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/theater/tom-stoppard-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.408.7Kdu.WtBN0ktwCbcc&smid=url-share
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-01 23:10:52
A profile of Aaron Greenspan, who has spent years on a crusade to expose what he believes are financial problems at Tesla and at big tech companies (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/busines
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-10-02 00:00:08
flickr_aminer: Flickr social graph
This network contains the social graph of flickr, a popular photo sharing network for users to upload photos and share photos, where a directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 214626 nodes and 9114557 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-12-30 01:11:15
@villavelius@mastodon.online2025-11-02 07:41:40
Christianity as a power tool. Again. Crusaders, Teutonic Knoghts, Conquistadores, the Inquisition; all are inspiration for MAGA.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/01/jd-vance-usha-christianity?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@kasilas@mastodon.ie2025-10-31 08:48:23
Bloody Sunday: Government spent over £4m on Soldier F case
https://share.google/lI7OO5pkDz9xpi6eG
The British gov. has now spent 4M and 53 years defending a self-confessed killer for an atrocity it paid for, which it investigated and publicly announced as unjustified and unjustifiable.
…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-01 01:37:22
New year celebrations around the world – in pictures
Auckland, New Zealand
A firework display from the top of Sky Tower welcomes in the new year.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/galle…
@fortune@social.linux.pizza2025-11-30 15:00:03
Can't open /usr/share/games/fortunes/fortunes.dat.
@carloshr@lile.cl2025-11-30 14:36:34
CNTV: ¿Quién estš confundido?
Columna da Paula Escobar.
https://wallabag.altgr.xyz/share/692c5630d5e3d6.59499680
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@aredridel@kolektiva.social2025-11-30 16:14:49
It means that, honestly, everyone should ignore the law and do their best to be polite and share resources.
@brichapman@mastodon.social2026-01-01 08:11:01
The climate crisis wasn't caused by ordinary people—so why are they footing the bill?
Two activists in France are pushing to change that. Their "Tax Their Billions" campaign is shifting public opinion toward making billionaires pay their fair share for climate solutions.
It's about accountability and justice in the transition we desperately need.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-01-01 15:11:14
Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/31/us/trump-deals-policy-conflicts-web.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BFA.Nggr…
@scott@carfree.city2026-01-01 01:30:51
after watching so many Zohran videos, I'm baffled that other candidates for office will share videos where they don't say why they're running or mention a single campaign plank.
an SF candidate for office (who I like!) just shared a video on Instagram asking for donations and saying tonight is an important deadline and that SF matches donations from residents 6:1.
that's it. no platform plank mentioned. no reminder of why I care about their campaign to begin with.…
@datascience@genomic.social2025-10-31 11:00:01
Follow along when @… walks you through how she tackles a new dataset: https://www.youtube.com/c/JuliaSilge
@laurentperrinet@neuromatch.social2025-10-02 06:36:45
Glad to share the publication of our #newpaper :
A Predictive Approach to Enhance Time-Series Forecasting
By Skye Gunasekaran, Assel Kembay, Hugo Ladret, Rui-Jie Zhu, myself, Omid Kavehei and Jason Eshraghian
The lead author, Jason Eshragian, speaks most clearly about it:
For the amount of compute they burn, transformers are pretty bad at tim…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-11-01 17:14:00
#GiftLink
Under Trump, Becoming a U.S. Citizen Gets Harder - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/us/politics/trump-citizenship.html?unlocked_article_code=1.x08.1Ltq.mZ9UMbQ_l-TZ&smid=url-share
@carloshr@lile.cl2025-11-01 18:03:32
La anatomía del votante desafectado. Columna de Cristišn Valdivieso.
