The claim is that Starlink is compromised by Russia, and DOGE is sending all private data it extracts from agencies via Starlink, including sensitive Department of Energy data.

Didn't they shut down their own Wii U servers?

The same way you beat any game in the 1980s and early '90s: lots of pattern memorization based on trial and error. In the arcade, that means lots of quarters.

Once a game like Dragon's Lair was memorized, you could play through the entire thing on only a couple quarters, to the astonishment of arcade bystanders.

Kids and teenagers had more time back then because smart phones and Instagram and YouTube didn't exist. People underestimate what a huge time sink those can be.

No one had Internet access. You could play a game, play an instrument, read a book, go to the mall and the arcade and maybe catch a movie, go outside, or watch whatever happened to be on the 3-4 network TV channels (or possibly cable if your family had the money). And TV back then was mostly terrible.

So if you had $10 in your pocket, that was an entire afternoon of entertainment at the arcade and movie theater.

It's because he made a deal with Ukraine instead of mining national parks and "on the verge of war" with Iran. Also she thinks Covid vaccines should be pulled. In other words, he's not awful enough for her.

And they would vote for him again.

As a side note, can you imagine being an accountant and trying to keep track of the tariff declarations that are changing daily?

Trying to install loyalists to ensure the military won't go against him when the time comes

Nader is the first I've read who says what I've been thinking: when does the killing begin?

That will seem like an extreme statement to some, but a campaign of terror is absolutely coming.

I dare say I'm beginning to suspect this Trump fellow may not be as competent as he claims

He doesn't care. He's a sociopath, who knew?

This really says everything that needs to be said, doesn't it?

They make all kinds of excuses for why they lost the election while somehow failing to identify the inconvenient actual reasons, then they complain when their voters push them to oppose actual autocracy, which they've been warning about for a decade.

Democratic politicians would rather be domesticated and kept as docile pets than risk a confrontation.

Jesus, Trump is really in deep with Musk.

Also, the 15% stock drop is nothing compared to the decline in actual sales. The P/E ratio is still way too high, but the stock will drop eventually if this decline continues. Keep up the Tesla dealership protests too.

Actual translation: no court may enforce an injunction or temporary restraining order against the Trump administration.

Now let's see how the Supreme Court rules.

Every article starts with the Trump administration framing, and only afterward tells you WTF actually happened. I'm so tired of it.

Every time I see "backlash" in a news headline it's always just Twitter culture warriors who are always angry about something

It's interesting that Musk is sending this, probably personally and likely without getting specific approval from Trump before sending it, and the agencies are responding to ignore it in what is clearly a direct response to Musk.

Musk acts. Many cabinet departments act in response. Meanwhile, Trump is a passive non-participant in his own administration.

(To say nothing of Congress thus far.)

I watched the video. It's all 1-3 second shots of either recolored animals or two animals combined. In other words, exactly the kind of video AI can deliver at a consumer level. Not impressive. The TED audience politely clapped, but aside from one or two folks the audience didn't seem particularly impressed either.

It's all C-suite executives pushing this onto executives below them, who push it onto their organizations as mandates. The C-suite execs don't care about creativity; they only care about cutting costs. At first this means shortening development times. Soon this will mean cutting staff, and not 10 years from now, but way before this technology can actually replace a human.

You know what would've been a good showcase? Show Rogue One but with the film shots digitally composited with an AI Tarkin or an AI Leia, and have it be better than what was originally released in 2016. And have it be lip-synced. It shouldn't be too hard to improve upon those shots; they weren't very good.

But AI can't do that.

In my experience, extreme wealth is a sign of one or more of: inherited wealth, lack of morality, lack of empathy, lack of humility, lack of self-reflection, or luck. In most cases these people are simply so broken that they'll justify exploiting other people to get what they want in ways that people with morals simply refuse to.

Intelligence isn't a major factor.

Also they're willing to spend millions of dollars on a dinner like this because what's the downside? Losing that money won't affect their lifestyle in any way. Worst-case scenario, they get a story out of it. Best-case scenario, they get face time with the most powerful person on the planet and maybe a sympathetic ear if they get in trouble with the law (since all of them are privately breaking the law in some way).

She said she immediately knew what was happening when she walked into her weekly one-on-one with her supervisor; the meeting had an unexpected attendee. An HR representative rose from a seat in the corner as Ferreira entered the office. She was told she was being let go because she wasn't fulfilling her position's responsibilities, "effective immediately."

"When I was about to open my mouth, she waved her hand at me, and was like, 'No, we're not doing that,'" Ferreira said. "I'm hearing ringing in my head."

"They didn't let me speak in my own meeting."

The cruelty and arrogant dismissiveness of that response is infuriating to me.