@BaniasLaw @TheJusticeDept It's just resting. Pining for the fjords.
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Buckaroo Banzai
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@ShadesOfBlueAn1 You have gone too far down the chud rabbit hole that you are finding non-existent abuse everywhere. It's also a poor strategy. "This isn't abuse, this is abuse" isn't going to win anything. CPT is a thing because consenting adults should be able to engage in commerce & education.
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Why is Day 1 CPT an actual thing, when it is an obvious loophole? Sure, there can be exceptions when this maybe needed, but the risks (of abuse) probably far outweigh the benefits.
All of this bruhaha around H1B (which has specialty occupation requirements, wage requirements etc.) does not even make any sense, while there are programs like Day 1 CPT floating around.
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@Appyg99 Because then you become an ad company, not a magic company.
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I don't understand why OAI hasn't monetized their free-tier users with ads. It's relatively a well understood and well solved problem.
Berber Jin@berber_jin1
NEW: openai missed key revenue and growth targets in recent months, prompting its cfo and board to reassess its data-center strategy ChatGPT was supposed to hit 1bn weekly active users last year but missed that target wsj.com/tech/ai/openai…
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welcome back xeon phi
im sorry for ever doubting you
you were ahead of your time
Clive Chan@itsclivetime
so happy someone’s finally doing this. most cpu area is branch prediction, icache, etc. to support insane 5-6 IPC speeds. what if you used that area for more cores instead? wide & slow is the future of cpus, networks, memory, and more
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@fancierdoves @adrianpandev Is your friend an ICE agent or similar? Aliens are always truthful. Nothing to see here.
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@adrianpandev Do you suggest drug abusing aliens who would like to live in America should be lying or be honest about their drug use
Asking for a friend?
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The DOJ just moved state licensed medical marijuana to Schedule III. This is all over the news and it's a big deal for the industry.
But if you're on a visa or applying for a green card, please do not assume this changes anything for you.
Immigration rules do not distinguish between Schedule I and Schedule III. What matters is whether something is a controlled substance. Marijuana is still a controlled substance under federal law.
This means a USCIS, DOS, or CBP officer can still deny your application if you admit to using marijuana. Even medical and even in a state where it's completely legal.
If you don't have US citizenship yet, the safest approach has not changed. Stay away from using marijuana.
There is technically an exception for a single offense involving 30 grams or less of marijuana for personal use. But I would not rely on this. It's a narrow exception that requires very specific circumstances, and the last thing you want is to be arguing exceptions with your immigration application on the line.
I know this sounds overly cautious but I've seen cases go sideways over this. It's just not worth the risk.
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
The Trump administration is reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a policy shift that could make it much easier to buy and sell pot and reward investors in the cannabis industry on.wsj.com/3QnuYFi
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@NotoriousAKG David is principled and has never wavered. You still hold on to the fanciful notion that separating out legal immigration would have somehow prevented this.
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NOW you complain? This has been reality since December 25, 2024. An impactful tweet dropped, and the entire conversation changed. So did the administration's approach.
Those who had the reach to combat the bullshit decided to have meltdowns over every ICE arrest, every removal, every denial of benefits, any action against relatively peaceful but unlawful migrants, thereby destroying their credibility with moderates.
Had organizations like CATO been louder on this issue sooner, it might not have gotten so far. After all, our government is incentivized to respond to what voters demand, and what voters demand tends to be whatever is viral.
We needed your voice. The rule of law needed your voice. At the end of the day, most facing removal have violated the law. Attacking immigrants who follow the law has implications that are much broader, and much more unsettling.
David J. Bier@David_J_Bier
Normal people from all political backgrounds are shocked when I tell them what President Trump has done to legal immigration. Real people don't want this. It's the bots, trolls, and DC elite activists who are pushing this anti-legal immigration agenda.
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@BaniasLaw @USCIS @TheJusticeDept Why don't they settle? Why do they walk into the buzzsaws? Do they think of themselves as samurai?
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Love when #FOIA shows me that @USCIS gives its own attorneys @TheJusticeDept a very hard time. "Walking into a buzzsaw . . ."
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@daniel_s_larson I did a proper speeding defense recently. Asked for discovery, radar logs, cam footage, the whole shebang and showed in court that the cop basically lied. Was a lot of fun to defend pro se. I thought it was a slam dunk, but the judge took it under advisement. No ruling yet.
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"Everybody does it"- aka the speeding defense never works.
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@Appyg99 Extremely useless signalling. When I moved to SF, I would roam around neighborhoods to scope housing and look for "To Let" signs, but there were only BLM signs in all windows. Which is ironic as there are hardly any black people in SF due to how unaffordable housing is.
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Just checked my account. Still seeing them roll in. I have some selection notices dated 3/28, which tells me @USCISJoe has broke the space time continuum!
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Steven Brown@AttyStevenBrown
Seeing H1B selection notices starting to roll in. Keep in mind, this is a SLOW process that will go throughout the weekend. Your employers and attorneys will likely wait to send things out until USCIS has announced all notices have been uploaded. No email notification, just checked my account! @rnlawgroup
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@IAACouncil Just put up a pdf on a regular webserver. Why the two level indirection from x to substack to proton?
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IAAC just released "Know Your Rights" — a 10-page guide for every Indian in America.
