⚰️Grave Slayo‽🦇

I am a human being. This is occasionally inconvenient.
On mastodon at Dave Mayo‽
Pronouns: he/him

[⚰️Grave Slayo‽🦇 @pobocks]

Pssh, threaded programming isn't hard. You just:

1. Find the king thread.
2. Kill them
3. All the childer threads become programs again.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

the scary part is, for incredibly reckless funding cut the DOGE teens made that becomes almost immediately disastrous like this, there’s dozens if not hundreds more whose impact won’t fully be grasped until decades from now

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

Japanese man reacts to a large dog which is a rare sight in Japan as most dogs are tiny there

[Dr Kareem Carr @kareem_carr]

It's not that AI can't be used to do knowledge work. It's that it's wildly unreliable in bizarre and incomprehensible ways. Things you'd never think it could be possible to mess up are the things that it messes up.

Like you ask it download some data and do an analysis, and instead it just completely fabricates a fictional dataset for no reason, and gives you results based on that.

Fine if you catch it, but potentially career-ending if you don't.

It inserts its own ideas without telling you. It deletes critical paragraphs.

These actions would be psychopathic in a colleague, but we're just supposed to accept it because it's a machine.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

He's empowering someone WITH ABSOLUTELY NO NATIONAL SECURITY OR INTELLIGENCE EXPERIENCE to purge their ranks. It's beyond insane

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Ramsey. He is a mail delivery dog. Shipping is free, and while packages might not be handled with care, they are handled with enthusiasm. 14/10

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

Meriwether Farms was founded by a hardcore conservative and former Trump 1.0 alum btw

[Dev @sleepy_devo]

a normal person from 1995 did not want:
- USAID dismantled
- NATO dismantled
- the president to be granted absolute immunity by the SCOTUS
- the president to corruptly rug pull billions of dollars for himself

[Hey, Dave! @davegreenidge57]

In less than 18 months, MAGA has managed to bring back measles. They defunded the Ebola monitoring program that likely resulted in an what is an emergent pandemic. Now, they’ve allowed the food supply to be contaminated by a deadly parasite not seen in the U.S. since 1966.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Bush 43 tried doing this on a much, much smaller scale. It was a massive scandal that led to the AG's resignation! Fast forward 20 years and it's a big old media shoulder shrug.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

Of the 97, 14 were charged with sex crimes, including child molestation and possession of child pornography.

These are the monsters Trump released back onto our streets.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Weiss said Tuesday's meeting involved good-faith efforts to find a way back. Pelley says firing was raised in the first 15 seconds. No resolution was ever offered. Both sides were openly hostile from the start.

One of them is describing what happened. One of them is describing what they wish had happened.

Pelley also disclosed that he has been instructed to include unverified assertions in stories and has refused every time. That is not a management dispute. That is a journalist being told to lie and saying no until they run out of patience with him.

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

This is an opportunity for the big boys to cash out by dropping the stock on people that have no idea they’re the marks.

The biggest rug pull in the history of the stock market.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

For many years, there were allegations that ICE would “release” critically ill people so their deaths wouldn’t be recorded as in ICE custody. To fix this, in 2021 the Biden admin required ICE to report deaths occurring up to 30 days after release.

Now that rule has been dropped.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

After roughly a week of having the media tell us that Senate Republicans were STANDING UP TO TRUMP you'll be shocked to learn Senate Republicans did not in fact STAND UP TO TRUMP. 🤡

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

DOGE didn't make a dent in the deficit, but it did bring back screwworm and enable a historically large new Ebola outbreak, so it's not like they didn't achieve *anything*

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Nick Bilton walked into the 60 Minutes newsroom four days after Bari Weiss fired the people who built the show. He tried to pretend he didn't know about the firings. Scott Pelley, in front of the remaining staff, would not let that stand.

"She loves 60 Minutes," Bilton said. "She's murdering 60 Minutes," Pelley said back. "She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it - and she's doing exactly that."

One of Weiss's lieutenants kept interrupting to say Pelley was being rude. Pelley kept going.

JVL's framing is the right one. The corrupter depends on the existing institution being too polite to say the obvious thing out loud. Christopher Wray resigned quietly to "preserve the integrity of the FBI." John Kelly gave print interviews after he left. Thom Tillis, John Cornyn, Mitch McConnell, Jim Mattis, Bill Barr - all of them saw it. All of them objected privately. None of them said it in the room where it was happening, to the person doing it, while the cameras were still running.

Pelley said it in the room. To the person's face. In front of witnesses. While he still worked there.

That is a different thing entirely. Not a memoir. Not an anonymous source in a tell-all. Not a carefully worded statement issued after the resignation letter was already filed. The true thing, said out loud, to the people who needed to hear it, at the moment it could still matter.

Authoritarianism counts on politesse. It counts on people deciding the fight isn't worth the awkwardness, the career risk, the label of being difficult. Scott Pelley decided it was worth it. The republic needs more of that calculation to come out the same way.

[Gigi @Gigi_chienergy]

The screwworm program wasn't charity, it was a $10 million fence that kept a billion-dollar problem from eating our own livestock alive. That's the thing with most USAID funding: it looks like "aid," but it's really cheap self-defense. Solve a problem there, and it never lands on our doorstep. But sure, let a bunch of guys who can't define DEI without Googling take a chainsaw to it. They didn't stop to ask, "Will this cut hurt us too?" Unless that's the point, burn it all down and call it efficiency.

As usual our inept agriculture secretary, blaming the Biden administration as usual, instead of offering a solution to the problem they created.

Texan here

A screwworm infestation is a nightmare for cattle, causing horrific wounds and economic devastation. For Texas, the situation has escalated dramatically in the last 24 hours with the first confirmed case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in over 60 years! This could have been avoided!

Infested animal can kill a cow in less than two weeks.

Treatment is extremely difficult and time-consuming, requiring the painful removal of every visible larva and deep disinfection of the wound. Ranchers no longer have much experience with this labor-intensive process, and there is currently no approved pharmaceutical treatment to make it easier.

This has triggered a massive economic threat. The USDA estimates that a widespread outbreak would drain an astonishing $1.8 billion from the Texas economy alone in livestock deaths, labor, and medication expenses.

How will this affect you? Tightening supplies will drive already high beef prices higher.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The Trump administration has been telling you they had screwworm under control for months. Now, it's here.

What happened? Trump and DOGE slashed funding for screwworm monitoring programs.

And the entire GOP let them. Thank them for today's new hell they unleashed on you.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

This is a crime. This is deliberately exposing the general public to the most overvalued company in the history of the stock market in order to prop up an IPO that jailbreaks the entire index/pension/retirement fund system.

This is selling suicide pills at the drugstore.