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Does anyone know if @uipressdotco is still in business? No X post in a year, and they aren't responding. License didn't renew, and now I can't install.

@DJSnM It should be multimodal regardless. Possibly StarLink to get them up to speed, with a redundancy plan.

I don't know the details of this FAA/Starlink deal, but I should hope that whatever backend communications is used for critical infrastructure is not purely satellite based. In this day and age it should be internet over fiber/cell/satellite wherever possible. Firstly to ensure reliability if say a solar storm (or worse) interferes with LEO, and secondly, it needs to avoid anything that leads to vendor lock in so that there's a legitimate market (hence IP traffic over commodity networks).

@saikatc Amy Gleason worked in USDS (2018-2021), Trump renamed it to the United States DOGE Service (USDS)

Apparently it is illegal for Elon to be in charge of DOGE so they are just making up who is running it, as if all of us are complete idiots.

@Timodc A pilot didn't follow air traffic control instructions. I suppose the pilot could have been hysterical over DOGE and was distracted, otherwise it's hard to see how DOGE caused this.

Time to shut down DOGE until we can figure out what the hell is going on with the airplanes.

@philvischer Did she cross the border in Iran into the US? It seems there may be a few details missing from the story. Had she applied for asylum in the US?

A 27 yr-old Iranian woman converted to Christianity, and had to flee Iran (where conversion brings the death penalty). She fled to the US to seek asylum. The Trump administration arrested her, put her in shackles, loaded her on a military plane with 300 other migrants...

@RMBee @aifiction_ That is directly from the book, 2003. I agree, it's a weak area in the book.

@aifiction_ Did you really believe Reacher could just move in and out of that compound...without any surveillance...? Up and down outside the house...running to the beach and back...? It's really absurd. And...I READ THE BOOK it's based on.

REACHER Season Three…uh…isn’t great.

@ryangrim Did you gloss over the - targeting forced labor - part? Seems like it might be important.

Marco Rubio announces sanctions against anybody involved in the program that sends Cuban doctors to poor countries where they provide free medical care

@kinsellawarren Or he expect this will all work out, and we'll need to move that oil.

If you need evidence that Trump is mentally defective, this is it. On the *same day* he says he will hit Canadian oil with crippling tariffs, he says he wants a pipeline built...for Canadian oil. He's deeply, deeply stupid.

@AngelaBelcamino While being on the list is damning, is being on a list evidence enough for a life sentence? What if your name appeared on the list (maliciously of course)? Could a name be planted on the list for political purposes? Far-fetched, probably, but we're talking life sentence.

If Democrats are on the Epstein list… lock them up and throw away the key. If Republicans are on the Epstein list… lock them up and throw away the key. Agree?

@HandsomeRandall @ArtCandee Source?

@ArtCandee All part of their plan to get rid of the FAA and hand air travel over to Space X. They've cut tower staff in half. They want reduced restrictions on when pilots can fly. They are creating a tragedy to force public opinion to privatize air travel.

A Southwest Airlines plane was forced to abort its landing this morning after a private jet taxied in front of it across the runway at Midway Airport in Chicago. Whatever that guy from The Real World is doing with the FAA has gotta stop.

@MarioNawfal And where do you get this negative mass ring - Sic-Fi?

WARP DRIVE: NOT JUST SCI-FI ANYMORE? Faster-than-light travel has always been stuck in the realm of Star Trek fantasies—until now. A new study suggests that tweaking the shape of a negative mass ring could slash the energy needed for a warp bubble from the mass of Jupiter to just 700 kg. NASA’s Dr. Harold White is already testing ways to create tiny warp bubbles in the lab. If he’s right, we’re looking at the first real steps toward bending space-time, no dilithium crystals required. It won’t get us to Andromeda tomorrow, but the fact that scientists are even discussing viable warp tech means the final frontier might not stay final forever. Source: The Bright Side

Elon should instruct everyone who manages staff to instruct their subordinates to report weekly to them and copy Elon. It may not appear to the average employee that Elon has the authority to ask for info. This would ripple down to everyone through the chain of command, rather than bottom up.

Should fed workers who don't reply to Elon's email get a second chance before being fired?

@beardvet What is the average military pay per year for all ranks? If you can make E5 in 4-5 years, then you should ask what the average federal employee makes after 4-5 years on the job.

The average federal employee makes $144,000 per year A Sergeant in the military makes $30,000 per year

@ZaidJilani An internal email from the General Services Administration (GSA) stated that all GSA‐owned charging stations were “not mission critical,” instructing regional offices to take them offline. No reference to rip them out.

@friedporksausag @kdlmama @persianjewess Do you think schools deliver information you can't get elsewhere?

@kdlmama @persianjewess If we are truly a free society, information should be free. Imagine the growth, excitement, and morale if everyone was allowed access to information they were passionate about without having to pay for it.

A teen genius with a 4.4 GPA and 1590 SAT Score—who was hired straight out of high school by Google for a Ph.D level Software Engineer position—was rejected by 16 out of 18 colleges including 5 UC Schools: Berkeley, Davis, UCLA, UCSD and UCSB. Now he’s suing for racial discrimination against “highly qualified Asian-American candidates.”

@sethmoulton Obama fired General David McKiernan General Stanley McChrystal General James Mattis Major General Michael Carey Vice Admiral Tim Giardina

Dictators or wannabe kings fire generals who don’t agree with their politics. This isn’t a banana republic. What Trump and Hegseth are doing is un-American, unpatriotic. It's definition of politicizing our military, and we should expect to see loyalty oaths (not to the Constitution) and worse coming soon.

@Kneon Hopefully, it was not discovered in the parking lot.

Round 2?

@HoldingOn8 @ThatJeff777 @atrupar You would be happier if they said we strongly suspect fraud, we're freezing the funds just in case, and it has been referred for investigation?

@GrokWhy @ThatJeff777 @atrupar How can you definitively claim fraud if there's been no investigation? That doesn't make sense.

ALEXANDER: Fraud is a crime. Have you turned over evidence of fraud to the Justice Department, and when should we expect to see those indictments? LEAVITT: It's a clever question

@FrankMasuc49296 @JustineBateman How is it different from Khan Academy telling you what to think? If you're actually learning something new, you will experiment and experience what you have learned.

That sucks. SUUUUUUUUCKS.

@madmardy @JustineBateman If you're learning a new coding language, you'll do exercises and test what it tells you. Disaster avoided.

@JustineBateman My experience with chatbots is that they will never tell you when they don't know the answer. They will confidently lie to you. Having a chatbot teach you when you already know the subject matter would be amusing. Doing so in a new field could be disastrous.