still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Say her name: Shireen Abu Akleh. The Palestinian American journalist was jilled 4 years ago today, assisinated by snipers. Despite numerous investigations proving this, the US not only has failed to act on the murder of its citizen: it has since helped kill nearly 300 more journalists in Palestine.

I cannot think of 200 days during which I would have rather spent my life sequestered away from the rest of the United States in a Mars simulation than the past 200 days. Great gig. Enviable job. www.reddit.com/r/space/s/zm...

Devastating correction. The most generous explanation may be that the reporter was in a rush and grabbed a quote from the search results page instead of going to the source. The truth could be worse. At a magazine it would have been caught, but newspaper reporters are their own factcheckers.

I can’t believe the celebrity Knicks fans who managed to get around this 76s fan stunt to still afford tickets for tonight’s playoff game in Philly (Dr. Zizmor, Mister Softee, and Sandy Kenyon).

BAD COMPANY Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

Police Looking for Jerks Who Allegedly Stole $150,000 Worth of Beehives https://gizmodo.com/police-looking-for-jerks-who-allegedly-stole-150000-worth-of-beehives-2000755716

capybara at the psychologist

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

Hats off to the man, the myth, the legend: Ted Turner.

consolidated corporate power and the extraction class are waging war on journalistic labor, informed consensus, and archival history

I am honored to share the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Best International Reporting with Dake Kang, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Garance Burke for our reporting revealing how Silicon Valley largely designed and built China's surveillance state and enabled human rights abuses.

never forget that "posting sites" don't make any money. This site doesn't make any money. Posting here is like having a coffee and pastry at some cute café someone started as a vanity business. Enjoy it while it lasts

This is an absolutely wild correction from The Verge www.theverge.com/features/916...

Minnesota House Leader Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert were assassinated at their home less than a year ago: www.startribune.com/minnesota-ho...

The Crisis Of The Academy

Involuntarily Celebratory

Small, satisfying addendum to this piece...

Congress should be making it easier for families to put food on the table. That's why I joined my colleagues to introduce this bill to let SNAP participants buy hot rotisserie chicken. There’s no good reason a family can buy a cold one but not a hot one.

Great Alt Text on these.

Happy Earth Day! The Earth has hundreds of confirmed impact craters, which provide a key reference point for impact cratering research. Field and laboratory studies of terrestrial impact craters are a key part of how we learn about craters, including how they form and decay through time.

The Mole Who Became a Militia Leader youtube.com/watch?v=Z0v4... John Williams infiltrated the highest levels of militias, then leaked the information to @ddosecrets.org and @propublica.org: ddosecrets.org/article/para...

Has it been good when this happened in the past

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.

To learn that a guy from The Strokes has long been more politically based than most of Radiohead might require me to time travel back to 2008, à la gentleman of Nirvana The Band.

Opinion | I was a lifelong liberal Democrat. Then BlueSky was down for the better part of a day.

not since they closed the Roy Rogers

Lmfao at that lady trying SO HARD not to laugh

Musk as teaching tool

This will only get like 12 views on X, maximum, but it was worth it for me.

The future is in good hands. [ Moby-sampled guitar-picking plus vocals ] 6,000-foot" deep, mile-wide,, "10-mile" wide, and, "277-mile" long, [ harmonica loop, snare drum ] "100-mile" long, "10-mile" wide, "10-mile" wide, "10-mile" wide, "10-mile" wide, "10-mile" wide, "10-mile" wide, "10-mile" wide,

You’d really think politicians would be more pro-sex work given how much they participate in it

some good news for once. Judge Sansone has again rejected the government's claim that I am a dangerous criminal who needs strict supervision & thus as of today am free to travel anywhere in the continental u.s., no longer have daily random drug tests, etc. Thank you to everyone who helped out.

Pope's weak on crime, T. It's our moment.

Polymarket for which think tank Orbán takes up a "distinguished chair" in.

“Who Is to Blame for the Falling Birth Rate? College-Educated Women” “Who Is to Blame for the Falling Birth Rate? Non-College-Educated Women” “Who Is to Blame for the Falling Birth Rate? Women Whose Educational Status We Were Unable to Confirm”

Powerful art, from what you could call the “American Renaissance” (in the Jared Taylor, racist sense), depicting Donald Trump healing Jeffrey Epstein back to life.

best thread I've seen on the Swalwell coverage

Joe Kernen making a sex worker watch his CNBC debate with Pete Buttigieg over and over again (with the meter running) trying to get her to say he won.

I mean this very gently, but it's crazy that we live in a world where this story had to be written with this headline. www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

“dishonorable some would say”

The president—who said he did not know his wife was holding a press conference saying she hadn't been sex trafficked by Epstein because he was too busy in meeting about war—had time to write a dissertation about rightwing influencers this morning

Once again, I have blogged.

Unmatched trolling from Facebook's friend recommendations.

The more you love ProPublica, the more reason to not visit their site today.

very exciting hell yeah

Al Jazeera has been reporting for about four hours at least that we're bombing Kharg Island already (today). Not a word on any U.S. channel I can find.

HOW IT’S DONE.