This is so frustrating because Direct File was such a good program. There was no good reason to end it. People who used it liked it. The government should have been pushing to expand the scope and adoption.

"time to log into a website before bedtime and get mad again" - all of us for some reason??

Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?

Thanks Google, didn't realize there was a Q0. I'd be surprised if it wasn't tied to start the game. #nfl

EVERY TIME.

Victor Frankenstein: I don't know why ya'll are so upset. The monster was just a proof of concept that got a little out of hand. I shouldn't be held responsible for its actions. I'm just focused on the "bring things to life" machine. Anyway, waffles, amirite?

Super fun finding out that Bluesky's CEO is as dumb as Zuck, Musk, Dorsey, etc. Is being this dense a requirement for running a social media platform or does being CEO just slowly rot one's brain?

A lot of people are clowning on Burgum because of "wind drought" and they're wrong. It's a real term. The irony is that wind droughts are made worse by climate change. So Burgum's underlying message of "use fossil fuels" is wrong. We need more renewables. climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2024/r...

3 banks failed Sp 2023 & Blumenthal was Chair of the Sen Perm Subcom on Investig. Nov 2024 changed everything. That didn't stop him from conducting a 28-month inquiry and collecting 400k pages of docs, emails, texts and 100 hours of interviews w/ KPMG. #NoExcuses open.substack.com/pub/thedig/p...

So just to be clear: The US is propping up Argentina’s economy, and now Argentina can eliminate its export taxes, so it can sell tons of soybeans to China, so China isn’t forced to buy soybeans from the US, so the US can pay subsidies to keep our farmers solvent. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Pretty fucking sure there’s a word in Arabic that means submission, lol. It’s a famous one. I bet you know it.

please rinse your bottles before returning them, it helps us out a lot

Sorry, no!

A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life. Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.

man the mental health difference between online and offline is pretty big in normal times but it an absolute chasm right now being super aware of what’s happening is important but my god it is a drain

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

@gregdoucette.bsky.social Cops...

NEW: Bitcoin ATMs are facilitating scams across the country. In Idaho, where there are no laws regulating the machines, I spoke to store clerks who have been stopping scams as a last line of defense. www.inc.com/sam-blum/cry...

I wrote about the caricature of Bluesky that right-wing Twitter accounts were pumping out to hundreds of millions of people yesterday @slate.com. Hey, Bluesky did finally become an echo chamber. Just not the one these people were pretending it is: slate.com/technology/2...

To rework an old saying: Nothing is more permanent than a temporary price increase.

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

I'm looking forward to hearing the faint whirring of a drone next time I listen to an earnings call. Oh, wait, they don't actually mean "white collar crime" when they says "all crime."

this whole thing has some real took-the-wrong-lessons-from-robocop-as-a-child energy

So Kraft Mac & Cheese and Kraft Singles are going to be made by two different companies. Who gets to use the Kraft brand for new products?

here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road

realistic Star Trek

Good to know my "this looks like genAI" radar is still working correctly. bsky.app/profile/tris...

Taxes. The return on investment is taxes. Not partially nationalizing companies.

not wrong, my goodness bsky.app/profile/star...

This is hilarious

ok so the times witnessed reporters receiving cash from Adams people three times at mayoral events and sat on it for over a month but couldn’t pass up a hot tip from a neonazi about Mamdani’s unsuccessful college application for long enough to check if the neonazi had already been identified

Newsletter: As he builds US power, Justin Sun fights to control his story A crypto billionaire who once feared arrest in the US is now a Trump business adviser and White House guest. His lawsuit against Bloomberg reveals what he doesn't want Americans to know about his crypto fortune.

Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions www.theverge.com/news/761338/...

no one wants to be Welcomed to Adobe Acrobat Reader just open the fucking pdf and get out of my face

The year is 2042. SCOTUS has ruled that the use of the mind reading device does not violate the 4th or 5th amendment despite ongoing debate about its efficacy and morality.

My discover feed is full of the following garbage. Is there a way to block entire domains? Had anyone created created a blocklist for this? Am I going to have to teach myself how to create a moderation list for this? #bluesky #blueskysupport

Some people on this site are just unbearable.

Hey! New article! This one's about the history of first person shooters, what makes 'em work, and why I like the shooters I like. It's also me lamenting how they've died, and talking a bit about why I want to go ahead and make one. docseuss.medium.com/first-person...

TreVeyon Henderson goes 100 yards for the TD on the opening kickoff! Stream WASvsNE on @NFLPlus

interesting how some tech bros claim college is overrated and people should drop out but “Ph.D level” is a marker of expertise

Women next to me at the bar are discussing their current dating situations and woman #1 is reading her most recent date's texts while they debate whether he used AI to write them. And woman #2 is growing increasingly annoyed cause the guy sounds incredibly fake.

My MindsEye review. 0.5 stars. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

You're replacing sending "Hey hon, sorry, I'm running 15 minutes late" directly to your spouse with sending "Hey Gemini, tell my spouse I'm 15 minutes late and send it in a jokey tone" to Google. It doesn't make you more efficient but it makes you more of an asshole.

There's a line in here that shows why you should never take a counteroffer from your current employer: "HR spent days reviewing pay structure to be fair" Next year they'll review pay structures, see that you're above the band, and adjust you down accordingly.

Every week I go to the bar and every week my bank texts me "Did you mean to tip X%?" You'd think they'd learn after a while.