You forget that for a good 30 years we just sort of expected rockets that start going to space to keep going to space without exploding.

Same thing with baking soda.

You'd think a company called Oracle would give advance notice.

Oracle slashes 30,000 jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email

I think Patti Harrison is one of the nation's greatest untapped resources.

Wait. You can just say "we might infringe on your rights" in your Terms Of Service?

There's a list of celebrities I think it would be fun to write a book with and a list of celebrities with whom the book would be any good, and I'm debating what my priorities are.

I mean, no one likes the Homeowners Association.

There is no reason technologically or strategically to bully someone off the platform. Technologically, in that mass blocking does the same thing. Strategically, in that the reason J.D. Vance got an account on bsky was to goad people into doing this kind of dogpile to brag about it on twitter.

Best John Wick Movies: 1. John Wick 2. Pig 3. Nobody 4. The Equalizer 5. JW 2 7. JW 4 8. The Eq. 2 9. Ballerina 10. JW 3 11. The Eq. 3 12. The Continental tv series.

One of the things the MCU occasionally really good at in the beginning was coming up with how Superheroes fit into other architypes of movies - political thrillers, the breakfast club, etc. If you take Supergirl out of "Supergirl kills a bunch of people for hurting her dog" you have John Wick.

So, before you say something about Noem's husband, just consider whether I - a dumb person - would read it as "the punchline is a man wants to be a woman."

Reading this article, it's extremely unclear what roll AI actually plays in decision making. But it appears to be mixed into a soup with blockchain based community voting and a 15 person ethics panel and somehow decisions come out. No part of this is secure, not the blockchain or the AI

At a bribe of $500 a person, and a logistics cost of $11 per person per event (signs, transit, payroll), George Soros literally could not afford to pay off the No Kings protestors.

So, uh, I misread your soap.

Well this certainly seems…unseemly

One of the things that’s interesting here is that Wikipedia allows bots - provided you go through an approval process, which “Tom” didn’t do. Tom’s creator wanted to solve a problem, but didn’t want to do even the most mild research before implementing his solution. Disruptor culture sucks.

This is a joke for people paying attention to the gaming market in 1993 and rap feuds in 2024.

“He knew more about cartoons than you or I ever will (trust me on this) yet he was incredibly generous with his time and his talent. And my God, could he make you laugh! When it comes to humor, it takes a special kind of genuis to be both dry and warm. Barry was both" deadline.com/2026/03/barr...

There's a popular song right now with the lyric "I hope you're scared of all the ordinary shit" which reminds me of a baby shower game where we were filling in blanks and everyone else wrote sweet things for "I hope you're not afraid of ___" like "trying!" and "adventure!" and I wrote "ghosts"

Inspector general probing network of aides at Noem’s DHS. One FEMA contractor was allegedly getting $19K a week—close to 1M a year. (Don’t confuse this gift @wsj.com article about possible corruption at DHS from one last week about possible corruption at DOJ.) 1/ 2 www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

If you would like to read up a bit on the symbolism of tonight’s watch, I Saw the TV Glow, either now or after viewing it, here is seven-part(!) examination of the film’s trans allegory by writer and filmmaker @tillybridges.bsky.social #HATM

I’m going to wheatpaste this article to telephone poles until everyone reads it

So, uh, I misread your soap.

"I'm a cop, I don't understand the law" is literally one of the most on-brand things I have ever heard in my life

That’s just a little on the nose, police state

You need to pay for news

not the most important thing about Israel blocking a Cardnal from a religious site, but if you’ve never read the story behind the ladder in that picture, consider this your timeline cleanse.

This is an explicit rejection of the Status Quo which has stood for nearly 300 years and Israel agreed to abide by in 1949 If Israel can’t/wont do this they are actively provoking religious conflict with the Christians (specifically Catholics here) www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Whoever owns the lonelycpp GitHub account could do the funniest stuff right now.

Assuming that is Kash Patel‘s account, is the embarrassing thing here that he’s a man who watches pornography? Because I’ve got news…

So, yesterday a pretty big account got suckered by a fake video about ICE. The video went viral. They later deleted it. We don't really have any best practices on social media for what you do when you get something factually wrong. We probably should. Here's my proposal:

Happy Friday (but mostly to Devo)

Oh yikes

Is Elvira brand cosmetics like a thing? Are there other Elvira's?

Easily the best paper involving r/AmITheAsshole that I have learned about all day.

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

Say what you will about looksmaxxing, but it's a really nice mug shot.

Clavicular justicemogged by Fort Lauderdale police for battery

Soon you'll be able to be overleveraged on whether your mayor passes a ban on straws.

Filing: Kalshi has secured a license allowing it to offer margin trading to users, which would make the platform more appealing to institutional investors (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

I cannot let the implication that I would EVER forget 17776 stand but if somehow it passed you by please read it, and also here’s an essay about it I commissioned

What even is Congress?

Just rank corruption

“program .. under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act .. set to expire next month .. become the subject of a fierce battle in Congress over whether it should be renewed without significant reforms to protect Americans' privacy.” #FISA www.wired.com/story/using-...

teach it cursive

Taxpayers pay for all of the time the president spends concentrating on issues he could delegate - including micromanaging the ballroom and running the Kennedy Center. Would the several hours spent picking out marble armrests be better spent doing president things?

I have no problem with kids learning cursive. I learned cursive. But at a time when so many of our societal problems stem from distrust of facts or the inability to analyze sources of information, I’m not sure this kind of rote skill is the thing I’d brag about requiring.

Just got this astroturf spam from a Richmond number. Obama has been out in force, encouraging Virginians to vote yes on the ballot measure — meant to even the playing field in the face of GOP gerrymanders in Texas and elsewhere. Absolutely shameless GOP ratfucking against Democrats and minorities.