https://wallabag.altgr.xyz/share/69064b25e07124.66913669
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@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-30 15:35:31
A look at how David Sacks' work on AI and crypto in Trump's WH benefits his investments, those of Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/3…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-27 11:40:50
Six years after EU law enforcement raids shut down German cyberlocker Share-Online, a German court sentences its operator to a two-year suspended prison term (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/share-online-oper…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-30 17:10:42
Virginia Democrat flips seat in state legislature by taking on datacenters
John McAuliff won against a Republican by focusing on something affecting all his constituents:
the cost of energy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/n
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-12-02 03:08:32
Hegseth will find out that the initial bombing is also very illegal, this hiding behind an admiral won't save him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/us/hegseth-drug-boat-strik…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-02 04:45:55
How the Venezuelan government is using crypto and stablecoins like USDT to manage the downturn; Venezuela sells most of its oil to China and is paid in crypto (Anatoly Kurmanaev/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/20…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-12-30 21:04:50
Russia's friends helping each other:
Germany’s far-right AfD invited to join Munich Security Conference 2026, on initiative by JD Vance
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/29/german…
@villavelius@mastodon.online2025-10-02 06:23:23
Pirates of the Mediterranean.
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is being entirely ignored, it seems.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/israeli-military-vessels-pro-palestinian-flo…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-01 19:47:50
As rising tides eat away at the
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago off Canada,
plans to move the historic village to higher ground have divided residents
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-01 17:13:20
Now at the end of his eighth decade, Donald Trump and the people around him still talk about him as if he is the Energizer Bunny of presidential politics.
The reality is more complicated:
Trump, 79, is the oldest person to be elected to the presidency,
and he is aging.
https://www.
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-12-01 20:03:35
Dutch government has let all messages within the judicial system run via Solvinity, a company now about to be sold by a UK-based private equity firm to US-based Kyndryl. Which brings the data within reach of the Trump regime.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-27 09:43:14
Six years after EU law enforcement raids shut down German cyberlocker Share-Online, a German court sentences its operator to a two-year suspended prison term (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/share-online-oper…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-30 21:05:36
A profile of NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who has taken an unyielding approach to NPR's biggest battles, causing rifts with the right and her public media allies (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 01:10:43
Rest Fire
Santa Barbara County
An Evacuation Warning has been requested for Gaviota State Beach, per Incident Command. The fire is 1/2 to 1 acre in medium brush w/ moderate rate of spread, burning under the influence of a north wind & is burning towards the south, per Incident Command.
https://share.wa…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-11-29 21:44:08
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-10-31 18:30:34
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-02 03:55:31
Chinese AI chip startup Biren surged as much as 119% in its Hong Kong debut, after raising ~$717M in an IPO priced at ~$2.52 per share (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-02/ai-chip-designer-biren-to-d…
@carloshr@lile.cl2025-10-31 21:29:50
Punk rock chileno desde Concepción. «XXI», lo nuevo de Pegotes.
#Pegotes
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-31 23:53:42
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-02 05:51:29
Source: OpenAI completed a secondary sale letting staff sell ~$6.6B in shares at a $500B valuation, making it the world's most valuable startup ahead of SpaceX (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-31 17:59:45
‘She has no expertise’:
the US medical community girds for Tracy Beth HŸeg’s tenure at the FDA
The Danish American who doubted Covid shots is meant to lead drug regulation – but has focused on vaccines
So far in public appearances, she has continued to focus on vaccines
– typically the purview of Vinay Prasad,
director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER)
– rather than drug regulation.
HŸeg’s predecessors reportedly clash…
@carloshr@lile.cl2025-10-31 16:45:52
A propósito de chicas en las música, hoy se publicó el nuevo disco de Florence The Machine, «Everybody Scream»
#FlorenceAndTheMachine
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-31 23:55:20
At midnight on 1 January, the flexible credit card-sized pass used by millions of New Yorkers to get through subway turnstiles is being terminated from sale just as a new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, takes office.
