This should be a tenet of #enshittification. If there's a screen and an internet connection, some manufacturer will try to be cute and push ads under some idiotic scheme.

Don't know if i should be worried or laughing at the number of *adults* that don't know what Arabic numerals are...

It's a bit late but Andor was truly robbed of nominations and awards. Masterclass in world building, storytelling, acting, and so much more.

Happy Cloudflare down day to all those celebrating. The cherry on the cake being that downdetector was also down.

One Battle After Another had some incredible performances from Leo DiCaprio, Chase Infiniti, Benecio del Toro, and Sean Penn. But, imo, it'll struggle to go toe to toe against Sinners for something like Best Picture.

Thought Masters: Wisdom Warriors

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

Absolutely no one asked for this nonsense.

After a couple of years on the streamings, listened to some lossless audio today (Sade) on wired headphones, and Jesus H Christ...

Finding out they don't have all the Blu-ray remasters of Sir David Attenborough's Life Collection.

condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.

Now that Apple has proven you can put most of a phone's computing into a camera bump, hopefully we can go back to regular sized phones with 3.5mm jacks and replaceable batteries.

Truly hilarious to watch Mamdani breaking their brains in real time.

Interesting to see "Demand for [declining commodity] has never been better" articles, by "think tanks" from said commodity's industry, on Sri Lankan papers.

Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet (It’s not ready.) www.theverge.com/analysis/715...

You've collectively donated almost $14,000 from this post in just under a week! A huge thank you to everyone who's sharing and donating. I promise you it makes a difference!

Genuinely amazed at how unusable some generic software (e.g. Windows) have become. Just resource hogging bloatware for no reason.

It is *bananas* that they would give vibe coding tools (and _Replit_, of all platforms 🤣) production deploy access! With no backups! We gave better backup tools to teenagers on Glitch remixing apps a decade ago.

MRW, as everything from a toaster to a fridge now requires an internet connection. We need right to repair, not AI enabled toast settings.

#Severance leading the pack is a no brainer.

Always a sign of great things when global corporate suddenly turns off comments on their posts.

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok

An open letter signed by 602 founders, VCs, and more urges Sequoia act after Shaun Maguire said Zohran Mamdani "comes from a culture that lies about everything" (Kate Clark/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

"AI-powered" realistic photo and video creation seems to be less about "empowering content creation" and more about (either deliberately or inadvertently) supercharging misinformation campaigns and soiling the internet.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

My very apolitical friend just said to me ‘No one f*cks with North Korea. Why do you think that is?’ Yep. There’s a clear message for a lot of Global South and Middle Eastern countries tonight. Sadly. And it isn’t a nonproliferation message.

Samsung truly "hold my beer'd" Apple's mobile user experience implosion by literally making one-hand use nearly impossible with the new One UI. Developing for the sake of developing.

Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

Social media is truly surreal; Cricket Test World Cup commentary, genocide, Taylor Swift, hypersonic missiles

Apartheid Clyde's hellsite is truly undefeated when geopolitical circus clowns try to jump start yet another World War.

😂 Just so perfect.

any mass media platform where center-right, pro-business politics isn't the dominant paradigm is inevitably going to be maligned in this way by wealthy and powerful people trying to dictate the contours of acceptable discourse they've been playing this game (quite successfully) for a generation

This is a breaking news story.

People will definitely start making bookings based on aircraft manufacturers as well now. Horrific to hear about the #AirIndia tragedy.

Thomas Running Man Cruise

Me, trying to hurriedly explain the risks of salmonella:

Got a device that came loaded with Windows 11. I've been avoiding it like the plague, and within the first 5 mins, that avoidance is fully validated. Ubuntu, here we come.

Never thought I'd see the day that @theonion.com would be outdone, by reality.

Not sure what the success rate of "urging" and "pleading" by international bodies is, when it comes to non-white folk being involved. But hoping folks realise 400 nuclear warheads between these two make it *slightly important* that they don't escalate.

great job Gavin

They'll have to offload these sometime soon for some price. The question is how much would the public be willing to spend on one.

It speaks volumes about human progress that we can put a man on the moon and nearly 60 years later, still be outraged by the fact that someone *looks* like they're from a country you don't like.

Let's be honest, it's not ragging, it's abuse borderlining on torture. And every year, we hear horrific stories of students being abused in a system that seems to be untouchable. economynext.com/sri-lanka-un...

They were already doing this for some of their courses last year. The Irish course is completely ruined, the real human voices have been replaced with AI ones which have their pronunciation all over the place, and in many cases make up sounds that don’t exist in any Irish dialect. It’s awful.

you can't compromise or reason with these people.

The same Atlas Network that is a partner of Advocata in Sri Lanka.

Samsung, at the rate you keep updating the privacy policy, it begs the question why it's needed.