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mjt

How is this not extortion, even for an occupant of the White House who is immune from criminal acts committed in his official acts? There’s nothing official about shakedowns.

#USpol #Corruption #WTF social.treehouse.systems/@Anar

Treehouse MastodonAnarchoNinaAnalyzes (@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@treehouse.systems)Five more high profile #BigLaw legal firms have capitulated to Downmarket Mussolini's fascist threats in order to keep raking in federal contracts; even as 500 of their contemporaries in US law are actively proving that fighting the Trump regime is an option: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/trump-law-firms-pro-bono-deal Trump says five more law firms agree to pro bono work to avoid punitive executive orders "Donald Trump said on Friday that five major law firms reached agreements to together provide his administration $600m in pro bono legal work, among other terms, to avoid executive orders punishing them, a significant capitulation to the president as he attacks the legal profession. The five firms – Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft – are among the most prestigious and recognized firms in the US. Trump’s announcement on Friday on Truth Social means he has secured a total of $940m in pro bono work from some of the most powerful law firms in the US. The orders come as Trump’s attack on the legal profession has divided the most prestigious firms in the US. More than 500 firms signed an amicus brief last week in support of a legal challenge to executive orders punishing the firm Perkins Coie. But many of the country’s biggest firms – including those that reached agreements announced on Friday – were conspicuously absent." Frankly, I'm tired of repeating myself so I'll keep this brief. These firms are all kissing the fascist toad in the White House's ring because standing up to him, even when the law is on their side, risks too much of their ability to make money and that's more important to them than the law, or any sort of moral obligation to oppose fascism from those in a position to do so. Like every other Big Law firm before them, these folks have traded away their independence and integrity without any guarantee whatsoever that this represents the end of Downmarket Mussolini's demands; which means, even if they don't realize it, all of these law firms work for Trump now. Maybe these bigshot lawyers honestly believe, as former Skadden lawyer Rachel Cohen reported in the interview I shared above, that they can outsmart the regime, but that presupposes the Trump administration is playing by a set of rules - which is an idea that is wholly discredited by the blatantly unconstitutional executive orders and threats from the White House that brought us to this moment in the first place. Finally I would encourage folks not to dismiss the almost 1 billion dollars in promises for pro bono services to the regime and causes Trump himself supports, that Der Leader has extracted here. Downmarket Mussolini is forcibly recruiting massive law firms to help him conduct an assault on our civil rights and the American legal system itself, and when he says the firms have agreed they “will not deny representation to clients, such as members of politically disenfranchised groups and Government Officials, employees, and advisors” he's making that explicitly clear. I mean let's cut the bullshit here, this is a regime that has argued that white people, and fundamentalist Christians are "politically disenfranchised groups" in fucking writing, so I don't think it's hard to imagine what kind of cases Trump is going to deploy his new minions to argue on behalf of his fascist, white nationalist regime. Trump just bought himself an army of lawyers to do fascism with, and it didn't cost him anything more than the paper his unconstitutional executive orders were printed on. #Fascism #Trump #Courts #VichyEstablishment #CivilRights #KirklandEllis #LathamWatkins #AOShearman #Cadwalader #SimpsonThacherBartlett #Collaboration #Cowardice
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Jack William Bell

Speaking of #AI, there's something I've been wondering about. And I'll admit it may already have happened and I just don't know about it – but why isn't there a large anti-AI movement in US churches, calling it the tool or even spawn of the devil/antichrist?

Because it just seems like such a rich and fallow field for some religious grifter to plow among the faithful. And yet we are seeing AI-as-prosperity-gospel instead.

Weird. 😕

#religion#WTF
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Alexey Skobkin (test)

Смотрю как(ую|ие) морд(у|ы) можно будет поднять для своего инстанса.

Чем больше смотрю - тем больше радуюсь, что я когда-то выбрал пойти в бэкенд, а не фронтенд.

Из последнего - наткнулся на морду "Trunks", где блоки меняют размеры прямо под курсором и это не просто не баг, но ещё и анимировано 😱

Вспоминается вот эта знаменитая сцена:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7WI_NwUiNg

GIF
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DeManiak 🇿🇦 🐧

oh my fack.

Just sat through a demo where a guy was showing how to use llm to produce a certain thing.

But here's the thing: this particular thing is billed as a way to build understanding of a particular feature or system, and to validate, by example, that your solution produces the correct answer.

and they want to farm THAT work out to LLMs.

Let that sink in.

#GenAI#WTF
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