my dad told me, with 100% seriousness, that the Epstein files contained proof Ellen DeGeneres is a cannibal

if we're arguing social media is too dangerous for kids 16 and under, we're basically saying it impacts the brain and potentially body like an addictive drug. this IS kinda true. people seldom carry that logic to its end. doing that would mean admitting every adult online is getting fucked up 24/7

"One friend said he'd be waiting for me at the airport. He said that I had no idea how important this was to all of them. He said that their families could be rich, pay off all their debts, and afford to send their kids to private schools for better lacrosse coaching."

Not NSF, but our DARPA-funded grant (involving CWRU, UMD and others) for an amazing project to try to develop artificial blood - a biosynthetic whole blood analog intended for use by military medics and in mass casualty incidents - got a stop work order in March and now has been cancelled. 😔

News! Christopher Franke has just released a ton of Babylon 5 soundtracks on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Pandora and others: six large volumes and smaller, six episodic soundtracks. Available yea unto this very moment.

"So, this is the trolley problem. You're at the switch, with a track with 1 person died up and one with 5 people tied up. Now, do you--" "I kill all the billionaires." "..." "..." "...what?" "All the billionaires." "In the world?" "Yes." "But that's not the exercise." "It is now, motherfucker."

I approve of the Dems' response to this, though

Why Destiny died www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXDP...

“In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers” medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

PlayStation VR2 is $299 at PS Direct buff.ly/5Eiuxf0 #ad

🧵I was actually thinking about the term "loneliness epidemic" today, & what if humans have always experienced loneliness but we're finally advanced enough as a society to have made a little room for people to express a need for emotional intimacy, but not advanced enough to know what to do about it.

Ok this is a truly great tweet

[puts finger to ear] you're telling me nintendo makes games for children? wow

This gas station riot (gift link) share.inquirer.com/wgN6Gz

i love her make her president

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

Californians, today is a good day to complain to your elected officials about our state emergency alert system still forcing people to open links from X/Twitter - a site run by a genocidal madman that often forces you to log in just to see content.

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gates-2 #smbc #comics

DATA CENTERS - dashare.zone ADMIN

IDW and Star Trek Book Club invite you to check out @jlawrenceart.bsky.social & my Lower Decks story, "Girlfriends", as a preview of Star Trek: Celebrations! Read the story today, grab your copy tomorrow! www.startrekbookclub.com/29449/previe...

Basically the only way I'm staying cool in this heat at this point...

Author of this thinks nobody reads Pratchett any more because most of his readers have blocked her.

All the unused Lower Decks episode titles @bradwinters.bsky.social and I argued about can finally be realized.

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Cat: “hold my beer” 😹 IG: tofurfect

Frankly, this would have been the coolest thing that could have happened during Trump 2.0.

Kack infamously humiliated AZ Patriots leader Jennifer Harrison (a now-irrelevant POS who used to go wave her guns at people crossing the border or Muslims attending religious services) so badly that it became the timeless Green Shirt Guy reaction image. Our hometown meme hero needs help!

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Researchers gave three commercial AI models an exercise typically used to train human military strategists. Each system played the leader of a nuclear-armed country in a standoff. Across 21 simulations, the models chose to use nuclear weapons in all but one game. Read more from Hiranya Peiris.

An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

And Kagi lets you change your search buddy to a kitty fyi.

I've heard lots of good jokes about trans people...generally from and by trans people. The key thing is those jokes are based in actual knowledge about the trans experience and foibles of daily life as opposed to mean-spirited, ignorant and boring attempts to join a moral panic.

I didn’t know about the earliest origin of Memorial Day until I was a grown-ass man —because some folks didn’t want us to. 2021: Memorial Day organizers cut the mic of retired Lt Col Kemter as he discussed how formerly enslaved Americans exhumed remains of soldiers to give them proper burials. 🧵

Jesus Christ

Reminder that formerly enslaved Black people started Memorial Day. It was initially called Decoration Day as they decorated the graves of Union troops. “As He died to make men holy let us die to make men free”

Hey Look it’s Memorial Day and all I see are sales and everyone camping. I never understood the camping either as it doesnt feel very honoring the dead soldiers to go camping. Typical American selfishness, don’t celebrate the people the holiday is for, just go camping. Fucking hypocrites.

I feel very similarly as a queer transgender man. My transgender wife and I are in a blue area, but we face real risks when we go out because even here there are people that are shitty to her based on their politics. Excuse me for not wanting that kind of toxic background bigotry in my online life.

Only Donald Trump has what it takes to bring triumph to a nation and humiliating defeat to its enemies. Unfortunately that nation is Iran

In Seattle, organizers are warning of a growing crisis as more and more trans refugees seek to escape red states. Mutual aid networks of "broke trans people helping broke trans people" are being overwhelmed, and one organizer @evanurquhart.bsky.social spoke with is facing eviction herself.

Wonder Woman side eyes the attention-seeking, blond bombshell, Power Girl. -- 2024 drawing by Kerry Callen is based on the iconic 1957 photograph of Hollywood actresses Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield. @kerrycallen.bsky.social

Realtalk: the reason the whole idea of cultivating intrinsic motivation doesn't work is that we all have intrinsic motivation, but it's for pointless weird shit, like model trains or growing orchids or brewing some type of long abandoned beer that tastes bad. Everything else requires rewards.

THE NEW SORROWSCOPES ARE HERE! TELL YOUR FRIENDS. TELL YOUR ENEMIES. TELL THE MAN IN THE YELLOW HAZMAT SUIT WHO’S COLLECTING YOUR BLOOD SAMPLE

"So far, Costco and FedEx are among the few big firms that have pledged to pass the government payments on to customers..." www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

I have written a very basic guide to sleeping outside, in case you didn't know and got overwhelmed by all the marketing nonsense. substack.com/home/post/p-...