A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3

I've been really getting into issuing ultimatums recently. Telling the guy making my sandwich "you have 48 hours". Warning my dentist that there will be consequences for failure. Can't recommend it highly enough.

IDGAF ATM FR

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

100% AI slop accounts with hundreds of thousands of oblivious followers on Facebook, a point in favour of dead internet theory www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

“I have travelled all over the world in the last 30 years, and have never seen anything like the density of assholes I just encountered in Japan, [i.e.] tourists being an unbearable menace specifically while on and around their phones.” [aftermath.site]

Orange buttons on blue background time

Solar power for dummies: The sun throws tiny packets of energy (photons) at Earth all day. Solar panels are built with materials that get excited when those photons hit them. That excitement knocks electrons loose and creates electricity. 1/

TFW you bought a big can of brake fluid a month ago.

TOO MANY COOKS 🎶

Apple User Group Connection for November 1990 : 5920s

to edit a post would be to miss the lessons of posting: either delete or just post more, typos don’t matter, people get what you meant, and the dream of perfection is a trap. the true poster affirms quod scripsi scripsi and moves on to post again and eventually dies at peace. this is the way

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"What remains is the harder labor: translating the grammar of rights into the standards, audit protocols, and enforcement mechanisms that give those sentences force." #AI

Among other things, this sounds like a great case for community-owned and operated renewable energy.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Poster’s Lament

The Kiss, by Francesco Hayez (1859)

The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road www.wsj.com/business/boe...

AI Voice Cloning: The Technology Behind It, Who’s Building It, and Where It’s Headed hackread.com/ai-voice-clo...

Caricature a "sadistic tooth-drawer" who frightens his patient with a hot coal to make him pull back his head and so extract the tooth, 1810. ⠀ ⠀ Featured in our essay "Sicko Doctors: Suffering and Sadism in 19th-Century America" by @UnrealCitoyenne — publicdomainreview.org/essay/s...

Apartments stairwell

I live in the greatest country in the world. I pay $450 a month for health insurance so I can pay $250 to go to a doctor who prescribes me a medication that I can't afford because it isn't covered by insurance.

I don’t think we’re ever gonna get Andor season 2 on physical media.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott launched the modern civil rights movement in America. It is widely regarded as one of the most influential organized campaigns in world history.

Don't leave for the weekend until you've checked out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including --AI bug hunters expose new weak point in Apple’s locked-down macOS, www.metacurity.com/ai-bug-hunte...

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Deskilling me softly with this tool Deskilling me softly with AI Telling my boss that I love this Deskilling me softly with this craaaap 🎶

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains. “[Some] developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling themselves and losing their ability to do their jobs as well as they used to.” [404media.co]

🧬 If you (or someone you know) has expertise in recent DNA-based data storage innovations (ie using synthetic DNA as a kind of memory device), please ping me if available for a quick interview. 🧬

can someone redo the arcade game Toobin' with this aesthetic?

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

A typically excellent CBS Sunday Morning piece on CBS News Radio (1927-2026), which is shutting down next week after 99 years. Why is a storied radio network that still has 700 affiliates being forced to close? Ask Bari Weiss and the beancounters at Paramount. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOJM...

This is so great. Imagine the possibilities for small and medium businesses in Europe because of this. I predict we‘re gonna see way more innovation coming out of Europe than the US

Cabin in the Woods 2

Facebook employees: “Software that tracks what people do? Well, I never!”

weird how because racism is over, black people no longer get to vote

same face Jerome Powell makes every time he has to share a camera with Dumbass

"Salesforce made the strategic decision to reimagine Quip use cases in Slack, Agentforce Sales, and the rest of our product portfolio." ok, boomer

sung to: WE MAKE HITS 🎶

Bloomberg reports today "China-based companies in the clean energy sector have scrapped about $2.8 billion in planned US manufacturing projects over the past 12 months according to research by Rhodium Group" Chinese Companies Cancel Billions In US Investments cleantechnica.com/2026/05/13/c...

gwen does fantastic work as usual on some of the 401,000 trans people who’ve had to flee hostile territory in their own country in the past 18 months.

People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’

frankly I have come to believe techies are illiterate. science fiction isn't about the future, stupid. it's about the current political situation but set in space so no one gets mad. duh!

Fungi rule. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKtQ...

why are the pancakes alive

Every word this guy said.