Ahead of an apocalyptic wildfire season, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government made CUTS to the very teams who help prevent the worst outcomes: experts who map wildfires and issue warnings and risk assessments that communities rely on. The union representing these workers sent me the details:

However it came to pass—childhood trauma, genetics, dementia—this US president is now functionally a psychopath. He lives in his own reality. He converses only with himself. All America is now downstream from a madman who's not listening to anyone or anything but his own madness.

Death squads staffed with psychos

This is leadership.

This isn’t vandalism, it’s art – and reminds me I must watch They Live again

no im not bitter why do you ask

I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.

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This seems wildly illegal.

yaeh in my view we're about to see libraries vanish, engines vanish, all bespoke tools up and down the stack; and then everyone like 10 years from now will be like "I just invented this new thing, I'm calling it a reusable software module" and everyone will be like oh my god dude

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The point of quantitative playtest metrics is to get bullshit numbers to show managers who have no design sense. Don’t actually use them to tweak your design! They’ll guide into making generic mush.

Putting aside the outcome of the match, I found it interesting that the premise of this Polymarket ad was that an insider could rig the betting numbers with misleading information. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDCK...

This is the future of climate change denial as it becomes more difficult to ignore, it'll just be endless scapegoating

It's not that I think they have a super-secret plan to overturn the elections and seize power, but you're watching an entire political party, from top to bottom, meme itself into convincing itself that its opponents are inherently illegitimate, and that road doesn't go anywhere good.

Is it good when the sun looks like this

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I think one reason data center outrage is so pronounced is people spent decades recycling and composting and otherwise scrimping to offset energy use and protect clean water, and the second we hit an inflection point for cheap electricity the banking industry said we’re taking all of it, fuck you

So far this year we've had: the warmest winter on record in the mountain west, a record-shattering heat wave in Europe, once in a thousand year rainfall and flooding texas and forest fire smoke blanketing the mid west and the north east. Feels like something's going on with the climate!

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Truly amazing track IMO, the drums are almost unbelievable -- on the one hand it sounds like someone just threw misc snippets into the sampler then mashed buttons at random, but it's obviously very masterfully crafted. This whole album is fantastic. inperspectiverecords.bandcamp.com/track/drumwave

hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe

Truly incredible that Trump was recorded on the phone attempting to steal the election, asking the GA Sec of State, to 'find' 11,780 votes, and then he organized a coup and insurrection on J6, and he still got elected and no jail time yet. Fucking ridiculously broken Nation we are. FFS.

ELBOW’S DEEP

At last, we have created the loyal and resilient enemy population forged by strategic bombing from the classic book Don't Do Strategic Bombing To Break Your Enemy's Will

it is pretty insane that the movement which produced the idea that Kamala Harris would go to war in Iran has not produced any sort of resistance, even messaging, about the actual war in Iran

this is how it feels sometimes

i remember scientists saying 20 years ago that climate change-fueled wildfires would darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away. but republicans said that was a lie, so now climate change-fueled wildfires darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away every summer

i think stuff like this should be sellable as an insurance policy to entities with actual interests in the trials. but this retail betting is insane

That sound you’re hearing is the mouse clicking of 10,000 post-post-apoc solarpunk RPG indie gamedevs saving this PNG to their mood boards

This is how those people should always be treated.

Still one of the punkest things I've ever seen (I experienced it live on the radio, but I watch this video several times a year)

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Ah yeah this is why we need solidarity with our American comrades. Huge yikes for Carney while part of Canada burns right now ;_;

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If we had started actually addressing indoor air quality at the height of Covid instead of sweeping it under the rug & calling IAQ nonsense, we would have a robust network of places people could be safe from the wildfire smoke now

The murders will continue until the murders are allowed to continue.

I take a walk but the air is acrid from another country on fire. I stop into a gas station to buy nachos - the last food not linked to cases of ultradiarrhea. On the radio I hear the president announce we've somehow lost two wars to the same country at the same time. I think, thank you capitalism.

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An obsessive love of mechanical design and, well, Bubble Economy Japan money to throw at personal passion projects. Makoto Kobayashi's live action mecha animatronics opening to obscure 1988 OVA Dragon's Heaven. Reportedly, financed out of his own pocket. #VideoBytes

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Cool interview... there's lots to chew on, but one thing I'm struck by is *how* devoted Miyamoto is to the idea of capturing a big audience. Surprising in how often he brings it up unprompted as well as how conflicted he seems to feel about it. What would unrestrained Miyamoto be like, I wonder...?

This disgusting Incel attitude and Jackson’s embrace of AI perhaps throws light on Viggo Mortensen bailing on the whole fucking shebang. Who’d want to go near this?

This is a fascinating read and also includes the sentence “I suppose things will be fine once the Disk System drops, though.”

Me and my friends would've killed this thing with hammers I can tell you that much.