It's unbelievable how little understanding there is of this imminent reality.

NASA just did a moon pass, Japanese automotive companies are first-trying reusable launches. And we're supposed to take Musk exploding shit on the regular seriously.

I pointed out that all of the Heisei era Godzilla movies easily pass the Bechtel Test and my kid responded, "only if Godzilla isn't the love interest" and I've been thinking about that for *weeks*.

Update: The White House—which originally claimed not to have received our questions for two hours ("It seems like your email is having some problems")—suddenly updated the site to remove rows mentioning Americans. But in the process seems to have deleted over 200,000 arrests from their dataset.

I might not be alive it wasn't for @bornmiserable who is the nicest dude of all time, and so generous and supportive and encouraging it's absurd, and bluesky banned him for saying trump would make good compost, which literally everything alive would. fuck the goddamn reactionary stealth rw mods here

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

Unfortunately, thinking that this was going to be a fun site about UFOs, I set up a bot that would slack me and a few colleagues when it went live. Last night we found something VERY different. NEW w/ @dell.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/white-...

Reuters: US JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO REMOVE PRESIDENT TRUMP'S NAME FROM KENNEDY CENTER BUILDING - ORDER

NEW: Trump's gross Aliens.gov site claims to map where immigrants have been taken into custody, but it includes more 83 spots where Americans alone were arrested. Over 700 locations include citizen arrests. The counter is fake. The music was ripped. And Puerto Rico is listed as a foreign country.

The first best time to say fuck Bernie was a while ago but this is a pretty unambiguous time

@bornmiserable DID NOTHING WRONG! FREE TONY THIS IS A FUKEN EMBARASSEMENT FOR THE MODS

But when North Korea does this, it's "propaganda" and a "regime."

*** SCAM ALERT *** Twice today I've been invited to online meetings, where I've been asked to download a github repo containing a node.js project, open a terminal and run npm i. This installs malware which steals all your browser logins, passwords, ssh keys, and who knows what else.

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watching people get into fights with the discourse bot is incredible

The report concluded that Americans pay more for health care, get less in return, and remain far more exposed to illness, debt, and insecurity than their peers.

And here they are artologica.etsy.com/listing/4513... #sciart

Axios is reporting that a company 'accidentally' spent $500 million in one month on AI after failing to establish usage limits for its employees. www.axios.com/2026/05/28/a...

Russia's careless bullshit hit Romania, and NATO is ready to respond in its defensive capacity. Except, I expect, America, who is butthurt that the rest of Europe didn't join in on the US' aggression. I genuinely feel like this is already WW3; we're in the thick of it now.

This is so fucked. And a prime example of why I have disdain for people who fuck around with this stuff at all. Even as a hobby. None of those schmucks have put themselves out there in any meaningful way, but those who do, and carve a path for themselves are getting railroaded by this kind of shit

When Bernie was running I kept calling him far to the right of me on guns because it was true. And people fucking HATED me for it.

I think lying to corporations who actively use information about you to trick you into giving them more money, is a moral good, actually

Lying to corporations doesn't count as lying. I mean that. It's absurd to hold people to any kind of ethical standard short of, like, doing actual murder (and even then, iffy) when they're trying to protect themselves from or fight a corporate entity.

They’re turning the entire federal internet apparatus into a galaxy of phishing sites that are controlled by the president and do not adhere to any federal privacy or disclosure rules.

Someone responded to this with "Oh? Would you also block someone justifying IDF genocide?" And they got blocked, too. The answer to their question is yes, actually. But also, suggesting that opposition to genuine antisemitism calls into question your opposition to genocide? Antisemitic.

Can't even escape it in the horny space future, jfc

VERY late to this apparent discourse, but a Cursed Substack post has come to my attention chat, is it Marxist to calculate the hourly wages your disabled partner owes you

be the kind of sincere weirdness you want to see in the world

[0011633] Plant gatherer has mood while picking fruit on stepladder, unable to get down, destroys FPS

where I'm from

"This week, Pope Leo XIV presented his first papal encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, which addresses the tremendous moral, spiritual, and political challenges facing the world in the age of AI. It is perhaps the single most profound document ever released by a White Sox fan." incredible opening

it's gonna be the most mismanaged soccer world cup ever.

124. Do not normalize deeply problematic phrases like "make America great again" and "blood and soil" in your speeches. globalnews.ca/news/1187177...

I would be remiss not to point out that "Tricking Milli Vanilli into performing a concert for a dictator" is LITERALLY a storyline from the 1990s 'Super Mario Bros 3' cartoon 🙃

A lasting memory of Bilton is his stolen-valor coverage of Theranos, months after the WSJ’s John Carreyrou broke the story

darkly hilarious that one side is running a civil war, barring access to ports of entry, invading and occupying cities and killing their citizens, meanwhile the other side continues to be like "this is an UNACCEPTABLE BREACH OF DECORUM" and sending angry fundraising emails

Alright. Fine. Let's put together our list of things we think Carney should do and should stop doing. I'll compile it from the comments in a fresh thread, then we can all post it when we inevitably get asked what we think he should and shouldn't do.

Considering how many times O'Brien has died, this is plausible

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I guarantee you the thing you can say that is most useful is either "guess I'll cancel my donation then," or "oh damn I was considering donating for the first time, guess I won't now."

As somebody with two decades in an industry where “AI Engineer” has been a job title that means you specialize in A* searches and state machines, I don’t think “AI” is going to refer to specific technology or process in my lifetime.

I've been warning about this moment for two decades over at Techdirt The U.S. is too corrupt to regulate data brokers (and their exploitation and sale of location data) and the check has come due

give me a dozen

since apparently JKR is spouting nonsense about "gametes" again, here is my in depth primer on why anti-trans groups have become so obsessed with gametes & why the actual science does not support their claims (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-gend...

has this story broken through at all? i can’t tell.

🧵on how I was still doing science education on gender affirming care while at the hospital healing This is why I want to become "Dr. Jey the Science They" Not for fame or money... But because it brings me joy to help others learn about science 🧬💖

Opsec used to be important.