New from 404 Media: Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it. www.404media.co/henrico-virg...

Just unfollowing and muting profiles that are like: "LoOk aT tHiS gUy waLk FunNy and StRuGGle 2 gEt In CoPTer!" And then it's a video of that asshole just walking and getting into a helicopter without incident. Get out of here with your Meidas clickbait bullshit.

love to my trans friends. fuck SCOTUS.

‘I asked ChatGPT’ Well, I asked Gandalf and he told me you should be silent keep your forked tongue behind your teeth because he did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.

Disclosure of AI use in game development may lead to significant drops in sales and review. #AI #gaming

i wish some people brought the energy they have for policing posts about the democrats to pushing the democrats to be a more effective party

Chief Justice Roberts just announced from the bench that *tomorrow* (Tuesday) will be the last day for opinion hand-downs this term. So we'll get birthright citizenship, the two transgender discrimination cases, and the big campaign finance case in some order at 10 ET tomorrow.

Laura is an excellent content creator covering disability and gaming. Consider tossing her a few bucks to keep creating in the time of ridiculously expensive computer components.

I just noticed that HHS Civil Rights office has deleted its webpage about the Supreme Court's 1999 landmark Olmstead decision, which guaranteed the rights of disabled people to live in their homes rather than being institutionalized. It was live on May 25. Now it's "PAGE NOT FOUND"

I see people characterize the student protests against Israel as failures, and I really don’t think that’s true. They may not have toppled the U.S.-Israel alliance or ended the genocide, but they have helped usher in a generational turning point in attitudes toward Israel and Palestine

I don't know how to take positions like this seriously. The candidates in question would be at home in the left parties in a dozen of our closest allied nations, but somehow they're extremists in America? Sounds like an America problem.

All the countries playing in the World Cup have universal healthcare. Except the United States 🇺🇸

Old man first-world problems: I miss when you could go to the store, find the product you were looking for, check it out, and buy it. So tired of browsing through 50 versions of the same products in every store and then having to buy things online anyway.

At some point this claim from white rurals and their advocates that "You can't get along with different people" means that they are the different people with whom we cannot get along.

OC

BREAKING: The Trump administration is moving Education Department oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies.

RIP Oliver Tree.

Solar ftw abcnews.com/US/solar-gen...

SignalTrace "links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate." It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.

Not only is writing thinking but you don’t really know what you think until you start writing.

A reminder that the statistical majority of the text you encounter now on the Internet is not actually meant for you as a human being reading, even if it happens to resemble legible prose. #Textpocalypse

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

Bwahahahah, you can't make this stuff up anymore.

JUST NOW from @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream — ICE agents outside Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ pushed a protester into an 18-wheeler causing the truck to run over his leg. They then pinned him on the ground and carried him away.

NEW: The city of Dayton, Ohio has covered its Flock automated license plate reader cameras with black trash bags in part because police there are unsure whether the cameras are still active and the city also doesn’t seem to know whether it is allowed to take the cameras down.

"Another benchmark, SimpleQA, developed by OpenAI in October 2024, posed more than 4,000 single-answer questions to models from OpenAI and Anthropic. None of the models exceeded 50 percent accuracy."

Same. I usually only back projects at the PDF tier but this one is on its way to me as well.

‘While some cling to the promise of an AI “revolution,” the cost of adoption is proving a stubborn bottleneck. These developments also suggest that the economics of replacing human labor with AI may be more complicated than some early forecasts originally implied.’ fortune.com/2026/05/22/m...

Kickstarter has reverted their policy changes on Adult Content! They issued an apology, siting Stripe as the reason. The pressure we put on them worked. This is a step in the right direction. But the threat of Stripe remains. It’d be great to see KS end ties with them & process payments elsewhere.

Reporter: What languages do you speak? Werner Herzog: Not too many. Basic, Rodian, Shyriiwook, Huttese. I understand Jawa, but refuse to speak it. I was once taken prisoner in Mos Espa by Jawa, all of them drunk. Unpleasant. I had to say a few things in Jawa. I regret it. I shouldn’t have done it.

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

Alexa: Would you like to unlock an unlimited 8-hour loop of screaming into the void with higher quality audio? Would you like to upgrade to VoidScreams Premium?

Nero fiddled so Trump could diddle.

Orbweavers: You want we should build a new giant web every night? You got it.

Who had Doomsday Glacier on their bingo card?

Has anyone done any serious inquiry into the arc of social movement social media? Perhaps I'm off base, but it continually seems to be the case that movement pages slowly turn to generic catchalls with decreasing quality and focus. E.g. Occupy stuff becoming flooded with RT and woo.

Seen near Holborn Station, on the route of the Unite the Kingdom rally. When the scapegoats are gone, the borders are fortified, and the hatred has done its damage, the cost of living will still rise, the NHS will still be dying, and corporate vultures will still be picking our lives apart.

Don't just complain about the aggravating factors, envision better systems that we can build together.

We're using different terms and pretending like they don't mean different things. Left wing and Leftist political theory are not interchangeable, it's that simple.

Lars Von Trier's Dora the Explorer

Photo of memo directed to AutoZone Southeast Region Team District, Parts, and Store managers. Memo alerts upcoming store-wide training regarding how AutoZone will navigate supply shortages involving motor oil, diesel engine oil, and specialty fluids.

No one: "Hey D, what are you listening to lately?"

arXiv is an open-source, pre-print archive for scholarly work. It's not even a peer-reviewed journal and yet this is one of the firmest gauntlet tosses I've seen.

Writing has been independently invented maybe four times in human history. Radiocarbon dating has found evidence that the original inhabitants of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) invented writing independently. buff.ly/PS5nm5j #ShareGoodNewsToo

gwen does fantastic work as usual on some of the 401,000 trans people who’ve had to flee hostile territory in their own country in the past 18 months.

Also I let out a bleak chuckle at the South getting stereotyped yet again. Y'all, I have terrible news about law enforcement in the northeast, midwest and west coast, including every major city. Surveilling the populace and crushing resistance is a nationwide, bipartisan gentry obsession.

Or, you know, just migrate to different systems that respect your agency and community.

🧵The Hyperbolic "TRUMP EMBARRASSED BY THIS THING!" or "JD VANCE OWNED BY THIS OTHER THING" stuff from liberal masquarading as leftist media is just Alex Jones but for the liberal flank of democrats. I've had enough. all of this "X POLITICIAN WAS WRECKED BY Y THING" is just garbage in garbage out.

I'm doing a piece for the NYT and they just sent a very, very comprehensive and complete "no AI" email. Rather heartened by how sharp and without loopholes. As it should be.