(living in a country where the most successful people are obscenely rich and shameless perverts and psychopaths) Time to teach my children to be honest and study hard in school

[starting discourse] demanding that drivers stop at a red light is ableist

yeah it's honestly so wild! to me that the new york times circa 2019 is writing articles about how the internet is making kids trans meanwhile their writers are emailing The World's Most Well Known Child Sex Trafficker like "heyyy buddy,,,, how's it goin friend!"

there are a number of viable contenders for worst subway station in NYC but 14 St–Union Sq is the one that reliably makes me fear for my life

“GitHub no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues.” Music to my ears! primer.style/accessibilit...

been getting lucky with train headways lately, reliably 5 min or less 🥰

you ever see someone so beautiful it makes you feel embarrassed about your entire outfit

congrats Seattle on joining NY in electing a mayor who doesn’t suck shit

IT'S '6-7', COOPER. A GENERATION ALPHA TREND. WHAT THEY CALL A 'MAY-MAY'. IT'S AN ORPHANED SIGNIFIER, NO SIGNS ATTACHED. ONE COULD CALL IT DADAIST, BUT SOMME SAY IT'S TOO STUPID TO BE DADA. IT'S ANTI-MEANING, ANTI-HUMOUR, BUT DAMN IF THOSE KIDS DON'T FIND IT A CRACK-UP.

only news that matters today

put. the AI. DOWN!!!

maybe I don’t need to be on any social medias

MTA should put maps at every station exit fr

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excellent piece on tolkien, the changing faces of d&d, and the history of ~fantasy racism~. good shit in here

my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time

you mean a trans coded these video files?

“I think there’s a collective amnesia right now about COVID-19” SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month, and limited surveillance is hampering health strategies go.nature.com/3Lspwi0

I am simply not going to “boost this on LinkedIn”

imagine being this delusional

during reconstruction II we are abolishing the senate

product photography is my passion

cis men like this have the weirdest ideas about hormones and gender. just the biggest, most insecure babies ever

this technology should not exist. christ

the queers are at the art fair selling trans porn on VHS

thought about using daily satellite imagery for an art project and holy shit it's expensive. like $10k+

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

hell yeah this is sick

websites in 2025

We have taken products off the market for being far less dangerous. We also have a clear signal that all the money we’re dumping into AI could be better spent addressing a serious mental health crisis.

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Cloudflare's main CTA is wild

I somehow always forget that Shigesato Itoi, creator of Mother/EarthBound, has been arrested numerous times for protesting against police brutality and for progressive changes to the establishment in Japan's government. Makes that cop battle scene in the early game hit different, huh?

there are so many cool things you can do in the browser like fluid typography that just do not work if you also have a team of designers who work primarily or exclusively in Figma

Holy shit. Noam Shazeer, one of the original authors on the "Attention is All You Need" paper and Character.AI founder, came out as major transphobe. Like Trumpian levels of "this is child mutilation" of transphobia. (via The Information)

Justice Jackson, dissenting, asking the *real* question here

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good colors

If you're wondering how this will go Square Enix handed off their mobile Octopath game to NetEase who immediately started using ChatGPT to translate everything resulting in text like this. When players complained they started asking fans to fix their translations in exchange for in-game currency

Mozilla deployed an AI bot that overwrote 20 years of volunteer Japanese translations, without consultation. JP community leader resigned, and the offer from Mozilla is to "hop on a quick call to understand why they're struggling". FFS. HN discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4583...

the archival journey begins

successfully poisoned iOS autocorrect

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what gives me confidence in Zohran’s prospects as mayor is not just that he himself is smart and capable but that he has surrounded himself with an extremely talented team of supporters. nothing gets done alone

the train arrived at the platform exactly when I did. thank you mayor-elect Mamdani

Zohran Mamdani: potentially the NYC Streets Mayor of our wildest dreams