Mitch's Blog

Jun 24, 2025 ↓

The LA Dodgers claim they deterred an ICE raid, but the men in masks claim otherwise. techdirt.com

Jun 24, 2025 ↓

The rĂ©sumĂ© is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun. HR departments are being overwhelmed by “hiring slop” — applicants using AI to bulk-generate resumes. arstechnica.com

Jun 24, 2025 ↓

“One of the most tech-savvy judges in the US has ruled that Anthropic is within its rights to scan purchased books to train its Claude AI model, but that pirating content is legally out of bounds.” theregister.com

Jun 24, 2025 ↓

The Middle East and Africa are hot spots for data center growth. fierce-network.com

Jun 24, 2025 ↓

“The federal government has effectively given up on regulating driverless vehicles. That’s good news for Elon Musk.” theverge.com

Jun 24, 2025 ↓

The CDC’s once-revered vaccine panel is now a “farce,” and calls are growing to cancel its upcoming meeting. arstechnica.com

Infectious diseases physician Fiona Havers, who recently resigned from the agency in protest, said the CDC’s vaccine processes have been “corrupted in a way that I haven’t seen before.”

She said:

If it isn’t stopped, and some of this isn’t reversed, like, immediately, a lot of Americans are going to die as a result of vaccine-preventable diseases.

Jun 24, 2025 ↓

⁠⁠The Supreme Court just gave the Trump administration a green light to traffic humans to random countries around the world–including war zones where migrants face torture, slavery, or death. And they did so while offering literally zero explanation for why this is legal or constitutional.

— techdirt.com

Jun 25, 2025 ↓

Mitchellaneous Vol. LXXXIX: Twelve things I saw on the Internet


Remembering Clarence Williams III who died on June 4, 2021 with a photo if him and Leslie Uggams on set of “The Mod Squad” 1972 episode,“Kill Gently, Sweet Jessie.”



“Pat Woodruff does homework with radio going full blast” - Nina Leen, 1944 in TIME




A fun low-budget movie.