Oh my god. Oh my fucking god.

Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer

A Russian spy who spent years infiltrating think-tanks and academic institutions close to the Orbán government was sent home from Budapest vsquare.org/the-think-ta...

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

“Both Russian and pro-Trump U.S. actors are amplifying and spreading misinformation about Alberta separatism in the hope of fraying Canadian unity and sowing distrust.” An overt attack on Canadian sovereignty, meant specifically to manipulate Canadians. That’s what’s fuelling Alberta separation.

There are two higher ed Bluskies right now:

So they’re not banning mail-in voting, they’re just changing the format

Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

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"They have received guidance to self-isolate." We've learned absolutely nothing from COVID.

Watch as our telcos vie for title of absolute worst, it’s must-see tee vee

"The United States let in just 6,069 refugees for the fiscal year through the end of April, closely approaching the annual cap, according to government data released earlier this week. Three were from Afghanistan; the rest were from South Africa."

What a lovely experience that must be for everyone aboard.

GEO competitor CoreCivic's Q1 earnings call is just starting. Profit for this concentration camp profiteer is also up up up by 51 percent from the last quarter. That's thanks to government contracts, aka our taxes.

Microcosm of the horror of this post-Callais moment: the Mississippi House plans to hold its redistricting session in the Old Capitol where they seceded & instituted Jim Crow. They'll meet there aiming to erase Bennie Thompson's district — the one majority-Black district in a state that's ~40% Black

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Opinion | You cannot trust Democratic politicians. They aren’t who they claim to be. by John Barron and Maye Musk

“My god, it’s full of stars!” #StarCitizen

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Could Altuve have hit this Ohtani sweeper, if he used himself as a bat?

Guys. Heads up. Let’s talk about Hantavirus. There have been SEVERAL bad takes and BLATANT misinformation circulating regarding this outbreak so I figured it was a good idea to make a thread about it. Stay calm. Stay vigilant. Know your facts. Here’s ALL you need to know. 🧪🧵⬇️

this is the good sports stuff

“10 publishers—The Toxic 10—are spreading baseless, unscientific climate denial on their own websites & across social media. They are responsible for 69% of all interactions with climate denial content on Facebook. It's a climate denial propaganda machine funded in part by Google via ad revenue…”

Once again, behold the unparalleled parsimony & explanatory power of the Dennis Green Unified Theory Of American Politics

Part of the reason (along with doing considerable direct harm) that disability activists and long covid patients have tried so bloody hard to get the rest of y’all to stop pretending the pandemic doesn’t exist is that it involves refusing to learn anything from it.

And this is one good reason that respiratory precautions should still be standard in healthcare settings. Because what happens when the doctor gets the thing?

Yikes, that hit by MacKinnon

We looked into Polymarket's presence in Panama, obtained its government paperwork and visited its headquarters in Panama City. There was no sign of Polymarket. Nobody had heard of Polymarket there. www.npr.org/2026/05/05/n...

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

I suspect right now Colorado are big fans of the game management school of refereeing

That was certainly egregious by Burns

Our investigation unmasks the Dutch Youtube creators hiring actors to front videos promoting Alberta separatism. The videos, which have gotten tens of millions of views, exploit genuinely-held grievances, use exaggeration and lies to drive engagement./

Exposing 'faceless' YouTubers pushing Canada to join the U.S. Reporting by @ericszeto.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXaf...

Interesting article. Kinda makes an argument both for and against a CPU upgrade! #StarCitizen www.pcgameshardware.de/Star-Citizen...

again, I'm fascinated with U.S. journalism that crafts a weird alternate reality for the readership where our regulators still function in the public interest, policy is coherent, corruption doesn't exist, and Trump cares about security (or anything outside his own wealth and power)

Bloom lived up to its billing. #StarCitizen

@mjm5477.bsky.social I hope you’re having a very happy birthday!

SCOTUS is now quite firmly lodged in, "What are you going to do about it?" territory. It's important to elect only people who are promising to do something about it.

"For this focus group, conducted shortly before a sustained green glow began emanating from the station’s superlaser array, we spoke with residents who said they had backed Emperor Palpatine but now felt conflicted."

"No, no, great job, you disintegrated the first-ever pedestrian-only planet. You drove a million miles just to ruin a perfectly lovely living space."

Again, folks did not like it here last year when I asked what anyone had seen since January 2025 to make them believe that the 2026 elections would be free & fair, but well, here we are. Democrats might still win (again, it’s <competitive> authoritarianism), but it won’t be a level playing field.

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"This isolated incident does not reflect who we are as a modern society and does not need to be taught to our youth."

BREAKING: We're suing Texas to block a law that would allow local and state law enforcement to arrest, detain, and remove people they suspect to be immigrants, all without federal authorization.

This is bad for a bunch of reasons, but one thing Canada can do to prevent this kind of thing is make it illegal for companies to store precise location info under most circumstances. Google shouldn't be able to give DHS info about Canadians' movements because they shouldn't have that data.

Supreme Court must, surely, have known this could happen when they issued the ruling at this time.

“An Edmonton city councillor says he and his team are helping a woman facing intimate partner violence relocate with her children after her address was leaked in an alleged privacy breach by a separatist group.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...