Instead of intergalactically, generationally, transcendentally better in every way than every single person the machine has put forward in this entire cycle.

Like, imagine if he could have relaxed to the level where Zohran had only had to be merely twice as good as the kind of white dudes that get propped up for Senate campaigns.

One of the things that is wild to me is that it took *this* long to get a South Asian dude to be considered an acceptable candidate for this major position, and he had to be this wildly over-capable for the job, and it *still* was over the strenuous objections of the entire Democratic machine.

‘Good lord, what a smell’: can Brazil’s biggest city save a vital source of water from sewage, bacteria and organised crime?

The House voted on Thursday to approve new aid for Ukraine and impose a fresh round of sanctions targeting the industries fueling Russia’s war economy, after 18 Republicans defied their leaders to join Democrats in support of a bill that runs counter to Trump’s agenda.

I was just looking through my phone for something else and ran into this.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't find a single word in here about protecting Canadian artists from having their work stolen by AI companies, or compensating them for that stolen work. Why is it that people who create Canadian culture don't deserve accountability or control?

I hope there's an anthology of these somewhere

Some people don't seem to mind fascism as much as you'd think they should.

‘Unpredictable and extreme’: Asia braces for El Niño

George Santos called me after my story revealing federal investigations into his suspected market manipulation on Kalshi. And he said: "This story is going to get you a gun in your face." Then he lied about it. www.npr.org/2026/06/04/n...

FCC To Investigate TV Shows Where The Mom Has Job https://theonion.com/fcc-to-investigate-tv-shows-where-the-mom-has-job/

“The daily political grind” = the easiest job in the work for the softest man ever

Alberta's referendum questions are "framed to divide us: to make neighbours into strangers, and strangers into threats," writes Jared Wesley. "We must reject this process and these questions." "What we need is a politics of dignity." #abpoli thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

EFF’s Threat Lab confirmed @WIRED.com’s finding that Meta has deployed facial recognition code to millions of their always-on surveillance glasses.

Eating lunch now at a place named Pho Gyu 🤣

My new building has a pho place so I went down and ordered pho and ate pho alone and now I am sleepy from so much pho Pho

Brooklyn Pride Comic Book Fair! This Saturday at @lgbtbrooklyn.bsky.social! Come see me, @teaberryblue.net, and @lockettdown.bsky.social talk comics community and activism; stay for the future of comics journalism, portfolio reviews, and much more! www.anyonecomics.com/events/brook...

No one: SFO: READY FOR AI!!!!

Just in case it comes up, remember that November is National Veterans and Military Families Month, so, actually, Vets get more than just a single day. Also, it's existed as a federally recognized thing for 30 years now. Also National Military Appreciation Month is May.

Immigration attorneys are having to take down sites and social media channels as scammers use AI, deepfakes and cloned domains to impersonate them and scam clients.

Trust celebrates birth of rare lemur quadruplets. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

many people who would have lived longer will die because of this. he’s one of the most destructive people on the planet.

'Egyptian/Phoenician Glass Dog Head Bead, 6th-4th Century BC' www.lotsearch.net/lot/egyptian...

France bans bee-killing pesticides. Bees are the engine of our agriculture. Without them, our food supply is put at risk. Healthy soil and intact habitats form the foundation for true sustainability.

Suspect that the name of Revolt Homes Ltd, building something new on the site of a torn-down single-family trad home, is the result of ESL founders. Nothing wrong with that, but grin-inducing nonetheless.

Cory Doctorow was interviewed by Anna Foster on BBC Radio 4 Today on the topic of AI. I've captured a transcript of the questions here in a short thread (with the help of Google AI voice-to-text. Good AI, thank-you.) 1/5

My instant pattern recognition of this was either it’s a @theonion.com joke or they are finally building the transdimensional portal to hell from Doom or Event Horizon on the White House lawn

NJ voters should demand proof of life

The cost of Solar panels and batteries has come down massively over the last 2-4 years. We should have these systems everywhere! Oil is a necessary evil, for now. But we need to rapidly move to renewables everywhere.

About 20 years ago, Heather Champ, the pioneering blogger/photoblogger, and early community leader of Flickr, took my riffing on that "UGC" phrase and made a shirt out of it.

The biohackers subreddit banned all posts about peptides and HRT because peptide companies were spamming + manipulating the sub in order to manipulate Google AI and ChatGPT answers. Very insidious industry that is drastically changing the internet www.404media.co/companies-ar...

Proud to be a member:

Stephen Miller and Elon Musk have repeatedly talked about a full-scale purging of federal judges, and I think this is a real possibility to watch out for.

This decision, as a lot of people have said, is very very bad. It also completely nullified the decision of the lower court (which presumably reviewed the evidence) and provides more fodder for the MAGA claim that "the lower court is full of Woke Libs" www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

This tree in my yard is called Esk sunset, or Eskimo Sunset ( offensive term to some) so after a bit of research, it is named after an Island in New Zealand where it originated. Any hoots it is freaking gorgeous!

State Rep. Josh Turek (D-IA), a gold medal Paralympian, won the Democratic primary Tuesday and will now set his sights on the open Iowa U.S. Senate seat.

In an unsigned opinion with the three Democrats dissenting, Roberts court rules that George Wallace can stand in that schoolhouse door just as long as he wants.

HUGE: Deb Haaland has won the Democratic nomination for governor of New Mexico. On to the general!

To this day, I’m still a bit shaken to know that he isn’t from Baltimore.

to be clear, pulte appears in this video about 40 seconds in. i just thought you all would want to see the dildo slapping that precedes the presentation of the "Bill Pulte Fucks Only The Young" award

the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt

www.timesnownews.com/health/ebola... @timesofindianews.bsky.social

Ivanka and Jared Kushner are building a massive resort on Sazan Island, a private island in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Albania that used to house a Soviet military base which reportedly contains more than 3,600 nuclear bunkers. Seems like a story deserving of more investigation overall, tbh.

A federal appeals court panel blocks the Trump administration from banning 28 active duty transgender service members from the military.

yeah, no

Weight-loss drugs may prevent thousands of knee replacements, study suggests

CALIFORNIANS: have you voted yet? if not there’s still time! however, you need to use a ballot drop box or vote in person. DO NOT MAIL YOUR BALLOT. (trump and the goons borked the usps so things aren’t always postmarked at the point of origin, which means it could be marked late and won’t count.)

GOP cut imagination library in Indiana last year, too. Just fucking wild. I don't understand how someone takes picture books from toddlers and doesn't feel like a monster. insidethemagic.net/2025/02/doll...