Dell Buds have Treble Boost (tm) technology to emphasise the thin, nasal voices of your coworkers during meaningless Zoom meetings. If you try to play music on them they release a potent neurotoxin.

B&N has dropped their Best Books of 2025 list with 2.5 months left in the year so here's your reminder that "best" is arbitrary, time is a construct, and there are still a ton of good books coming out that shouldn't be ignored just because the credits are rolling early

Destroy every Ring camera. Straight into the fires of Mount Doom. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

I get the point that's trying to be made here, but it's actually inaccurate. The *MAJORITY* of actual practitioners in the tech industry have a position that is neither of these, it's merely getting drowned out by these two loud positions. The most common belief in the tech industry is simple:

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Die doing what you love I guess

No? It’s actually: 1. I’ve invested barely any time in learning how it actually works and I believe it’s magic wand/substitute for a human. 2. I’ve invested time learning how it actually works & see some use cases but if it looks like magic it’s bc there’s a lot of human labor behind the curtain.

Bold opinion: horror is more effective in natural light. These blue gray filters are unnecessary. It’s why Texas chainsaw was so effective. Grainy but bright. It’s horrifying. Same with historic true crime. The 70s and 80s had overhead lighting. Don’t be afraid of it.

Hey @darthbluesky.bsky.social , has anyone ever wanted to visit a town just because they saw a dog from there on the news? Meet Mal, an Alaskan Malamute who is twice the size of an average Malamute. I have decided to go visit Bourne in Lincolnshire purely so I can try and meet him!

Opus Dei was what allowed Spanish Fascist Generalissimo Francisco Franco to rework himself as being an ally against the Soviets. They legitimized a man who took over Spain via a coup and waged a bloody war on his own people, only won from direct Nazi support.

No, this is how Nazis talk in their own spaces. I don’t know abut this dude, but I never talked about gassing people and raping women when I was hanging out with my pals.

Also: I genuinely believe there's a lot of good in religion, but I don't believe that anyone should be outsourcing their morality. If your entire sense of right and wrong or good and evil boil down to, "this is what my religion says," you aren't engaging with one of the key aspects of being human.

Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. www.wired.com/story/scott-...

More details on the massive and mysterious FBI raid in Eugene, OR Wednesday morning: ICE just *happened* to be there and multiple people were “swept up” and detained, according to court documents. Via @lookout-es.bsky.social:

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

My french ass is saying : let your phone at home Write the number of a protest legal team on your arm or on paper Fix a meeting point with your friends in advance Stay safe and if a situation is too much for you, leave (anxiety kicking in the middle of tear gas, i don't recommand 😑) And stay safe ✊🏻

This single story is worth the cost of my year's subscription to @wired.com

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Like a lot of us here, the Lock 'Em Up-est comments I see on social media are coming from, well, extremely normal people. So I wanted to explain how extremely helpful it would be this weekend if they scared the shit out of everyone driving them nuts.

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Which is why my goal, personally, is to make writing that is pleasurable for my fellow Queer freaks and unpleasant as fuck for awful people to read. And it makes normies uncomfortable, though perhaps secretly intrigued. Amen. 😇

I discovered I have type A positive blood. Is that common?

First, shouts to @annamenta.bsky.social for asking this question and reporting this. Second, maybe if you claim you don't know about a subject, don't answer the question as if you know about the subject, unless you actually DO know about the subject and are just pretending you don't?

Remember when you tried to tell us “the younger generations don’t think that way.” And “the young people will save us.” There are a lot of great, humane, decent, bright young people out there. But there are also a lot of these young people. And they’re not going anywhere.

A laugh just exploded from me and startled a co-worker. Thought you might want a laugh

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This is deeply, deeply fucked up on SO MANY levels I don’t even know where to begin.

There’s another Twitter influx. I’m not sure why. Presumably more Nazi bs. If you are new here because you don’t like Nazi bs, welcome! Also: update your settings as shown below, & please use alt text here. It helps disabled folks. Nazis don’t like that, so you can spite them while helping others.

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This video of reporters flooding out of the Pentagon after refusing to sign Hegseth’s authoritarian pledge that would force them to have the DOD review all their articles before publication is one of the most satisfying things I’ve seen in a while

It turns out that racial profiling in the real world doesn’t work the way it does in Brett Kavanaugh’s imagination.

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oh fuck, it's people isn't it

Is it unclear, though?

It’s truly incredible how Substack took a good product that was user friendly and just made it a pile of crap. Over the summer they stopped supporting writers when there were CC disputes, many of my readers simply weren’t getting their emails, there is no tech support…

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They tried to indict her three times on felony counts. Three grand juries said no. So they reduced the charges to a misdemeanor. See below for the outcome.

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys. "I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man." It's a must-read:

I was married, but I'm not married anymore. Women dont like the vehicle.

It’s good that these schools are starting to remember that presidential administrations come and go but they are supposed to outlast them all

"’Conversion therapy’ is heinous and barbaric. Let's just call it what it is: torture,” said Senator Scott Dibble back in 2023, when his bill banning it in Minnesota passed the state senate

The marketing for these "faux hair micro string thongs" goes: "With this iconic new panty, your carpet can be whatever color you want it to be"

I have plenty of issues with the text-based stuff but I think it does have some actual use cases AI video generation is pretty much entirely a net negative, this is barely scraping the tip of the iceberg in terms of the damage this shit will do

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

VICTORY! The Arizona Supreme Court dismissed a Republican lawsuit challenging the state’s 2023 Election Procedure Manual (EPM), citing the “need for clarity in upcoming elections.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

🚨WOW. A unanimous per curiam (meaning no named author) panel of the 7th Circuit, made up of a Bush appointee, an Obama appointee, and a Trump appointee, decline to step in and block a lower court order barring the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago!

crying at this sidebar ad next to @joshgondelman.bsky.social's comedy special

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands. My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

digital media is dying not because it’s a bad way to cover the news or people don’t care about the news but because the people who now own these sites are increasingly 1) uninterested in covering the news as opposed to turning a profit 2) ignorant of what covering the news requires