Stressed_Scientist @wittyretorthere.bsky.social · 1mAbsolutely allowed...until you used that code or even significant pieces of it (like all LLMs definitionally do) and claim its your own for profit. then not so much. 000
Stressed_Scientist @wittyretorthere.bsky.social · 9hAnd how they rapidly disappear when dessert before dinner becomes an option at the 45 minute mark. 000
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12h*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY. 5418641330
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11hIt‘s utterly unconvincing when Susan Collins tries to pretend her vote for Kavanaugh wasn’t a betrayal of women’s right to bodily autonomy. 231062228
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistRoger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 11hDOJ hired these prosecutors: -A gambling exec turned conspiracy theorist podcaster -A guy found liable for selling fraudulent insurance leads -A guy who violated attorney-client privilege in a high-profile murder trial -A guy currently facing animal neglect charges www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...nytimes.comJustice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted RanksThe civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said. 32901354
Stressed_Scientist @wittyretorthere.bsky.social · 10hEven if you can stomach it why join the group that is in competition for bottom of the barrel in federal enforcement if you have any other options really. Have to travel constantly so don't even get the stability of CBP and never get praise from everyday people like police often get in general. 010
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 10hThis. This is important. They’re hoping fear will hold us back because they don’t have the numbers. But it will make us stronger. It will bring people out. 19654163
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistSpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 11hWhen it's discovered that a politician committed domestic violence they can - resign in shame <------ right answer - pretend to be sorry - deny it - brag about it <----- where we are apparently 528180
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 13hThe 2026 version of being asked to train your cheap replacement. 1553265
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15hSure, Alito could get stuck with no ability to retire and get a like-minded replacement. That said, this certainly could be seen as public comments made to give Senate Republicans a talking point in their effort to keep the Senate in Republican control. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/... 1713629
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistSteven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 14hIn a release to media, Christa Pike’s attorneys say she is now “conscious and speaking” almost a week after the state of Tennessee failed to execute her by lethal injection. 515031
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14hOne thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?” 6349791074
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 20hOn the left: President Trump false claims of violent crime in Chicago (as prelude for laying a pretext) On the right: Most recent official stats showing Chicago success in back-to-back years of historic reductions in violent crimes 23761264
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14hDon't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspaper. Congress can, in fact, say the court got the Constitution wrong, on such questions as: - Should there only be 9 Wizards in Robes, or 47, or 100, or 250? - Should the Wizards have a building? Clerks? Docket control? - Should they ride the circuit? On horses? 1040786
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13hI'm not sure if @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social have issued a statement on this yet, but they should publicly announce that if Russ Vought tries to fuck with the election in any way they will fire him out of a cannon when they take power. 1092032579
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistMicah @rincewind.run · 16hdamnatio memoriae is the right thing to do with trump for many reasons and at the top of the list is the fact that it will make him so, so angry 351723350
Stressed_Scientist @wittyretorthere.bsky.social · 15hThat's what he means yeah (can't remember most of them but the polling in NJ governor race was off by double digits and had estimated Republicans were going to be much more competitive than the actual results) 010
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistJohn Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 16hAs a Catholic, like Alito, I think it's so important for you to know how little—how absolutely not at all—your marriage (or your LGBTQ identity) impacts my religious liberty. In fact, refusing to acknowledge your marriage (or your LGBTQ identity) is a grave affront to your innate human dignity.abcnews.comAlito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new bookA new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom. 27640126
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistCongressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 18hTrump and his sons quietly moved 20 billion crypto tokens into an account that lets them cash out. Corruption, plain and simple.washingtonsun.comIs the Trump Family Preparing to Cash Out on Its Own Crypto?President Donald Trump and his three sons have taken a step that would permit them to sell World Liberty Financial’s digital tokens. 541180506
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h"Yeah, sorry your kid died or whatever. What do you think about my chandeliers?" 21452721217
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistWendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 20hdoing push-ups never got supplies to a unit or protected our personnel from enemy attack 2049797
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17hI’d argue the entire media does this consistently 20936151
Stressed_Scientist @wittyretorthere.bsky.social · 17hof why didn't the scientist just use the prophylactic treatment after a likely accidental exposure (we know how to treat the plague) makes everything more worrisome but in a country sending prisoners to the front line of a self made debacle of a war logical response from its people gets less likely. 010
