January 27, 2025
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January 26, 2025
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- DeepSeek R1 is wildly overhyped, but you can try it at home – Pivot to AI
- Montco official criticized after TikTok emulates Musk's salute - WHYY
- Towamencin Supervisor Laura Smith sparks calls for her resignation after controversial salute on TikTok
- Pa. township supervisor under fire for mimicking Elon Musk’s salute on TikTok - pennlive.com
- FAFO: Republican Resigns from Library Board after Imitating Musk’s “Nazi” Salute
- Fallout Continues For Towamencin Town Leader Following Supposed 'Nazi' Salute TikTok Video | Lansdale Daily Voice
- Pennsylvania Republican Imitates Musk’s Nazi Salute, Faces Instant Consequences - YouTube
- Trump administration fires members of cybersecurity review board in 'horribly shortsighted' decision | TechCrunch
- Trump fires 18 inspectors general overnight in legally murky move
- Indian Valley Public Library Launches Celtic Cultural Club - Bucks County Beacon
- All 43 research monkeys that escaped South Carolina facility have been recaptured
- Sen. Lindsey Graham says he thinks Trump pardoning violent Jan. 6 defendants was 'a mistake'
- Musk tells far-right Germany party "there's too much focus on past guilt"
- Trump hits Colombia with tariffs, sanctions after it refuses deportation flights
- Mexico refuses to accept a U.S. deportation flight
January 24, 2025
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- The Limits of Trump’s Power - by Jay Kuo - The Status Kuo
- let’s talk about trump’s first declaration of war
- Seeking trans-friendly employers who sponsor visas
- Pennsylvania: Pennie reports record-breaking 496K enrollments; warns of dramatic premium hikes w/out federal action | ACA Signups
- A Line By Line Analysis Of Trump's Big Anti-Trans Executive Order
- How to embed your Mastodon profile - DEV Community
- My Favorite Books of 2024 | Chris Sanders
- Building an open web that protects us from harm
- The Last Word On Nothing | Escaping the Flames
- Trump’s Definitions of “Male” and “Female” Are Nonsense Science With Staggering Ramifications – Mother Jones
- The indie web should be a universe of discovery
- DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review
- Trump’s 90-Day Foreign Aid Freeze Won’t Apply to Ukraine Military Funding, Pentagon Assures VOA
- Choosing Anabaptism: an Anabaptism at 500 Reflection | Ruth Kitchin Tillman
- Regex Resources for Catalogers and Others in the Library | Ruth Kitchin Tillman
- HHS pause on external comms delaying upcoming health summits - Government Executive
- The Last Word On Nothing | What Would I Save?
- Bannon vows to have Musk "run out" of the White House
January 23, 2025
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- Greg Pak: Cool Links! | Greg Pak
- Elon Musk's salute falls flat: Why far-right trolling isn't working this time around | Salon.com
- Trusting AI | Seth's Blog
- Convicted US Capitol rioter Pam Hemphill turns down Trump pardon
- MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years – Krebs on Security
- FactChecking Biden's Claim that Assault Weapons Ban Worked - FactCheck.org
- A Pastoral Statement of Support for LGBTQIA+ Persons in the Wake of Trump's Recent Executive Order - Bucks County Beacon
- Herod Goes to the National Cathedral and is Disappointed - emptywheel
- Encrypted Messaging Apps - Dhole Moments
- A Blog Post About Blogs | Cool As Heck
- What Are Stories? – Doc Searls Weblog
- Trump’s Definitions of “Male” and “Female” Are Nonsense Science With Staggering Ramifications – Mother Jones
- Former Trump aides are warning newbies: Buy legal insurance or risk a hefty bill
- Trump Puts Violent Criminals Back on the Streets - emptywheel
January 21, 2025
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- How victims of PowerSchool’s data breach helped each other investigate 'massive' hack | TechCrunch
- internet migrations are fine | ava's blog
- Your Local Government Isn’t Ready to Evacuate Disabled People – Mother Jones
- TikTok goes dark in the US - pennlive.com
- CONTRARY BRIN: The Meaning - (and most basic contradiction) - of Life
- The Best Government Conspiracy Movies | Lifehacker
- would i blog if i was born later? | ava's blog
