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SCOTUSblog writer sentenced to six years in prison for tax evasion(nbcwashington.com)
7 points by mukmuk 2d ago|3 comments
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by mukmuk 11d ago
Why was this flagged?!
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by mukmuk 11d ago
Can one of the undoubtedly many meta employees reading this comment section speculate on why this happened?
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by mukmuk 25d ago
I have tried to understand what evidence Lonsdale’s Cicero Institute uses to support its homelessness model legislation. My provisional conclusion is that they are working backward from undermining the Housing First approach. I base this on
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Mysterious Astroturf Group Popped Up to Defend the Paramount Merger(theintercept.com)
5 points by mukmuk 25d ago|0 comments
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by mukmuk 27d ago
The attorneys who did this were Carmen Ortiz, Stephen P. Heymann, and Scott Garland. To their everlasting shame.
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by mukmuk 1mo ago
It has become a little hard for me to get past landing pages that read as slop. There are only so many hours in a day. Maybe it would be useful for Show HN submitters to indicate whether the link is something they built themselves.
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The malignant rise of OnlyFans managers(theguardian.com)
21 points by mukmuk 1mo ago|2 comments
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by mukmuk 1mo ago
See also: “Bellevue house at center of OnlyFans trafficking case” https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2026/06/09/bellevue-huma...
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by mukmuk 1mo ago
The current link is a cheap aggregation of the actual reporting by 404 Media: https://www.404media.co/software-giant-sap-stops-most-travel...
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by mukmuk 1mo ago
Anytime a company/group announces some random new project now, I tend to immediately suspect over-reliance on AI. From what I’ve seen, AI addiction frequently manifests as an explosion in scope, possibly because LLMs make so much initi
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by mukmuk 2mo ago
fwiw, Gemini 3.5 has identified itself to me as an OpenAI product on multiple occasions.
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AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn(pangram.com)
247 points by mukmuk 2mo ago|218 comments
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How to Tax a Billionaire(motherjones.com)
7 points by mukmuk 2mo ago|0 comments
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by mukmuk 3mo ago
I held my nose through the first third of the winning entry before giving up. Unbearable. Those metaphors… yeesh. Reminded me of this brutally fair minded attempt to read Shy Girl , the AI slop ‘horror novel’ Hachette pulled from shelves i
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How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Ranks Its Members(wired.com)
8 points by mukmuk 3mo ago|0 comments
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by mukmuk 3mo ago
The number of realists on this site is encouraging.
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by mukmuk 4mo ago
I’m not sure how to reconcile anthropic’s update / some of the exuberant comments here with recent feedback like the following from curl maintainer Daniel Steinberg: “I see no evidence that this setup [Mythos] finds issues to any parti
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by mukmuk 4mo ago
Isn’t this illegal?
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by mukmuk 5mo ago
From my experience, LLM performance in these areas is being massively oversold. I have repeatedly tried using Claude to modify a range of models typical of investment banking / private equity / sellside research contexts, and the
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by mukmuk 6mo ago
Our country is currently enforcing a blockade that is murdering children in Cuba. It is all so sickening.
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by mukmuk 6mo ago
the word general in italics was intended to read as “in contrast to this”...
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by mukmuk 6mo ago
Somewhat relatedly, there is a pretty plausible theory that some “find the Yeti” expeditions were in fact cover for operations by my country’s intelligence services to sabotage China. See e.g., https://topsecretumbra.substack.com
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by mukmuk 7mo ago
That is no longer true. What we have historically referred to as “health insurance” companies responded to ACA margin limits by becoming sprawling behemoths whose rampant self-dealing makes such profit margin calculations meaningless.
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by mukmuk 10mo ago
Our country has a long and sickening history of interdiction theater e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Peru_Cessna_185_shootdown
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by mukmuk 4y ago
I would recommend Garbage Day’s coverage of this: https://www.garbageday.email/p/a-big-confusing-game-of-inter... Also, for contextualizing the social media reactions (including on HN) I would recommend this recent New
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by mukmuk 9y ago
Apple Pay does not generate a unique card number for every purchase. One number is generated when the card is added to Wallet. This seems to be a common misconception.
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by mukmuk 10y ago
Thank you. I disagree that it's "just the same thing", but it is an interesting precedent to consider and one that I was not familiar with.
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by mukmuk 10y ago
I am also somewhat uncomfortable that his sponsorship was kept secret for so long, and that it easily could have stayed secret indefinitely.
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by mukmuk 10y ago
Can you point me to some examples where an individual financed litigation against a media outlet or journalist? I don't doubt they exist, but I can't think of any specifically.

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