A lot of the concern about AI data centres seems to about water, but this PBS investigation highlights other concerns, sidestepping environmental regulations for gas turbines used to power them and the resulting pollution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p42...

A good reminder that even vast wealth can't buy good taste. #WhiteTrashWH

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email [email protected] to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

Important notes from today's meeting

Just gonna put this on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Q0...

Topical.

This. I’m reminded of being with an addict who wants you to indulge with them, so that they won’t be alone in their addiction and yet – and this is key – they think their experience means they understand life better than you do.

maybe slightly off topic, but have you ever heard an ocelot cub?

Keep pushing back. Loudly, publicly, and persistently.

Hey, @jean-renaud.bsky.social ...

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

Any tool, really...

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

Home Depot is understaffing their stores (the same as CVS) and that's why they do this. Starbucks closed unionized stores in Santa Monica and Brentwood and blamed crime. Big corps send pressers to newspapers who copy and paste them into the CMS and do zero original reporting. Ask me how I know

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

It’s really frightening.

H&R Block Location Mistaken For ‘Backrooms’ Fan Event

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

ca. 1990 my desire for a Mac or Amiga knew no bounds, but all I had were a C64, XT clone, and a few other classic 8-bitters, everything bought second-hand or on clearance. I still have them all, of course.

Honestly, it's wild but I think that the idea of AI becoming conscious and super intelligent and taking over the world and destroying it was wishful thinking.

Every time an "ai" "breaks containment" in the news I realize that the real threat is the machine taking over the world and destroying it without ever becoming conscious or intelligent. It shouldn't really have been surprising looking at the caliber of people already doing the same.

the two times i almost drowned, i couldn’t call for help and didn’t flail around like on tv — an important read Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event. The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for is rarely seen in real life.

On Memorial Day, we remember, with solemn gratitude, the men and women in uniform who gave their lives in service to their country.

‘A newly uncovered police bulletin warns that white supremacists may interpret ICE social media content as a call to violence.’

oh my god. no thank you.

the world needs more guinea pig cartographers

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Mom Mails Son Jar She Needs Opened

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…

YOU PEOPLE LITERALLY DIRECTLY LAID ME OFF AND IMMEDIATELY GAVE THE MONEY YOU WOULD HAVE PAID US TO MAKE YOU A VIDEO GAME TO SAM ALTMAN INSTEAD

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified…… History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - George Orwell -

Oh, I know it's not cost. We don't have universal healthcare because there would be no legal way to make it white-only. White Americans used to love social programs for welfare, health, job training. Then, courts told them they had to share. Been paring it back ever since, even when it hurts them.

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This needs to be normalized at conventions. (With ALT text)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/a...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

YUP. This is why ppl actually acknowledgeable in industries... publishing, gaming, biotech, etc... are literally ignored when they say "That's dumb. That makes no sense, and no one will buy that." re: startups. There is no intent to EVER get something to customers. That's some other guy's problem.

Then why are so many on the Right scared shitless by them?

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