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Cowboys' George Pickens Gets Franchise Tag Advice From Unlikely Source https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-george-pickens-franchise-tag-advice-unlikely-source

Sources: Seahawks unlikely to use tag on Walker https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47953513/sources-seahawks-unlikely-use-franchise-tag-kenneth-walker

From a blog post by @…
“We’re living in this moment right now where everybody is using AI to write software.”
No. With add due respect, this is wrong. To say such a thing does harm.
I get what the author is trying to say, but I beg all authors to choose their words carefully.
As long as I continue to write software you can never say “e…

Security through irrelevance
Vibe coded bespoke apps are unlikely targets for hackers - an interesting observation about threat economics but definitely not a reason to skip security basics. (836 words)

To me, Cliff Richard and Freddie Mercury always seemed an unlikely pair of friends.
The thing I didn't know was that Richard was born in India and because of his accent and complexion he, strangely, faced anti-Indian racism when his family moved back to Britain.
Freddie Mercury's family was from India and he was educated there in a British type boarding school. When he fled to Britain with his family from Zanzibar he also had to deal with racism.
So Cliff and Freddi…

Shorter, more frequent GO train plan ‘unlikely to materialize’: leaked document
https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/municipalities-transit-and-infrastructure/shorter-more-frequent-go-tr…

Tom Brady 'unlikely' to play flag football at 2028 Olympics but leaves door open: 'Never say never'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tom-brady-2028-olympics-flag-footbal…

SK Group Chair Chey Tae-won says memory chip makers are expanding capacity but are unlikely to match demand until around 2030; basic wafer supply lags by 20% (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-17…

Talks kick off Monday between U.S. and Mexican trade officials.
The North American economies could agree to renew the
US-Mexico-Canada Agreement,
or USMCA as it is for another 16 years
— a prospect that appears unlikely.
Or they could keep working on ways to improve it;
Under a convoluted renewal process, they have until 2036 to reach an agreement
Much of this bustling cross-border commerce is duty-free, thanks to the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, that Do…

Tricky negotiations begin Monday to renew a trade pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada — The Associated Press
Every day more than $4 billion worth of goods cross the United States’ borders with Canada and Mexico – U.S. auto parts headed for car factories in northern Mexico, cartons of Mexican avocados bound for California supermarkets, Canadian aluminum destined to become cans of Campbell Soup.

Sources: Paramount is unlikely to appoint a direct successor to Jeff Shell after his departure; Shell had few direct reports and did not lead WBD negotiations (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/04/paramount-jeff-shell-replacement-plans-1236785050/…

Paramount Unlikely To Replace Jeff Shell, Insiders Say; Deep Bench To Step Up As WBD Deal Close Approaches
Jeff Shell is unlikely to be directly replaced as president of Paramount, numerous insiders and people who do business with the company tell Deadline.

Back-to-back Amazon droughts trigger record forest stress #Amazon

Back-to-back Amazon droughts trigger record forest stress
Two back-to-back droughts in 2023 and 2024 caused the most severe decline in forest moisture and biomass (the total mass of living vegetation such as leaves, trunks and branches) in the Amazon since 1992, according to a study published in the journal PNAS. And many of the hardest hit areas are unlikely to recover before the next major drought arrives.

Kenneth Walker III free agency: Seahawks unlikely to use franchise tag on Super Bowl MVP, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/kenneth-walker-free-agency-seahawks-franchis…

Steve Bannon, Susan Rice, and Richard Branson among the broad coalition of leaders signing the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human AI Declaration (Jared Perlo/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/-human…

Pro-human AI declaration brings together unlikely group calling for trustworthy tech
An unlikely band of prominent business, religious, government and academic leaders have set aside their political differences and signed onto a new declaration of human rights for the AI age

Exclusive: US intelligence warns Iran unlikely to ease Hormuz Strait chokehold soon, sources say (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-intelligence-warns-iran-unlikely-ease-hormuz-strait-chokehold-soon-sources-2026-04-03/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260403/p117#a260403p117

@… @… Any rule you might think is reasonable for name validation is notoriously unlikely to be accurate :)
But it sure it fully that it leads us here.

