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Captainant

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  1. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-air-traffic-control-system-upgrade-bill-congress/
  2. It's basically the same thing he said on Jan6, which is also what's basically happening now except they're in power
  3. Thing is - that's just unprofessional. Data classification exists in every organization, hell I just had to re-up my compliance training on that with the new year and I certainly don't work for the government. These idiot children are going to crash grandaddy's old jalopy and we're all gonna end up paying to replace it
  4. Wow. Great episode and incredible set design
  5. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/ "Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right," Nikolay Bashlykov, a Meta research engineer, wrote in an April 2023 message, adding a smiley emoji. In the same message, he expressed "concern about using Meta IP addresses 'to load through torrents pirate content.'" By September 2023, Bashlykov had seemingly dropped the emojis, consulting the legal team directly and emphasizing in an email that "using torrents would entail ‘seeding’ the files—i.e., sharing the content outside, this could be legally not OK." Emails discussing torrenting prove that Meta knew it was "illegal," authors alleged. And Bashlykov's warnings seemingly landed on deaf ears, with authors alleging that evidence showed Meta chose to instead hide its torrenting as best it could while downloading and seeding terabytes of data from multiple shadow libraries as recently as April 2024.
  6. Oligarchs are finally getting some relief https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-disbands-task-force-targeting-russian-oligarchs-2025-02-06/
  7. Holy shit that sounds horrible man. Hope you're healing well and feeling better
  8. Yeah ICE and CBP would have no reason to change official policy to allow enforcement actions in schools, churches, and hospitals if they weren't gonna do that, huh? Frankly, he would be more credible not making that claim on the defamatory and lying State news channel too
  9. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/06/musk-doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-social-media-posts.html “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” @nullllptr tweeted on X in September, the Journal reported. “Normalize Indian hate,” the account wrote the same month, in reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley,” according to the Journal. “Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” the account posted in July, according to the newspaper. In June, the account tweeted, “I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth.” White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told the Journal that Elez resigned after the Journal inquired about the account. A White House official confirmed Elez’s resignation to CNBC.
  10. I mean, I linked a news article to start the thread. It was updated this morning with a statement from CBP saying they would "never target school busses and children", which rings hollow when they also updated their guidelines to no longer explicitly deny entering schools, churches, and hospitals to deport people.
  11. I was fortunate to take a course from him, focusing on the 1890's through the lens of his book The Reckless Decade. Hands-down one of my favorite courses I took in my time at Texas
  12. A small addendum - on iPhones it's hold the down volume and lock buttons for a couple seconds. This puts you into the "SOS" mode, which you can just cancel out of, but it does not accept faceID or touchID to unlock the phone. On android there's a "lockdown" mode that requires the device PIN or password to unlock. The click the side button five times thing was for like iPhone 8 and earlier, so probably not useful info anymore lol
  13. Huh I just also came across a Vanity Fair article from Oct 2024 about bird flu in Texas cattle herds. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/inside-the-bungled-bird-flu-response Wouldn't you know it, they looked the other way and didn't cull herds, and now there's two variants in cattle that's uncontained.
  14. I have a cousin that is a realtor and she would not take "no" for an answer from my wife and I when we were/are house shopping. Along the lines of what yall are saying, it just doesn't make sense to have a major financial transaction wrapped around a family relationship or friendship
  15. Wild there hasn't been more news about this. I guess we're getting the same pandemic playbook as last time with this particular president - ignore it and hope it goes away. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/usda-detects-bird-flu-strain-dairy-cattle-not-previously-seen-cows-according-2025-02-05/ Reuters: Second bird flu strain found in US dairy cattle, USDA says Wild that the CDC and FDA have said nothing about this - it's already impacting the egg supply (if "we" still "care" about that "issue" lol), and is poised to impact milk supplies if it starts to impact cattle and taint milk. Even moreso if that milk is no longer being pasteurized. Fucks sake, man.
  16. Downtown Tulsa? Hardly a good test or impressive stats when you're only seeing two or three other people /s
  17. protip if you DO use biometrics - most phones have a "secure lock" feature where you can click the lock button 5 times and it'll require a password or passcode input. Rebooting the phone does the same thing too, and still is compliant with the police's request and is not destructive towards any potential """evidence""" they'd want to pin on you
  18. Pretty incredible and shocking news stories coming out with the increased push and emphasis on immigration. I figured surly could use a NEWS thread to collect the happenings, and they are pretty newsworthy if you're a Texan. To kick us off, Alice ISD is now circulating a letter advising parents to make sure their children have their paperwork on them at all times, as ICE is stopping school busses to check for illegal 4th graders https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/05/alice-texas-buses-students-citizenship-border-patrol/ Gonna be a long way down this news hole, I fear.
  19. Bibi has a chance to do the funniest thing
  20. Really excellent analysis of what started the Eaton fire. Poorly maintained electrical lines say HOLLA!
  21. Well yeah, if the dollar takes a dump it'll make their crypto holdings more valuable. They're just fucking James Bond villians running their scheme.
  22. It's so maddening because there's no good reason to do this. The US government is not a trustless system, and this would do nothing but add overhead and a new literal cryptoregulatory state. Code is law, after all.
  23. They're all busy sucking on their teeth and wondering what trades to make to net up during the tarrifs dumbassery
  24. It fits with the cycle of abuse
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