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A naval aircraft carrier under construction is slated to bear the name of an enlisted sailor, the first for an African-American. Or was.

The Navy is planning to replace Doris Miller’s name on the ship, possibly with that of president Donald Trump, CNN reports. No carrier in the US Navy has ever been named for a sitting president.

inspired by Maria's last post, I thought I ought to show off my custom keyboard I made with my girlfriend! It's a fucked up layout that I like. It's technically open source but I really wouldn't recommend it as I've never bothered to actually get the screen working 🥴

Here's a closer-up of the custom xenia keycaps I got made

And here's a close-up of the silkscreened comic sans text

“A lot of people see artificial intelligence as something that is largely automated, frictionless, and just appears as a useful tool for us. But most of the human hours that go into making artificial intelligence possible are not done in labs in Google or OpenAI. The majority of the work is actually very piecemeal ‘data annotation’ work, which is outsourced to various locations in the Global South, everywhere from India to East Africa to the Philippines,” explains Muldoon.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the production process, consumers are increasingly turning to artificial chatbots to fulfill social needs, incentivizing tech companies to amplify the “addictive and manipulative, controlling behaviors” embedded into their systems to keep users increasingly dependent on their products. “We need much stricter regulation to stop these companies … that can get people hooked and give people harmful and dangerous advice,” says Muldoon.

this entire administration is irredeemable scum.

Article is a good read about Miller.

The choice of USS Doris Miller marked the first time an aircraft carrier would honor an enlisted sailor, and the first aircraft carrier to be named for an African American. Asked about his decision to name the carrier after Miller, Modly told CNN that it was recommended to him by a group of retired Black admirals, and that he believes “one of our most powerful warships should bear the name of a sailor like Miller to bring greater attention to what makes our Navy so unique — and great.”

original url: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/497799/drone-animal-cruelty-investigation-trump-faa

According to Van Erem’s complaint, the DOJ, along with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), “departed from longstanding investigative practices designed to ensure due process, accuracy and legal compliance.”

“For at least some of the investigations, there was little to no factual predicate justifying opening them,” the whistleblower document states, noting that, when she and other DOJ employees raised questions, they were “sometimes admonished and their concerns were often disregarded.”

Some of the investigations into universities were “predetermined before the relevant evidence was collected and evaluated,” the complaint adds. For example, an investigation into Brown University yielded no conclusion that a Title VI violation had even happened. Yet the DOJ still successfully compelled the university to enter a settlement with the government, which included the institution changing its policies to reflect the Trump administration’s views on gender.

The investigations by the DOJ focused on three universities: Brown, Columbia, and Harvard. Columbia also entered into a settlement with the administration, while Harvard has so far fought against the investigations, challenging their legality in the courts.

The administration has also expanded its investigations to potentially examine supposed acts of antisemitism elsewhere, sending warning letters to 60 schools across the U.S. last year. Harvard’s legal successes, coupled with Van Erem’s complaint, could provide those institutions sufficient reason to challenge future inquiries by the administration.

Some of the investigations also appeared to target Muslim academics without reason. In April 2025, Van Erem’s disclosure noted, there was a plan by the DOJ to “systematically interview Middle East studies professors, particularly Muslim faculty” to see if they would say anything that could be called antisemitic. This included the targeting of one Muslim professor, who was singled out for questioning despite no allegations of antisemitic behavior being made against them.