The transit system will fully transition to #Omny, a contactless payment system that allows riders to tap their credit card, phone or other smart device to pay fares, much as they do for other purch…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-01 14:05:28
Tech startups have started to offer nicotine pouches as a free perk to employees, as some claim the products help them focus despite health hazards (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/tech-star…
@carloshr@lile.cl2025-10-31 20:24:24
Adelantando la temporada navideña en pleno Halloween, Taylor Momsen lanza un disco con The Pretty Reckless «Taylor Momsen's Pretty Reckless Christmas». Mšs rock de chicas 🤘🏻😍. Exclusivo para suscriptores primium de mi onlyflans.
https://album.link/s/6Y9WENXPwpVPnfrWKVYhB2
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-02 02:53:21
The FBI director, Kash Patel, is
“in over his head”
and leading a “chronically under-performing” agency
paralyzed by fear and plummeting morale,
according to a scathing 115-page report compiled by a national alliance of retired and active-duty FBI special agents and analysts.
The leaked assessment, obtained by the New York Post and prepared for both congressional Senate and House judiciary committees, is based on confidential accounts from 24 FBI sources.
…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-30 17:04:59
Acquiring solar panels at home can be an expensive hassle for people in the US.
But small, simple, plug-in solar panels for use on balconies are soon to become available for millions of Americans,
with advocates hoping the technology will quickly go mainstream.
Balcony solar panels are now widespread in countries such as Germany
– where more than 1m homes have them
– but have until now been stymied in the US by state regulations.
This is set to change, wit…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-01 00:19:36
Stephen Miller is turning the US state department into an
‘anti-immigration machine’
Miller, the president’s immigration czar,
in recent months has turned the state department’s visa and refugee operations into what some current and former diplomats have described as a personal fiefdom.
Each morning, usually at 10am,
a small circle of conservative diplomats allied with Miller,
-- including those who have assumed control of the state department’s consular a…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-31 23:59:09
You no longer need to be a multimillionaire to own a Picasso
– for 100 Euros, anyone in the world has the chance to walk away with a painting by one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
The French charity
"Alzheimer’s Research Foundation" announced recently it was raffling Picasso’s 1941 portrait,
"Tête de femme",
💥which is worth more than one million Euros,
- to a single winner.
Proceeds from the tickets will hel…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-01 19:45:19
JP Morgan warned the US government about more than
$1 billion in transactions linked to Jeffrey Epstein that were possibly related to reports of human trafficking, new documents confirm.
The largest bank in the US filed a suspicious activity report (SAR) in 2019,
just weeks after Epstein was found dead in a New York jail cell,
about transactions linked to the paedophile financier and prominent business figures.
It also flagged wire transfers made by Epstein to …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-01 15:16:50
Trump has ordered a massive naval deployment off Venezuela’s northern coast.
“You can save yourself and those closest to you,
but you must leave the country now,”
Trump reportedly said,
offering safe passage for Maduro,
his wife and his son
“only if he agreed to resign right away”.
However, Venezuela’s president reportedly refused to step down immediately
and allegedly made a series of counter-demands,
including worldwide immunity from pr…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-01 15:03:20
The race is on to succeed Gavin Newsom,
the California governor with presidential ambitions
whose terms runs out next year
– and it’s already a crowded field.
More than 95 candidates have so far submitted paperwork
indicating their intention to run,
though the official filing period doesn’t start until 9 February.
The field looks wide open,
with polling yet to indicate a clear frontrunner
and nearly half of voters describing their prefere…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-30 16:27:46
The federal watchdog system at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
that oversees complaints about civil rights violations, including in immigration detention,
has been gutted so thoroughly that it could be laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to
“abuse people with impunity”, experts warn.
Former federal oversight officials have sounded the alarm at the rapid dismantling of guardrails against human rights failures
– at the same time as the gov…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-30 16:57:29
Donald Trump’s hateful, falsehood-filled rant on Thursday
blaming immigrants for crime, “social dysfunction” and economic hardship
is refuted by a wide range of immigration statistics,
which show clearly that immigrants dramatically bolster the US economy
and commit crimes at far lower rates than people born in the US.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-01 14:55:01
Cyclones and monsoon rains combined to devastate parts of Asia
Death toll passes 1,100 in
devastating floods across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand
– latest updates
Hundreds remain missing in Indonesia and Sri Lanka as rescue efforts continue after Cyclone Ditwah
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-02 02:55:32
Here in the Bay Area of San Francisco, some of the world’s biggest companies are fighting it out to gain some kind of an advantage.
