Your phone will never take a good photo of the moon except for this one rare exception.

could making a serial rapist the figurehead of the modern right have pushed women left? no, it's the hysterical broads who went crazy

how is this literally happening in real life

Prediction markets are presented as real-time measures of probable outcomes driven by collective investment. Which is what horse racing odds are, and we don’t treat those as more than a novelty. Gift link: www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

Watching Palantir do Sephiroth posting about multiculturalism and I would like to remind everyone that they were doing corporate fake woke shit just like every other company.

Succinctly articulates something I try to point out all the time. They exist to forward Zuck’s agenda. People will find ways to use them, but they are fundamentally an anti social technology that exists to erode consent.

Trump's foreign policy mostly reminds me of that terrible made-for-TV Harrison Bergeron movie where the head of the secret smart deep state explains that eventually the other world leaders learned to adjust to nearly half the world's nuclear weapons being under the control of erratic idiots.

Ask the average denizen of DC -- or the average pundit -- who represents the Democratic Party & they'll point to a silly Wesleyen freshman who says "latinx" ... instead of pointing to the dozens of diligent, unflashy legislators & aides involved in this bit of expert policymaking. Why is that?

i dont understand, 2 days ago i was told there was a deal, i was told it was over and we got everything we wanted, i was told the strait would never be closed again, i was told all this just as markets were hitting their stride on friday afternoon

Someone needs to come up with a term for simple-expansion steam locomotives with Mallet-style articulation so that any conversation about them doesn't immediately go off into the weeds about whether or not they are Mallets.

If someone testifies that they’ve made a tool that could potentially end the world, you’d expect that person to be immediately marched out in handcuffs. That’s an idea that was floated to me third-hand a couple of years ago, and I wish I knew who originally said it. But it’s spot-on.

i have a false tooth filled with a placebo in case i'm ever captured and need to be a control subject

after julie le, a former DHS lawyer now running against ilhan omar for cd5, finishes her speech, the convention starts a “fuck ICE!” chant

AGAINST ALL ODDS, THOSE WHO BELIEVED BLUESKY THAT THE CRASH WAS DUE TO A DDOS AND THOSE WHO DIDN'T BELIEVE BLUESKY AND WERE SURE IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE AI VIBE CODING WERE BOTH RIGHT

IL_ANSI.ANS, 1995-06-13 from Groovy Bytes: Behind the Moon (CD-ROM)

STC Executel (1984)

It irks me that Record Store Day is scheduled a week too late to ever fall on Rex Manning Day.

AI upscaling really highlights the hollowness of the whole modern AI project, because doing the reverse operation to check the results and verify it's working correctly is trivial and they just don't do it.

Some people have misunderstood this. We literally saw how Claude itself, coded by Claude, turns one API call into a DOS of thousands upon thousands of API calls done in the sloppiest fucking way possible. This postmortem shows Bluesky vibecoded a function to DOS itself, in a similarly stupid way.

Build high speed rail now.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try." Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

Delta Air Lines had no trouble endorsing the Big Beautiful Bill, which gave ICE a blank check to terrorize Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge. They flew Liam to an ICE concentration camp. Now they want a million dollars to build a new lounge at MSP. Join us on Monday to demand accountability.

It’s never “US Foods/sysco/our landlords/our cogs/our choice to expand too fast/etc are putting us out of business” it’s always “we gotta pay these damn employees less than a meal costs every hour”

Every day a different billionaire says the most horrific movie villain thing you've ever heard but this guy and a grandpa from Vermont are the scary ones because they want to tax them

I can't believe they made the dangerous weapon from Babylon 5 where they tricked someone into knocking themselves out with it by unexpectedly expanding it, and this is how I find out

Your faith was strong, but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya She tied you to a kitchen chair She broke your throne and she cut your hair And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

IF THE ZOO BANS ME FOR HOLLERING AT THE ANIMALS I WILL FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL

Exactly one year ago today:

They're calling it the most Trashfuture episode of No Gods No Mayor's ever

Just one more centrist ghoul man, just give me one more centrist ghoul and I can fix everything just one more centrist ghoul bro, just one more I promise I'll stop, just give me one last centrist ghoul

I’m old enough to remember when NPR did their annual recitation of the Declaration of Independence in 2017 and a bunch of Trump voters called it anti-Trump propaganda because we live in hell

July 21 1935: The Führer orders a new reception hall and ballroom to "entertain foreign diplomats" at the Chancellery. Underneath the dance floor is an air raid shelter. A 2nd deeper bunker is built next to this in 1944, where he would spend his last days as the Reich collapsed.

We should have never doubted this man

I notice the Fake News Media refuse to report on Trump’s plan to settle all future geopolitical disputes through the power of dance

A tax on luxury vacation homes is ONE OF THE SCARIEST THINGS SHE’S EVER SEEN

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Remember when blowback was over? We were so young then.

I like bluesky because it feels so much like tumblr 1. barely works 2. userbase is annoying (affectionate)(not that affectionate) 3. being queer on here feels like I’m actively participating in ruining some tech company’s investment

don't worry, systems that link your legal identity to your social media accounts will only ever be used for age verification! when has the government ever established a surveillance system for a narrow purpose and then used it to harass minorities and activists over petty shit?

I'd probably just panic and answer "Emily" qwantz.com/index.php?co...

Sanrio now going door to door trying to Big Challenges people

Looks like the brought the art fair back to uptown instead of having it at Bachman's again. I assume it's in the same spot as they used to do, although the address they give for directions is a parking garage.

to summarize, this week jd vance laysplained st augustine of hippo to the augustinian pope, while the pope visited hippo

The footnote is sending me

Battle Creek Enquirer April 11,1919