they should cover a skate park with ice and do figure skating on that.

this is like when Ringo was in India and brought a suitcase full of Heinz baked beans which was the only thing he ate

"We need to modify the deflector dish to emit an anti-tachyon pulse."

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

Oren Cass uses serious economics to trash finance in the NYT cepr.net/publications... Why don't all economists?

I think the right solution to gerrymandering is that districts follow existing political boundaries, cannot be changed, and that representatives are just given different amounts of votes reflecting their population. Plus a few at-large members per state chosen through ranked choice

we shouldn't do something so cool while Trump is still president but American Olympic uniforms are super boring with just USA on the front. other countries put their coat of arms. we should use the great seal of the United States, including the eye in the pyramid on the back. or just only that

Internationally-minded Americans need to understand that it's ok and normal to have a different name in English for a country or city

NBC editing out the booing of JD Vance is a disgrace. It’s an international event. Americans have the right to know what the world is saying. NBC has bowed down to Trump.

any time I watch a hockey game where they wear those wire face cages which obviously everyone should wear, I remember that not all NHL players wore helmets as late as 1997

cool how you can't skip commercials on "recorded" Olympics events on YouTube TV. TiVo was real and it slipped through our fingers

HP used to have "No Equals" merch as a reference to reverse polish notation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse...

there is zero basis to the idea that Calibri is better for accessibility, none, total "I made it up" energy

He was arrested by the Inquisition-era Spanish for crimes against humanity and mismanaging the New World territories

I'm on a latter-day GBV kick; so many rapid-fire great albums

our glorious utopian future

Here are the Phillies representing their countries at the World Baseball Classic. 🌎

Death Camp For Cutie over here

This is not good. Because lawyers need to resign rather than act unethically, and as we've seen, DHS keeps making its lawyers act unethically. Can JAG lawyers actually resign though? The stakes are higher for them than regular lawyers because they aren't at-will employees.

LLMs become a whole new entity with each new conversation and the workarounds are just writing notes to their future instantiations, like in Memento: Google's "nested learning" is actual neuroplasticity research.google/blog/introdu...

“I imagine if this was a homeless shelter or a mental health center, you would find a way to stop it. You would pull out all the stops." www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...

are you doing your part to generate novel training data today?

if the moon landing was fake Neil Armstrong wouldn't have messed up his line. I mean they would have done another take

whoever controls the rights for Coil is doing a good job with streaming availability . archival releases and such. this is Love's Secret Domain demos music.apple.com/us/album/the...

I want to reiterate that this shit is nuts. A federal invasion of state-run elections, an intelligence community invasion of federal law enforcement, a White House invasion of a criminal investigation, and a president’s insane treasonable sore loser obsession all rolled up and muddled together.

Nourishing Meat

“The public has waited long enough,” writes @publicknowledge.bsky.social’s @bergmayer.net in an amicus brief challenging Google’s stay delay. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

sounds brown liveforlivemusic.com/news/ween-hi...

Super helpful for litigation, thanks

with all the focus on Chomsky's bad personal life and political views, let's not forget that his life's work (universal grammar) is total bullshit

One takeaway from this is that all administrative warrants for arrests could be non-trivially challenged as unconstitutional. With the unitary executive theory + Trump's actual practices, no one in the executive branch can be a "neutral and detached magistrate"

I think some enterprise software functions as a sin-eater. 90% of Oracle customers probably don't "need" it and could save money with a custom ERP using open source, but then, the person who made that decision is responsible when things go wrong www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-w...

the fact that there is no fair use defense to circumvention (only to infringement) should be enough for the DMCA to be unconstitutional (or for courts to read in a fair use defense) but here we are, still torrentfreak.com/ripping-clip...

NEW: It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable when they violate the Constitution and the law.

It is annoying to think you are downloading a animated GIF on a site that has animated GIFs and then you down load a file with the extension of .GIF and it is not a GIF

music I still love that I first heard on MTV: Guided by Voices, Ween, Aphex Twin, The Orb, Sonic Youth

This ad is a funny depiction and close to the example I usually use, but the possibilities for betrayal are even more insidious and subtle if advertising becomes a component of the AI business model.

meanwhile every time I have to file something in court I have like 10 mini panic attacks about indenting things wrong or citing to page 5 instead of page 5-6

@benjedwards.com were you aware of this wonderful tool

I finally found an app that can convert images to BBS-style ANSI art hpjansson.org/chafa/

The owner of Amazon killed the Washington Post books section.

Bonus round: compare this to these same reps' stance on age verification

Washington Post never became "essential" to my life because random blogs have better local coverage and other outlets have better national coverage

New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...