And, in turn, they are competing with China
This race to seize control of a technology that could reshape the world
is being fuelled by bets in the trillions of dollars by the US’s most powerful capitalists.
The computer scientists hop off at Mountain View for Google DeepMind,
Palo Alto for the talent mill of Stanford University, <…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-01 15:10:35
Senator Chris Van Hollen: “I think it’s very possible there was a war crime committed"
Senator Mark Kelly: “We’re going to have a public hearing.
We’re going to put these folks under oath.
And we’re going to find out what happened.
And then, there needs to be accountability.”
He also told CNN: “If what has been reported is accurate,
I have got serious concerns about anybody in that chain of command stepping over a line
that they should never ste…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-31 21:38:02
The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday,
a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals
— many of them not digitized or available anywhere else.
Jacob Richmond,
a NASA spokesman, said the agency would review the library holdings over the next 60 days
and some material would be stored in a government warehouse
while the rest would be tossed away.
“This process is an established method th…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-01 15:34:38
Trump has rewarded his “favorite president,” Javier Milei of Argentina,
with a $20 billion bailout;
vowed to “take back” the Panama Canal;
demanded that Mexico take a tougher line against drug trafficking and migration,
or else face crippling tariffs;
leaned on Brazil’s Supreme Court to drop a case against his ally, former President Jair Bolsonaro;
endorsed the conservative candidate in Honduras’ presidential race;
and pressed countries across t…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 22:35:41
Halloween from
Down Under
Just had to share
(sound up) 🎃🤣
https://bsky.app/profile/patti3333.bsky.social/post/3m4jiobjkas2c
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-02 05:05:02
“Nixon tried to keep his criminality secret,
and the Bush administration tried to keep the torture secret,
and that secrecy acknowledged the norm that these things were wrong,”
Harvard Law Professor Jack Goldsmith said.
“Trump, as he often does when he is breaking law or norms,
is acting publicly and without shame or unease.
This is a very successful way to destroy the efficacy of law and norms.”
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-02 06:54:32
In neither this year nor the next should anyone expect Russia to propose a deal that is meaningfully different from what it has already.
How do we change the circumstances?
There are two main levers.
The first deteriorates conditions inside Russia to the point that Mr. Putin is forced to consider ending the war as the lesser evil,
and it is achieved by imposing sanctions that would be powerful and smart enough to erode Russia’s capacity to wage war and significantly i…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-02 03:29:02
The past couple of weeks have shown just how far even Trump has moved to block immigration
and to demonize immigrants in his second term,
erasing the lines around people who traditionally have been seen as special cases.
First, a 19-year-old college student who tried to fly home to surprise her family on Thanksgiving
was shackled by immigration agents and deported,
despite a court order saying she should not be removed from the United States.
And on Friday…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-30 18:10:33
David Sacks,
the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar,
has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends
and many of his own tech investments.
Since January, Mr. Sacks, 53, has occupied one of the most advantageous moonlighting roles in the federal government,
influencing policy for Silicon Valley in Washington while simultaneously working in Silicon Valley as an investor.
Among his actions as the White House’s artificial intelligen…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-30 18:20:42
Donald Trump has set free a private equity executive
who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence
for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme
that defrauded thousands of victims.
David Gentile, 59, a onetime resident of Nassau County, N.Y.,
had reported to prison on Nov. 14, and was released on Wednesday, according to Bureau of Prisons records and a White House official who was not authorized to discuss the matter.
Mr…
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The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington said last week that it would consider,
“when appropriate,”
taking advantage of a judge’s order expanding its power to use local juries to charge serious federal crimes.
A federal judge ruled on Nov. 20
that because of the complexities of local laws in the District of Columbia,
judges in Federal District Court in Washington must accept indictments for federal crimes
that prosecutors secured from a local grand jury.
