Six congressional Democrats released a video advising members of the U.S. military to “refuse illegal orders.” Trump posted this was sedition punishable by death.

This week, news reports have alleged that the U.S. military carried out a strike to kill two survivors of an initial missile strike on a boat in the Caribbean.

Fun fact: Firing on shipwrecked survivors is *specifically* called out as an illegal order that service members must refuse.

https://ogc.osd.mil/Portals/99/department_of_defense_law_of_war_manual.pdf

NO ONE UNDER THE AGE OF CONSENT IS A YOUNG WOMAN or MAN.

I see that one of the National Guard troops Trump stationed in DC has died after being shot yesterday. I was already feeling like the aftermath of the shootings was going to be very hard to bear, like the Charlie Kirk aftermath but worse. And now I feel real dread. But I know that we have to maintain our spirit and our resolve to keep fighting Republican Fascism. 1/

Increase your savings this spending season with one weird trick.

Save 100% on everything you don't buy.

Special thanks to the developers building our decentralized future. Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, IPFS, Matrix, Solid, and countless other projects advancing open standards and keeping the internet weird, resilient, and truly shaped by its users.

This two-dimensional image (https://x.com/tomaspueyo/status/1993360931267473662) has been circulating recently as an metaphor for the current state of AI technology. It is admittedly an improvement over one-dimensional narratives in which AI development is presented as a linear (or exponential) progression from sub-human to super-human intelligence. However, it is still a significant oversimplification. The space of cognitive tasks is not well modeled by either one or two-dimensional spaces, but is instead extremely high-dimensional. There are now indeed many directions in this pace in which AI tools can, with minimal supervision, achieve better performance than human experts. But, as per the "curse of dimensionality", such directions still remain very sparse. Also, human performance is also very spiky and diverse; representing this by a single round disk or ball is also somewhat misleading.

In high dimensions, the greatest increase in volume often comes from taking combinations of smaller, spikier sets. A team of humans working together, or humans complemented by a variety of AI tools, can achieve a significantly greater performance on many tasks than any single human or AI tool could achieve individually, particularly if they are strong in "orthogonal" directions. On the other hand, the choice of combination now matters: the wrong combination could lead to a misalignment between the objective and the actual outcome, in which the stated goal may be nominally achieved, but at the cost of several unwanted secondary effects as well.

TLDR: the topic of intelligence is too high-dimensional for any low-dimensional narrative to be perfectly accurate, and one should take any such narratives with a grain of salt.

Guess they’re gonna have to tear down all those New Deal buildings and artworks. For those who don’t study history, we’ve had socialism in America before, it was in response to unbridled wealth hoarding, and it directly led to one of the most prosperous periods the country has ever experienced.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h6xbkw7bucg6ws3vqwnxqewp/post/3m65xa7xo4c2i

My cat decided to compose a haiku about the crows in our neighborhood.

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#catsofmastodon #cats #crows

Now she has to pay up.

Supreme Court takes swift action on Kim Davis bid to overturn same-sex marriage | The Independent

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-kim-davis-b2862241.html

Why would Trump NOT co-opt people's First Amendment rights? Stop thinking of Trump as the country's president, and instead think of him as the country's mob boss.

He became mob boss of the country by pulling off the greatest Con in the history of the world. He was headed into prison, but he conned his way not only OUT of that cell but INTO the most powerful job on earth.

I call it the Con Man / Mob Boss Model. Fits the observations 100%. Phenomenally high fidelity.

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/08/nx-s1-5602859/education-department-out-of-office-emails-ruling

8k page size DITs on Windows Server 2025 and NTDSUTIL might destroy your DIT forever – Christoffer Andersson

https://blog.chrisse.se/?p=1337

#Active_Directory #activedirectory

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/

> Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.

Technically still Halloween, the wee ones are in bed, clutching their tummies with dread, and we can talk about something really scary: The End Of The World! (insert spooky music here.)

Some say the #Hopi people have a legend that says when the Blue Star returns, it will bring about the 5th age, and end our current one. As #3iatlas was nearing the sun (and doing some weird stuff), it started glowing blue. The End is Nigh!

Or so some folks would like you to believe. Only, none of it is true. The "Hopi blue star" legend was started by a white dude in 1963. I would like to point out the sheer volume of indigenous culture white dudes in the 60s appropriated, modified, rewrote or completely invented.

This "rapture-esque legend" has no written or oral record before novelist Frank Water's Book of the Hopi.

So, despite our best and fervent wishes, I don't think we're going to get Giant Meteor 2025 to end this nonsense for us.

Trump Can't Scare Us https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-cant-scare-us?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Dear Republicans, "We'll starve some of you until you let us take away your healthcare" isn't as good a look as you think it is.

@nowathecat
What beautiful kitty!

"In a variety of ways, the Trump administration and the movement the president leads have become explicitly white supremacist, as much as is possible without saying the word 'white.' They may still be workshopping the language they use, but the message is clear:"

~ Paul Waldman

#Trump #JDVance #WhiteSupremacy
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/shock-and-awe-the-white-supremacy