Bad Keyboards Thread: So I like to make intentionally bad keyboards, in part because of my unfulfilled blood feud with mechanical keyboard enthusiasts, but mainly because I like being a chaos gremlin. Most recently, the Juggling Keyboard: bsky.app/profile/foon...

The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social

A good way to think about the housing crisis is landlords pocketing essentially all the consumer surplus the last 40 years

Conservatives in the U.S. consistently blamed Barack Obama for Hurricane Katrina's response.

Earlier that morning

If you want to know the real story:

Incredible

Maybe instead of 30 dolls she gets one. And maybe it costs a few dollars more. And maybe it contains the transferred soul of Charles Lee Ray. And maybe it's always yelling "Ade due Damballa. Give me the power, I beg of you." It's fine.

The Last Pope on the Left

ICYMI: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

Booker (drained, teary eyed): and with that I yield the floor (15 minute long raucous standing ovation) Next order of business the confirmation of Kevin Sorbo to head the department of Housing. And it’s unanimous (gavel bang)

Clear, concise, accurate. Must read. ⬇️ "No matter how deeply avant-garde art has engaged in shock and putative nihilism, no artist, to my knowledge, has ever made art with the sole aim of harming the already vulnerable...Those are the goals of AI art, and that is why it resonates with the right."

I hate these fascist motherfuckers with every cell in my body and with nearly equal timbre I hate the cowardice of the only people in a position to oppose them who treat it like they were playing crazy 8s over cocktails and watercress sandwiches

HE'S LITERALLY READING A SALES PITCH

Thanks LA Times; now I know what hand-standing myself off a balcony to my death looks like

Intel launched the Pentium processor in 1993. Unfortunately, dividing sometimes gave a slightly wrong answer, the famous FDIV bug. Replacing the faulty chips cost Intel $475 million. I reverse-engineered the circuitry and can explain the bug. 1/9

NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy. www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...

In the hole In the hole You belong You belong You belong You belong In the hole In the hole

Really cool breakdown here of not only the origination of the samples, but goes into how they were chopped and screwed with. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpao...

It would be excellent if all 781 of you who reposted the above shared my follow-up reporting:

Watching the Equalizer 3 and damn does Denzel just become a slasher villain.

i was curious….there are 1200 of them: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Chaos Gods as ITYSL quotes:

a lot of people argue that the left should embrace the campus free speech panic, because it will help protect leftist speech. but you can see how that plays out: when left speech is threatened, none of the institutional resources that protect right-wingers are mobilized in its defense.

Talentless fat white conservatives looking for an easy grift like

I didn't see this coming. In Northern Ireland, Brexit has drained support among young people for remaining in the UK - across the board. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is ridiculous. www.wunc.org/education/20...

The Cubism -> Animé Pipeline is real and we have Pablo Picasso, Ur-Weeb, to blame for it.

Watched "Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls" on a Fathom Event Thursday night at the theater. A very solid B-movie, fully funded through kickstarter, done by Andrew Bowser of "weird guy" fame. It was heartfelt, all-practical effects, and well acted. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

in case you were wondering 🙃 www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

GOP: You teachers, librarians and pediatricians are all GROOMERS Also, GOP: Have you met our next frontrunner for Speaker of the House? His major accomplishments include not owning a sports coat, trying to overthrow an election, and helping a doctor systematically sexually assault 177 students.

Thinking how rad it would be to buy a blimp and do my commute in the blimp and learn to rappelle down from my blimp and get them to install chocks and hooked ballards in order to facilitate the parking of the blimp and known as the "blimp guy"