On second thought the main line from Philadelphia to Chicago would be nine real-world miles long in HO scale. We should do it in O scale instead

It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

nothing can put a bigger smile on my face than reading that Microsoft has to scale back its AI ambitions because NOBODY uses copilot.

In Deutschland wurde die »KI-Ära« als Wort des Jahres ausgerufen. Der wichtigste US-Wörterbuchverlag ist da einen Schritt weiter: Merriam-Webster wählte »slop« zum Inbegriff des Zeitgeistes – mit KI erzeugter Schrott.

For the first time, the EU has sanctioned a US citizen, John Mark Dougan, a former Florida deputy sheriff with dual US-Russian citizenship. Living in Russia since 2016, he’s accused of running pro-Kremlin info ops from Moscow aimed at election meddling and discrediting Western leaders.

What did you think was going to happen when people get priced out of life?

This conceit of people on Twitter saying we need to go back to "challenge the far right" ignores one important fact - to debate is to lend legitimacy to a viewpoint. You debate, you concede their view may be correct The true answer to far right "debate" is to say "fuck that, I'm off"

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We are stronger together! Retweet if you agree 🇪🇺 #europe #eu #economy

"makes you exponentially more productive" man your shit has made an already precarious industry substantially more hostile towards creatives, absolutely nobody is doing better

Drugs, Terrorism, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, they never learn.

Please, god, let this bubble pop before every wall in our society is filled with the asbestos that is AI, it's happening so fast and we will spend the rest of our natural lives dealing with the consequences of just these first few years of this bullshit

The supremacist project is to steal all the value generated by society while calling those they steal from thieves and forcing them to pay the cost of the theft. When they eradicate those they hate, they eradicate the source of their wealth and privilege, and are left only with each other to rob.

The organizing around data centers is the kind of movement building that can shift the political momentum of whole communities if not states. A huge story of 2026 will be if Democrats embrace that momentum, or the exact opposite.

lol, no. We left for a reason.

There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it." It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵

David Bowie opens The Concert for New York City, a benefit for September 11 first responders, with a song that took a long, last symbolic look at an America which would be forsaken and irreversibly transformed by the decades long War on Terror. youtu.be/afifZfUkU8I?...

I've said it before and I will keep saying it until it happens, but it's time for Facebook to go the way of MySpace.

I think the Topolino is a significant omission, and the 124 for being the inspiration for the Lada.

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found this earlier. seems appropriate.

I get it, I mean there are no stock photos of people in casinos easily available at the click of a button. What else could they do?

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AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

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US States With No Subway and/or Commuter Light Rail Services Surprised? List of systems: brilliantmaps.com/no-commut...

Your font is woke.

conrail died for our sins

In the Region of Waterloo, a Bombardier FLEXITY Freedom LRV glides into Grand River Hospital station. Note how it cruises smoothly through every intersection, thanks to full Transit Signal Priority. In Waterloo, the LRT doesn’t stop for cars. #wrLRT

Amtrak's Fleet is split by an east/west divide, with the Western Long Distance routes being dominated by Superliners. The Superliners will need a replacement, but there's a massive issue that we need to talk about in this new Armchair Urbanist Episode

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AI’ is becoming shorthand for ’We don’t care if it works, we just don’t want to pay people to do it properly.’ www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ayn Rand fanboy porn. This mindless idolatry of the rich is a big reason why this country is so fucked up right now. A sixth grader could shake down Musk for his lunch money. RFK Jr. can’t do a goddamned pull up. Trump is unable to stay awake.

words i live by

There was a movie I wanted to watch recently (Remember The Night from 1940) and it wasn’t on any streamer. Couldn’t rent it on demand anywhere. Couldn’t even find a torrent. It did not exist anywhere other than physical copies.

Reasons we will never donate to this hateful organisation!

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Not allowing the plagiarism machine to plagiarise would kill the plagiarism machine

As-of-right zoning for housing people, discretionary approvals for housing cars

you hate chomsky for posing with bannon, i hate chomsky for denying genocides going back decades we are not the same

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"I've heard Tsar Alexander speaks highly of me. The doctors test my left arm all the time, and I pass all the tests!"

I used to see a maximum voting age as undemocratic, but seeing what has happened to Britain is changing my mind on that.