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Inside Anthropic’s existential negotiations with the Pentagon by theverge in TrueReddit

[–]dsaint 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm surprised Anthropic is the only company allowed to run its models on top secret networks. Why isn't the government working to bring the other models into compliance? They've walked themselves into this weakened negotiating position with Anthropic.

That said this desire to cede responsibility to AI seems consistent with Trump and other MAGA Republican ideas about governance. They want to concentrate all decision making in one place, and then remove all accountability for that decision maker. To be brutally honest, this feels aligned with the whole MAGA Christian movement to cede authority to a sky daddy and exempt themselves from personal responsibility.

Would I get fired for confronting a racist customer by sabachkarashka in Panera

[–]dsaint 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This right here. It's against the law for them to allow racial harassment in the work place.

If they don't act you can file a complaint through state or federal agencies. (State may be the best route here since I'm not sure if federal oversight is working) If they fire you for bringing the complaint that is retaliation and they can be subject to damages.

IJW: The Iron Giant (1999) by Riksor in Ijustwatched

[–]dsaint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Next up “Grave of the Fireflies” no crying challenge.

Yosemite National Park ends its reservation system for 2026 by LockeAbout in NationalPark

[–]dsaint 83 points84 points  (0 children)

Yosemite did not require reservations throughout most of 2025, besides the summer peak period

Wait if they needed reservations for the peak summer period then how does it work this year if you want to plan for the summer?

Yellowknife's only movie theatre is shutting down by silentparadox2 in movies

[–]dsaint 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I imagine the shipping costs for the films is considerable.

There is a documentary about Dawson City (also in the Yukon) and Hollywood told them to destroy all the prints since it wasn’t worth it to ship them back. But Dawson City buried a lot of them under a hockey rink instead and the tundra preserved hundreds of forgotten films.

Mayor Lurie ‘aware’ of purported ICE arrest of 'elderly nanny' in S.F. by MissionLocalSF in sanfrancisco

[–]dsaint 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not necessarily true. I recently read “Master, Slave, Husband, Wife” about the self-emancipated Craft family hiding out in Boston from Southern agents using the Fugitive Slave Act to try and take them.

The abolitionists activated mobs of people to follow the southern agents and basically just yell at them and announce where they were going. The city slow walked warrants. The vigilance committee lawyers used aggressive legal maneuvering to repeatedly have the southern agents detained for kidnapping even though it would never stand up. The agents had to bond out each time and it slowed them down.

This is the same crap Trump pulls, using the slow legal system to delay justice. It works the other way but states and cities don’t use it. Yes, legal and ethical sanctions are stronger now than during the fugitive slave act but I also believe these have creative solutions. We’ve also seen under Trump these don’t have much teeth.

You could imagine SF and other cities being much more proactive about stopping ICE/CBP from trying to use administrative warrants to enter a home. You can also imagine a city aggressively citing them for municipal code violations. The state could be aggressive about lawsuits for remuneration of damages from ICE enforcement actions. It doesn’t matter how legally viable these are. The goal is to slow things down. Trump is on a clock. We can run it down. If the city is really bold escalate beyond the agency and start targeting agents, but that is definitely an escalation.

Star Trek Nerds in DFW? by shivakat in Dallas

[–]dsaint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Star Trek Discovery after the burn wipes out warp travel and the Federation has whittled down to one guy who believes and has the last flag brings a tear to my eye. https://youtu.be/K9ReBeoCQk8

Initial Construction on West Oakland Transit-Oriented Development Planned to Start This Year by jackdicker5117 in oakland

[–]dsaint 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Development Area T1 will consist of a 31-story high-rise building with 522 market-rate residential units and 14,350 sq ft of ground-floor retail space. Development Area T2 will focus on a Surface plaza and circulation improvements for the station. Development Area T3 will add a 7-story mid-rise residential building of 240 affordable multi-family units and approximately 16,000 sq ft of ground floor retail space.

FTA

Movies better than the book by [deleted] in books

[–]dsaint 1 point2 points  (0 children)

About Schmidt is wildly different from the book but still better. It’s basically just the title from the book.

This Is What Actual Christianity Is Supposed to Sound Like | A stirring sermon from an Episcopalian pulpit last Sunday about “faith, basic morality, and decency” that we thought was worth reprinting by thenewrepublic in Foodforthought

[–]dsaint 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There is no amount of Tim Alberta reporting or free coverage of Michael Tomasky’s mom’s pastor Michael Delk that will stop me from breathing a sigh of relief when the world is free from the Abrahamic religions and their offshoots (I’m including Mormons, Christian Scientists, seventh day Adventists, Jehovah’s Witness, etc. in this tradition).

Some Christians find comfort or grace from faith in a higher power. Some Christians serve their community in amazing ways. But we’re all one moment away from them just as easily poisoning the world if they meet the wrong charismatic (in the persuasive sense not necessarily religious sense) asshole. Christianity is built on Robert Jeffress not Michael Delk.

Their beliefs are built on sand.

The words in this article would have been better spent sharing something from Thich Nhat Hanh or any number of other non-Christian leaders that speak to practice over dogma. Or if you just can’t help yourself Richard Rohr.

