ABC: A CDC official said the federal government doesn't plan to have the repatriated American cruise ship passengers quarantine upon arrival in Nebraska.

Once upon a time if someone was incompetent at their job you just didn't really have to pay them much attention, and now they are using AI to generate 20 page design documents you have to review.

How hard do you suppose it was to convince Ed Boon to record himself saying 'Cole Young' for this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmqL...

I keep saying this. People Google shit in front of me all the time and the repeat the AI summary like it's fact. Stop Googling shit you want to know and take a second to Google something you already know really well. Then read the Google AI answer. You will be fucking *shocked* at how bad it is.

Gotta look on the bright side, another pandemic might get us a new Bo Burnham special.

Ya'll gotta stop "coming around" on bad movies.

Spoiler alert: everything Elon personally dislikes he will designate as harming humanity and rugpull all the money

Spending 30 minutes looking for something to watch before giving up is about to get a lot louder

I think I've seen this film before And I didn't like the ending

The Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord remake was surprisingly good, most of its flaws are due to how flawed the original was. I hope Atari does something with this, though the ones that I played all the time were 6, 7, and 8 - the exact 3 they don't have. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

Matthew Stover's novelisation of Revenge of the Sith sums it up best: "There was no Vader. There was only you. Only Anakin Skywalker."

Extremely accurate. Particularly loved the argument that Vader's desire to comfort Obi-Wan is proof that Anakin is very much still part of Vader. www.polygon.com/dave-filoni-...

What an awesome way to beat back the allegations that you're a raging alcoholic who drinks on the job

What in the neverending-parade-of-fuck is this

Reading feels pointless lately. I used to be a voracious reader, but lately spending the time to digest a technical book seems like waste if I can just have AI explain to me the exact thing I want to know (or just do it for me). Not to mention most new tech books are clearly written by AI anyway.

I spent all of She-Hulk annoyed at Marvel for not having enough faith in their writing team to actually write compelling courtroom scenes but now I think maybe they were right #daredevil

Alright well that sucked #Daredevil

I used to be into the "four horsemen" - periodically now when I see the news I miss Christopher Hitchens... ...but then I think actually there's a good chance he'd have been MeToo'd and turned into an anti-woke MAGA conservative. Anyway Richard Dawkins thinks his AI girlfriend is real.

Wait... so when his mom posted on twitter to cancel the fight between Musk and Zuckerberg, that was actually Elon himself posing as his mom? Imagine being one of the people who worships the absolute biggest goddamn dorkass fuckin loser on the face of the planet just because he's rich?

Gemini is laughably slow and terrible for code, there's absolutely no way Google engineers are using this

There is simply no possible explanation other than they are fucking with us

An X user pulled off a $200,000 crypto heist by tricking Grok with Morse code. The user pulled off a prompt injection, bypassing Grok's safeguards and exploiting Grok's integration with Bankrbot to execute a wallet transfer on the Base network. The user deleted their X account after the transfer.

Weird how my entire life conservatives have been against every single form of progress and advancement but are gung-ho for AI, the thing everyone seems to agree will be the undoing of humanity.

Secret Service shot a kid today

I was paying Notion $25/mo just to access a single feature: live transcription of an arbitrary audio source (Discord + mic in my case). You'd be surprised the extent to which nothing else can do this. Well, now something else can do this. Introducing Caption Crunch: github.com/rodhilton/Ca...

Colorado really be out here just letting you print any dumb shit on a license plate, huh?

Honestly how fuckin stupid do you have to be to think that a test for grown adults that starts "which one is the bear?" is a cognitive test? That's genuinely an SNL Celebrity Jeopardy gag.

fellas are you all out there being nazis for a bit?

The public increasingly hates Flock, the odious surveillance operation, but public officials don't care. They pretend to dislike the grotesque abuses of privacy, but they keep renewing (and starting)contracts with the sleazy company. If it's in your town, raise hell.

my latest for @theverge.com is about something i’ve been hearing constantly: Gen Z hates ”AI”, and many young people are deeply resentful of the jobs, schools, and institutions that are now pressuring or forcing them to use it.

Okay, fine. Here's the MCU Machete Order: www.rodhilton.com/2026/04/30/m...

Men consider women emotional because they don't consider anger an emotion.

The fact that Dorsey beat Musk to re-launching Vine, despite Musk literally owning the source code to Vine and expressing a desire to do so, is hysterical. Imagine getting this owned by your own incompetence. techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/j...

Last week of the D&D campaign I'm volunteering to run at school. They just hit lvl 3 and are about to face their BBEG. Been doing theater of the mind all semester, but I'm busting out the battle map and miniatures for this one. Best part is, the 3D printer arrived. Making custom figs for each kid.

One of the videos from Saturday is crazy. No cutaways, you can see Secret Service get JD Vance out of there in 3 seconds flat, and it takes 10 seconds before Trump is even covered, let alone out of the room. Trump ain't in charge.

Gavin Newsome has said his son is a fan of Charlie Kirk Andrew Tate and now Clavicular. You should probably stop running for office and spend time with your son

I was on Discord gaming with some buddies when it happened and nobody even brought it up.

I would not be as skeptical today as I would have been years ago about some kind of sci-fi-ass bullshit about brainwaves in our phones or mind control pheromones in drinking water or something. The way these robots just fall in line and Obey is bizarre on a scale I can't wrap my head around.

This'll help the false flag allegations for sure

I feel like I need someone to explain to me why an ultra-high-secure password manager tool's COMMAND LINE INTERFACE has 219 dependencies and all of them JavaScript, an ecosystem notorious for supply chain attacks. socket.dev/blog/bitward...

Is... is he acknowledging this is another Vietnam?

Sources: the US DOJ arrested a soldier involved in the capture of Nicolás Maduro for allegedly making $400K+ on Polymarket by betting on his removal from office (ABC News) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

I'm not going to say that Tucker Carlson's apology for supporting Trump is authentic or particularly sympathetic or genuine. But I do think him getting on air and saying that in front of all his followers is *valuable*. I'm sure MTG has her own reasons too. I don't have to like them to like this.

At this point Trump and Hegseth have decimated far more of the top US military leadership than the Iran military leadership www.npr.org/2026/04/22/g...

Once upon a time, the "algorithm" that determined what was on your timeline being an inscrutable black box was a major point of contention for Musk. He famously "open sourced" some random section of `source` because he thought it was the algorithm. www.theverge.com/tech/917113/...

Oh. Well in that case, yes please.

An FBI search and a lawsuit "underscores the degree to which conspiracy theories have influenced official government action, even at the highest levels."

Uniquely infuriating to be told my side needs to act more normal while my opposition is doing cold plunges and workouts while wearing full-length bluejeans.