What strange magic is this?

An interesting thread from a month ago that predicted exactly what we’re seeing in the reflecting pool now (peeling up, prolific microbial activity)

I'm convinced at this point that the economy is just an episode of Who's Line but not funny.

Here at the Reflecting Pool where a big chunk ofTrump's blue paint-apoxie has peeled off the bottom of the pool and is bobbling in the water.

Promise - AI coding tools allow you to produce so much more code in a short period of time. Reality - Vibe coded projects are incredibly poorly optimized and have an order of magnitude more code than necessary, so work & updates necessitate a ton more code.

No boss was handing out trophies or good job stickers to employees for using email or the internet back in the early days of the tech boom. This is C suite chumps freaking the fuck out because they spent tens of millions of dollars on "tech" that doesn't work and they need to get their money's worth

If you ever needed the most rock solid proof ever that this shit is not inevitable. This is incredible. When you're doing an incentive compensation plan for a sales team and have no petty cash to hand out you give trinkets with no real monetary value. They're using ever hacky play in the handbook

Waiting for pictures of Versailles Lawn & Landscape in Hoboken, NJ.

Break them

France has joined Germany in cancelling their Palantir contracts, becoming the 2nd country in as many weeks to do so — the UK appears poised to follow suit AOC: “Immediately investigate Palantir — (Thiel’s) secretive data mining company that has weaponized information against immigrant communities”

Knicks noooooo, think of the vibes!

Will I watch an hour long video about ceiling fans? When @techconnectify.bsky.social goes down a rabbit hole, absolutely.

Unironically love this car.

Ahh Dutch West Michigan. To really experience it though you need to go West of Grand Rapids. Wooden shoes and tulip festivals as far as the eye can see.

There's going to be dudes with high-power pool cleaning tools out here all summer and it won't make a difference. What do you want to bet this will need to be drained & refinished again after Trump is gone?

[Googling to find out where Cape Verde is) CAPE VERDE

I'm so sad I didn't watch this now, what an amazing result.

Throwback to this classic tweet:

If you need a palate cleanser from the paved-over concrete bloodsport where Abraham Lincoln used to live, I recommend watching Keke Palmer clearly flirting with the Hot Ones guy and him having no idea she’s legit interested. They’re now apparently dating. youtu.be/gs9SjDzf3Sw

Craziest stat for me The Knicks had the #1, #3, and #5 biggest comeback wins in NBA Finals history In the same Finals

Two off the post for Ecuador in this game. I imagine you'd have to be a Chicago Bears fan to understand the real pain of the double doink.

I will never take how great the Mall actually is for granted ever again when this is over

"Keep watching after the soccer and we'll subject you to James Corden" is maybe not the enticing opportunity you think it is Fox.

Tony Bourdain taught us all that a place is full of good food, good people, and good experiences despite very shitty politics and I think it’s kind of classically American to have thought we were excluded from that Venn diagram

Dana White doing a patriotic Jeep ad certainly puts me off watching soccer.

i really, truly, find this offensive

Religion aside: Gill calls Talarico's reference to God as nonbinary "blasphemous," but while that term has a modern context, belief that God is beyond gender is super common in Christianity. E.g., the Catechism of the Catholic Church: "In no way is God in man's image. He is neither man nor woman."

Whelp, I made a terrible mistake. I binged all of Mistborn and Stormlight Archive by @brandonsanderson.com since the start of the year and now I'm out of mainline Cosmere books until December 2028. 😢 They're very good though, strong recommend. The audiobooks are also great.

Daily bunny no.3348 can never agree on who tells the truth

Pros: Best US performance in a World Cup match in my lifetime, (assuming Pulisic is OK) nobody got hurt, system looked great, probably could have scored six Cons: this is me

AI remains on top of things. (The game is at 55 minutes as of this screenshot.)

USMNT putting together a great game against Paraguay, and I'm enjoying it, but I still have to wonder... ...will I ever experience the excitement of the 2014 WC again as a US fan?

I love that "we used AI to make this thing better" is the thing when it didn't need fixing, it's not clear how AI would help, and the end result is worse. Although to Nike's credit they can screw up a uniform without AI just fine on their own. www.glamour.com/story/well-h...

There’s been a big, big infection, all across the spectrum, from far left to far right, over the last decade, of people deciding that actually the way Donald Trump does politics is good and correct, and we just need to do it but for good. No. Stop it. Destroy that impulse.

I missed this thread a week ago but it's a good one with regards to the SpaceX IPO.

Last week's thread has become this week's EVSN. Catch all the receipts in one long deep dive here: patreon.cosmoquest.org/posts/spacex...

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.

Oh come ON Google, you're not even trying to filter spam anymore.

Glad I've been alive to see - Idiocracy release. A bunch of college-age guys claim it's the future. A larger group push back and tell them that's dumb. Trump 'well, actually' the whole thing.

Forbes has an article up entitled "The Most Affordable 2026 World Cup TV And Streaming Options" that ranks high in search results. Then you click the link and realize it's paywalled. Not sure that's going to be a high conversion plan. www.forbes.com/sites/ianqui...

Honestly not bad from what I can see. That's a great price point and from the shape it looks like a fairly practical, smaller truck.

Some heroes don't wear capes

dudes rock lmao

We’re the bad guys.

Hunter Biden, social media celebrity wasn't on my bingo card.

You use that phrase 'stand with.' I do not think it means what you think it means.

Afternoon Hot Take - Framing Platner discourse as a choice between "plug your nose and swallow" and "continued Republican power" is toxic, in bad faith, and leads to the type of future where things don't get better.

The ISS is a true millennial icon because all her systems are slowly starting to break down but there’s no way we can afford to replace her so we are just desperately trying to keep her going as long as possible

Meaningless, meaningless. Everything is meaningless.