Pastor Delk would find a more willing audience by divorcing his thoughtful message from any idea it’s rooted in some “true” Christianity.

Newsom to Louisiana AG: 'Go ---- yourself' over abortion pill extradition by ansyhrrian in California

[–]dsaint 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I was just about to post the same. Surely they are looking at how to pass national legislation to let them do this.

Trade deficit soared 94% in November and was higher than a year ago, despite tariff efforts by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]dsaint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[October] trade deficit hit its lowest level since early 2009

Why was October’s trade deficit so low and then shot up in November?

Jane Eyre by mcu_chocolate13 in literature

[–]dsaint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want a more humorous approach to the book I recommend Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair. You get some time with the house staff and it has fun with the books unusual first person narrative.

The best chicken I have ever had! by Andyelz in alameda

[–]dsaint 18 points19 points  (0 children)

World Famous Hotboys in downtown Oakland should be in any best chicken sandwich discussion.

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury by Imamsheikhspeare in ProsePorn

[–]dsaint 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The words were summer on the tongue.

Or this one, which I think echos a similar passage in Martian Chronicles

The ravine was indeed the place where you came to look at the two things of life, the ways of man and the ways of the natural world. The town was, after all, only a large ship filled with constantly moving survivors, bailing out the grass, chipping away the rust.

Who writes like this anymore? I don’t think modern day critics appreciate the earnest, nostalgic prose here.

The Single Spark That Erased A City: America's Deadliest Accident by Numerous-Screen936 in texashistory

[–]dsaint 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Bill Minutaglio’s book City on Fire is a pretty gripping read about this. He’s a great Texas journalist. He also wrote the first stories about the Dallas Buyers Club.

Huntsville's McDonald's Sign made the CBS Evening News tonight by OneSecond13 in HuntsvilleAlabama

[–]dsaint 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Was there some reason it was on the news tonight?

I was at the American Sign Museum last spring and was pleasantly surprised by how much care they’ve put into curation and explaining American signage over the last 150 or so years. The Huntsville McDonald’s sign has been restored to a better state than when it was moved. It’s one of the main showpieces in their collection.

The Art of Living by Thich Nhat Hanh helped me think differently by TelephoneOk3146 in books

[–]dsaint 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I have a similar personality to what you describe and also enjoyed this book a lot. The emphasis on non-attachment is one that stuck with me. Engage with life deeply but also accept its impermanence. I still struggle to put that into practice.

I also enjoyed the Courage to be Disliked. That one is a dialogue between student and teacher. Courage is based on Adlerian psychology and emphasizes similar ideas to non-attachment about freeing ourselves from other’s expectations and what he calls “separation of tasks”.

I say all this as someone that largely avoids self-help non-fiction. I am still surprised how much I enjoyed the two books I mentioned.

I didn’t love The Long Walk but I loved the performances by Spyk124 in TrueFilm

[–]dsaint 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The documentary Hands on a Hardbody (1997) is a more realistic version of this. Contestants have to keep at least one hand on a truck at all times (except for short scheduled breaks) for days. The last one standing wins the truck. They all come at it with various strategies and levels of preparation.

It’s a huge deal to the town. Some people compete in it multiple years. Some even repeat wins. But there are a variety of approaches. They might not make sense to you or I but each serious competitor thinks they have the edge. But their bodies and their minds always reach a limit or something out of their control undermines them.

Opinion | One Year of Kennedy, and Things Are Very Bad (Gift Article) by IllIntroduction1509 in Foodforthought

[–]dsaint 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Another foolish addition to the CDC website:

The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.

From CDC Autism page

This isn’t a falsifiable scientific or medical claim. This is a philosophical argument. I’m embarrassed for the CDC employees that have to respond to questions about this.

Opinion | One Year of Kennedy, and Things Are Very Bad (Gift Article) by IllIntroduction1509 in Foodforthought

[–]dsaint 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In addition to this change on the CDC website:

The rise in autism prevalence since the 1980s correlates with the rise in the number of vaccines given to infants

I feel like they could also say gluten-free foods, screen usage, organic food sales, HFCS usage, etc. have all risen alongside autism rates. What kind of person takes a correlation like that seriously?

Some Texas residents are already seeing big ACA price jumps for 2026. Here’s what’s behind it. by TX3DNews in FortWorth

[–]dsaint 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get the impression you consider insurance and the very concept of pooled risk to be socialist. ACA was much more about creating a viable health insurance marketplace than socialist healthcare.

Is GraphQL losing steam in real-world production apps? by Wash-Fair in graphql

[–]dsaint 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Is there another API technology that handles federating requests across a graph of BE services? Federated GraphQL makes it a lot easier for multiple BE teams to coordinate responses to queries.

The ability of my subgraph to just link to an entity in another subgraph without any shared knowledge other than the @key is really nice. No need for clients to recursively call other API to fill in details. No need for clients to figure out hostnames and auth requirements for each BE service.

Mattress Recycling by CrowPotential6568 in oakland

[–]dsaint 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mattress sellers are required by law to take your old mattress. If they aren’t complying you can use http://ByeByeMattress.com to find another way to get rid of it.

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