The fact that the Republican Party always has legislation to make it harder to vote or to disenfranchise Black people ready to go whenever the Supreme Court takes another whack at the Voting Rights Act tells you...a lot.

Fascinating bit of kit that enables blind and partially sighted voters to vote independently. m.youtube.com/shorts/-acuT...

when the illinois DMV won't accept documentation about your name change because it's all in latin

Hello friends. Christian ethicist here, with a little note from Irish history: Once they start classifying some people as decent, you have to ask who is indecent.

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

I feel SO ancient, I sincerely thought this was the name of a credit card?

i remember learning "there is no silver bullet" in my cs classes and it's bleakly hilarious that all tech speculation now is "what if we made a silver bullet? we will add the line 'you are the silver bullet' to claude's code"

great window into how badly this stuff is cooking these rich guy's brains. Very similar to the prompts I've been using in my little fantasy baseball experiment and I can tell you: they do nothing to make the AI more accurate or reliable.

Local Drunk Can't Stop Talking About Breathalyzer Installed in His Car "None Of My Neighbors Have This. Guess I Must Be Cooler."

Yes, the first question is easy, but the second question asks for a one sentence summary of Immanuel Kant’s concept of Anschauung.

Sheep Detectives! Yes, it's a family friendly film but don't let the Paw Patrol trailers fool you, sheep detection is for everyone.

This policy, the replies to this, Keir Starmer’s ‘the petrol retailers are being naughty’ statement, Ed Davey’s fuel duty tax cut, Kemi Badenoch’s fuel duty tax cut, John Swinney’s price controls…is there anyone in British politics who understands “the Iran war means we have less stuff”?

Great advice in this piece about a clever scam it would be all to easy to fall for. Just one thing to add to it: a malware scan won't pick up any remote access software you've been tricked into installing if you did call the number: you'll need to find and remove that yourself.

Constantly disappointed at the number of sites/apps that don't have an easy add to calendar button.

What is really striking to me about Richard Dawkins' credulous embrace of the "consciousness" of Claude is how he refers to software as a *creature*. Terry Eagleton's legendary dismissal of his God Delusion arguments returns: this man lunges, flails & mispunches to great acclaim. archive.is/6RdK9

Bring back the ancient knowledge

It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck

The Iranian schoolgirl, the cancer patient whose clinical trial was cancelled, the African AIDS patient who can't get treatment anymore — none of these are "real" to our media elites. Can't imagine themselves in that situation or visualize it. But "panic at the fancy gala!" on the other hand,

If he does not want to be compared to Hitler, he should stop building concentration camps.

They shot Alex Pretti ten times while he was face down in the street.

btw, you know this isn't a false flag because none of the trump people placed a kalshi bet on it.

What's that post about how soon AI will be able to have sex with your wife for you to free up more time for the things you love like mowing the lawn

Specialty keyboards and typefaces for doctors, lumbermen, and clergy, Chicago 1907

i'm not a hardcore anti-AI guy, but i cannot think of a single benefit of genAI that could possibly outweigh the harm it is doing to our social fabric, shared reality, and most basic abilities to parse information and learn.

I really don't have time for this. Driving in Ireland is very different to driving in America. Why having a US driver's license (which could represent any of 50 different regulatory regimes) should entitle you to some kind of fast track I don't know.

By Joel Pett.

How smug do you think EV owners are in the Mad Max universe? Everyone is trapped in brutal warlord gangs fighting to the death over the last five barrels of petroleum, and meanwhile EV drivers just toddle home and plug their E-Up into the infinite free solar power of the Australian Outback.

My story about how 924 sailors died of influenza over the course of a month at Great Lakes Naval Training Station. chicagoreader.com/city-life/th...

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Counterpoint: no, it isn’t. Leo is in line with the traditional teaching of the church. Trump is a warmonger, corrupt, delights in humiliating others, and is blasphemous on a level that wouldn’t even occur to most people. This isn’t hard.

Then quit.

It's also worth saying that the increasing "pacifist" pronouncements by both Francis and Leo has emerged out of, not in contradiction of, Just War Theory. The idea is that modern conditions have made the possibilities for just war-making more and more remote to the point of impossibility.

Pope Leo: "The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters.”

samuel beckett was born on this day 120 years ago. astonishing to think that if he had survived, and could run 100m in 9.57 seconds, he would be not only the oldest but also the fastest man in the world - together with his nobel prize for literature, an astonishing trifecta

Folks, I think the word we want here is “Vansplaining”.

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far - POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church?? POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

it's fun that I didn't know from the headline whether "you're killing children" refers to our concentration camps in the US, to bombing Iran, or to the mass murder caused by ending US AID.

free speech is when you're free to shut up and sit there while i give a speech

Shot and chaser, modern clothing edition

There's no greater sign of the iron grip that "both sides" framing has on American journalists than the repeated descriptions of the unhinged tantrum Trump is throwing over the pope's anodyne statements on Catholic doctrine as a "feud" or a "fight" or anything else that implies they're both to blame

not sure what is more odd: that it apparently didn't crack the top three, or that it is being advertised on the DC metro

Calling the Pope weak on crime on Divine Mercy Sunday is probably an all-timer.

Watched Wake Up Dead Man again this evening, and it just gets better each time ❤️‍🔥

I regret to inform you that it’s not looking good for the Cat in the Hat.

OF COURSE the detention centres are being run for profit

Had me dying. Clip via @alexgoldennba.bsky.social

- 'America has the military power to do whatever it wants anywhere in the world' - immediately loses war to Iran.