"Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and ​keystrokes for use in training its AI models, part of a broad initiative to build AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously, the company told staffers in ‌internal memos..."

i have just checked the rule book and there is no rule that a dog can not be a tailor

this is how Utah's Congressional map deals with Utah's largest city, cracking it through to the middle into 4 different districts in order to deny it Congressional representation to make sure Dems get 0 seats

They think you're stupid.

This rather creepy photo is Artemis II’s heat shield underwater, as taken by the U.S. Navy. This is the first photo we have of the heat shield, and upon initial examination it doesn’t seem to have the char loss that Artemis I’s had.

🧵 The MAGA Congress that voted for a trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts will never be catheterized by a new grad on a float pool. They will receive VIP care for the rest of their lives while voting to make ours worse. This piece traces the full chain from DC to the bedside.

After these four companies settled with Trump in his shakedown lawsuits, the money was pledged to his presidential library. But the fund was then dissolved. Senate Dems asked the companies where the money went. They have now replied. I've obtained their answers: newrepublic.com/article/2092...

“suspicions”

She's leaving Congress to, uh, spend more time with her family, her ambassadorial dreams are ashes, her career is over, and maybe it's okay to stop asking her stuff

Is that bad? Seems bad

My dad just hooked me up with an old DVD player so I could watch some of my collection again, and the kids don't know what kind of good sleep you'd get to the right DVD menu loop.

A society that runs on this stack doesn't stop holding elections, or debating, or running investigations. The forms stay, but what goes is their capacity to constrain power. The arc bends toward simulation, carried out in the language of defending democracy.

If the president can't be trusted with details about the illegal war he began, he MUST BE REMOVED.

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Child: I know your name. Mamdani. Obama: What’s his first name? Child: Mayor.

Oracle is literally running out of money and the only business that is growing is the one that’s making them spend $100bn bsky.app/profile/mopb...

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020. She missed these trials by a few months. One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here. I feel such a hole inside. In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.

*clears throat* LET WOMEN HAVE HOBBIES

the quality of each star trek show is directly proportional to how often you see the characters engaging in hobbies

It will never stop pissing me off how much trump is going to walk away from this presidency as a “real” billionaire in a way he never was before, and it is going to be solely because of the public office

I am not a lawyer, but am I reading correctly that the majority opinion cited the concern of “irreparable harm” to the coal industry (which employs ~40,000 people) with no mentions of the “irreparable harm” higher CO2 emissions could bring to the population of (at the time) ~7,500,000,000 people?

Most striking to me about these memos is the radically different assessment of the harm imposed by the president not being able to pursue his initiatives. Over the last 15 mos., that harm has in numerous cases been treated as almost per se serious and irreparable. Here, it gets no analysis at all.

Schrodinger’s Strait of Hormuz

He was at the UFC fight as Trump threatened to eradicate a civilisation too wasn’t he … he doesn’t seem to be disavowing the mob boss in the WH at all - despite the feverish speculation.

Trump's lies are always revealed after the market closes....

How the hell has the stock market not learned that Trump just lies?

We miss when not everything required a subscription. How is paying to access the same thing for eternity convenient?

True! Fun fact: They did this because someone leaked Robert Bork’s rental history during his confirmation battle.

Steve Ballmer's net worth is estimated to be between $130 billion and $148 billion He donated the equivalent of 0.00025% of his wealth If he and his fellow parasites were being taxed appropriately, we would never need to worry about anything being underfunded again

Enshittification is still getting April fools day posts on the Instagram algorithm after tax day.

Sigh.

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

“Pharisee Press”

This was completely predictable and arguably even karmically deserved, but this story does not make me feel good. Caitlyn Jenner made this bed of knives and now she has to sleep on it, but it's going to hurt so many other trans people as well.

I truly hate when little Right Wing Hitler youth open their mouths and give opinions in their over sized fake glasses, that they think will make them seem smart ,on things they know nothing about. But listen to a real farmer rip her apart.

it's super funny because what it actually says is theyre now so deep up the arsehole of their group chats they think this is a gripe that will find a broad swathe of sympathy across society-because they now no longer even interact in any capacity with ppl without multiple homes

that they are freaking out this badly over a surtax on second homes worth more than five million dollars - the most excessive rich person thing imaginable, which doesn’t even affect most of them - really makes it clear how little attention you need to pay to the freak outs

As well as being a technically and creatively superb writer, director, and producer of The Pitt, Noah Wyle has spent years supporting nurses and other healthcare workers' unions in their battle for better conditions. He co-created The Pitt as a love letter to Covid first responders, and it shows.

Ew

Drop your crime fighting Catholics:

an underrated, unforgivable belief that remains prevalent among pols and normies is that a rising tide lifts all boats when it’s been clear forever that a rising tide simply drowns the people on low lying land

I do not understand why the people who want you to have more kids also want to make sure there are no jobs left to support them or for them when they grow up. They want to replace people with AI but don't think that leads to... less people.

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

We live in an age where a man best known for FUCKING A COUCH, is telling the Pope that he is wrong on theology. Here we are people. The absolute pinnacle of sub-mediocre white man entitlement. WE MADE IT.

He what

Coffeeshops need to bring back couches and comfy chairs. Nobody wants stools, corporate minimalist chairs, or wooden benches.

For JD Vance, "Is the Pope Catholic?" is an invitation to debate.