What to say if ICE shows up at your door.
What your employer can never do to you on an H-1B.
How to document hate and make it count.
Every phone number you need.
Every right you have and you have more than you think.
H-1B. H-4. F-1. Green Card. Student. Parent. Citizen.
This is for all of us.
Save it. Send it to every Indian you know.
Download Booklet HERE :
open.substack.com/pub/iaacouncil…
@iaacouncil @Cloudwatch199 @RajeevSharma00
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@curtismorrison Not everything is a crusade. Posting the attorney's name on twitter isn't going to win the case. Redact or don't redact - making a grand gesture about it is puerile.
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Dude is literally making a case for redacting the names of the lawyers defending Trump administration policies. Not going to happen.
Government Proffer@rick_smalllaw
@curtismorrison Your reaction to this professionally and courteously drafted run-of-the-mill request was to post it on X without redacting the sender’s information? Do you think you’re the good guy in this scenario?
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@NeveltenJohn @anangbhai This is an unserious and flawed argument. It is akin to saying that one would abolish segregation only if it were coupled with an increase in the total no. of schools. There is just no defensible position here. You need fairness first and foremost; the rest is just accounting.
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@anangbhai You guys should have joined forces to increase the visa numbers rather fight over the allocation rules (which ARE particular unfair to skilled Indians).
I swear the nativists love to make each type of immigrant the political enemy of every other type of immigrant.
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Sorry, I have zero sympathy when Iranian groups were at the forefront of blocking immigration reform for high-skilled immigrants, explicitly arguing it would let Indians jump the line. In 2019 and 2020, they got Dick Durbin to block the bill.
Agarwal for Congress@ethanagarwal
.@realDonaldTrump - a request from the Iranian citizens of CA-17: The USCIS pause on immigration processing for Iran is about to expel thousands of students who are graduating from college in May. These are F-1 students, who will not be able to roll to OPT, STEM OPT, or eventually H1-B in time unless this pause is lifted. These are young people who want to contribute to America; who are in school at places like Berkeley, Santa Clara University, and Stanford. Without lifting the pause, they will have to return to Iran in 60 days. We want these young, brilliant people staying and working in America, paying taxes in America and creating jobs here. While USCIS figures out the broader timing and implications of lifting the pause against affected immigrants, we request that the pause for students graduating in 2026 specifically be lifted. I'm happy to engage with whoever from your administration is best for this. Thank you.
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@daniel_s_larson The backlash against DEI, affirmative action, etc. has been pretty strong. I don't think Dems are going to take the diversity stance on a floor vote for the foreseeable future. The challenge of getting a bill like Eagle Act to the floor remains though.
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In the U.S., immigration reform is treated as a zero-sum game. During the Eagle Act fight, groups afraid of losing out if per-country caps ended helped kill the bill through a thousand cuts, including racist attacks on Indians and Chinese.
I think ending per-country caps probably only works if it comes with more green cards each year and tighter border control. If everyone is still stuck in years-long lines, even under a fairer system, people will keep lobbying against it.
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@asc89 @VinitPakhale The 0 sum nature of country caps leads to these terrible outcomes. Iranian students have had it pretty rough due to export control and lack of visas. So F1->GC was the only realistic path for them. Doesn't justify the racism, but explains their self preservation lobbying.
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@daniel_s_larson Well, SOC2 compliance itself is a bit of scam and a rent seeking model. It's the equivalent of calling your eggs cage free. The startup, correctly, assessed the arb opportunity. Unfortunately, they were sloppy in their work and the system fought back.
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Rando 20 somethings massively disrupts by delving into complex corporate compliance. Millions at stake but at least they gave free donuts and post about how their constantly grinding...
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@daniel_s_larson This is a losing game though. Both ends of it, the prep and the adjudication, are going to be automated. Lawyers should change their business model to focus on litigation. There is no more alpha in doing paperwork.
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I am not impressed with these “ we are not a law firm” just a document prep company filing NIW, O-1 and EB-1A cases in mass. Approval rates for these petitions are way down. Junk in junk out.
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@asc89 @RichardHanania Courts (and ICE voluntarily) have reversed the SEVIS terminations, not visas yet. Status and visas are quite different in the statute. There is ongoing litigation for the visas too, but no results yet.
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There's a chance this person is lying, but not impossible she has connections with some State Department chud who gets off on ruining people's lives. This should be looked into.
Sidharth@Cloudwatch199
A FOREIGN NATIONAL on a TEMPORARY NON-IMMIGRANT VISA is openly claiming she has “ACCESS” inside the U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT and people helping her get VISA REVOCATIONS against individuals she personally dislikes. When someone asked for the SAME CONTACT so he could do what she claims to do? She refused. Let’s be clear: 👉 If even a fraction of this is true, the STATE DEPARTMENT IS COMPROMISED. 👉 Visa power cannot be outsourced to FOREIGN actors. 👉 Where is the OVERSIGHT? Where is the DUE PROCESS? Americans deserve answers. TRANSPARENCY. NOW. @RajeevSharma00 @micah_erfan @SloanRachmuth @Yael4Hanover @stephsvox @StateDept @SecRubio @marcorubio @Rightanglenews @elonmusk @nikitabier @RoKhanna @1calebbrock @SenateDems @TheHarrisSultan @HashemMelech048 @carlwheless
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