- An Economic Approach to Homer's Odyssey: Part I - Marginal REVOLUTION
- Georgia senator arrested after trying to enter House chamber
- How ‘Scary Hour’ Helps Me Stay on Top of My Finances | Lifehacker
- I'm a Bearblog maximalist | sylvia.bearblog.dev
- Interview: Solidarity Journalism Can Help the Mainstream Media Restore Public Trust and Strengthen Democracy, with Dr. Anita Varma - Bucks County Beacon
- Forgiveness – The Marginalian
- How the U.N. Is Watching Elise Stefanik's Confirmation Hearing
- Some U.S. leaders and lawmakers backpedal on eve of TikTok ban
- Classified Evidence in the Tiktok Case
- Ross Marchand on postal service privatization (from my email) - Marginal REVOLUTION
- your presence counts | ava's blog
- India's digital payments strategy is cutting out Visa and Mastercard | TechCrunch
- No, Trump didn’t make $50 billion from his memecoin
January 20, 2025
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- Capitol riot memories linger on the ground where Trump will take the oath of office
- Trump says he will delay TikTok ban, suggests a joint venture with US ownership | TechCrunch
- America Is No Longer the Home of the Free Internet
- AI isn’t very good at history, new paper finds | TechCrunch
- Steve Bannon: Trump inauguration billionaire attendees as "supplicants"
- So how, exactly, did blogging help my career?
- Ph.D.-level AI super-agent breakthrough expected very soon
- What Trump Promises to Do on Day One of His Return to Power – Mother Jones
- Americans back Trump's mass deportations but not policies on how: Poll
- Biden's stock market trailed Trump's
- From Brownshirts to Billionaires: The Second Trump Inauguration – Mother Jones
- Trade Wars, Culture Wars, and Anti-Immigration: Trump’s Big Promises
- Trump’s Second Term: What Will it Bring?
- Meet the Trump Nominees Who Could Gut Abortion Rights Across Government Programs – Mother Jones
- cool links VI: moral optimization, design principles, childhood, and more | ava's blog
- Apple lists all apps it removed alongside TikTok in the U.S. | TechCrunch
- Should you be writing for the AIs? - Marginal REVOLUTION
- Let’s talk about AI and end-to-end encryption
January 19, 2025
· One min read
- Anatomy of a data center | Gerry McGovern
- Schools Using AI Emulation of Anne Frank That Urges Kids Not to Blame Anyone for Holocaust
- What to Expect When You're Expecting Fascism
- Meta's 'non-regrettable attrition' layoffs are based on performance - Fast Company
- 89% of Donald Trump's net worth is now in the $TRUMP meme coin
- Employees of failed startups are at special risk of stolen personal data through old Google logins | TechCrunch
- Found! Dozens of Damning Documents about Trump's Hoarding of Classified Documents! - emptywheel
- Part 3: Democracy, Oligarchy, and Tyranny - Teri Kanefield
- Embracing externalities | Seth's Blog
January 18, 2025
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- We Don't Need More Cynics. We Need More Builders.
- The spreadsheet brigade that's keeping LA's rental market from exploding
- Expanded voter ID, mail ballot changes on the table in PA • Spotlight PA
- How do I make a mechanical macro pad? : r/MechanicalKeyboards
- Montgomery County's ‘The People's Rally’ on Saturday Highlights How Resistance to Trump Starts Locally - Bucks County Beacon
- Civil Service Strong: Resources for Civil Servants
- Kusto documentation - Kusto | Microsoft Learn
- Executive Order on Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity | The White House
- Warren Letter to RFK Jr.
January 16, 2025
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January 14, 2025
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- Lehigh Valley Mall owner plans to evict public transit center - WHYY
- Social Impact Database show how Philly arts engages - WHYY
- You Deserve a Tech Union — Ethan Marcotte
- Whoops! Facebook trained Llama AI model on pirate site LibGen, with Zuckerberg’s OK – Pivot to AI
- Fake farmers beware: Jack Curtis is on to your scam | Moran - nj.com
- Editorial: Gaiman's abuse survivors demand we see the truth - Editorial, Paganism, Perspectives, U.S., World
- Who Needs Good Ideas on the National Security Council? | by David August | The Geopolitical Economist | Jan, 2025 | Medium
- Special Counsel Report: Trump Tried To Void 300K Philadelphia Votes