Why the US attack on Iran is unlikely to produce regime change in Tehran - Defense One
https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2026/02/massive-us-attacks-iran-unlikely-produce-regime-change-tehran/411787/

What an energizing #CablesOfResistance workshop:
Jeff and Karl managed to have a fruitful conversation with a packed room. Lots of people contributed facts.
Having attended MP @…'s pr…

Hello, CSS folk -- she's unlikely to get an answer to this question on BSky:

Tracking the Raiders' Most Unlikely, Yet Fascinating, Offseason Question https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-tracking-most-unlikely-yet-fascinating-offseason-question

RE: #memes

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina/116360883600824411
unlikely to cause a change in attitude from Russia, but it is inportant to pause... ask... then when the predictable reaction comes.... continue destroying Russia's ability to fund its emperial war.

Cowboys Listed as Potential Destination for 5th-Year Edge Rusher https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-listed-as-potential-destination-for-5th-year-edge-rusher/

Good primer on how California housing development laws have changed in the past few years, for better or worse, but also how those changes are unlikely to usher in broad affordability.
"*This* project is all but certainly going to get financing because *this* project is exceptional. But not every project is exceptional... If merely approving a project resulted in its construction, San Francisco would have scores of thousands of additional built units. It doesn’t."

25-story Marina Safeway behemoth, inconceivable even to sci-fi futurists, looking very real
D2 supe and mayor can shake their fists at the proposed high-rise — but little more. Neither joined last week's call for a Safeway boycott. 

The Making Of One Nation
From a fish and chip shop in regional Queensland to the heart of Australian politics: this is the unlikely story of the country's most controversial minor party...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-ma

Record heat 🔥 has caused an early snowmelt in the West, setting the stage for a potentially brutal fire season.
🔥 Mamas, it’s time to advocate for clean air filters in schools
and resilient local infrastructure.
#FireSeason #ClimateResilience

A snowy, rainy storm is hitting California. Will it curb the coming fire risk?
This storm is the main precipitation expected in the foreseeable future. The weather pattern may allow for occasional rain, but more storms are unlikely to change the trajectory.

Yesterday, I got an incredible opportunity to watch Cindy Cohn bring @…'s story to one of its biggest audiences yet, as she did an extraordinary job on the Daily Show, pulling off the unlikely task of making the topic of digital privacy and civil liberties seem fun, engaging and witty. I took the chance to share some reflections — and a couple of behind-the-scenes ph…

Defending Privacy, Daily
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Trump: The Unlikely Ally of the Energy Transition
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/trump-unlikely-ally-energy-transition-jorge-arbache-40q8f

Code generators can help you (if at all) maybe with one single tiny aspect of this—and it’s not unlikely that they get in your way in some fashion that isn’t immediately obvious.
It’s just not a that “revolutionary” of a technology. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Under normal conditions, American police can legally murder practically anyone for almost any reason. This is not hyperbole, the understanding of this fact was one of the reasons for the George Floyd uprising. Police regularly get away with murder unless there are mass uprisings. That is how America worked *before Trump*.
We have seen federal paramilitary execute multiple people in the street. Federal paramilitary were kidnaping people, putting black bags over the heads, interrogating them, and dropping them off in other places *in 2020*. The level of state terror has escalated wildly.
Against anyone but an officer, Song's response to the radical escalation of drawing a gun on non-violent protectors would be legally recognized as self-defense. Officers are trained to only draw a gun if they intend to shoot. The officer clearly intended to execute unarmed people. It is extremely unlikely the officer would have been charged even if someone had been killed.
But the criminalization of legitimate self-defense has been standard in the US for decades. What is new here is the ciriminalization and suppression of entirely non-violent protest.

Woohoo! I love this film but my one, fairly large, gripe, is that I can't stand Brenda, and for all the unlikely and outrageous things I was prepared to accept, I could never believe that he would be attracted to her. *I* would obviously have been a much better choice and had the advantage of being called Heather 😄
#Highlander

Phil Edwards (@PhilEdwards@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Highlander is returning to cinemas and getting a new 4K UHD Collector’s Edition. Trailer and details here https://www.liveforfilm.com/2026/04/03/highlander-is-returning-to-cinemas-and-gettinga-new4k-uhd-collectors-edition/ #Highlander #4K #cinema #SeanConnery #ClancyBrown #ChristopherLambert #ThereCanBeOnlyOne #rerelease

Killer rabbits, bunny boilers and the holy hand grenade of Antioch: Easter bunny movies – ranked!
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/apr/02/easter-bunny-movies-ranked?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

"ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants"
(I can't read the rest - paywall - but.. Seriously?!? Ugh)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/politics/ice-expands-power-agents-warrants.html

ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants
An internal memo changed the standard from whether people are unlikely to show up for hearings to whether they could leave the scene.

