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Hm I don’t follow. The objects aren’t moving, and what’s the point of pulsing the light

What an appalling comment. You can’t possibly justify what you’re doing so you pretend it’s something “the left” did first. Did the left deport students because they wrote an op-ed…

What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

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They are the billionaire Silicon Valley people who thought it would be cute to use their insane wealth to back a fascist seizure of power by Musk and Trump

Please direct questions on this to Marc Andreessen, Peter Theil, David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, Mark Pincus, Joe Gebbia

We’re about to watch a bunch of “libertarians” and anarcho-capitalists with kindergarten-level opinions about how societies function realize that markets require strong state regul…

A show-down between a politician and a court whose majority was either appointed by him directly as naked partisans, or by his party At least one of whom flagrantly accepts “gifts”…

By my count we’re down to 1 co-equal branch then

I must have missed the part where a bill was passed on this Or where the incoming administration announced this policy during their campaign Maybe it was in the announcement where …

That’s 3.3 million estimated deaths caused by DOGE illegally shutting down a congressionally established and funded agency of the US government: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 5…

Yes they are. Because Peter Thiel and Elon Musk and half the people in this community have been working for a decade to make that happen. Now joined by Marc Andreesen and a bunch o…

Has anyone tried it for handwriting? So far Gemini is the only model I can get decent output from for a particular hard handwriting task

Effective US policy is that people must serve whatever corporation wants their labor or else they will be left to die without healthcare, shelter or food Other countries do not hav…

Exactly. He has a dishonest and predictable schtick. We need skeptics for any industry, but he is just grifting in an ecological niche as a knee-jerk reactionary. There is near-zer…

You are saying words. They make little sense however. The total cost of running these institutions can be broken down however you want. If the total doesn’t add up to the necessary…

Dude this IS the grant funding they’re slashing. The NIH (and other grantmakers) make research grants and the overhead fee from that goes to the university. This is precisely what …

Private industry does not run campuses full of graduate courses and basic research that America’s technological prosperity depends on Those overhead fees go to fund that, so univer…

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MAGA dudes would like America to be “Great Again” but would like you not to Google what the top marginal tax rate was in the pre-civil rights era they are taking us back to (hint: …

The important thing is that Marc Andreessen still gets 2% of all funds under management regardless of what happens, and his accumulation of material wealth is our priority Your job…

What would you need to be paid to accept a 3 percent risk in Russian Roulette?