Just because someone lied under oath about using racial slurs dozens of times doesn't mean they should be canceled—and by "canceled," we mean given their own TV show. fair.org/home/fuhrman...

interesting how elected officials who say they want to “lower the temperature” only hold the unarmed side of a protest to that standard.

i guess it was funny to read about a director who flew to london to "play around" with tilly norwood when he could have easily just made a reasonable facsimile on his own, because it's just really clear that this shit is for rubes

"Real-time, hyper personalized AI systems may create a new class of addictive content akin to 'digital heroin,' capable of hijacking the brain’s reward system in ways comparable to substance use disorders." Digital heroin seems bad for folks of any age...

Based on a remarkable true story, ‘Pressure’ follows the efforts of a British meteorologist (Andrew Scott) to forecast the weather for D-Day. It’s a genuinely gripping and well-acted World War II movie, of the kind we don’t see much anymore.

Yeah, thermoplast data would be great. For now, FYI, I built twopedals.nyc to better visualize milling and paving

think of all the ideas we are being deprived of because rosenbaum is getting yelled at for not actually writing or fact-checking his book about truth www.wired.com/story/future...

Cutting off New York, LA, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, and other major ports of entry/departure from international flights would be the biggest self-inflicted wound to our economy since closing the Strait of Hormuz. The costs would be ridiculous. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

just as a reminder farm owners ≠ farm workers

Midway Blitz maybe over but that's just bc they've realized that publicity is a liability.

1. Lead Left, a super PAC created on 4/24, purports to stand "against MAGA extremists." It has spent $3M+ in Democratic primaries. But it's funders and motivations have been secret. Until now. It's a GOP dirty tricks operation. 🧵

We know that AI is terrible for the environment, is inherently racist and biased, trains on stolen work, leads to cognitive offloading and flatlining, deskills teachers, displaces the relationship between students and teachers, has horrific mental health outcomes.

There's too much god in the first one for my taste, but I love the second one!

"inconvenience" is spending half an hour trying to find the movie you love on streaming

The author makes a big deal about percentages of a self-selected sample (the Big Kink survey cited in the article) which don't actually generalize to anything. I think the role of porn is overstated here, but there's enough evidence presented to support the idea that there's something going on.

"Israel's Destruction of Gaza Mapped Using Digital Archive of Wartime Footage: The Genocide Live map uses publicly available geolocated videos, photographs & social media posts, serving researchers, journalists & Palestinians wondering what remains of their homes"~Ha'aretz genocide.live

bah gawd is that @schwindter.bsky.social's entrance music???

"Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the role the Holy See played in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican’s record a 'wound in Christian memory'": apnews.com/article/pope...

i'm not on bluesky because i want to live in a bubble. i'm on bluesky because i love reading long manifestos about what's wrong with bluesky by people who don't spend enough time here to know someone does this every 10 days.

There are so many things I dislike about 2026, but the ubiquity of scammy, underhanded behavior from large corporations, and the lack of appetite in the federal government for protecting consumers, is way up there.

#WagnerCollege is acquiring the old #StJohnsUniversity campus on #StatenIsland but at the same time, Wagner is abandoning the #liberalartscollege model in favor of a vocational school business model focusing on business, nursing & theater majors... www.silive.com/news/2026/05...

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

I promise I’m going to stop making clocks soon, but I made a pair in the International Phonetic Alphabet and I’m proud because it was quite a task to get right But did I get it right? I need a thorough IPA proofread #lingsky #linguistics dr.eamer.dev/clocks/ipa dr.eamer.dev/clocks/ipa-grid

Since NYC.gov was moved off TeamSite, we've lost a number of URLs that document NYC's #civictech / #govtech / #opengov history. I have an old repo of the URL, but I did not capture the text or the screenshot of the page. Important context has been erased from the broader public record.

Omg Trump is skipping Don Jr's wedding to golf. He's such a bastard. He's elevated bastardry to an art form.

"we premiered at cannes" no you paid to have your short film screened at a venue within the city limits of cannes

This is a great post! It's probably been said before, but I would add, "If it's walking distance, and you can walk, just walk over and pick it up!

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

100%: both fascism and (most) reality tv are fundamentally anti-social endeavors, rewarding the same zero-sum behavior

The UN defines “buffer zone” as “neutral space created by the withdrawal of hostile parties or a demilitarized zone.” Corporate media use the term to mean land taken over by a belligerent foreign army that intends to remain for the long term. fair.org/home/buffer-...

this feels like Ford inventing the Model T and then following it up with a mechanical donkey that jumps into lakes and sprays hot oil in your face when you try to brake

If all my colleagues embrace AI in science, then in a few years I will be in the unique position of being the only person who still knows how to do science

i think this is just how it always is. the french revolution wouldn't have happened without spiraling bread prices. the protests that toppled caeusescu were in part because of shortages of cooking oil.

One of the first things I learned when I was working with Git as a full-time professional coder was how not to store your credentials in a repo. I'll be honest, I still mess up once in a while. But I'd be extra careful with something like this!

me over a decade ago: startups are a cult everybody then: nahhhh startups today: it's inject-yourself friyays!!

the thing is, they say this, but it'll be quietly shelved in two months just like the AI order taker was

Ok everyone. @bhgreeley has written the best book on the USD ever. The US fell into it, used it, and is now in danger or losing. And now you can get it at a discount. Seriously. Read the book. Its a bullshit filter for USD discussions, and so much more: bookpal.com/the-almighty...

ALL LABOR IS SKILLED LABOR.

NEW: Tesla has unexpectedly un-redacted the descriptions of its Robotaxi crashes, revealing at least two instances where teleoperators crashed while controlling the vehicles at low speeds. techcrunch.com/2026/05/15/t...

They're just smol beans guys, what are they supposed to do: take a principled stance about anything, ever? Stop criticizing them pls it makes them very sad :(

"The only ones who need to be worried right now is the Iranians who think they're gonna live" -Pete Hegseth, Very Normal Guy

it hadn't really occurred to me, but it's clearly the lack of an algorithm that most bsky critics hate. you have to take time and effort to engage with people on here. it's not going to do it for you, even though you're God's Most Special Baby

"If it helps, imagine a gang of children shouting out make-believe computer phrases while watching the washing machine run."

Findem acknowledged its website contained code that had hidden its opt-out page from search results from February 2023 through February 2026, said the code was added by an employee who has since left the company, and that executives could not explain why it was added.

The proposed “savings” of $1.6 billion is equivalent to the cost of 1.3 days of the war on Iran. fair.org/uncategorize...

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SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

I was assigned female at birth and will also Never Be A Real Woman™ according to this test that thinks doing math and being able to park are masculine traits

SCOTUS is staging a coup & we should call it that