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.

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.

No, I don’t. It was an idea that was mocked *after* the Cold War ended. That’s why I pointed out that I am younger than you are. I have no idea what economics grad students said about Marxism before the end of the Cold War.

Well, that might be true, but remember you’re as old as dirt. It was literally an idea that was mocked at my New England university when I went to school. That was a direct quote from an economics school grad student.

heartwarming video of astronaut Christina Koch greeting her dog for the first time after returning from space. the pup can be seen snarling, back arched, before scampering to its word buttons and pressing "IMPOSTOR" repeatedly, then "FALSE. SKIN. FALSE. SKIN." several times

American conservative politician Clare Boothe Luce converted to Catholicism in 1946. In a 1953 meeting with Pope Pius XII, she was fiercely lecturing the pontiff on the Church's moral duty to fight communism when the Pope finally interrupted her. "You know, Mrs. Ambassador, I am a Catholic too."

@anthonymkreis.bsky.social asked a simple question and Kurt would not answer it *while criticizing Anthony for not sticking to the “merits”*

Anne Hathaway is a nut /complimentary!

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.

In 1759, a French invasion fleet bound for the UK prepared to shelter from a huge winter storm in the Bay of Biscay. Riding into attack on the edge of that storm was a Royal Navy fleet under Admiral Hawke. On the pod, @drachinifel.bsky.social look at a gloriously batshit naval battle we both love.

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

Holy shit. According to the article sailors on TRIPOLI are rationing their food and if someone gets a little extra they're sharing it with their friends. There's no fresh produce, which points to a lack of resupply ships able to serve the ships maintaining the blockade.

Had a moment to “well, come on, that seems extreme…” and then focused on the headline and sub. What the ACTUAL fuck?!? I’m very anti-vigilante, but… damn.

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

Well, this is probably fine.

didn’t need the research to know this one

tripping over my own feet running to twitter to see how sad rod dreher is right now

Missed the Pope subtweeting the Trump administration:

a yelling RFK Jr denies making comments about Black children that Rep. Sewell printed out and put on a placard

This village uses its solar income on free communal lunches, buses and other communal efforts.“If you divide money as individual income, people feel disconnected. People who didn’t know each other for years now get to know each other within days” I love everything about this.

so this is what they mean by "living vicariously through others"

I support @sanders.senate.gov’s efforts to stop the sale of bombs and bulldozers to Israel as the Netanyahu government levels entire towns and targets communities in Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank.

@oldenoughtosay.com Thoughts on corgi judgement?

This seems like it *might* be a dangerous question to ask? FBI: I do not live near Florida and I just want to warn people to be prudent

Hi friends. I am not great about promoting my own work, so please bear with me while I get through this. This week's It's Storytime With Wil Wheaton is Heathman Ldg, by Brian Evenson. It is available wherever you get your podcasts. If you listen, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

The Trump Admin has abruptly canceled an $11M contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship between the Catholic Church and the U.S. government dating back to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.

Teen births. She is whining that “not enough teenagers are getting pregnant, and having children” Fucking monsters.

"Wikipedia is the most successful experiment in collective provenance management in human history." That's the tentpole proposition in Godwin's Ethic Part 6—provenance, the Dead-Link Problem, and a new ethics question for the AI age. Part 7 coming soon. mikegodwin.substack.com/p/godwins-et...

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public' IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?

Johnny Somali, an American social media streamer known for desecrating a monument to women forced into sexual slavery during World War II, was sentenced to six months in prison in South Korea on Wednesday, in one of the harshest penalties handed down in the country for pulling stunts online.

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology. This is a serious escalation.

What a terrible time to be literate.

This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.

That is a very cute Pokémon!

Curses. Why can’t I have a little crumb of ignorance to go with my happiness? Soooo many people chose that every day!

That… is an interesting point that I hadn’t thought of.

this is called "being blackout drunk"

Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!

The White House Correspondents' Dinner later this month – with Trump as guest of honor – is shaping up as an embarrassing surrender to a criminal president who is trying to destroy the free press. Cancel the damn dinner. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

Boycott Target (again/still) How did they even report her without the video the AI supposedly used to identify her? This is bullshit.

The massive Orban defeat should prompt Dems to align themselves more firmly with anti-fascist and pro-democracy forces abroad. There's a powerful link to be drawn between the celebrations in Budapest and the confrontations with ICE in Minneapolis. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2090...

For decades, birthday party clowns folded balloons and played games. John Wayne Gacy is taking a different approach.

I see no problems (multi-decade ground quagmires) here. H/T r/noncredibledefense

Trump attacking the Pope is very funny to me. Leo is from DOLTON. He may be the Pope but I bet he can fight.

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

I'm in genuine disbelief that they actively picked someone for a PR stunt whose story directly includes losing their life savings to medical costs and who explicitly says this will not allow them to actually recover from said costs. This has to be catnip to dem PR and policy people alike.