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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Maybe it’s just the hype and cast that built up expectations, but I thought the film “Weapons” sucked.

Spoke Spanish to someone today. Told them we got a new puppy. Thanks Duo? #Watson

Claude: "You're absolutely right!"

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This new iOS ain’t lookin too good

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

Sesame Street will be putting a huge collection of episodes on YouTube starting in January 2026 This is a fantastic way to educate children It’s a form of resistance. Shows like Sesame Street teach love, tolerance, acceptance & more. These lessons are crucial for the long fight ahead.

Cream Cheese Accident is the best band name

Spotted downtown Austin /cc @travisview.bsky.social

There are a billion clones of Wordle on the internet and @avcx.bsky.social will more than satisfy that crossword cravings. You should not be giving NYT a dime.

Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.

some real "war is peace" going on up in here

DON'T RUN WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS

This Sarah McBride interview is great youtu.be/KlbNFsAGFRc?...

A proper “OSINTGPT” would be a fun project

A great “No Kings” themed post from Heather Cox Richardson.

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

1/ 📚 Today we're sharing something we've been working on since 2019: an oral history of how the U.S. Digital Service came to be. Nearly 50 conversations with the people who were there from 2009-2015, telling their stories in their own words. 🧵

Direct File is now open source. Finally. A short, personal post about why: chrisgiven.com/2025/05/dire... Massive kudos to the Direct File team for pulling this off and showing their commitment to transparency and earning trust.

The slow enshittification of Southwest begins... great.

headline construction masterclass

Exhaustive writeup or exhausting? Yow. github.com/wzhudev/reve...

Parrying is the worst thing in video games aftermath.site/parrying-bad

Balatro test

This is me and Claude Code today www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDA3...

The fact that we can’t just use a docker compose file and ship stuff into ECS … it’s so dumb. I feel like buildpacks on heroku also solved a bunch of these issues (moving from mock/dev to a prod env) a long time ago and nobody today is really doing a good job of this.

As much as I hate podcasts in general I do love that Rogan is dipping and also going through the bargaining phase.

Kind of excited about the near-future state of trust and safety development. There’s so much activity in this space, which warms my heart. Making the internet more usable seems like a good thing. Seeing stuff like roost.tools pop and BlueSky putting some newbie energy into things feels good.

Watched the first three episodes of the CNN Twitter thing. I was only there briefly during a really intense time but even seeing folks on video from that time brought back a lot of feels. Really felt more about the time and place more than the circumstance. We had so many opportunities.

"A lover of puzzles and crosswords while growing up in Pittsburgh during the Great Depression, Mrs. Parsons deciphered German military messages that had been created by an Enigma machine." Puzzle people are good people. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/w...

“GPT-image feedback loop, asking the machine to replicate the image without changing anything.” (from x.com/indian_brons...)

I have some tangential thoughts about this, which is good: benn.substack.com/p/a-new-invi...

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.

If AI is so great why can't it come up with a better product naming scheme

Much love to everyone who worked on this.

Pretty amazing - worth reading the whole opinion or at least this thread with the highlights storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is a really great interview with Peter Marks (now-former FDA) re: measles vaccinations and vaccines in general. Jump to 4:25 to see what an endorsement of vaccines really looks like. youtu.be/QyYFCamlaZA?...

Omg yes

Totally forgot that Top Gun was an anti-drone film. That came out three years after wargames.

what are some good supply chain monitoring tools for small companies trying to figure out the impacts of tariffs on their business?

Regardless of anything else about the Wisconsin race, it's just a relief to learn that money can't always buy elections

Very cool project. "The Impact Map provides timely data—as it becomes available—on policy, funding, and workforce changes and their localized effect." theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m...

Wisconsin: not for sale

Balatro is what I need right now. So good.