Donald Trump just stole $1.7B from us — and he's creating a slush fund to reward his political allies. I've never seen anything like this in my 50 years in politics. It makes Nixon look like a boy scout. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/t...

And the contempt for America, Americans and taxpayers he's exhibited while committing these historic crimes is breathtaking. For months and months he swore it was okay for him to take billions from taxpayers because it would go to charity. Now it'll *fund terrorism against us*.

Over a year ago, I spoke with @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social about Dreams on a Pillow for a piece that was killed before it could be published. I am honored that he was willing to take the time to speak with me again in spite of that and tell me about his beautiful homeland: kotaku.com/upcoming-ste...

A "piece that was killed" is something we hear over and over again working with press promoting Dreams on a Pillow, not just now but across the years. In some cases the content had been fully written & was pulled right before or even after publishing. In others, it never was allowed past concept.

it literally takes us back to the stone age

BREAKING: Zohran just announced that the first NYC city-run grocery store will open in the Bronx by the end of the year. The 20,000 square foot store will open in Hunts Point at The Peninsula, an 100% affordable housing complex.

I've encountered two CPD checkpoints at the end of the North Ave tunnel so far this spring and I'm having a hard time expressing how much encountering random bag checks to use the bike path makes me feel like we live in hell.

Israel has been expanding the territory it controls in Gaza during the ceasefire, Netanyahu acknowledged Sunday, pushing past the lines that were agreed upon in the US-brokered ceasefire 870 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes since the ceasefire www.timesofisrael.com/now-60-netan...

daaaamn london

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

How bad is the Colorado governor's commutation of Tina Peters' sentence? So bad that even the Republican DA who prosecuted here pushed back, and told Polis to talk to the county officials who have to deal with threats that followed Peters' felonies. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

~22% aluminum imports & ~25% helium imports also travel through Strait of Hormuz. The Persian Gulf accounts for nearly 20% of all American exports of sauces and condiments, 20% of waterborne passenger cars and 15% of trucks, according to the Congressional Research Service. (Linda Qiu, fact-checker)

I've been writing a handbook for a new software system at work -- there's an art to describing with precision and concision how to engage with a visual field through physical actions. But a written document with screenshots is more stable, accessible, flick-backable and repeatable than a video.

This is absolutely unacceptable - for Canada or any country Contact your MP! dontsurveil.me/c22.html

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

Enterprise AI token spend is entirely out of control, driven by CEOs with AI psychosis. Sources tell me Stripe is spending $2.8m+ a month, and a major real estate platform $300k-$700k a month over 1500 people. It's experimental, unsustainable, and will go away. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what...

AI companies currently subsidize their users $3 to $25 for every dollar of subscription. As a result, users are very sensitive to *any* price or rate limit changes, and have no idea what their actual token burn is. Token-based billing will be lethal at scale. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what...

GitHub Copilot moves to token based billing on June 1, and its users have now got a calculator that shows how much they've been actually burning every month - some $39-a-month users have spent $1500 to $5800 in tokens a month. Microsoft's subsidies are insane. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what...

automatic UVs have never been more stable! Check out uvFactory if you haven't already 🏁 #b3d #blender #geometrynodes

Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.

play a series of interwoven retro-inspired stories in Short Short Fictions, the pixel art is gorgeous!

It’s AI getting booed, yes, but importantly it’s also a billionaire carrying a billionaire’s smug confidence getting repeatedly humiliated by young people with absolutely no way to escape.

9 years was not an excessive punishment. Peters was a county official who used someone else’s security badge to let a fellow election denier access the whole county's voting data. That is an extreme breach of public trust for the purpose of undermining our democracy; harsh deterrence is vital.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

From Iran to Cuba, U.S. imperialism is worsening human suffering.    As a result of Trump and Rubio's sanctions, Cuba’s power grid is collapsing- leaving families in darkness and without essential services. Now, the administration is threatening military action.

What would be the equivalent of all this at a different employer and still had a job? Like McDonald’s. If he threw grease on the drive-thru customers, murdered Grimace, and still worked the register?

which gods are real

Seen in Logan Square

Muon tomography measures scatter from natural cosmic rays penetrating large objects (pyramids, volcanoes) to image density gradients inside. In 2017, it was used to find a new void in the Great Pyramid in Giza. How does this not get used in every adventure movie? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon_to...

May 15, 2026. Current Epidemic Growth Status (Based on Rt) for States and Territories Last updated 5/12/2026. {https://www.cdc.gov/forecast-outbreak-analytics/about/rt-estimates.html} #COVID19 💉😷

columbo is copaganda that doesn't make it not great television. Conscientious media enjoyment just means not consuming mindlessly. You're allowed to enjoy art you don't ideologically agree with.

Chicago map lovers (you know who you are and there are too many of you to tag), look what's just been released! node.uchicago.edu/collection/m...

That is a face of pure joy

Disconnect and bypass the telematics (Data Communication Module) on a 2024 Toyota Rav4 to prevent it from sending personal data to Toyota or receiving remote data/commands. The bypass kit says it works on most Toyota and Lexus models since 2020. arkadiyt.com/2026/05/13/r...

I’m NOT excited and I’m NOT thrilled. I’m honestly scared to share this, but I’m not a coward. I have to show you what you helped us create. None of this would have been possible without your help, and we can’t finish it without your support www.launchgood.com/1948 youtu.be/D4qh1FAPEUo

Incredible organizing in Wisconsin. Check out this story.

mikey... ya gagootz. ya can't transition an "In Progress" ticket directly to "Closed Resolved" without foist passin' it to "In Review." the boss ain't gonna like this...

do you think the mafia uses jira? does the mafia have an annual subscription to monday dot com?

The Doom soundtrack being added to the National Recording Registry cannot be appreciated enough until you look at what it was inducted alongside aftermath.site/doom-soundtrac...

I honestly think the only way people get "time saved" numbers from genAI tools is if they selectively discard all the times those tools send them on a literal weeks-long goosechase

When I explained to my gen z coworker how to "permanently get" media instead of streaming, I started with our friend the traffic cone

My student told me he ran his paper through an AI checker to see if it would get flagged even though he wrote it, and it offered to “humanize” his paper by changing the sentence, “Illicit cocaine use is responsible for many potential adverse cardiovascular events” to “Cocaine is a bad, bad drug”

My younger cousin says she has to add random commas and misspell words to not get flagged as AI. I'm not sure what this teaches people.

Simply doesn't make sense as a reconsideration of justice. This is a person who actively attempted to undermine democracy, to subvert the will of Colorado voters.

IMMEDIATELY made me think of one of my all-time favorite Tweets.