Instant phrase of the year: "Trump Curse" #TrumpCurse

I don't know if this will help, but anything is worth a try:

If you're technical, you probably roll your eyes every time fad X comes out and an elected official claims existential risk if there's no national X : X ⊆ {AI, 1.8 nm chips, quantum... }. As @doctorow.pluralistic.net points out the fad is not the existential risk. 1/9 youtu.be/r03DPWGIxfY?...

Iran War disaster. Knicks game loss. Hail at Mt. Rushmore on July 3. Sandstorm in DC on July 4. 4-1 World Cup loss. Trump is like a traveling pestilence.

The EU should legalize reverse engineering game server protocols after servers are shut down by the game publisher. This would be a small, but important, step to combating enshitification. youtu.be/jmgjNJul3ps?...

LO, right after Trump corruptly intervened to get a player unsuspended, the US soccer team got fucking destroyed. Everything he touches turns to shit.

Thanks Trump.

What's confusing about this video is that Google leads with their AI summary. Bing had like zero impact. Since Google went to AI, it's killing publishers. youtube.com/shorts/Si_mG...

AI Productivity is Incalculable (and largely snake-oil). If I were to say statistics around AI productivity and adoption is murky is an understatement. Depending on your source, you could see it makes developers from +100% to -5% more (or less) productive. What are you to believe? 1/9

#$META leasing out its compute. Combined with reports of engineers working on programming problems for training, this is damning. The first is an admission they don't have a use for the capacity they built. The second is they don't have a use for the engineers they hired.

Oh come on, this is the Onion headline

A good one for the Nuremberg Caucus concept of @doctorow.pluralistic.net Publish a list of future indictments & other actions NOW, & keep a running tally. That way we’ll know the D’s are serious. pluralistic.net/2026/02/10/m...

Trump has used the presidency to rake in $2.2 BILLION for himself. This is the most corrupt administration in American history.

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After years of progress and generations of healthier kids, 2025 and 2026 have seen skyrocketing numbers of measles cases – and there’s no sign they’re letting up soon. Trump and RFK Jr. have turned the clocks back and needlessly endangered countless kids.

The US strikes against small boats have not stopped any significant drug smuggling. From @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Well, this is exciting.

The complete entry can be viewed at www.oed.com/dictionary/e....

Breaking News! Code: y-axis alert! As of July 5th, the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly has now crossed 1.80°C above the 1991-2020 mean. ' The Nino 3.4 SST is now 3.46 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 mean:

If it feels like generated slop is crowding content made by humans, it is. When I open YouTube without being logged in, I have trouble finding something that's not slop. But why so many likes on those videos? I suspect farmed engagement to promote the video.

Trump’s self-dealing dwarfs the GOP’s Biden accusations Republicans’ wildest claims about the Bidens pale in comparison to Trump’s personal enrichment from the White House.

Imagine a regular, Friday night happy hour. You notice a once vibrant group is down to a few regular faces. Even with the odd new face, maybe in six months or a year, they'll all be gone. That's what seeking original, human content on line feels like. Anything new is often just generated slop.

#DeleteMeta #BDS

Aftermath of the Russian attack on civilians overnight in Ukraine.

This shouldn't work, but it does. Because the right-wing faithful probably are at the point when just saying something like "Medicare for All" elicits a response at an instinctual level. Long before their mind registers the conscious thought, they experience stress and anxiety.

These all sound like excellent ideas.

As I've said, the JOLTs report lost its signal after the pandemic. I don't think it's as nefarious as companies got into the habit of listing an "open job" hoping to get anyone. And even though they're no longer separate, they're still fishing. youtube.com/shorts/6aBjs...

I think the mistake is believing they believed their rhetoric. I don't think they ultimately cared about Hunter's "crimes" any more than they cared about "runaway spending." It was just muck to throw. And they like standing waist deep in shit and throwing muck.

The figure is from Ketan Joshi here: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

And yet, there was no Wedding Planner of Frankenstein.

Back at Glasgow Film and Comic Con. On stage with Fraser Hynds and Wendy Padbury later but right now I’m at my cute little stall

He lies about our founding documents, he actually lies about what The Declaration of Independence says, and the right is upset about Mamdani’s speech? Really?

What happens when Crimea can't function at all?

A real life test of where a fallout plume would travel?

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There are some sites tracking Project 2025: progressivereform.org/tracking-tru...

I wonder if the news cycle will bicker about the fireworks starting on the fifth or the fourth?

Not sure what 25 or 6 to 4 or Journey have to do with our independence.

It’s July 5th. And the fireworks just started.

The only reason I’m watching the speech is to see if the Fireworks are actually on the fifth.

He brought out WWII veterans, Korea veterans, but not Vietnam. A little close to home for him?

nobody in the press wants to address the fact that almost everybody at the upper echelons of tech is a full on eugenist nazi

The amazing thing about America is we wrote the good ideas down. All we have to do is live the words. If we take each fourth of July as a chance to renew our commitments to these ideals, we can do more than great things. We could be good people.

Happy July 4th! Hope everyone is having a good one or organizing for issues they care about!

Coding is a weird thing. For some, it is an activity that brings quiet and focus. Our spastic attentions are channeled by this strange and unique task. As @doctorow.pluralistic.net points out, the reverse centaur is being the accountability reading slop code. pluralistic.net/2025/05/27/r...

The ones wearing long sleeves are hiding identifiable tattoos.

Funny (not really) how few articles about heat and drought forcing the cancellation of Independence Day celebrations mention the culpability of the fossil-fuel industry