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ck2··on Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents
Senate has no mechanism to prosecute contempt charges

That goes to the DOJ, which of course means nothing happens, at least for next 800 days

ck2··on Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents
I am not so sure people started saying "this is fine"

more like he started 1000 other fires, several each week if not a new one each day to make far worse problems

It's not just the most corrupt administration, it's the most chaos and definitely by design

btw all investigations dropped for the execution of two citizens, I mean that's definitely not fine with anyone, just way too many other problems going on now at the same time

well there's no statute of limitations on murder at least, so 800 more days

ck2··on Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents
Not sure how I feel about this but I am sure about one thing

There should never ever be a masked police force in this country, it's disgusting

Think about all the things we've written off in the past two years and faded from the news

Like military helicopters landing on a city building and them blowing the doors off all the apartments dragging everyone from their apartments

And all bets are off for the next two years, looks like Dems will get the Senate but even then they can't stop the scorched-earth that is coming

ck2··on US President says he will ban the term 'artificial intelligence'
like all the other insanity, just for the next 800 days

but seriously, we have to do something to enlighten people who constantly give power to this kind of garbage or it's just going to keep happening

if just half the stuff about what Jared has been doing it's going to take decades to undo this

and Russell Vought singlehandedly has set back science in this country 50 years

ck2··on A 28-Year-Old DOGE Operative Gutted USAID. HR Had No Record of Him Working There
just a reminder that tons and tons of food and medication that was ALREADY PAID FOR

was purposely left to rot in warehouses instead of being distributed

six months ago the NY Times documented half a million deaths attributable to the destruction of USAID

by now it's easily a million, slow-motion murdered

may you never suffer to death like those million that could have been spared

ck2··on Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees in AI efficiency push
sorry about that

I saw it seconds after I posted but there doesn't seem to be a way to self-delete

ck2··on Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees in AI efficiency push
60,000 employees would be ONE-FOURTH of the entire Microsoft workforce
ck2··on Anthropic S-1
How long until China has its own chips?

It's a shame "AI" cannot be made to run on bitcoin mining dedicated hardware because they mastered that in only a few years

ck2··on Pentagon grants DHS permission to test heat ray weapon for use at border
just a hop step and jump to being used on (completely legal) protestors

there are already several recorded incidents of LRADs being used on crowds which do permanent damage but invisible so very handy for authoritarian governments

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmK-KZOiT-c

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_acoustic_device

ck2··on Bird Flu Raging on US Mink Farm Could Spark Human Pandemic. Officials Won't Act
for those not aware, RFKjr has stated several times be believes animals affected by Bird Flu should be just left to suffer and die in the millions and the few that survive should be the ones bred as they are most resistant

just a tiny bit insane considering that every time a virus survives a host it mutates to try again a different way and that's how you get species "zoonotic jump"

ck2··on Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone
also see from yesterday:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50201259

ck2··on Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions
it's going to take decades to unravel all the corruption by this administration

it is staggering

and they are destroying records in violation of law

because "pardons for everyone" on the way out

ck2··on Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security
serious question

for legacy systems, how difficult would it be for an attacker assisted by "AI" to stage the conditions

on a scale of 1 (easiest) to 10 (hardest)

ck2··on Armed federal agents knock on doors looking for noncitizen voters
If you don't get what's horrific about this, just a reminder the constitution says only STATES not federal agents have the right to manage voting

Now imagine what's going down after the election, holy hell I am not ready for the nightmare of the next two years

ck2··on Just 42 AI-related stocks account for 80% of S&P 500 gains since 2024 [pdf]
page 2, use this if you don't have PDF viewer, sorry I cannot find HTML version

* https://docs.google.com/gview?url=https://cdn.jpmorganfunds....

video/podcast version:

* https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/califoreboding/id13679...

