“The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today,” she said, adding that “numerous fake images and statements about Epstein and me have been calculating [sic] on social media for years now”.
So this isn’t about empowering the victims of Epstein’s criminal enterprise to find justice, it’s about punishing them for inconveniencing her?
That’s utterly ghoulish. Jesus Christ, Melania.
So yes, I’m generally aligned with normalizing career changes and breaking down social barriers around perceived masculine / feminine roles, but:
Now Reeves says what’s needed are policies and programs to draw male workers into fields such as nursing, teaching and social work.
I am not sure I agree with the premise here. I think that trying to lure men into e.g. social work is an answer looking for a question. The broader landscape of what constitutes work is always shifting, and right now interpersonal services are waxing, but that could change overnight. I think that we need to think more generally about how to help people transition between fields as labor demand changes.
I’m also not sure how to think about “jobs created” in this context:
That parity masks the significant gains women have made in the labor market recently. Of the 369,000 jobs the Labor Department says were created since the start of Trump’s second term, nearly all — 348,000 of them — went to women, with only 21,000 going to men. That’s nearly 17 times as many jobs filled by women as by men.
This is the sort of statistical claim that makes me want to better understand the underlying structure of the data. Are these full time roles? Are they roles that were eliminated and re-opened? Where, geographically, are these positions? This feels like the actual story to me.
Space exploration is weight lifting for science.
More than fifty research and development facilities across thirty-one states. Gone. Consolidated into a single location in Fort Collins, Colorado. And “consolidated” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence, because what it actually means is that decades of place-based, long-term ecological research — the kind that literally cannot exist anywhere else because it depends on specific forests, specific watersheds, specific ecosystems studied over generations — will be snuffed out.
This is incredibly depressing, and leaves some huge questions I am afraid to even seek answers for. I worked alongside some brilliant, dedicated scientists stationed at Los Alamos-- does this mean that everyone there on behalf of the forest service is being moved to a desk in SLC?
It’s plainly a mass firing dressed up as a re-org, and it will cripple our understanding of how to proactively address localized climate change for decades. Fuck.
Thus solving the problem once and for all!
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Well yeah, because of the active genocide against white Afrikaners.
Conversely, there’s nothing of interest going on in Afghanistan and the US has no obligations to any sympathizers or collaborators there, so I’m not sure why we’re letting 3 people flood our country.
Edit: this is sarcasm. Can’t believe I need to say it.
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TIL that objects re-entering the atmosphere vary considerably in their initial velocities, and that ones from further out (e.g. lunar visits) tend to be much faster than those from LEO. It’s not intuitively surprising, but I’d assumed that given the “narrow window” used for re-entry, all objects needed to dump enough velocity to arrive in a fairly tight band.
Does it support unit dependencies? That’s pretty much the only reason I use systemd outside of work. Edit: ah yeah it sure does. I know what I’m playing with next weekend.
Ludicrous claims, rambling non-sequiturs, and outright lies; sounds like anyone who tuned in got exactly what they could have expected.
Yeah, I had a good laugh at this. Half of the commits I review are coauthored by Claude, a fact that I’m sure Anthropic is thrilled to claim, but this colossal fuck up was obviously the work of a rogue intern or something.
I wonder if there’s going to be a point in the future where we all look back at this massive over-investment and kick ourselves for making so much expensive electronics waste.
It’s the missing GitHub status page.
GitHub is teetering on one 9 over an entire quarter. There are serious, systemic problems in Microsoft’s shop.
This line of thinking would make a lot more sense if there wasn’t a long, storied history of Trump completely ignoring sycophants when they’re not immediately useful to him. You’d expect someone like Carney to know better. It’s enough to make a person physically cringe.
Makes sense to track this since it’s one of the fastest growing consumers. I think it would also be interesting to track who is buying power infrastructure and in what quantity. Even basic power poles are backordered for years, so I shudder to think about the economic impact of a data center for a blank check tech company clawing in everything they can.
For top left I’d like to humbly nominate SCO Unix.
Like anyone who’s been paying the least bit of attention, I was wondering “wait, what’s new here?”
In a letter sent Tuesday to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Raskin said the documents point to a broader risk to national security, writing: “These new disclosures suggest that Donald Trump stole documents so sensitive that only six people in the entire U.S. government had access to them, that the documents President Trump stole pertained to his business interests.”
This is more interesting than the headline, in my opinion. The claim that they “pertained to his business interests” is not exactly the same thing as selling them to the highest bidder. It suggests either that Trump’s businesses are the subject of intense scrutiny by the fed or, more likely and more worrying, Trump is much deeper into brokering sensitive information than we expected (as in, it’s one of his main sources of income).
Gosh, I wonder what Iran thinks about that idea? The article has this to say:
And that’s it! Guess this one is still in the “concept of a plan” phase.