Stressed_Scientist @wittyretorthere.bsky.social · 17hWelcome. The information issue is we have many incredibly competent scientists whose job is to imagine worst case scenarios (which will likely be the first interview options because they are so good at what they do) and bad info makes what if scenarios worth considering. The big question 1/ 110
Reposted by Stressed_Scientistwhet moser @whetmoser.com · 20hher putting her head in her palms is ice cold 153250
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22hLook at just this one page from Trump's garbage 2027 budget. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202... And where's the money going instead? You guessed it: subsidizing corporate R&D that would happen without government involvement, but they prefer taxpayers cover it. 117257
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17hMy personal "woke" view is that I hold men to standards; those men knew what they were doing and knew it was wrong. Everyone coming up with excuses for it also knows it's wrong but they either (a) cowardly want to avoid dealing with it or (b) want it to be debatable so they can do it with impunity. 1026245
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistRyan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 19hNEW: Olympic canoeist who went through "nightmare" Reflecting Pool case is pushing two government watchdogs to probe "incompetence and wrongdoing."nbcnews.comFormer Olympic canoeist asks government watchdogs to probe ‘nightmare’ Reflecting Pool caseThe Trump administration’s “sprint” to charge Olympic canoeist David “Davey” Hearn, his attorneys wrote, “mirrored the rushed renovation itself.” 347393
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23hWhite supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask? 7934501350
Stressed_Scientist @wittyretorthere.bsky.social · 17hworst case scenario when authoritarian countries often have horrendously poor responses to screw ups, even when its very likely this is a lab exposure screw up. It sucks that we have utter incompetence in charge making fear a natural response but would still argue basic incompetence is most likely. 020
Stressed_Scientist @wittyretorthere.bsky.social · 17habout a modified plague but A: that goes back to cold war era and not some new bio weapon and B: most of that is because Russia is both a place of bad faith science and acting incredibly poorly in providing information. However Russia has been acting like that for a while now so shouldn't assume 2/ 120
Stressed_Scientist @wittyretorthere.bsky.social · 17hNot a new type of pneumonia, she likely died of pneumonic plague (all y pestis plagues are the same source with different infection points, bubonic plague = lymph nodes, pneumonic = lungs so has human to human transmission). Its actually endemic in multiple places, including US. There is worry 1/ 230
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22hArticle 1 is Congress. The presidency comes second, in Article 2, and explicitly requires the president to faithfully execute the law as passed by Congress. But that structure implies that the president can break laws without consequence. Or, well, at least this one can. -Sam Alito, paraphrased 8582118
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21hWe used to have a federal agency devoted to investigating and prosecuting abuses by law enforcement, but Americans voted for the "let cops do crimes" candidate instead bsky.app/profile/kevi... 8806170
Stressed_Scientist @wittyretorthere.bsky.social · 18hI hate to always go back to this but without first fixing SCOTUS this literally wouldn't have mattered, and we know this because first term Trump allowed Sinclair to violate the Telecommunication act of 1996 with a completely bad faith loophole. Similar to major questions on EPA stuff 2 years ago. 021
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 19hOkay I've seen at least 2 posts today that describe Jim Bakker as "having an affair with his secretary" or "getting caught banging his secretary" and just...no. He got caught paying her off because he and another preacher *violently raped her*. That isn't an affair, or a simple "sex scandal". 191027301
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 18hGasoline prices were briefly sky-high under Biden, in the immediate aftermath of Putin's Ukraine invasion. Then they came down, well before his term ended. Gas is up +39.4% from a year ago. Diesel it at ALL TIME high prices, up +67.0% from a year ago. 2041084
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026There are a lot of news stories the last few days saying Burundi is going to *start* taking third-country nationals soon. All seem to go back to this Reuters story based on a statement from a spokesperson for Burundi's president. But Burundi already started. First group arrived Aug. 27. 217854
Stressed_Scientist @wittyretorthere.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Good thing truckers don't drive anywhere but red states huh? No way dyeing your tank to the literal red flag of inspections is going to come back to bite them, not like it sometimes takes months to flush out. 110
Reposted by Stressed_Scientistsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I despise seeing what’s really going on stuffed into a “but critics say” clause. 271422265
Stressed_Scientist @wittyretorthere.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I do enjoy the fact at least one person has had to laugh at him over this and tell him its completely false. There are definitely much more successful over the top depressed self destructive conmen in silicon Valley than this guy. 090
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026BREAKING: For the first time in 10 months, the U.S. admitted a refugee who is not a white South African. In September, the U.S. admitted 3,386 white South Africans and two Afghans (in D.C.) In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 16,287 white South Africans, five Afghans, and nobody else.rpc.state.gov 12803344
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing. 263074944
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 06/10/2026Good(?) news: A Nevada county will pay $1.6 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a woman who spent two years in prison for a stillbirth before her conviction was overturned. Her son’s ashes were returned to her as part of the settlement thenevadaindependent.com/article/she-... 1250118
Reposted by Stressed_ScientistMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry 24985281170