* https://eyeonthemarket.podbean.com/e/califoreboding/

ck2··on Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier
China was rescuing people from floods by drone many months ago

Applying this to war though just means more war

Russia must be completely cut off from the rest of the world financially until they leave Ukraine alone

But unfortunately that's never going to happen, at least not for the next 800 days

* https://www.reddit.com/r/Keep_Track/comments/j6z8eh

ck2··on Show HN: Flyingcar.pet – a physics simulation of Tesla's flying Roadster stunt
now make an option where it's a dumpster on fire instead of a car
ck2··on Martian Moons eXploration launching today to land on Phobos and return samples
is the ability to more easily return samples from Phobos vs Mars because it's a moon with much less gravity?

that seems logical, clever actually they are doing that alternative

but Mars and its moon likely very different composition?

ck2··on Russia moves possible anti-satellite near another satellite used by Ukraine
according this much more detailed article they may be designed to intercept

> In April 2026, Russia launched six satellites, Cosmos 2609 through Cosmos 2614, into low Earth orbit (LEO). A month later, five of the satellites executed high-energy maneuvers that raised their inclinations to match the orbital plane of the ICEYE satellite. These moves were unusual because satellites in LEO typically avoid plane-change maneuvers as they require a large amount of fuel

* https://www.csis.org/analysis/could-russia-be-poised-use-orb...

ck2··on Russia moves possible anti-satellite near another satellite used by Ukraine
yup they could take any sat that's expired and ready to deorbit and just reuse it for destruction

> a series of manoeuvers by Kosmos2612 starting on Sept 30 were clearly designed to bring the two objects very close and synchronise their orbital periods, orbital altitude and eccentricity

so it's been in planning for a few weeks now

considering the SAR is US owned, that's going to be interesting politically if it suddenly stops responding

ISS has to move out of the way of debris a few times a year now, imagine what that's going to be like next decade

ck2··on Russia moves possible anti-satellite near another satellite used by Ukraine
* flattened/mirror: https://tbsky.app/profile/marcolangbroek.bsky.social/post/3m...

also see:

* ASAT Anti-Satellite weapon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-satellite_weapon

* Kessler Syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

adding: more detailed article

* https://www.csis.org/analysis/could-russia-be-poised-use-orb...

ck2··on Amazon uses AI to monitor union risk in UK warehouses
I will never understand how corporations are allowed to interfere in any way with unions

it should be a protected freedom to associate and expression

why is it allowed to be gameified where if corporations can detect it early they can stop it?

hands-off people's lives, unions aren't illegal so no interference

ck2··on GLP-1 may slow biological aging
that's fascinating to me as I've not heard any similar feedback and it seemed counter-intuitive

may I ask for how long now? are you athletic? have you experienced any muscle loss?

ck2··on GLP-1 may slow biological aging
but what about the people with a BMI already under 20?

not like we can take GLP-1 even if it was affordable

btw soluble fiber helps people naturally secrete more GLP-1 but of course not on the same level as a dedicated drug

ck2··on US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion
exhausting the entire supply of Tomahawks and Patriot missiles will cost exponentially more than $38 billion to replace

CBO is not told about all the military bases destroyed in the middle-east, it's a secret by this administration, so they cannot expense that

and this is not going to end before February 2029

and there is still a billion dollars EVERY day being taken out of the US economy by excessive gas and diesel prices even for those that don't drive

I aced economics in college but I don't get how we are not in a recession

Everyone is putting gas and groceries on their credit cards now, how does that end?

ck2··on US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion
that's yet another "both sides are the same!" fallacy

you are right in that neither can fix it entirely

only one party consistently raises the debt->deficit

and only one party consistently lowers it

hint: you cannot spend $21 TRILLION on militarizing the country and going to war without exploding the deficit, there's no profit in war, only massive expense

* https://ips-dc.org/report-state-of-insecurity-cost-militariz...

and that $21 Trillion was before the Iran War which is going to go on for years and cost another trillion to replace all the weapons and ships, remember all those bases and planes that were destroyed which this administration is covering up

ck2··on US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion
> The red ink has led to dire warnings from economists that the US now routinely runs annual deficits that were previously seen only during recessions

imagine what's going down after two more years of this

Iran War will still be happening at a BILLION dollars a day

gas will still be draining an extra BILLION dollars a day from everyone's pockets

how much healthcare and homes could have been bought with that

ck2··on Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low
Heritage Foundation wants to reduce the US population by 11 million people by 2029

imaging what's going down just before/during the Olympics which I am 99% certain will be boycotted by then

ck2··on Tesla Roadster
FSD doesn't even work properly TEN YEARS after it was announced

still tries to murder passengers jumping across traffic at shadows

good luck with anything Musk, you are the beta tester, if you die they'll debug it, eventually

ck2··on We are entering a period of overlapping crises
well based on the newest data you won't have to worry about anything else after 2050

https://tbsky.app/profile/weatherprof.bsky.social/post/3mxvy...

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