FT captures what is almost certainly the common global attitude (among our democratic allies at least) toward trump giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

youtube.com/shorts/Dg5zH... the best use of free will that you will ever see

Legendary graft, orders of magnitude beyond anything seen in this country before

Lying diagonally across the bed, like

There is a metaphor here about AI

Christmas morning

Don't miss the gold in the replies. Merry Christmas, y'all!

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

Predicting that some universities will soon pledge to provide AI-free instruction, and that this will be an advantage in recruiting and training top students

We literally found the stupidest people in the country and put them in charge.

Operation Bluebird, Inc. files petition to cancel TWITTER and TWEET registrations on the grounds of abandonment and fraud. Cancellation No. 92090266.

You’re absolutely right — you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure.

Every time that I hear this song for Christmas I am reminded of its actual lyrics youtube.com/shorts/IMgQz...

Just started #themidnightwalk and it's beyond amazing. It's like, what if Tim Burton directed a horror game like Little Nightmares or Among the Sleep. It reminds me of What Remains of Edith Finch. It's super immersive. youtu.be/w0z-LEcEY3U?...

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

It's nice seeing that software development practices have not changed much over time.

62 Years Ago Today:

In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ... ... listen to Steve Wozniak.

There was a point in time when Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai

nothing is wrong. there is no problem. but you can’t help but think that man outside the trolley window appears to have a lot on his mind.

youtube.com/shorts/jwtSU... I believe that the Internet exists to provide these random moments of brilliance

Hey man I think the President being at the Great Gatsby Halloween Party hosted at his golf course resort the night before SNAP runs out is a bit too on the nose, go do another pass at this scene

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Software release on a Friday youtube.com/shorts/Iojxt...

For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin. Here's the video of it running.

openai are disgusting freaks

Free will rules

That list is over-inclusive and has some accounts that aren't posting propaganda and trolling. This list is just the troll accounts bsky.app/profile/did:...

This whole thread is excellent

Commit, what can happen

"WE MAKE NEWS LOUDER. IF STORY GOOD ON ONE SIDE, SHOW OTHER SIDE TOO. OTHER SIDE WRONG? OTHER SIDE WANT BLEACH IN VEINS? ANIMAL RUN BOTH. REPORT BOTH SIDES. EVEN WHEN ONE SIDE THINK HEAD MEDS MAKE QUIET BABIES."

@theoatmeal.bsky.social Has published a thing about AI art, and you need to read it: theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Guess how I discovered that it's pronounced "Balrog", not "Walrog"

😅

it’s over

#Florida woman wins Mortal Kombat tournament playing with newborn baby in arms. You know, like you do. www.dexerto.com/mortal-komba...

I just noticed today that my mastodon account also disappeared. So much for the federated social experience.

Ruin a book with a car: Love in the times of Teslas

How to set up a design system with CSS relative colors youtu.be/oTdQaaqtGDk

Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists. I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to. Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.

I'll get whatever is inbetween, please and thank you

youtube.com/shorts/CyVh7... "if scatman can make it, so can you". The lyrics takes a whole different meaning

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

this makes me oddly happy

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If you live in the USA, this is a good answer to frame and reuse for the next three years

Among all the other things, "The President has screwed things up so badly that the world's other rich countries won't deliver mail to us anymore" really should end it immediately.

ooh they did a science to find the scientists