looks like they finally made oreo thins for the freaks out there

i can't describe for you the weirdness of visiting one of the (relatively few) parts of the world that has a high background level of regard and gratitude for the U.S.A. It feels like stepping into a mirror universe.

in hindsight the technooptimism of the obama era was so embarrassing 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ weve fallen behind a century in some ways

csam. csam run. csam run far as fuck away from xitter as possible

Accurately describing a contained string of events is pretty impressive for him though

India orders X to fix Grok to block the generation of obscene content, giving it 72 hours to submit an action-taken report or risk losing "safe harbor" immunity (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

I still maintain the single worst change Elon made in terms of pure user experience was updating replies to favor the people willing to pay for the blue checks instantly - overnight - reply sections changed from a font of creative riffing to a barren wasteland of the worst posts imaginable

Female Splush Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958

i never considered pinterest could get worse until now

not dei hagrid 😭😭😭

its all horrid but id say thats a pretty significant difference

this post is even funnier with the fancy uk schools labeler on

This is an outrageous abdication of journalistic duty. Grok's apology was prompted by a human, as was its equally vehement self-defense. People are willingly hurling themselves into the AI trashbin at the bidding of oligarchs who will happily remove them from their jobs.

That’s right, we are both insufferable and correct

On X this week there were a bunch of viral posts about how Bluesky sucks and now because of the Grok CSAM trend (ugh) there are a bunch of viral follow-up posts being like actually maybe the Bluesky people are right

there are decades where no dreams happen and there are weeks where lots of dreams happen

Lowering crime on day 1

Harry K Untz United States, Census, 1940

how all youtube ads sound to me

i think i saw this episode of the twilight zone

“Why are Americans mistrustful of AI?” asks the morning briefing thing I’m skimming while I “no” through literally a dozen questions being asked to me by a robot who stands between me and the person I need to talk to to schedule the x-ray that I really, really need

"And frankly, they would rather lose the presidential election and retain control of the Democratic party than heaven forfend have Bernie Sanders be the nominee and they would lose control of the party."

your grandkids will look at the vintage gtx 1060 you never farmed cryptocurrency on the way i look at vintage o'keefe & merritt stoves

Mayor Mamdani already delivering results to his city

stay on the nazi site they said participate in the marketplace of ideas they said

whoa wasnt this guy a centrist dem yimby or am i misremembering

Me looking at another account I used to follow on Twitter go the full mask-off fash route.

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

Map of Europe if sea levels rose 6000 m

Violent SWERFs in journalism have ruined us.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

i knew it

25% of my state's electricity consumption is for data centers now. I'm subsidizing their infrastructure and use every month

i saw a tiktok about how doing magick in childhood is a sign of being down bad and i can't stop thinking about it

The world's 500 richest people added a record $2.2 trillion to their collective fortunes in 2025, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which found just eight billionaires accounted for about a quarter of those gains.

FUN FACT: I got banned

lmao

genuinely dont know the right answer but some have had suggestions

It's funny because we have such a huge cohort of journalists and activists identifying themselves as feminists, and they are all saying nothing at all about this. Too busy obsessing about other people's genitals. *It's not funny

500 op ed headlines: "childfree" millennials unwittingly signing up for half a lifetime of boring nothingness another 500 op ed headlines: the value of boredom: how endless stimulation from smartphones robs millennials of meaning

You expect Episcopalians to care about exploitation of cute little dogs?

There are multiple national political commentators who earnestly predicted that Eric Adams would be a legitimate presidential candidate and a national figurehead of the Democratic party by now and those commentators still have careers somehow.

tech bros be like you dont understand i NEED you to slurp my ape juices

I love my kid to death but if I pinned all my hopes for future happiness on her, not only would that be incredibly unfair to her, I’d be fuuuuuuuuuucked

When they find the Plagiarism Machine mildly useful, but everyone keeps bringing up extremely valid criticisms of it, they could either allow themselves to be convinced and change their opinion/behavior...or they could inflate the importance of it in their minds to Biblical proportions.

"you can do a lot of work but it's way worse and you won't know what's in it, also you can plagiarize and be lied to on command" I guess if your entire worldview is "move fast, break things" this really is the ultimate manifestation of that, but what if you wanted to build anything. like, at all.

My wife when I’m on Bluesky