the inverse is also true: it’s basically impossible to kill a truly good tech idea. the biggest industries in the world tried to kill solar power and failed. the entire US gov is trying to destroy mRNA vaccine research, but the best they can do is slow it down for a couple of years.

"Asked by Axios last week at an energy conference in Houston about how natural gas jives with the company’s clean energy goals and overall strategy, Google’s head of advanced energy, Michael Terrell, said: “We don’t have anything to say on that.”" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

tried Photoshop's new upscaler for a map that's getting printed and... it renamed all our streets and parks

The article if you haven't seen it:

Remarkable.

it's mid-afternoon on friday, so I don't think we're getting AGI this week

How would I like to receive my one-time code? Man I'd like to be in a fucking glade on a temperate spring day

remember when celebrities seemingly randomly started coming out talking about how much they loved NFTs and thought it was super valuable and the future?

just spitballing here but one thing that might turn down the temperature is top CEOs not doing and saying insane and extremely harmful things all the time, such as enthusiastically embracing fascist movements

At the same time the Trump admin is attacking the pope. They are trying to create a new religion with themselves as the gods. That's what QAnon was also

NEW: Meta co-sponsored a celebration with the Daily Wire for podcaster Isabel Brown, who often foments about Islam and wants to "save the West," which is an interesting, cocktail-party-level look at the company's rightward pivot www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

at least we don't live in a planned economy amirite

Probably safe to delete "said she".

big news, the FAA has gotten rid of criminal penalties for flying drones near ICE vehicles

an obviously mentally ill x demented guy who is not only a pedophile but massively implicated in a sophisticated pedophile ring. that he is actively covering up. who tore down half the white house and now is locked in some permitting dispute over the smoking hole in his lawn. invincible to us media

literally explain to me how the hell im going to be “left behind,” it makes no sense i have been using search engines damn near my entire life literally what the fuck are you talking about

it is annoying that we have to hope a huge industry stumbles greatly in order to envision a livable future

This story is crazy! The Jim Dolan had a Knicks fan obsessively monitored at games just because she was trans.

The guy who called work from home morally wrong, fired 6k out of 7.5k Twitter employees and made the rest submit to humiliating 'hardcore' working practices, and shuttered USAID, killing 750,000 people, including more than 500,000 children, is going to give everyone free money.

Not sure anyone should be listening to Reese Witherspoon

How much do they think tenured Columbia professors are leaving to their kids

Asking New Yorkers if they’ve been personally victimized by Santacon is very funny actually www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-h...

Not exactly the kind of thing you want someone to suddenly decide we need a plan for

Just how bad is this spring’s drought?? The worst in US History, going all the way back to the 1890s, even worse than Dust Bowl springs. And #Florida is among the worst in the nation… 1/

huge recession or copium? time will tell

Haven’t heard from my son in two days and then he just drops violence like this into the group chat.

I mostly agree that "COVID trauma" is not an adequate explanation of social discontent but it's quite suspicious to say "if it was real trauma, people would acknowledge it and talk about it, instead of pretending it didn't happen"

A bakery in my neighborhood posting about the sticker shock that’s finally rippling in from the supply chain issues. This is all gonna go down like early COVID, or worse. So many places are just gonna shutter in the long run.

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

The fact that "being taxed on a wealth that would take most people dozens of generations to gather" is "the scariest thing she's ever seen" means the world isn't scaring millionaires and billionaires nearly enough yet.

We should have never doubted this man

lol man no one (US population at large nor the average junior enlisted member) are mentally ready for what a real war is gonna look like

These guys’s self-radicalization cycle came from not showing their work on a math problem allegedly lol.

It would be gross negligence for the council to entertain another Barnette confirmation, pure contempt for residents

wouldn't mind several orders of magnitude more of this

"Democrats need to break from this path and acknowledge that billionaires—especially those in the increasingly antidemocratic tech sector—are never going to side with them over the GOP." From @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2087...

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

It's funny (not funny) how this ubiquitous symbol screams 'beware, incoming trash!' I have an instant reaction of revulsion whenever it pops up.

we know

You mock, but making your rocket company that's about to sell shares to the public eat 20% of the trash vehicles you designed after not sleeping for 96 hours is just totally normal businessing www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

If there’s a 5th-8th grader in your life they are watching things like this for 18 hours a day. We won’t understand the political ramifications of this for decades.

Sam Stroozas’ MPR article explains how the largest raid on a bathhouse occurred in Mpls. The Health Commissioner at the time presented that closures would not decrease HIV transmission & folks would go elsewhere. Yet, stigma led to the ban passing. Today, the Mayor’s rhetoric still feeds into that.

it has too much street wisdom, its heart is too big, it smoke more different than anyone, its bitch is too bad. we have to take it out

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

it just lifts my heart to feel heard. thanks, ICE lawyer. 💜

I think Vought's NIH/NSF impoundment is going to immiserate us if I had all the money in the world, I would pepper Vought's commute into DC with billboards RUSSELL VOUGHT LOVES CANCER RUSSELL VOUGHT WANTS TO MAKE YOUR GRANDCHILDREN SICK

I was handcuffed/charged with jaywalking (didn’t) holding a large camera taking a photo of street outside this McDonald’s. While detained, MPD ignored multiple burglary calls. I had to take it all the way to trial where they tried to shake me down for a plea before dismissing 1 min before trial.