Good morning to everyone who said six years ago that it was wrong to call these concentration camps.

Okay, no, seriously: who's got the device that disrupts all "smart glasses"— and only the smart glasses— in a 300 foot radius?

I really wish maven had an option like DontYouFuckingDareDownloadThisModuleItsRightThereOnDiskForFuckSake

I'll cautiously say I've noticed more skepticism about AI in the corporate world and it's mostly because people's coworkers are creating extra work for them. They don't have the vocabulary to describe it yet but it's basically the "Why should I read what you couldn't be bothered to write" thing

I was at a journalism conference last month and someone on a panel said that the single biggest source of misinformation in the world today is the US Government and every day reaffirms that observation.

Shane Shelton’s home is known as the “Dog House” in Williwaw, Alaska. People come here to her high… and keep each other alive with Narcan. “You go down around me and I’ll use as many as I have,” Shelton said. Part of Overdose in America investigative series. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is Finn. He may have plenty of toys, but he refuses to play with anything other than a concrete block. 13/10 to each their own (TT: emilyyheide)

Local legislator displays the importance of kerning

Black Homeowners Receive Higher Appraisal After Displaying Pictures Of Klan Members

ICYMI: Cake now supports file-based apps using "dotnet run" in .NET 10. Big shoutout to @devlead.se for all his hard work! 👏

CrowdStrike’s AI ransomware marketing is total bullshit. I’ve yet to see a single incident with AI ransomware, and almost every ransomware incident initial access doesn’t use phishing, let alone ‘AI phishing’. This is wildly irresponsible marketing by CrowdStrike leading to confused CISOs.

The Russian government's use of convict-soldiers formerly of the criminal underworld in the war with Ukraine has the potential to disrupt a set of careful arrangements and “understandings” that structure the peace between the Russian state and the Russian mafia, writes Emily Hoge.

When you treat your employees like crap you'll still ship your org chart www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...

Out today: BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2025, edited by... me! So so many great stories in here. I can't wait for you to discover them and their talented writers.

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

the kids are alright

just added the MEGA TERMINAL CHEAT SHEET from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" to our list of posters at wizardzines.com#posters

Was talking to the students today about the Louvre Heist, and they had very good questions about How To Do Crimes ™️. Such as why you wouldn’t steal a painting, how high viz gets you in anywhere .. so I guess the learning outcome today was “crimes: how to do them”

"Four in ten people were unaware that tides come in twice daily, that they vary in timing each day, and that they differ in height across the country. Over a quarter of struggled with basic tide-table reading, and only a quarter could extract more complex information--such as when to safely return."

There was no point at which the idea that LLM code generation was revolutionary or even good was a consensus! I guess I'm just owning myself by expecting marginally competent reporting from the Atlantic.

Failure to return the shopping cart to one of the cart returns if you are able is a sign of someone who does not value the social contract.

Of these four pairs of shoes, which two pairs do you think are the lowest in quality? Make a choice before opening this thread. Then I'll tell you something about shoe quality. 🧵

NEWS: Three eared grebes have been spotted in this location this weekend. I've been hoping they return. This is big news for both Grebe Footage *and* potential feeding pelicans. Time to start camping the walking bridge!

A group of wine moms is called Mecha-Karen

your analysis of this political moment is going to fail if you keep using reductionist labels like "wine mom". first of all, there are dozens of factions just within that one term, from whiskey women to chardonnay chicas, and understanding their unique informal coalitions can take decades of study

📽️ WATCH: This video on the rise of Russ Vought, Trump's “shadow president,” is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

When a security person and a person that has no idea of what good ux is love each other very much …

This level of Europeans self-own in an attempt to appease the mad emperor is crazy. xcancel.com/rnaudbertran...

Following up on the "dining while Black" thing, and how Black people know and have always known, how many white folk in the US would have supported this Trump admin, while white Dems greatly underestimated it. Imagine these 4 men are servers at a restaurant. White diners don't notice a difference🤷🏿‍♂️

Discworld QOTD, from Equal Rites “It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a half-brick in the path of the bicycle of history.”

"Comedians Kumail Nanjiani and Ilana Glazer dropped out of performing at Salesforce's annual tech conference this week". I'm curious how Salesforce's Bay Area employees feel about their company being known as an authoritarian collaborator.

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

Don't engage. Just block. They want to push their rage bait on here. Don't give them the satisfaction. bsky.app/profile/did:...

I'm going to be looking forward to Kat being Congresswoman Abughazaleh.

BY THE WAY If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2. There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security. Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation." TURN IT OFF.

Wait, language in the Oval Office every workday makes "I love Hitler", "n----r", 'jews are dishonest', 'i want to see people burn', 'rape is epic' and so on seem TAME? 😧.

NEW: After Russ Vought experienced the chaotic failures of Trump’s first term, he made it his mission to ensure that a reelected Trump would not “lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.” By @andykroll.bsky.social

McSweeney's is often funny. In this case, it's a gut punch of heavily documented truth. Click the links and share them with any politician who claims these were kids, or that the rot doesn't start at the top. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...

You should sever any relationship, including a close friendship, with someone who is rude to waitstaff.

Absolutely nobody asked for this but I reformatted my animal yeetability thread into printable poster & zine files. Introducing, the "Pocket Guide to Responsible & Sustainable Animal YEETING" featuring a revamped rating system. Download links below.

What an interesting article. Now I’ll just take a comically large drink of coffee and start this book I’ve been meaning to read, Kurt Vonnegut’s classic 1963 novel “Cat’s Cradle.”

Zed is available on Windows people! Finally a code editor for Windows not based on Electron. zed.dev/blog/zed-for...

I'll believe libertarianism exists when I see a “libertarian” reject a government bailout.

They've burned hundreds of billions on this fucking garbage. No one wants it. So let's just force it on everyone! Look at the engagement (the engagement is people who are trying to find the button to make this unwanted shit fuck off)

i dont need AI to jerk off. like a good red blood american, i get horny for the Green M&M

It's going up to $40 billion. USAID's budget last year was $28 billion.

Someone asked what happened to the casual Nazi at the end of WWII. The people who supported the Party The answer? Suicides and murders. If they weren’t beaten to death or shot in the streets, they killed themselves There’s a book called Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself by Florian Huber about it.

MacCALLUM: Margaret Thatcher said socialism is great until you run out of other people's money MAMDANI: Well, what Andrew Cuomo said is that if you have $957m you give it to Elon Musk in tax credits

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.