Good work by the @TheEconomist here. Only 15 orders of magnitude off on the CO₂ mass units.

In a small town you especially can’t treat people as disposable. The side bonus is you figure out which of your loudest unhinged neighbors, if properly leveraged, are potentially your Claymore people. Aim front toward enemy.

Or get a better business model that doesn't depend on collecting and surveilling user's personal data under the era of fascism

So how small are the zircons that we date in the lab? Here's a Fish Canyon Tuff zircon on a $5 bill for comparison!

Jeff Bezos went on TV to whine about Zohran Mamdani to stop demonizing billionaires. The very next day Mayor Mamdani responded by forcing Amazon to pay $9M in fines accrued by Amazon delivery trucks for illegally idling. This is what happens when we elect a mayor for the people—not the corporations

he's so cool

i will always remember the sound of balloons being filled with nitrous from grateful dead parking lots i miss that sound and the *WAH*WAH*WAH*WAH*WAH*WAH*WAH* that came after have fun, kids! love it

Free simulator teaches how to identify swimmers in distress/drowning. Important: drowning ppl can be dangerous to untrained rescuers. Call for lifeguard! If none can help, push float/object toward drowning person, avoid letting them grab you directly, esp in deep water. spotthedrowningchild.com

I will increase my taxes to parachute bears on top of people who leave their friends behind

Interesting post by the author of @allaboutberlin on how AI is killing his awesome website. #ai #openknowledge #berlin

New car sales in Denmark are virtually 100% electric now. The number of electric cars on the road has now reached that expected in 2030. https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/antallet-af-elbiler-overgaar-politikernes-forventning-3-5-aar-foer-tid

omg this is insane

Mike Johnson slapped with a community note

The flooding we witnessed on Thursday was a reminder that natural disasters can strike without warning — and that emergency preparedness saves lives.

Honestly it's a damned crime of this country that Sigourney Weaver isn't always being given a billion dollars a year for whatever project she wants to do.

everything is so stupid

Trump is giving Iran $25 billion to end the war to distract from his son marrying the daughter of the guy who sold Epstein his island.

Today’s newsletter reveals the unrestrained and wasteful token burn inside one publicly-traded company (Zillow) and breaks down the cold, hard truth that AI is - for hyperscalers, for AI labs, and for customers - simply too expensive to ever pay off. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-expensive/

“it makes one wonder why the war started to begin with” Ooooh - Lindsey is so close.

one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)

some dope earlier this week tried to gaslight people by saying the pushback on AI mirrors the pushback when the internet went mainstream and no it fucking does not! people were excited about the internet! ffs it wasn’t 100 years ago, a lot of us were THERE

I hand-rolled my first site in 1994 via HTML uploaded via UNIX commands, that's how we did it in those days, uphill both ways in the snow, wearing an onion on our belt as was the custom at the time

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

Companies are generally bad about teaching people how to manage, and so obviously you end up with these bad takes from executives who do not understand what managers actually do. So anyway, one secret of management is that there's no one-size-fits-all style for managing people.

Another thing that took me long time to learn is that managers are not actually "bosses" in the sense of a hierarchical structure. They are simply another role with different responsibilities, which often include "performance evaluation," which is where I think the "boss" perception comes from.

This is unfortunately on e of those situations where the rich person was actually using the tool correctly www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Suddenly, the rich thinking they can replace us with AI makes a LOT of sense

Something I periodically try to instill in people is that work hierarchies do not translate to individual worth as a person. Having more "authority" does not reflect on someone's value as a person. Nor does having wealth, which is a separate (but related) issue. I wish more people understood this.

The only product I think Elon Musk ever actually designed is the Cybertruck. I absolutely believe that is 100% him. And not just because it is a low quality product, but it looks like someone who doesn't understand cars (or aesthetic design in general) came up with it.

just had Kyiv mayor asking everyone to stay in bomb shelters. Russia is massively attacking Kyiv with missiles . Already been about 10 missiles . It’s a lot

The man's brain has turned to mush. He can barely remember what he did five minutes ago, you really expect him to remember that he was president five years ago?

I will fully admit, one of my favorite types of historical document is "confederate aristocrats breaking down because everyone hates them and is kicking the shit out of them." It's truly superb stuff.

A striking, clarifying fact not noted here is that, per Reuters yesterday, all but 3 of the 6069 refugees admitted to the US under Trump have been white South Africans. Trump isn't focused on whether immigrants are "legal" but whether they're white. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/u...

watching vicky 3 tutorials is always incredibly funny, because they're like "obviously in order to economymaxx you need to do open borders low tax multiculturalism with massive deficit-spending state-led infrastructure investment" wokeonomics 2.0 incoming

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” apnews.com/article/just...

The Glass Key is fascinating as a piece of Noir Mystery. The Continental Op cold, heartless, ruthless; Sam Spade was erratic, selfish and violent. Ned Beaumount is the healthier person, he's just a bit restless. The career criminal lives in a community, and has warmth inside his heart.

New World Disorder Mondo 2000 1991 Have no illusions. Something has changed. You blinked your eyes and there was suddenly a juggernaut. Blink again and it’s breaking down your door. Abortion. Drugs. Freedom of speech. You could wake up tomorrow & find out that if it ain’t whitebread it ain’t allowed

why bother watching Americans and Brits argue over who has the best food when I could simply watch two bald men fighting over a comb instead

“Big Trouble In Little Sumeria.” Kurt Russell. Bruce Campbell. Wise-cracking trucker Jack Burton drives through a time tunnel to ancient Sumeria in the middle of an epic battle between Deadite slayer Ash and an unholy alien horde. Frank: Keith David.

I have been thinking a lot about the dozens of people ICE has sent to what is now the Ebola outbreak zone, especially Adriana Zapata, and I really appreciate @melodyschreiber.com reporting this out. 🙏🙏🙏

The calculation is: how much they pay for AI - how much they pay you = the raise you dangle your boss out of a window and demand to do the job properly

It's just this again: sometimes white PMCs just don't feel manly enough www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interrac...

U.S. forces are killing people on drug boats in international waters while Trump pardoned the man convicted of overseeing the smuggling of 400 tons of cocaine.

Not going to bother reading that dummy's Atlantic essay about Miller Lite but I will say that an underrated aspect of quitting drinking altogether is finding more interesting things to build a self identity around

If there’s one thing I want in an NFL quarterback, it’s political opinions that make his offensive line ask themselves if they should let a pass rusher through just to teach him a lesson

Joe Rogan now has the favorability distribution of a Fox News host. Remember all the 2024-2025 hot takes lmaoooo via @carlbeijer.bsky.social

After a 23-hour hiatus from television, Stephen Colbert returned to hosting a public access channel program in Monroe, Michigan. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

Been saying this for years, of course! And written about it and etc.

*It looks nice *But it's a jpeg on a laptop. You can just touch the brightness key and make it look different, y'know *The Stevensons had a John Singer Sargent oil portrait of themselves *in their living-room in Samoa* *They knew Sargent personally *when he was in art school*