Israël disqualifying itself for the whole world.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/world/middleeast/israel-death-penalty-palestinians-attacks.html?unlocked_article_…

Israel Passes Law to Hang Palestinians Convicted of Deadly Attacks
Experts say the law was written in such a way as to ensure that it was unlikely to ever apply to Jewish extremists who commit similar crimes.

With the US preparing options for a potential ground operation in Iran,
Israel is unlikely to contribute manpower to the effort
— a prospect that has drawn criticism among the American public but, experts say,
reflects strategic calculations and operational realities.
There has been no indication in recent reporting that Israel would take part in such an operation,
and by all accounts such an option has never been seriously considered,
even as Americans …

Maxx Crosby trade collapses: Why Cowboys unlikely to pursue Raiders star after Ravens back out of deal

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-maxx-crosby-trade-raiders-raven…

Iran Strikes Will Be Nasty for Oil Prices, But Not a Shock (Javier Blas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-01/iran-strikes-oil-prices-will-get-nasty-but-historic-shock-is-unlikely?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3MjM3MjIyMSwiZXhwIjoxNzcyOTc3MDIxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUQjgyRFVLR0NUR0MwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGMUM1Mzc1OEY5Qjg0MDZCOUJCNzMyODRDN0RBMEY3QyJ9.b-OKAdwH-1n2uynDsaeOURqsw3Q8SbI0yzpg5ni9tHU
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p10#a260301p10

Report: Cowboys 'probably not going there' with 2x-Pro Bowler; still seeking LB help https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/03/10/cowboys-steelers-lb-patrick-q…

""Elements might endure, but the MAGA movement is at heart a cult of personality unlikely to outlast its singular leader for very long in its existing form. "
MAGA warned it has an expiration date: 'Trumpism will not last' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-maga-2675255750/

Without health insurance in #Alaska: Helicopter transport and appendictomiy cost $60,000–$140,000. The entire cost must be borne by the individual.
It is not unlikely that #Inuit in the USA lack health insurance; a quarter live below the poverty line.

Poverty and Health Disparities for American Indian and Alaska Native Children: Current Knowledge and Future Prospects
This report explores the current state of knowledge regarding inequalities and their effect on American Indian and Alaska Native children, underscoring gaps in our current knowledge and the opportunities for early intervention to begin to address ...

"As you can tell, I think this was a bad gamble: it was very unlikely to succeed but instead always very likely to result in a significantly worse strategic situation for the United States, but only after it killed thousands of people unnecessarily. If you do a war where thousands of people die and billions of dollars are spent only to end up back where you started that is losing; if you end up worse than where you started, well, that is worse."

Miscellanea: The War in Iran
This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec…

NOTE: Celsius
But yes, I expect I will need to let faucets drip and escalate the thermostat. The kid is unlikely to have school tomorrow. I’m hoping the Sunday snow is light enough to ignore, because I don’t really want my snow guy to get frostbite. @…

モスケ^^ ❄️🐈🔥🐴 (@tramtrist@famichiki.jp)
Attached: 1 image Do. Not. Miss. #weather #detroit #cold

What's The Go?
Hosted by comedian Ibby Akbar, and failed footballer turned social creator, Daniel Olaniran (aka OlanTekkers), this unlikely duo chat nonsense, react to the internets madness, and explore topics they know nothing about....
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralian…

Sources: Paramount's proposed $110B acquisition of WBD remains under active review by US antitrust officials, even though the odds of a legal challenge are low (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-02/p…

