I am obsessed with this finalist in this year's Michigan “I voted” sticker design contest

Very funny from /r/balatro

It will be cheaper for people in New York to take a combination of NJ Transit and SEPTA to Philadelphia and see games there than to simply get from Manhattan to the Meadowlands. As an added bonus, you get to go to Philadelphia instead of East Rutherford.

When people pay attention to, and financially support, local journalism, we're able to put the resources into doing impactful investigations like this. Read the award-winning work here (which was just the first in a series of stories I did over several months digging into Flock cameras in KY):

Let them eat stocks!

I think I've figured out what bothers me about this fad. This feels like a way to make things harder on your kids, without making things harder on *you.*

Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat

There is a certain irony in cattle people throwing all of their weight behind an administration that promised to be friendly to rancher politics, only for that administration to allow a hideous cattle parasite to make it into Texas because cooperating with Mexico is woke and gay

That, and Dems have to stop voting to confirm them

“The term deepfake traditionally refers to photos, audio, and video, but when it comes to discussions of consciousness, we need to regard text as a deepfake medium as well.” www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

Silicon Valley reinventing AI ethics like it’s the bus

You cannot be shocked by anything anymore but “I’m the one that overrated it” is quite notable

"My driveway is bigger than my house!"

SCOOP: An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality, 404 Media has learned.

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

Had he not resigned, former LMPD officer Alexander Marson would have been fired by the department for using a "choking technique" on a handcuffed suspect. Now he's the Republican nominee to be the next Jefferson County Sheriff. More: www.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...

IMPORTANT UPDATE: The person who originally saw this broadcast and took the pictures of the TV is currently the Icelandic Ambassador to the US.

you can draw a pretty straight line from this to his neo-confederate voting rights jurisprudence, imo

to my mind the most important biographical fact to know about samuel alito is that he was a member of a group that opposed the admission of women and minorities to princeton www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/p...

Nick Bilton wrote he's not here "to make headlines about newsroom drama." Bilton referred to himself 23 times in his email firing Scott Pelley—five in the first sentence alone. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

another detail about the dildo event that lives in my head rent free is that Pulte made his grand entrance via helicopter, but the ADS-B data revealed that what actually happened is the helicopter just took off from the hanger where the party was and landed in the same spot 1 min later

the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt

Welp there’s no unseeing this

Dude has his *skype* handle in his sig file.

A huge point in favor of @bfishbfish.bsky.social's theory that Trump just don't know that many people anymore

conditioning talks on your adversary giving up their strongest point of leverage — which they wouldn’t even have if it weren’t for your mistakes — is an utterly unserious, clown position

I would think that businesses that _aren't_ data centers would be stoked that all available funds wouldn't be funneled to the new shiny toy of data centers, but what do I know?

I wanna make my OWN typos dammit

Tokenmaxxing, the idea held by some tech execs that if employees are not maximizing their use of AI tools at work they are not being productive enough, has become common in the industry, with some bosses bragging about how they are spending more on AI tool usage costs than actual human employees.

a small part of the problem with AI is that even if you see good use cases for the technology, focusing on them is a little like saying radiotherapy is going to be great for treating cancer while stores still have radium toothpaste on the shelves www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

unnoticed by whom, npr

Justice Alito, the pseudo-intellectual prolapse of the Federalist Society, is vile, but Rep. Levin is simply wrong about recusal here. Federal law does not require a judge to recuse because their child works for a government agency or department … /1

trump's "skill" in making deals has always been based on one thing: his ability to refuse to honor the deal he just made he'll agree to do something and then just not do it and dare you to impose consequences on him for it if you can actually do that, well

holy shit nobody has ever answered a question worse

"Make me mayor or I leave" should get a person banned from every city for at least 5 years. They can spend the time living on a boat and thinking about how much they suck.

The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!

DO YOU SING?

If you're a white person experiencing racism in Britain, no you're not. What you're experiencing is that people don't like you.

I am begging you for the millionth time to understand, no one is pretending to like a band you don't like.

so birth control makes women smarter, got it

Engineers being expected to do on-call shifts for no additional compensation is one of the clearest arguments for “just because you’re highly-paid doesn’t mean you don’t need a union”

My dude, if your best defense in court is to either admit to or lie about not filing your taxes for 5 years, just give it up.

Our story is up: One of my fav details? Bevin says he has not filed a tax return since 2021. Quite the feat

It remains baffling to me that we have a clear constitutional requirement that the president can't enrich himself on the job, something we had no problem enforcing strictly for hundreds of years, and then this sweaty conman came by and the nation just sorta shrugged it off.

Every day we encounter a new series of words that has never before been strung together in that particular order. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Despite a tense national and statewide environment around LGTBQ+ issues, the Lexington Pride Festival saw a notable boom in sponsors this year. Here is a story on how organizers made that happen and what it says about Lexington's support of the queer community. www.kentucky.com/news/local/a...

Sigh