"CAPTCHAs help separate bots from humans. But what if you only want your content to be seen by humans in their 30s with passions for subway tile and posting JLaw reaction GIFs in Slack? For this purpose, we have created the Millennial CAPTCHA."

Oh man I didn't realize my brain was reading this in a Boston accent until I read "Brahms"

It is April 20th, so on this 420 day, I am posting a colorful Civil War era bank note that includes this fascinating vignette of an African American man breaking hemp on a cutting machine. It also includes a portrait of Florence Nightingale. Union Bank of Missouri, St Louis, MO, $1, July 1, 1861. 🗄️

Well past halfway through April means I was not expecting the post of snowy February photos to drop on a freeze warning day. njwv.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/f...

As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting. End the project already, Dave. You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs. Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.

“All I want is some chicken wings, and for you all to leave me the hell alone, is that too much to ask?”

It’s 2026 and this still looks like the future.

was and is just a very normal sensible thing to say and practice

Over on our stories, 8 Hours wandering a flea market rummaging for vintage stationery. Lots more here www.instagram.com/stories/pres...

Centuries of Sound 1853-1860 The first Centuries of Sound mix, featuring the earliest recovered sounds, all made by French printer and bookseller Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on a contraption of his own invention and not played back for 150 years. centuriesofsound.com/2019/04/17/1...

The Rockies spent the whole game trolling Dalton Rushing he might have to retire

😂

Poll: Is your baseball team good rn? Like for no. Repost for no. Reply for no.

do you remember when samsung (i think) started using ai to insert prerendered photos when you used your phone to take pictures of the moon? Opportunity missed to do the funniest thing of all time here

Just start. Let it be terrible. Write until it stops being terrible. Get a non-terrible sentence and delete everything else. And then work from there.

World of Gamergate

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

The Strokes ended their Coachella set with the song "Oblivius", highlighting US involvement in the overthrow/deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Omar Torrijos, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Juan José Torres, Martin Luther King Jr, Jacobo Árbenz, Salvador Allende, Jaime Roldós, and destruction in Gaza and Iran.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

the quality of each star trek show is directly proportional to how often you see the characters engaging in hobbies

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

Oh wow this thread is wonderful.

Four Favorites with Oscar-winning cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw 🎥 Sinners was released in theaters one year ago today.

Building Big Brother is expensive.

The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds. Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.

They're cowards for not doing this.

Some people have misunderstood this. We literally saw how Claude itself, coded by Claude, turns one API call into a DOS of thousands upon thousands of API calls done in the sloppiest fucking way possible. This postmortem shows Bluesky vibecoded a function to DOS itself, in a similarly stupid way.

One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.

Looks we love

Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth. Carved in wood, painted. Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC. 📷 Royal Ontario Museum 🏺

Oh look, my new book available for preorder on amzn and elsewhere (pub date subject to change). Can’t wait for people to read. www.amazon.co.uk/Uruguay-Foot... Also: cover reveal!!

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

Previous hard sells have all been "this is cool" and "look what you can do" focusing on making people want to use the tech. AI has been almost the exact opposite approach of emphasizing how uncool it is and what it will do to you.

One of Hawaii’s largest native insects and a federally endangered species, once believed to be extinct statewide, has been recently rediscovered, all thanks to a social media post. https://www.khon2.com/top-stories/hawaii-rediscovery-endangered-species/ 

This is one of the funniest fucking things I have ever seen in my life

Absolutely not what I expected Way better

This video of a Ukrainian Yak-52 crew taking down drones with a shotgun is incredible, but the music is deeply, and profoundly inappropriate. There was really only one option. So I've fixed it.

It's the great Nick Hornby's birthday today, so no better time to trot out this classic list of his from his archives. And check out the sale on all his books in our store!

Sheezus. Went to Dodgers Stadium a year ago and was massively surprised at how pleasant the soundscape was with mostly organ music and no wall of sound. Have always wanted to visit Yankee Stadium but this sounds like a nightmare.

Uncomfortable.

Oh wow I was just shown Wakumi Kanno's embroidery work and holy shit. wakumikanno.com/work

Basically everything in Clockwork Orange that wasn't written for it.

Exactly one year ago today:

When people snark about the AI coding showing we're not blaming AI for the problem, we're just observing that that kind of cutting corners demonstrates that all kinds of things are not being done well.

Okay, this is AMAZING! I gotta ask: was there any colonial requisitioning for knitted socks? As I recall, making them was a big deal (possibly illegal?), since England regulated the industry (both wool and knitting).

Team: Is it a good strategy to hold all the cards in Uno?

the speed at which this happened is the funniest thing i’ve seen all day on this busted ass site i reposted both the users in this as well, i’m just appreciating the juxtaposition here

i wrote about the $95 bus ticket www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Okay this is the kind of thing I have no problems blaming the manager about.

"Why are the anti-AI protests turning violent?" 🙄