Not sure if the iPhone’s Lockdown Mode is for you? Here’s some advice on who it’s for and when to use it. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

I didn’t notice that part. That guy is an open white nationalist This is why you shouldn’t be having friendly conversations on Twitter! You’re in an environment where every third person is an actual Nazi and you’ll end up being chatty with one on accident. Total war all the time or leave

It is a good day to farm

So, ok, you have the bravery to stand up to a line of tanks, to risk your physical body. But do you have the bravery to stand up to social media pressure? To risk your reputation as a savvy insider? To stand up for unpopular groups? To *care* when caring is cringe?

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

orange catholic bible incoming

Thy literally put it in the Louvre www.reuters.com/video/watch/...

what a good boy

I think The Argument and Nate Silver should ask voters if they support this.

The 3 million-plus people applying for immigration status changes will now be required to provide the government with their social media handles. This expansive new requirement poses a serious threat to constitutional rights. bit.ly/4aE5uKa

You often hear "software development is changing, and we must adapt" because of Claude Code. But for my entire career, code has been the *easiest* part of making shit people care about, and we still haven't adapted. The easier coding becomes, the less often we ask "do users actually NEED this?"

My extremely centrist midwit take on polling on trans issues is that if Republicans passed some ineffectual bans on trans participation in minor-aged sports and did nothing else after 2024, they'd be annoyingly popular going into the 2026 midterms. That, however, is not the world we live in.

I don't have the long history of it, but research on this phenomenon of "search engine data voids", funded in part by some of the large search engine vendors, is between 7-10 years old now; and the problem only seems to have gotten worse by the intentional product design decisions of those companies

OPINION by John L. Smith: CBS tried to censor Stephen Colbert’s godly guest — and it backfired spectacularly. U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico of Texas unleashed a scorching sermon that’s gone viral at biblical levels. Read it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...

My coworker just suggested we "set a trap" for the guy who keeps stealing lunches from the break room fridge. Brother you are Tom and Jerry brained. We are going to HR.

*screams ultrasonically*

long shot, but if anyone sees this and is in the Louisville area with access to a Nissan Cube: i could use your help making a very dumb post

So the guy with the Nazi tattoo is now sayi... ...never mind

rice is life, and I got a thread to share about rice: Park Chung-hee's obsession to make South Korea rice self-sufficient in the 1970s changed everything about the country, including your favorite Korean foods and the urban environment 🧵

In light of recent revelations that Archive(dot)today is involving its users in a DDOS attack, and altering archives to further a personal grudge, I am ceasing use of the site. I also did three quick tests of alternatives for on-demand archiving, summarized below... arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

Frei State Project

I cannot tell a lie: I’ve been so busy celebrating President’s Day Week that I forgot to post this earlier. @theonion.com

It gave us the great Disco Elysium Vance video:

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

We should try electing some kind of deliberative body that makes decisions about levying taxes.

The Supreme Court:

It's a relief, sure. But it's insane that it's a thing we need relief from, that it was 6-3, that Trump will now deliberately misinterpret other laws for the same ends, and that he can continue destroying world trade for another year until SCOTUS stops him again. Our system isn't equipped for this.

There's three votes for anything on the supreme court. If trump said "I'm the god-king of arrakis" he'd get three votes and a lengthy opinion about the long history and tradition of english common law with regards to the spice melange

BREAKING: The Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN Trump's "emergency" tariffs. The vote is 6–3. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Charges against Former Prince Andrew must be dropped if it’s determined that raping teenagers was an official act. by John Roberts (joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett)

you may also remember that the "board of peace" is structured so that donald trump, personally, has sole and absolute control over it. he's just stealing our fucking money. what i want from my dems? a commitment to take that shit back.

A good reason to switch to linux is that unlike even 5 years ago, it is now possible to use linux *without* summoning cenobites. Zero barbed hooks erupt from the walls, for those who for some reason dislike barbed hooks erupting from the walls, unless you turn on that setting.

Good question. Glad to see Niskanen not only did some research, they also made it freely available for everyone to read.

Looksmaxxing: Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/looksmaxxing-myth-vs-fact/

the andrew mountbatten stuff shows that being a tenured antiwoke professor at harvard gives you more legal privileges and protection from the law than your family being divinely anointed to rule a country as absolute monarchs for 1,000 years

Just announced: State offices in Northern Nevada close at noon today due to deteriorating conditions after opening at 10 a.m.

OPINION by Michael Schaus: Voter ID is a sensible security measure. But the SAVE Act lights the fuse on a federal takeover of local elections — and it all but guarantees a democracy permanently marred by partisan meddling. Read it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...

It's less impossible this cycle than usual — which means the race is drawing more talented Democrats than usual.

okay you know what we're doing this why rise of skywalker is the worst crime ever committed against cinema and the very concept of a coherent fictional universe: a thread

With the benefit of over a century of hindsight, it turns out it's easier to raise livestock that eat barley, potatoes and vegetables in White Pine County than it is to actually cultivate any of those crops there.

I don't think we talk enough about how Chernobyl radmogged and falloutmaxxed itself through testergooning.

You need to show ID to buy a beer. Why shouldn't you have to carry papers with you at all times to avoid being sent to ICE concentration camps?

Popehat Signal: person running a gripe site about a medical practice is looking for some advice about threat letters from the medical practice.

My personal "favorite" about all of this is that Carson City School District is the only entity to make the call before everyone went to bed. Everyone else decided to hold out hope and announced around 5 a.m.

he's still at it

libs getting the chamber of commerce in the national divorce, sure, why not, welcome aboard www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...

1969: ARPANET was created to keep the network operational even if individual computers go down. 2025: AWS goes down and takes half the world's services with it.

I should check Polymarket to see what the odds were for this ruling.