As salty as I am about it, there's also another way to think about this. For anyone who still has connections to folks on the right (which is perhaps unlikely for anyone on this server, I digress), the cult that has consumed them thrives on isolation and grievance.
The words "you were right" have the potential to cut through the programming and open up an opportunity for reconnection. The modern conspiratorial cult of the Right has been built partially around people who were told they were wrong or were crazy. In the vast majority of cases, they were wrong and even when they were right they completely misunderstood why, but we'll skip that for now. Liberals making fun of them (even the times when they definitely earned it) has pushed them further and further into their ideological hole.
The thing about those words, "you were right," in this context is that the way they offer reconnection also requires them to take one little step of betraying their ideology to accept them. So they must choose between maintaining allegiance to a pedophile or finally getting to feel superior after years of living in an illusion of persecution.
Under the ideology of the Right, admitting one is wrong is a weakness. It is admitting defeat. They have to "own the libs" by saying things, things that they know aren't true, in order to feel dominant. But these things are often so absurd that they end up being made fun of, feeling even more weak and pathetic, reinforcing their fear and alienation.
Offering what they're looking for can offer a way out, but only if they're willing to start to recognize the thing they've supported for what it is.
And they were right about some things. They were right that Bill Gates was a terrible person. I've had plenty of liberals defend him based on his philanthropy washing, but he's awful and always has been. The Epstein links make that blatant. They intuitively recognized him and didn't trust him, even if they were wildly off base about *how and why* he shouldn't be trusted... Even if their correct mistrust was leveraged into one of the most destructive conspiracy theories ever (vaccine denial and COVID vaccine avoidance).
They were right about Bill Clinton. He was always shady as fuck. Sure, the people who attacked him at the time turned out to be even more shady but that's not the point right now. He was connected to Epstein and that was always creepy as fuck.
And the Epstein thing was an open secret that liberals ignored for a long time. It was seen as some weird thing that right wing nutjobs believed about the Clintons. But it was true. Not all of it, and there has always been an antisemitic element to the right wing interpretation or Epstein stuff, but his whole pedophile conspiracy was always kind of real.
The whole "Illuminati"/deep state thing is a vast oversimplification, an attempt to make comprehensible an incredibly complex set of interlocking and emergent behaviors. But Epstein did very much want to remake the world, to create a new world order, and he absolutely played a part in it.
The Right wing nutjobs talked about global authoritarianism, Blackhawks flying over American cities, masked men with guns disarming and executing legal gun owners in the streets. That's all happening right now.
The "FEMA concentration camps" are not actually that far off. ICE and FEMA are sister agencies, both under DHS. I'd be more than happy to call that one "close enough" in order to hear some MAGA admit that ICE is, in fact, building concentration camps.
There was always a huge millennialist element to these things. They tended to be connected to "the antichrist." It was absurd, especially for me as someone who no longer identifies as a Christian. But I'll even acquiess that to a degree. The "the number of the Beast" is 666. That's just the sum of the Hebrew spelling of "Nero." Revelations focuses a lot on Nero coming back to life after his death. His death that involved a head wound, thus the line from Revelation 13:3:
> And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
The parallels between Trump and Nero are easy to draw, and Trump's ear wound feels pretty on-the-nose for this. I don't believe in "prophecy" in this way. I think that there are patterns, and useful patterns can become encoded in beleif systems. But I will, again, happily call this one "close enough" for anyone on that side willing to also acknowledge it. I'm happy to meet on that common ground, because anyone who accepts it must recognize that their duty is to fight against it.
A lot of these correct nuggets are embedded in a framework of religious extremism and antisemitism. The vast majority of the beliefs holding these together are wildly wrong and incredibly toxic. But by giving some room to feel validated, listened to, understood, can give some room to admit things that were wrong.
Cult de-programming starts with an opening. People have to talk through their own thoughts, hear their own inconsistencies. Guiding questions can help them untangle these things for themselves. And it all starts by having enough room to feel safe, to not feel cornered, to not feel stupid. Admitting mistakes means being vulnerable, and the MAGA cult is built on fear. It's built on exploiting vulnerability and locking it away.
De-programming takes a long time. It's not easy. It takes patience. But every person who comes out does so with a powerful perspective, a deep understanding, that can be turned back against it. The best people at getting people out of cults are former members. Some of the most dedicated antifa are former fascists who understood their mistakes and dedicate their lives to fixing them.

Ravens see DE Hendrickson as a defensive closer https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48196332/ravens-see-trey-hendrickson-team-closer-defense

Why the GOP’s latest, desperate attempt to rescue the SAVE Act failed
The truth is, transgender issues as a whole just aren’t salient for most voters
— and are unlikely to get Trump what he wants.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-save-act-anti-trans-amendment-vo…

Why the GOP’s final, desperate attempt to rescue the SAVE Act failed
The truth is, transgender issues as a whole just aren’t salient for most voters — and are unlikely to get Trump what he wants.

@…
In theory it could be a false positive, e. g. the author could have been using an ebuild template from an outdated wiki page.
But since the PR is proposing an ebuild for his own project which was created yesterday, this is probably very unlikely the case (no pun intended).

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nemeciii/115928748530883810
would love it if the Norwegian oil fund started exiting the US. But I guess that’s very unlikely.

