NYT: Donald Trump weighs post-presidency foreign service roles.

It’s also a perfectly good distraction from the debacle, but Trump simply doesn’t mention it. It’s too wholesome. He can’t touch it. “Moon Joy” would hurt him

Ever Given was the test run

There's something a bit poignant about a Bluetooth device failing to connect to another device right next to it when they're the only Bluetooth devices for hundreds of thousands of kilometres around.

Enjoy this new gif I made lolz

been reading about posca I am going to try the posca www.romanobritain.org/2-arl_food/a...

I guess he figured it's fine if it didn't have a hard-g

“Open the fuckin’ strait” and “Copy Moon Joy” really capture the two Americas right now; what is, and what could be

some of you on here have never teleported to a waffle house and it shows

xml is kiki json is bouba

The Artemis II crew was gonna take a photo posing in the windows -- there's a camera on the solar array, and they were scheduled to sit in the windows for a photo op from the outside. This was cancelled because the ship is oriented differently than the had originally planned.

Tekashi 6ix9ine showed off a SpongeBob doll Nicolás Maduro signed while they were locked up together

Preparing for Easter by reflecting on the Elizabeth Hurley tweet

The Subprime Meridian

guy who thinks he's wise: "the bold squirrel gets the peanut"

he bombed the house of the guy he was negotiating with

A firefighter in Istanbul performed CPR on a cat affected by a fire, bringing it back to life.😍👍💙

Pure science fiction, but real.

this isn't a problem on Fedi because the like counts are all wrong, it rules.

CALCULUS IS EASIER THAN ALGEBRA AND SHOULD BE TAUGHT EARLIER IN SCHOOL

when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile

Every man has had these three exact roommates

One conclusion from that symposium was that "AI art" was not art made by AI but art that confronted the illusions of AI. I used the term "AI art" to reflect a default political position of art as a form of interpreting a technology (net art, for example). Of course, that got erased quick!

DAVID BYRNE: Water dissolving! Water removing! ME: Oh yeah? DAVID BYRNE: There is water at the bottom of the ocean 🙂 ME: That’s so cool buddy. Did you learn that at school today? DAVID BYRNE: Remove the water 😡 carry the water 😡 ME: Hm how about we carry some juice in your sippy cup bud?

This is so, so well-articulated.

my favorite part of this single line is it reveals that Kim has been working on his own side quest mystery the whole game: why is Harry?

AOL and Yahoo also became media companies eventually

WHY IS MICROSOFT ANYTHING IN THERE. MICROSFOT SHOULD BE CONTAINED TO ONE PLANET

I just don't think you should be expected to check your emails while literally riding a rocket to the moon.

Like it's one thing for a judge to go "yeah you said it's all made by Claude, did you not notice you can't copyright that stuff" It'd be even more humiliating for Anthropic to reveal their dogfooded Claude is actually like, 700 guys in India working at sub-minimum wage.

“Educating and employing these professionals has been one of the major reasons behind the Netherlands’ impressive successes such as its sprawling cycling network, falling death rates on roads, or one of the best train systems in the world.”

the Iran war blew almost half the annual NASA budget in 6 days: iran-cost-ticker.com

NASA is not where our money is going and being wasted en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_...

“I used to be grossly overweight, I tried everything, and nothing worked until I started going to Enterprise every day on my lunch break—then the pounds just started falling off,” said Ryan Moore

Hyperfixation of the week: there is apparently a field called “forensic hairdressing” where people try to reconstruct ancient hair techniques. Below is one from Ancient Rome ca. 120 AD. The leading figure is a hairstylist-turned-archaeologist named Janet Stephens who also does video tutorials. Cool!

He wanted to hear his blood and soil argument succeed, but another blood and soil situation required a quick escape to the men's room.

Moon www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR...

Pin-pen merger made it so I wa s today years old when I learned that “complement” and “compliment” are actually two different words

THIS THREAD. i don't care what happens to me. i've gotten everything i've wanted from this life, being able to transition saved me and now that i know what life is about i have to keep these kids safe to experience becoming themselves as well. THEY DESERVE TO GROW UP TO BECOME TRANS ADULTS.

the urge to talk about language as spatially linear ("left branching", etc) is strong, but really language is a sequence of events in time, like a performance that you have to attend

objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country

The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.

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