My whole life, fascism was defined as being stopped by armed, masked agents of the national government who demand your papers, on pain of arrest, injury, or death.

That’s now here, and the group of people who warned about that the most are either silent or in favor of it,

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Looks like the @washingtonpost.com has put @abigailspanberger.com back in office for a few more days.

This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.

www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.

It's a surreal--and troubling--read.

drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

Elon Musk (through xAI) filed a 61-page lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI today. As a technologist with a lot of clients relying on clarity about what's happening in the fast-moving generative AI space, I try to pay close attention to this stuff.

Here's a thread of some of the interesting tidbits:

UVA Police have sent out an alert for the UVA area urging people to shelter in place because they are looking for a suspect. This is after an earlier text alert stating that there's "Fire/Police activity in the area of Alderman Road. Avoid the area."