US households could save $900 this year thanks to Trump tariff ruling -- but 'dividend checks' dealt major blow (Taylor Herzlich/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/02/20/business/us-households-could-save-900-this-year-thanks-to-tariff-ruling-but-dividend-checks-appear-unlikely/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260220/p91#a260220p91

It's only a matter of time I think before Trump starts talking about acquiring/annexing Canada again. Although a military intervention is very unlikely, no doubt the Canadian military is preparing for that scenario. That is the time we are living in...
#Canada #USA

I was an unlikely Super Bowl MVP. You should know the full story https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7024014/2026/02/06/super-bowl-mvp-macolm-smith-seahawks/

A critique of a large UK social media study that suggested measures like social media bans are unlikely to have an effect on teens' long term mental health (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/social-media-screen-time-manchester-study-haidt/<…

What a big study of teens says about social media — and what it can’t
The “moral panic” framing misses how platforms actually harm kids. PLUS: Newsom investigates TikTok over Trump, and the Clawdbot frenzy

RE: https://mas.to/@gleick/115952606396238455
Unlikely, but I hope somehow his phone will be used in evidence, so we can know what they said to one another. More likely is that the murderer will see to it that the phone disappears.

Raiders and Titans free agency rumors reveal interest in future Hall of Famer https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/tennessee-titans/news/raiders-titans-free-agency-rumors-interest-future-hall-famer/d2947…

JD Vance will visit Hungary on Tuesday
in an 11th-hour attempt to boost key MAGA ally Prime Minister Viktor Orbšn
before an all-important election on Sunday, but the U.S. vice president’s trip appears unlikely to swing an increasingly bitter race.
Trump has already issued several endorsements of Orbšn
— a Kremlin-aligned proponent of “illiberal democracy”
— but polls suggest those interventions have done little to boost the struggling prime minister,
who …

Vance in Budapest: Viktor Orbán’s last throw of the MAGA dice
U.S. interventions by President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have so far failed to reverse the Hungarian leader’s flagging fortunes.

One analyst says European regulators are unlikely to block a Paramount-WBD deal; another says it's likely that regulators would slow down the approval process (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/paramount-warner-deal-donald-trump-eu-regulatio…

Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery Deal: Experts Say Trump Factor Will Have Bearing On EU Antitrust Process
The Paramount-Warner deal and EU regulation has been analyzed, with Donald Trump emerging as a major factor.

5 Dallas Cowboys Veterans Who Won't Be on the Roster Next Season https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/5-dallas-cowboys-veterans-who-wont-be-on-roster-next-season

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia was rescued from insolvency by Drexel University in 2011 but the relationship is apparently too draining. This is unlikely to end well. #science #entomology #biology #philadelphia #drexel #paleontology #museums #NaturalHistory https://share.inquirer.com/FLhfyz

5 Dallas Cowboys Veterans Who Won't Be on the Roster Next Season https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/5-dallas-cowboys-veterans-who-wont-be-on-roster-next-season

Kenneth Walker III headed toward free agency as Seahawks unlikely to use franchise tag, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/kenneth-walker-iii-free-agency-seahawks-fr…

Sen. Jim Justice and Babydog's Unlikely War Room: An Outback Steakhouse in a Strip Mall (Emily Kennard/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/senate/jim-justice-babydog-outback-steakhouse
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p37#a260129p37

A "war powers resolution" gives lawmakers an opportunity to demand congressional approval before any further attacks are carried out.
The Senate resolution,
and a similar bill being voted on in the House later this week,
face unlikely paths through the Republican-controlled Congress
and would almost certainly be vetoed by Trump even if they were to pass.
Nonetheless, the votes marked a weighty moment for lawmakers.
Their decisions on the five-d…

Congress taking first votes on Iran war as debate rages about US goals
The U.S. Senate is headed towards a vote on President Donald Trump’s decision to embark on a war against Iran. It's an extraordinary test in Congress for a conflict that has rapidly spread across the Middle East with no clear U.S. exit strategy. The legislation is known as a war powers resolution. It gives lawmakers an opportunity to demand congressional approval before any further attacks are carried out. The votes marked a weighty moment for lawmakers. Their decisions on the five-day-old wa…

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A look at Plucky Wire, a website for local newsrooms to find and share stories with each other for republication; it is now being used by over 200 publishers (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/a-scrappy-story-shar…

A scrappy story-sharing tool with local newsroom DNA gains traction
Plucky Wire was incubated in an unlikely place for a journalism technology: the tiny Granite State News Collaborative. Now, it's being used by hundreds of outlets countrywide.

