@curiousgawker He's a disgrace.

20 attorneys general ask federal judge to reverse RFK Jr.'s deep cuts

#TrumpAdministration #GovernmentReform #HHS #CongressionalFunding #AttorneysGeneral

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/5/2320675/-20-attorneys-general-ask-federal-judge-to-reverse-RFK-Jr-s-deep-cuts

A new challenger has entered the ring!

While I'm working on getting today's #FiresideFedi uploaded, thank you again to @blenderdumbass , I can now confirm that our next #episode on Wednesday May 5th at 1430 Eastern / UTC -4 will feature #special #guest @laurenshof@firefish.social . Lauren runs @fediversereport !

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4o hallucinated for me today and it struck me that I haven’t seen ChatGPT make anything up in weeks, even though new models are supposed to be worse. Must be because most of my queries now use o3 or o4-mini with web search. If AI can do a web search, it seems to drastically improve the results.

From Hong Kong! PodcastPower.cc showing off @Podnews episode location thanks to Podcasting 2.0 👏

20 attorneys general ask federal judge to reverse deep cuts to US Health and Human Services
https://www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-05-05/20-attorneys-general-ask-federal-judge-to-reverse-deep-cuts-to-us-health-and-human-services?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Connecticut Public Radio @connecticut-public-radio-wnpr

Apparently she wasn’t the only constituent dragged out of Lawler’s town hall.

https://newrepublic.com/post/194831/republican-town-hall-lawler-police

Lawmakers in New York are among the first to propose legislation to combat algorithmic "surveillance pricing", and also point out how dynamic pricing algorithms can easily pave the way for discrimination: https://www.news10.com/news/ny-news/pricing-proposal-targets-algorithms-discrimination-surveillance/

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@scottjohnson.zip and @coverville.com so glad you guys had fun in Vegas. Glad you guys are back. I need my TMS fix.

Fuck you Trump + Musk!

https://flipboard.com/@arstechnica/ars-technica-nb4if9fgz/-/a-SDsnB196Ru-JrgsYJWdt1A%3Aa%3A1805463070-%2F0

Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer

🔗 https://www.404media.co/mark-zuckerberg-ai-chatbot-friends-interview-podcast/

Mark Zuckerberg argued this week the user always knows best when it comes to relationships with bot companions. But lots of people don't even feel in control of their relationship with Instagram https://www.platformer.news/mark-zuckerberg-dwarkesh-healthy-bots-loneliness-lmarena/

@themann00 awesome shot 📸

The U.S. government is keeping American casualty numbers for the undeclared war on Yemen secret. This is not normal. https://theintercept.com/2025/05/02/trump-yemen-war-us-casualties-death-toll

App deep links: connecting your website and app https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2025/05/app-deep-links

Divestiture or not? Remedies trial against Google in the US supposed to start on September 22nd.

https://www.seo-suedwest.de/9766-zerschlagung-oder-nicht-gerichtsverfahren-gegen-google-soll-am-22-september-beginnen.html

#seo #google

Happy Star Wars Day to all who are celebrating this May The 4th. Flashback to our amazing trip to Luke's home a few years ago in Tunisia.

SCOOP: The Signal clone used by Trump admin that Mike Waltz was seen using in a cabinet meeting in has been hacked https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/