Hard Pass

me and my buddies getting skull tattoos #JustMarineThings

Also lets not forget his defense of SS rune tattoos

The rune enthusiasts that discussion is about

Key points

• AI subtly erodes our cognitive strength by making delegation seem like self-generated thought.

• After repeatedly turning to AI for answers, the first thing that erodes is tolerance for not knowing.

• True judgment is built by wrestling with uncertainty, not outsourcing discomfort to machines.

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For generations, the federal government enforced civil rights laws with an eye toward remedying historic, systemic discrimination against Black people and other people of color. The Justice Department pressed schools to desegregate. The Education Department worked to promote equal opportunity and held schools accountable for racial bias.

But under the Trump administration, efforts to address deep-rooted inequities for students of color are being cast as discriminatory against white students. Programs that have long withstood legal scrutiny are now quick to be deemed “ illegal DEI ” — diversity, equity and inclusion — by the White House. Schools that do not comply have faced threats to their funding, and in some cases, lost federal grants.

Civil rights attorneys describe the administration’s actions as a complete inversion of legal history.

real photo taken on train to Glasgow lol

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1169750/the-greek-soldiers-in-the-trojan-horse-hoping-they-make-it-into-the-city

A prediction market reported George Santos to federal prosecutors after he boasted he’d be going to Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, then bet against his own attendance, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

Kalshi, the online prediction marketplace, referred Santos to the Department of Justice after detecting suspicious trades made by the former congressman ahead of Trump’s Feb. 24 speech, the person said. The person spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

Kalshi also reported the trades to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a federal regulatory body that has vowed to crack down on insider trading in prediction marketplaces.

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1169597/companies-looking-at-their-al-bill-after-laying-off-their-employees

Governor expresses worry as deluge of last-minute ballots and slow system could delay results in tightest races

California’s primary elections, including its fiercely fought gubernatorial contest, are at the mercy of a notoriously slow vote-counting system as polls closed on Tuesday, and it could be days or even weeks before the outcomes of the tightest races become clear.

Voting experts expect the state’s 58 county elections offices to be deluged with last-minute absentee ballots, as they have been in the last few election cycles, and spend weeks undertaking a painstaking ballot-by-ballot verification process.

That presents a procedural problem whenever races are close, as they tend to be in the state’s most competitive congressional districts, and the whole country is left waiting – as it was in 2020, 2022 and 2024 – to find out which party controls the House of Representatives.

The NYPD plans to hire 580 additional uniformed officers by the end of the year, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Monday, revealing an unexpected staffing increase, given Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s vow to keep police headcount flat.

Tisch said during a City Council budget hearing that the additional hires would bring the NYPD to 35,555 uniformed officers by the end of the year.

That would be a slightly larger police force than under Mayor Eric Adams, when the number of officers hovered around 35,000 at its peak, according to city budget documents and NYPD press releases.