Today, Palestinians around the world remember the Nakba – “the catastrophe” in Arabic – the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians in 1948, when more than 750,000 people were driven from their homes and hundreds of villages and towns were erased. (1/5)

just continually astounded at how comfortable people are sending lazy, generic emails clearly generated by AI, and then expecting to be taken seriously

At this point unless tech CEOs say this as part of congressional testimony (and possibly even then) I'm assuming they are making at least part of it up

Roots is a bicentennial jawn so in 50 years we went from groundbreaking miniseries watched by the whole country to banning copies of the book

“Why are the kids a bunch of puritanical nihilists?” I dunno, could it be at all related to every adult they interact demanding absolute fealty & complete impunity while they surround the children with a technology based surveillance state that has very high consequences and no upside

Beast Mode

Very cool version of this monthly global average surface temperature anomaly chart showing both El Niño and La Niña years

Well, the good news is California has spent the last two decades building dense, infill development and investing in bike lanes, public transit, and high speed rail connecting its major cities so the impact of this should be minim- [puts finger to ear] California did what now?

another banner day at the office

It’s very simple: the 6 republican Supreme Court justices are functionally no different than klansmen

I wish you well in your adult literacy journey

"Right now, there are more rules on opening a salon or a burrito shop than an AI startup" Very good piece here. So wild how that Jacobin piece echoed the same arguments used in a WaPo op-ed by *checks notes* PALANTIR EXECUTIVES

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

[supply chain youtuber] the crisis in raccoon city was, fundamentally, a failure of supply chain management

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

i am as always, due to the CDC neglecting the american people, reading chise the furry virologist on various disease concerns

:Paul Verhoeven throws his hat on the ground and jumps up and down on it in fury:

Is it political violence when the country’s health secretary suggests sick people deserve to die

I mean you can dislike the guy personally or whatever. I don't care, I'm 40, the concept of "streamers" is a baffling one to me. But virtually every time I see a quote of his circulating he's spitting fucking bars

It’s actually incredible that Musk can spend years off his gourd on drugs, dismantling the federal government, turning X into the leading platform for white nationalists, and making absurd claims about his vaporware technology, and America’s #1 courtier will still claim he’s just a smol science bean

worth noting here it's not just Wyoming where Republican lawmakers are openly saying they want to boost the state's population by forcing people--even teenagers--into childbirth From a 2024 lawsuit filed by the Attorney Generals of Missouri, Kansas, & Idaho: ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

May 3rd is the birthday of Hind Rajab. She would be 8-years-old. She called for help. She loved pretending to play doctor. She was kind. She should still be alive ❤️‍🩹 Happy birthday, Hind 🎈 We remember you. Thinking of your mom, may all of the kindness and beautiful memories of you seek her heart 💛

the future of this country is mansions full of mummified corpses from coast to coast

Disney should've just given Sebastian Stan whatever amount of money he wanted to play 30-something Luke and be the cornerstone of a new series of movies, shows, etc

logging in first thing Monday morning to an email from IT saying "congratulations! your supervisor has nominated you to receive a Copilot license for all of your M365 applications"

This is just millennial culture. Millennials love paying rent

fucking video game scenery ass vending machine

One of the most successful things the tech industry has done since the 1990s is lead the citizenry to believe that because a technology can do something means that something can’t be legislated away. And since the 2010s they used their lobbying powers to defang the legislators who know otherwise.

Cornell president should be arrested and charged with at minimum aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The instant this happened. And should have been fired the next instant. @cornellupress.bsky.social

The president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident

If you haven't been paying attention, this is happening because Hasbro decided that MTGA's team had to go back into the office. Its NEVER been in the office, and the team lives nowhere near any offices. They're all over the US. It was basically form a union, move, or be soft fired.

“They’re targeting foreigners to establish the principle, but there’s no question it’ll be turned against all of us if they succeed.” - @jwdwerner.bsky.social Je suis Khalil. Incredible reflections from him. nymag.com/intelligence...

a story about what happens when a MAGA prosecutor's 287(g) plans might be dashed by county government (featuring fake electors, "woke" classrooms, "World Economic Forum" conspiracy theories, and many other familiar elements of our cursed milieu)

the mf who just took 36 duck breasts out of the sous vide

The WHCA continuing their glorified meet and greet after an active shooter and a death is really just so spot on for the horrendous sociopathic tendencies of DC political reporters that I can't quite believe it's real.

If this was, in fact, an active shooter situation, treating it like a minor inconvenience so you can go back to your fancy dinner is the most end-stage American capitalism display I could possibly imagine

Even in terms of pure rhetoric I think the story of the year is that ordinary people--many of whom weren't previously very politically engaged--are furious, while professional politicians very much aren't. Just listen to basically anyone who lives in Minneapolis for 5 minutes

We've stopped reporting on reichstag fires

laundromat

Something we don’t address enough is how many people, especially adults, do not have a working imagination.

This is a real thing a real person said. Astonishing how much contempt people hold in their hearts. Soul-poisoning.

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

Apart from everything else, this has nothing to do with how the Pharisees and their conflict with Jesus are depicted in the Gospels. Not even the opposite of it. Just completely orthogonal. Like someone who has no familiarity with the Bible stories at all.

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

One of the first signs of Woke 2 will be the movies having the "psychotic Afrikaaner mercenary" role be switched to ex-IDF guys

no one will ever throw people under the bus like this guy, the best ever to do it

It has been 13 years since Israeli soldiers murdered Rachel Corrie with a bulldozer. This is a really compelling piece by her mother.