“Over on Twitter, they’re” shhhhh. Shhh. Shh.

Oh hell yes tip visualization looks INCREDIBLE

But it is tho…chatting with ai should be considered like chatting with a malevolent demon that may seem like it can help you but you can never trust it and it may well drive you into madness

still the most fun I've ever had at work www.vice.com/en/article/a...

strait of hormuz opening hours

Just to point out that Valve has released a new version of Portal 2 for its 15th anniversary, focused on content creation and community content. That's very nice. Some games disappear within two years; others receive the treatment these works deserve. 🤷‍♂️

pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/a... The postmortem of the *last* big outage shows that it was because they DOS'd themselves through vibecoded slop.

Anyways, while Bluesky was down, I went looking for a photo reference in the SD Maritime Museum's archives for and found this lovely photo of the HMS Surprise sailing just off the coast here in San Diego. Thought some of you other MASTER & COMMANDER aficionados might appreciate.

Hours of my one precious life spent watching university bosses at a parliamentary inquiry. Please read to make my time worthwhile 😏 open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo...

We love the '80s with Lovish, cook up some RPG action with Dosa Divas, and blast through the controversial Raiden Fighters Remix Collection. www.avclub.com/dosa-divas-l...

“The right wing is on the decline. People are realizing that they have no vision or solutions, just hatred and empty slogans. All they’ve brought to the world is war, inflation, inequality, and social division.”

NSW Premier Chris Minns on Thursday confirmed his government was still pursuing speech criminalisation. "We can see how it operates in Queensland, but in many respects I think that hateful phrase has been exposed as exactly what it is," he said. #nswpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

still can't believe "From The River To The Sea" became an outlawed phrase in Queensland (2yrs prison) in March. JFC. "Farnsy" flashmob yday allowed protestors to sing the phrase instead & kicks off 3 days of big protests. solidarity from Aotearoa New Zealand to all at Magan-djin/Brisbane 🇵🇸 protests!

1/2 Yes, Coal Australia does highly deceptive astroturfing like this. The lobby group is also a funding source for right-wing, Atlas Network-aligned think tanks and advocacy groups [such Advance and IPA], often acting to oppose #ClimateAction. For more on this, follow @lucyham.bsky.social.

“For more than a century, thousands of people — farmers, postmasters, railway workers — stepped outside..each morning, checked a rain gauge, & written down a number. But over recent decades the number of rainfall observation stations across the country has dived” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

"If the Enrichment center is currently being bombarded with fireballs, meteorites, or other objects from space, please avoid unsheltered testing areas wherever a lack of shelter from space-debris does not appear to be a deliberate part of the test." Portal 2 is 15 today!

we couldn’t make it public because the App Store restriction meant it needed to run off-device via a browser and we need to conserve server resources. my brother is a real computer whiz

so we're just rolling with the part where the president's so mentally deteriorated that they jangle keys in his face whenever it looks like he might be thinking about something

I say this a lot but today’s pod is worth your time. It’s with Josh Owens who worked for Alex Jones/Infowars for 4 years in the 2010s. It’s a conversation about how the conspiracy machine works from inside, about radicalization and, crucially, about the hard, unscalable work of deradicalization

STC Executel (1984)

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles. That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org. (All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).

Because people are realizing that "convenience" means paying a shitload of money to basically rent a movie or song you never own and everyone is tired of it. I'm not even a physical media stan and I think it's pretty obvious and makes all the sense in the world

Genuinely funny that Sonia Sotomayor issued a public apology today for her mild criticism of a conservative colleague on a specific, substantive issue, and then a few hours later Clarence Thomas picked up a mic and was like ALL LIBERALS ARE AMERICA-HATING COWARDS

i don't think throwing individual streamers in jail will fix the more pervasive social problem that we've made acting like a jackass in public lucrative. but it's a start i guess

I've been wanting to do this for a long time: here's a deep dive into the creation of the TIE Phantom from Rebel Assault 2 (1995). 🚀 And to keep with the mid-1990s vibe, this article is multimedia-rich, with plenty of videos and GIFs to make it more playful. 😎

I think it was @postoctobrist.bsky.social who observed that there is a distinct threshold in a flailing British politician's career when the press decides to Notice Things, all of which were either well known or had been previously reported. Thinking of that for no reason

It’s all damn contradictory. AI is inevitable they say but also don’t be too dependent on AI but also we’re incorporating AI into the curriculum

With the confidence built through years of mansplaining, JD steps up to explain Catholicism to the Pope.

This bit from @kossamaras.bsky.social’s piece about Angus Taylor’s speech aligns with my view that his language will be interpreted by Chinese Australian communities as endorsing discriminatory migration policies against Chinese people open.substack.com/pub/redbridg... #auspol

Victoria, Australia - World Famous for Crocodiles

[Ongoing thread] The Flood (Aug. 11, 2028) Written and directed by Zach Cregger (Weapons), this original sci-fi thriller, produced by New Line and Spielberg's Amblin, will take place on "a distant space station". We don't know anything else, but: ✅one promising original sci-fi film in 2028.

#BREAKING 🚨 The High Court has ruled that Victoria’s political donations laws are unconstitutional The case was brought by The West Party’s Paul Hopper and Hawthorn independent candidate Melissa Lowe, who had argued the laws disadvantaged candidates not from the major parties

Incredible sequel. Edge of my seat!

Peter Magyar, the new Prime Minister of Hungary, is a cat guy!

checkmate, fellow terrorists

generation lead never fails

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.) This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

Absolutely terrible news - bad for students and for the community.

I see no problems (multi-decade ground quagmires) here. H/T r/noncredibledefense

It’s true — a catalogue of the internet as it was, and not as it is constantly being re-edited, deleted, paywalled, etc is an invaluable tool. Huge archives of articles and data have disappeared from the internet in the last few years. Keeping the internet archive is critical.

It really sucks that AI companies have made the economics of a stable and well-preserved web near-impossible. aramzs.xyz/noteworthy/t...

I think it's very important that we can acknowledge the US is eating it in our part of the world, but that this has very real consequences for many of us beyond the schadenfreude of us Australian lefties www.bbc.com/news/article...

this is legitimately fascinating as an a real life demonstration of why trump is flailing

absolutely. the first republican national convention post-trump’s death is going to have an AI Trump hologram blessing the nominee

something that’s really been wild to me, as someone raised in the ‘freedom of religion’ usa, is how my other nation, the U.K., quite literally has a state religion and is somehow a hundred times less religious functionally than the USA

This wonderful 1805 book exposes the reality behind various tricks and illusions of the day, beginning with arguably the most enigmatic of the tricks listed, that of the “Learned Pig”, or as the excellent frontispiece refers to it “The Pig of Knowledge”: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

BBCNews fails to mention Orban being "right wing" let alone authoritarian, once in this article. Apparently Orban just "ran out of steam". Nothing about him dismantling democracy, politicising the courts & universities, or banning independent media. No mention of Putin! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Radio the same. And the word “populist” does not cover it.