The headline is misleading. The pardon was for the 3 year prison sentence for $39 Million dollars in tax fraud for he stealing his employees payroll tax withholdings.

Well maybe they are private enterprise death panels, but they trust them more than theoretical government death panels because the private sector is more efficient than government at cutting costs, such as, um, actually paying for needed care and oh shit they did not think that through.

edit: I meant to reply that to the comment above, but oh well. It’s here now.

This will be an important test for local governments holding federal agents responsible of unlawful behavior. I expect the Trump crowd to all out fight this, both in court and media.

I mean, I don’t actually want to talk you out of your vow there, but I’m fairly confident this was from a random troll with no affiliation to the actual company. Now I don’t doubt they’d do it if they thought it would be profitable, but even if they did foolishly think this would work, I’d be shocked if we’re even on their radar.

Maybe? Can’t go back and look because the account was deleted. I could have easily missed or even forgotten any additional details. Heck, I recently had to be reminded it was 3 days and not a whole week, so don’t put to much trust in my memory.

I was there, Bootleg. I was there 3 thousand years ago. I was there the day the patience of Lemmy failed. I mean, come on mizu6079, just tell us why you need to avoid pooping for that long!

But yeah, that happened right after I started using Lemmy. I’d been commenting for less than a week, and my first post was a “Chewy, we’re home” meme about how all the memes on the topic made me feel as a new user. That account’s long dead now, but apparently lemmy.world still has my post https://lemmy.world/post/560966. Federation is neat.

OP commented cheerfully on all the memes about him, but still refused to elaborate. Then he disappeared for the week, as expected. I can’t remember for sure, but I thought I recalled him returning briefly asking for advice on dealing with severe constipation, getting annoyed that everyone still only wanted to talk about how his week went and what the hell this was all about, and then he disappeared for good. I assume he’s likely still around under a new identity and he just sighs and clicks away every time this is brought up again.

Sounds like she didn’t have any problems spending her husband’s porn money before. It’d be a bit hypocritical if she suddenly has a problem with it now that it’s her hand on the tiller. To be fair, big life changes like the loss of a loved one often makes people rethink things in their life. If she does have an issue with that business model, she’ll probably just sell her stake so she can remain uninvolved, but still be rich.

It seems to be a series of posts from one person, starting with “look at this bad idea someone had” followed up with numerous "oh god it gets worse " posts, featuring screen shots of the project and reaction images to mock it.

Reminds me of several years back when a police department got caught using their civil asset forfeiture acquired funds to buy, among other things, a margarita machine. I had assumed this was a gross misuse of funds, a betrayal of public trust and etc, but what if they just got it as a tool for a creative interrogation tactic?

I’m gonna have to look that up again. I think I recall them getting away with no consequences.

Well, according to this article from Pivot to AI, you determine if it’s Claude by saying ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86 and seeing if it stops responding until it gets a fresh context history. Of course, if this gets popularized, I imagine they’ll patch it out.

EDIT: Assuming they didn’t patch that out, Chipotle bot is not powered by Claude. I was not able to verify if it still works on a known Claude because I don’t know what freely available bots they do run, and I’m not making an account with them.

“New York City police investigating lake after officers got wet after walking into it.”

As much as I hate these assholes coopting Tolkien’s works, it is a really apt name for this company. In the story, the Palantir were wonderous tools for communication until they were corrupted and taken over by literal evil, turned into tools of surveillance and control.

I dislike that the article refers to Thiel as a Libertarian without putting quote marks around it. While he is firmly opposed to governments regulating businesses, he makes and sells the tools to help governments exercise more authority over private citizens. I know the term has also been largely coopted by fascists, but it still annoys me.

Some of the services supposedly built on AI have turned out to be exactly that. The AIs themselves aren’t though. They’re dumb in a way that is very distinct from the way we humans are dumb.

A TV doctor snake oil marketer turned MAGA official.

Sure, of course he lid, but I try to look for the deeper wisdom that can be harder to see.

jaybone: Stop misusing this meme format!

greenknight23: You know what? I’m gonna start misusing it even harder.

“S bren s beve”

Such words of wisdom.

Mr President, if we get to November of [2026] and people’s 401(k)s are down 30% and prices are up 10–20% at the supermarket, we’re going to go into election day, face a bloodbath

Wow, I agree with something Ted Cruz said. That doesn’t happen often.

fuck you, Ted

And I agree with something Trump said? On the same day, no less. What are the odds?

Problem with that idea is that they don’t actually care about any of the technicalities one way or the other, they just tossed out a somewhat plausible sounding “justification” to have something to point to. Their idiots will believe the justification regardless, and everyone else’s time can be wasted arguing about it.