You don't get babies named Adolf any more and you also don't get many Ringos - it begs the question, what exactly has he done that we don’t know about?

Google conditioned its users for decades to trust top search results. And now the very top result is an overview from a robot on drugs.

I've started asking people the thought experiment "are there more doors or wheels on planet earth?". I don't really care about their answer, but the speed at which they ask ChatGPT allows me to assess how much I care about their thoughts and opinions on other matters.

What a find - the house of Peter Firmin, the creator of bagpuss, which doubled for Emily’s shop, is for sale www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/8...

huge if true

🎶We can car if we want to We can leave your friends behind 'Cause your friends don't car And if they don't car Well they're no friends of mine🎶

In a statement to @benmullin.bsky.social, Scott Pelley disputes what Bari Weiss said in this morning's editorial meeting, claiming he was never offered "a way back" as she claimed. "These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for..."

Few people ever find a niche passion that intersects with a niche talent and at an age when they’re unapologetic about both. Before the world says “you should be embarrassed.” He’s gonna end up being a world renowned ornithological researcher or educator.

RIP British fantasy and sci-fi illustrator, modeller, and art director John Blanche. This fantastic artist was especially well-known for his work on Warhammer (including 40K, etc). He retired from work at Games Workshop three years ago only. He was 77.

this is my kind of company motto right here

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

On President Trump's appointment of Bill Pulte as DNI. Every word of this statement by Senator @markwarner.bsky.social, Vice-Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is spot on.

The BBC have invented Goodwin's Law: any political discussion programme must include a Nazi.

To be extremely clear, this is fraud. SpaceX's "valuation" will be met by indexes voluntarily rigging their own rules on profitability and passive investment, and I think if someone had fallen into a coma in 2022 and woke up today they would assume this is all an extremely poor joke.

all foxes arrive in kit form

my personal fave was the fic that had your lass stripping to pay the bills whilst men threw pounds at her on stage. sir that’s assault

Having been chair of Ofcom, one might have hoped Lord Grade would know that the problem with GB News isn't its coverage of a "majority agenda" (and I'd dispute that's even true), it's their failure to respect the rules on impartiality and due accuracy. But I suspect he does know this really.

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Oliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down! "You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock." www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

many rookies have fallen victim to the fatal error of wasting energy defeating mumford's sons individually rather than focusing on incapacitating mumford himself, a move which severs their link to the hive

Incredible piece, but it needs to be said explicitly: these people are dangerous eugenicists. They want the "wrong" people to be exterminated and replaced by AI. That's abhorrent and you can't pretend otherwise.

hope you brought urine!

oh god I've completely lost it at this

Do not watch Sesame Street on Tubi with the subtitles on 😭. I swear, I didn't edit or add anything. Is it hilarious? Yes, but also, they need to fix this immediately. Absolutely incomprehensible and bad

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

As for Trump's "last-ditch" claim (filed 5/26) that removing his name from the Kennedy Center would render it "financially nonviable," Judge Cooper drop-kicked it in a footnote: untimely; "zero evidentiary value"; "unsupported opinion" & "contradicted by the record" & 60 yrs of history.

I’m still amazed this obvious piece of cheating wasn’t discovered.

We love to see it: Federal judge orders IRS case reopened, will investigate if DOJ’s fake dismissal request to create slush fund constituted a fraud on the court, or otherwise sanctionable, “collusive” conduct. Win for former fed judges who moved to reopen: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Well this is news

A lasting memory of Bilton is his stolen-valor coverage of Theranos, months after the WSJ’s John Carreyrou broke the story

My team uncovered that foreign enemies are targeting U.S. servicemembers in war zones by buying their location data. The threat to national security posed by data brokers has never been more clear. We need to dismantle the surveillance advertising industry.

Wrong to the point of malpractice

I would also appreciate it if a bunch of nerds helped me iron out any bugs in this: andrewblair.co.uk/apps/who-tit... #doctorwho

The circumstances of this are grim and ugly, but at least she had the satisfaction of dropping a perfect line on the way out.

Tom Gray is amazing at this sort of thing. An impassioned speech to the Ivors Academy. Inspiring stuff.

Couldn't think of a song related pun for the headline no? Nothing in his back catalogue you could link to still not being dead

Can we fast forward to the 50-page opinion where the judge threatens to sanction every attorney who touched this

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

One of these imminently regretful brothers is me (not pictured). Follow the link to find out why I now wear a hat, and to give some money if you like (or if you don’t particularly like but feel sufficiently pressured). www.justgiving.com/page/christi...

absolute scenes on the uk diy subreddit

Lightning, Prince of Wales Road, Norwich

One thing that won't get enough attention about John Cornyn's loss to Ken Paxton is that, no matter what happens in November, Texas Republicans just willingly gave up seniority in the Senate, one of the most prized currencies in federal politics. Let me explain what I mean... (thread)

OK, so Helen Whately and the Express are doubling down and going all out hysterical at this point...🙄 They've actually "calculated" the state benefits a man with ELEVEN WIVES could claim!! And this time, they've done it behind a paywalled article🤷‍♀️ But don't worry, I got behind it!🤓 🧵1/20

Thanks Mr Blair but a baselessly confident 6,000 word diatribe telling the UK to move right on every issue while embracing Trump and Silicon Valley wasn't even that cute all those times Dominic Cummings wrote it.

I feel like the photographer could have gotten a little closer tbh

I would charge five million pounds And I would charge five million more Just to be the man who charged the NHS a shit-ton more