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• President Trump has launched an organized "retribution campaign" against elite American institutions since November 2024, with most targets quickly capitulating

• Major law firms made deals with Trump:

• Paul, Weiss pledged $40M in pro bono services to Trump-supported causes
• Skadden Arps promised $100M in free legal work before Trump took action
• Some firms (Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, Jenner & Block) chose to fight in court

• Media organizations have settled or adjusted:

• ABC News settled a defamation lawsuit for $15M toward Trump's presidential library
• CBS News appears poised to settle for millions
• Washington Post and LA Times adjusted editorial content to please the White House

• Universities have complied with demands:

• Columbia University agreed to nine policy changes to unfreeze $400M in federal funding
• Many hired Republican lobbyists to maintain good relations with the administration

• Key reasons for compliance include:

• Financial self-preservation and desire to return to business as usual
• Extensive financial entanglements between private institutions and federal government
• Wealthy institutions paradoxically more vulnerable due to multiple pressure points
• Limited collective resistance as "everybody's looking out for number one"

OK, so Apple isn't big on responding to feedback:

Nickkk's numbers eclipse mine: I'm 0/10 on responses/acknowledgments/signs of life over the past couple of years. And you know what...

That's OK. They're telling us they're too big for that. OK.

Accepting this fact, how can Apple avoid hurting their fanboys' little feelings, like through better transparency setting expectations? Could we get some recognition, some social features, automated acknowledgments, a "thanks, archiving" email after 18mo w/o response for a sense of closure... anything?

& Kagi (search company w/controversial CEO) sounds like they're doing something right

Excerpt:

...Paul Kafasis...took it and pursued it thoroughly, asking Siri “Who won Super Bowl __?” for every number from 1 through 60.

His report at One Foot Tsunami documenting the results is utterly damning:

So, how did Siri do? With the absolute most charitable interpretation, Siri correctly provided the winner of just 20 of the 58 Super Bowls that have been played. That’s an absolutely abysmal 34% completion percentage. If Siri were a quarterback, it would be drummed out of the NFL.

Siri did once manage to get four years in a row correct (Super Bowls IX through XII), but only if we give it credit for providing the right answer for the wrong reason. More realistically, it thrice correctly answered three in a row (Super Bowls V through VII, XXXV through XXVII, and LVII through LIX). At its worst, it got an amazing 15 in a row wrong (Super Bowls XVII through XXXII). Most amusingly, it credited the Philadelphia Eagles with an astonishing 33 Super Bowl wins they haven’t earned, to go with the 1 they have.

Below, I’ve gathered a dozen of my favorite responses, in sequential order.

Courtesy (mostly) XCancel dot com:

Hey folks,

Made a post yesterday on !politics@lemmy.world

Here it is on our instance: https://lemmings.world/post/21083652

It shows up whether I'm logged in or not, but I was surprised to see it at +1 after a day - so I checked !politics@lemmy.world , and it's missing from the New queue where I would expect to see it based on its position as seen on: https://lemmings.world/c/politics@lemmy.world

Thank you very much folks!

Arizona Attorney General Chris Mayes strongly criticized the Trump administration this past Tuesday, describing its actions as dictatorial, authoritarian, and making a mockery of law and the Constitution.

A.G. Mayes spoke to the importance of checks and balances and the danger of ignoring established law. Mayes alleges Trump has transferred Congress's power to the unelected billionaire, Musk.

Mayes urges all Americans to stand up, speak out, and defend our democratic processes.

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President Musk (summarized):

• we were wrong
• it's OK we were wrong because... well, NBD anyway
• Americans ❤️ HIV -> Dead Africans

Transcript / Story below:

Musk questions value of US funding for HIV programmes in Mozambique

"Trump boasted last month that his administration had stopped $50m of “bomb-making” condoms being sent to the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, as part of a wider campaign led by billionaire Elon Musk to cut waste and fraud from federally funded programmes.

Trump provided no evidence for his claims, which caused widespread confusion. It later emerged that the recipients of the contraceptives may be a province in Mozambique sharing the same name, where USAID funds large-scale HIV prevention programmes.

Speaking to reporters at the White House on Tuesday, Musk was asked whether he would correct his previous statements. Here is what he said in response:

“Well, first of all, some of the things that I say will be incorrect and should be corrected. So nobody’s going to bat a thousand. We will make mistakes, but we’ll act quickly to correct any mistakes,” he said.

“I’m not sure we should be sending $50m worth of condoms to anywhere, frankly. I’m not sure that’s something Americans would be really excited about. That is really an enormous number of condoms, if you think about it. If it went to Mozambique instead of Gaza, I’m like, ‘Okay, that’s not as bad, but still, why are we doing that?’” Musk continued."

For remaking the funny place (one ninety six)

It’s safe, welcoming, and always a good time

alt text: a manipulated image portraying the alleged killer/controversial folk hero re-envisioned as a saintly figure, wearing Christian religious garb with a sun-like halo shining behind his head

Source: someone said this image hit the front page on reddit before being "censored".

Apparent credit: @gedogfx (IG). Title source: "Inkl". 💩posting for meme archival and commentary purposes.

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