some funny napkin math because I was curious: an acre of solar panels generates around 500 MWh annually. total global energy consumption is around 180,000 TWh annually. that means you'd need roughly 360 million acres of solar panel to fully cover current global energy use.

remember when people were acting like this Alberta separatism campaign was some major US-led political interference? in which squillions of dollars of dark money were being used to undermine canadian sovereignty or whatever? their supposed referendum isn't even gonna make it to a vote lol

i set up a self-hosted RSS reader and even though i've only loaded in like half a dozen feeds thus far it already slaps shout out to @aftermath.site, @404media.co and @defector.com for being my first ballot RSS feed picks

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i've spent my whole life disregarding the opinions of anyone who dresses like this and it has never led me astray

nothing has turned me into more of a "sure man, whatever you're into" type of guy about religion than seeing every publicly notable champion of 2000s-style hardline atheism turn out to be the biggest dumbass alive

concrete is recyclable now. we can go back to building real buildings.

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

got my first run of prints back from the lab today! very stoked I was able to find a local place that still does traditional darkroom prints. they turned out great.

"Summarize the contents of this folder" shut the fuck up man

the fact that the most bannable offense you can commit on this website is to make fun of the moderators is very nostalgic for me. we've retvrned to 2000s message board culture.

Steve Ballmer whinily calling Pablo Torre a "former talking head" like two weeks before Torre wins a Pulitzer is such a funny own goal

whenever you see a grown adult having an extended crashout about people being mean to them online, just remember that old Tyler the Creator tweet

talking to the comrades when we see the police show up at a protest:

unions rule www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Happy anniversary of this not happening

imagine living next to this shit and then going on your computer and getting all the annoying Copilot/Gemini pop-ups in all your apps. hell.

RIP to Polygon, the only outlet that ever let me write 5000+ word investigative features about videogames, a category of reporting that basically doesn't exist anymore

lmao this guy rules LGM!

Absolutely insane numbers on data center buildout. I haven’t vetted these by they’re about right based on memory/back of the envelope.

you see people on this website (and to some extent in real life) who have let themselves become so aggrieved about vibes, ephemera, tone, etc. that they've rendered themselves allergic to solidarity (giving and receiving)

he was so real for this

as someone who found that Geese record to be boring as shit, it's heartening to know it was all astroturf and no one else really liked it either lol

is this really a mystery to people? NYC is one of the most popular travel destinations on the planet, and buying a Yankee cap while you're there is like buying a souvenir t-shirt with a buffalo on it while visiting Yellowstone. they don't give a shit about baseball or even know who the Yankees are.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

fwiw I am very skeptical of Avi Lewis. his policy proposals are decent enough but he is the biggest nepo hire in the party's history, and his role in the Leap Manifesto stuff is a major red flag. i hope i'm wrong but i won't be signing an NDP membership card any time soon.

Hollywood has truly run out of ideas. do we really need a Babe reboot?

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Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Herman Jessor designed Co-Op City, Starrett City, and more housing units in New York than any other architect—so why don't more people know his name? hellgatenyc.com/the-unrepent...

depending on how you're counting this is like the 4th or 5th consecutive war the US has lost right

this goes hard as fuck

these hacks are so determined to go down in history as rotten cowards lol

If you’re going to take the effort to build up something website shaped, just build a real website. It’s roughly the same amount of work for a way better payout and something you aren’t simply renting. Ghost rocks for this.

What a beautiful moment.

unsurprisingly, this is just AWS shitting the bed again maybe letting one company host the whole internet isn't a great idea

I’m fucking crying dude. Asking “pretty please do not introduce a security vulnerability”.

bought a motorcycle today. riding it home from the dealership was the first time I'd ever ridden in traffic but it was surprisingly unfraught. thumbs up, good time, gonna be a fun summer.

Andrew Cockburn · Beware the mattress: Mossad’s Kill List

This seems like strangely religious fundamentalist and exterminatory behaviour from the liberal bastion and only democracy in the Middle East, but I’m sure there’ll be a gaggle of the most detestable columnists on the planet explaining why this is actually more complex and correct shortly.

this is the shit that made the frogs gay www.404media.co/scientists-c...

Kudos to whoever wrote this headline:

the degree to which grown adults on this website seem petrified by the prospect of some complete stranger saying something mean to them is baffling. why do you give a shit? what real world consequence could it possibly have?

Israel just passed a law mandating death by hanging for Palestinians in rigged military trials voting 62-48 in the Knesset. Netanyahu turned up in person to vote yes. Ben-Gvir wore a metal noose pin on his lapel while the chamber erupted in cheers at the prospect of killing more Palestinians.

this is the problem with the weird semantic drift "AI" has undergone since LLMs came out. from the description this sounds like they used text-to-speech to read out journal entries that were written by a real person. there's no genAI/LLM shit in play here. no one would've called this AI in 2019.

pleased to hear that @tippingpitchespod.com is joining the Hiroshima Carp fandom

I am taking this as an excuse to order this extremely sick longsleeve from the Wikipedia merch shop

Explaining online privacy to americans

Seven-word death punch