I explained something for a friend in a simple way, and I think it's worth paraphrasing again here.
You cannot create a system that constrains itself. Any constraint on a system must be external to the system, or that constraint can be ignored or removed. That's just how systems work. Every constitution for every country claims to do this impossible thing, a thing proven is impossible almost 100 years ago now. Gödel's loophole has been known to exist since 1947.
Every constitution in the world, every "separation of powers" and set of "checks and balances," attempts to do something which is categorically impossible. Every government is always, at best, a few steps away from authoritarianism. From this, we would then expect that governments trand towards authoritarianism. Which, of course, is what we see historically.
Constraints on power are a formality, because no real controls can possibly exist. So then democratic processes become sort of collective classifiers that try to select only people who won't plunge the country into a dictatorship. Again, because this claim of restrictions on powers is a lie (willful or ignorant, a lie reguardless) that classifier has to be correct 100% of the time (even assuming a best case scenario). That's statistically unlikely.
So as long as you have a system of concentrated power, you will have the worst people attracted to it, and you will inevitably have that power fall into the hands of one of the worst possible person.
Fortunately, there is an alternative. The alternative is to not centralize power. In the security world we try to design systems that assume compromise and minimize impact, rather than just assuming that we will be right 100% of the time. If you build systems that maximially distribute power, then you minimize the impact of one horrible person.
Now, I didn't mention this because we're both already under enough stress, but...
Almost 90% of the nuclear weapons deployed around the world are in the hands of ghoulish dictators. Only two of the countries with nuclear weapons not straight up authoritarian, but they're not far off. We're one crashout away from steralizing the surface of the Earth with nuclear hellfire. Maybe countries shouldn't exist, and *definitely* multiple thousands of nuclear weapons shouldn't exist and shouldn't all be wired together to launch as soon as one of these assholes goes a bit too far sideways.

Defense spending would surge to its highest level in decades under a budget proposal put forward by the Trump administration on Friday,
while other government programs would face cuts totaling 10%.
The document prepared by the White House office of management and budget (OMB) is a starting point for negotiations that will probably occupy Congress’s appropriators in the coming months -- and is unlikely to be enacted in full.
But it nonetheless serves as a signal of Donald Tr…

SpaceX filed a request with the FCC on Friday seeking approval to put a constellation of 1 million data centersatellites into orbit.
While the FCC is unlikely to approve a network that expansive, SpaceX’s strategy has been to request approval for unrealistically large numbers of satellites as a starting point for negotiations.
The filing proposes establishing a network of solar-powered data centers in low Earth orbit that communicate with one another via lasers.
The fillin…

SpaceX wants to put 1 million solar-powered data centers into orbit
SpaceX claims putting data centers in orbit will be cheaper and more environmentally friendly than building them on land.

Why the Giants can't afford to trade Dexter Lawrence https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48413987/new-york-giants-cannot-afford-trade-dexter-lawrence

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SpaceX filed a request with the FCC on Friday seeking approval to put a constellation of 1 million data centersatellites into orbit.
While the FCC is unlikely to approve a network that expansive, SpaceX’s strategy has been to request approval for unrealistically large numbers of satellites as a starting point for negotiations.
The filing proposes establishing a network of solar-powered data centers in low Earth orbit that communicate with one another via lasers. The filling speak…

SpaceX wants to put 1 million solar-powered data centers into orbit
SpaceX claims putting data centers in orbit will be cheaper and more environmentally friendly than building them on land.

Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times.
The change expands the ability of lower-level ICE agents to carry out sweeps rounding up people they encounter and suspect are undocumented immigrants,
rather than targeted enforcement operations in which they set out, warrant in hand, to arrest a specific person.
A week before t…

ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants
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Until January, Patrick J. Schiltz,
the chief judge of the District of Minnesota,
had steadily managed one of the federal court system’s heavier workloads with little fanfare.
He was more widely known in the legal community for penning a revered law journal article 27 years ago that advised young lawyers how to become ethical members of an “unhappy, unhealthy and unethical profession.”
But starting this year, as federal agents surged into Minnesota, hundreds of immigr…

Patrick Schiltz, an Ethicist, Is the Minnesota Judge Blasting ICE
Judge Patrick Schiltz, an appointee of George W. Bush, became an unlikely critic of the Trump administration’s tactics in Minnesota.

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