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Computer scientists: We have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong. Tech CEOs: Let's add it to every product!

The abuser thing occurred to me this week, when Apple announced someone could set up an iPhone account to require real-time permission for every app or website visited. One of the damned few times in my life I thought, "That's going to be used by abusive men against women."

I don't want a chatbot to charge my card without my authorization????

If you got AI to write your book you didn’t write your book. Stephen King wrote your book. Octavia Butler wrote your book. Jilly Cooper wrote your book. Dav Pilkey wrote your book. Lisa Jewell wrote your book. I wrote your book. Every author whose work has been digitised wrote your book. You did not

#hotdesking My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

🟠 This week's Clässĩk Tom the Dancing Bug - BIBLE STORIES (1998) - www.gocomics.com/tomthedancin...

Bumping this now that the Americans are awake

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@brittlestar.com is a true Canadian Legend. @shannonpeel.bsky.social youtu.be/xsAnJAYoB0s?...

Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums. Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space. It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?

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I once debugged something for weeks and ended up deleting one line. I think about that every time people talk about measuring developer «productivity». One character is cooler tho

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.

🔴 Brand new Tom the Dancing Bug now up on @boingboing.net - THEY WALK AMONG US. TRUST NO ONE. - boingboing.net/2026/06/10/t...

That One Matt Bors Comic is FUNDED. Thanks to everyone for participating. There are 24 hours to lock in pre-orders for this book analyzing the life of a single panel of a comic strip: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...

I check the ticket. Overnight to Krakow. Sleeper, private compartment for two. "Hurry up!" My fiancé leads the way. "Wait, the train station is the other-" "We're here." It used to be an empty plot. Now it's full of small houses. My fiancé grins and points to a sign: "Baba Yaga Travels"

@mayor.nyc.gov please stop posting on x. it's a dark pit full of nazis and by posting there, you are telling us you're ok with sharing space with them. you are giving credence to elon's site by being on there. you don't need it

A FIFA referee has spent more time in federal custody for being Somali than anybody on epstein's list for raping kids.

JUST IN: A California state court judge denied motions by Meta Platforms and Google's YouTube seeking a new trial after a jury found them liable for designing social media platforms that are harmful to young people, sources familiar with the ruling confirmed reut.rs/3RUICR3

Is there a word for government of, for, and by 12-year-old boys

Drill cores at the impact site of the Chicxulub asteroid show evidence that, alongside widespread destruction, the collision created a vast underground ecosystem filled with hot water that sheltered microbial life

The emergence of Pete and his staring contest opponent, who has an unfair non-blinking advantage.

grabbing every small business owner I can find by the shoulders and yelling directly into their faces that IF I DON'T HAVE AN INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT I CAN'T SEE ANY OF YOUR SHIT GET A FUCKING WEBSITE

the cars don't drive themselves and we're still nowhere near Mars, but you can't question Elon Musk's ability to deliver screwworms and racial violence

Presidential Pardons Must Be Ended.

U of T computer scientists have discovered a vulnerability in GPU memory that can allow attackers to take complete control of a computer system. The proof-of-concept exploit, called GPUBreach, has been honoured with a Distinguished Paper Award at @sp.ieee-security.org 2026. uoft.me/ct9

If you need a script for getting your company off Twitter, I WROTE YOU ONE. Multiple people have used it, successfully, to explain the legal liability your company incurs by forcing employees to be on a platform with child sexual abuse material. I will help you use it. anildash.com/2026/02/23/t...

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, IMHO the two best reporters covering Trump (as opposed to the WH, or Administration) with an article laying out his tactics to disrupt elections. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/u...

There was a girl in grade 10 who would driver her parents car to school when she was 15 and now I feel less bad about going for rides with her.

Nostalgia Content xkcd.com/3256/

Begging community orgs to get off instagram too/have something in addition to instagram

The vice president is boosting a MAGA conspiracy theory after Spencer Pratt failed to advance in the race for L.A. mayor. trib.al/1N10k65

A federal judge in Mississippi has punished all four lawyers on opposing sides in a civil trial and canceled the proceedings after some of them, relying on artificial intelligence, cited fake legal cases in court filings.

A good thread on screwworms. Talking to an entomologist last year, he also added that the pandemic was the first domino. Scientists couldn’t get to the facilities, couldn’t get out into the field to check outbreak reports.

Someone just told me they tossed out a bunch of Edwardian cat photos because they read the exposure times were too long to photograph cats so they were all taxidermied. If you wanna let internet misinformation ruin your antique cat photo collecting please give them to ME instead of destroying them!

again it is totally meaningless but i assure u that a list of 1,000 adjectives to decribe ted cruz or ken paxton would also not include the word 'masculine'

SPIKE: Dr Crun inoculated us against the following deadly fevers: HARRY: Typhoid MIKE: Malaria PETER: Sleeping sickness SPIKE: Black water fever HARRY: Swamp fever PETER: Lurgi MIKE: May 15th. Crun led us into the jungle. PETER: May 16th. In bed with measles. (Goon Show S2 E20, 10 Jun 1952)

Congratulations of sorts to my colleague Tony Keller for coming up with the most offputting characterization of Trump’s behaviour www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Dr Oz: "You were not put on this planet to sit at home and watch television. The average person who's on Medicaid, who's able-bodied, watches 6.1 hours of television, or just hangs out, every day." Wait, didn't Oz make his fortune off people watching television?

The Punisher sticker we've needed all along

Nerds, this is your chance to explain the Halting Problem to your friends and family using current events. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting...

Look, I’m not saying I can prove fraud. It’s just that counting all the ballots is very suspicious and undermines the integrity of the vote.

A thread. The other day, I happened to clock the little AI-written bio attached to my name. It announced, quite confidently, that I was married, not to my husband, but to his brother. Particularly amusing, since my BIL is a proud member of the LGBQT community. I love him, but I am NOT his type. 🧵

I am sure that all the astronauts in the newly announced Artemis crew are eminently qualified and I don't in any way wish to detract from their accomplishments but I think it would have been a nice progression if the crews of each of the five Artemis missions included more women than the one before.

The key to understanding Bradford is to understand that the one thing he’s consistent about is presenting himself as an alternative to whoever the current mayor is, in the hope that he can be the next one. In April of 2022, it was John Tory.

You cannot address the underlying causes of bad-faith conspiracy theories. Any measures you introduce to speed up the count will be seized on as a pretext to claim the election is now less secure. (We want only paper ballots meticulously hand-counted by candlelight, and all results instantly!)

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