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Donnie continues to attempt to create problems so that he can claim he's the only one capable of solving them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/gun-violence-prevention-non-profit-grants-disqualified

If you were dumb enough to hand over your DNA & biological fingerprint to Ancestry or 23andme, why stop there?
With Oura, you can hand over your daily health information to a corporation that can be subpeona'd or have your data stolen from!
People have been denied health insurance or disqualified for benefits because of data discovered about one's past health that should be protected...
...but who cares? Tech is cool, right? 🤨
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In 2013, when #Montreal was deep into its corruption self-investigation, we almost ran out of asphalt.
We'd made a new rule that anyone named during the Charbonneau commission's corruption inquiry was disqualified from being a vendor/supplier for the city.
The hitch was that all of the asphalt suppliers were named. Yes, *all* of them.
So we had to decide “run out of pothole-p…

Yet another #sigh. Everything I have read suggests these community based efforts are effective at reducing shootings. And police programs that work are rooted in partnership with community groups. But maybe the #millervought administration knows that and has other motives?

Yet another #sigh. Everything I have read suggests these community based efforts are effective at reducing shootings. And police programs that work are rooted in partnership with community groups. But maybe the #millervought administration knows that and has other motives?

The 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Award disqualified two books citing AI-made covers; their publisher says AI's rise has put the industry in "uncharted waters" (Jin Yu Young/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/books/new-zealand-ocham…

These Books Were Judged by Their A.I. Covers, and Disqualified
A New Zealand book competition dropped two of a publisher’s books because they had A.I.-generated covers. The publisher and the designer pushed back.

Comey moves to have Halligan disqualified - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/10/14/comey-moves-to-have-halligan-disqualified/

My company is not presently hiring anyone.
But if it were I would have a policy that said that any candidate who had previously worked for ICE was automatically disqualified and would not be hired as an employee or used in any consulting (or similar) relationship.

So Max won, the McLaren's got disqualified and there's a new Defunctland video. What a great Sunday.