Brian LaShomb

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Macs, Linux, Woodworking, Python, Rust, CISSP
Destroying one of the things that makes Minnesota great to seek profits for a Chilean company makes no sense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEvDnuglCKw #savetheboundarywaters #minnesota #bwca
We Went to Minnesota: The Billionaire Land Grab Will Shock You

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The siege of Minneapolis continues.

Excellent coverage of how much this brutal and useless assault on an American city just keeps getting worse, despite the regime using headfakes to get much of the media to back off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A83t1s_67xU

How the ICE operation in Minnesota is affecting medical care and mental health

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Whatever the output gains promised by LLMs, their initial productivity surge is erased over time, and replaced by heavier workloads—and that leads to workers experiencing “cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making.”

All this from research out of the notoriously pro-worker rag [checks notes] Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consistently intensify it: In the study, employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day, often without being asked to do so. That may sound like a win, but it’s not quite so simple. These changes can be unsustainable, leading to workload creep, cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making. The productivity surge enjoyed at the beginning can give way to lower quality work, turnover, and other problems. To correct for this, companies need to adopt an “AI practice,” or a set of norms and standards around AI use that can include intentional pauses, sequencing work, and adding more human grounding.

Harvard Business Review

ICYMI, from Reuters:

"Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell on Tuesday said Verizon and AT&T are blocking release of key documents about an alleged massive Chinese spying operation that infiltrated U.S. telecommunications networks known as Salt Typhoon and wants their CEOs to appear before Congress to answer questions."

"Cantwell asked both companies to turn over security assessments conducted by Alphabet cybersecurity unit Mandiant. She said Mandiant refused to provide the requested network security assessments, apparently at the direction of AT&T and Verizon."

"In some cases, hackers are alleged to have intercepted conversations, including between prominent U.S. politicians and government officials. Several lawmakers have described them as the worst telecom hacks in U.S. history."

"Cantwell said Salt Typhoon allowed the Chinese government to "geolocate millions of individuals" and "record phone calls at will," and that the incident targeted almost every American."

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/senator-says-att-verizon-blocking-release-salt-typhoon-security-assessment-2026-02-03/

This is not how the United States should be treating anyone, yet this is how it’s treating citizens. Pure racism, not even hidden. And silence from Republicans is compliance. How far we have fallen from the party of Lincoln.

https://youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?si=QnkPAn1MY0npLi-O

WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE

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On Liberty in Minnesota

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Unbelievable the levels of corruption anymore.

https://youtu.be/R7F7wcMMCNY?si=IWm1f00Fp2TO0F3b

Senator Murphy: Trump Sold Out America's National Security For Crypto Profit

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Willie Nelson - Heart Of America (From The Gray House Original Soundtrack)

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Funny how for years many iPad users (including me) asked Apple to create a shell/Terminal app for iPadOS. We were told that nobody cared, was unnecessary, no developer wanted to work on iPadOS anyway.

Guess where you CAN'T use Claude Code today?

LAWYER: The #1 MISTAKE People Make When ICE Knocks on the Door

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