Food is expensive Housing is less affordable than ever We're no longer funding research or public health AI bubble is ready to burst We don't have confidence in our leaders for when it falls apart Consumers can see the future and it does NOT look good It's not where we are, it's the trajectory

I happened to live in Lexington, KY when Joel Pett drew this for the Lexington Herald-Leader. It has stuck with me all these years because it's so dead-on the type of idiocy climate change deniers engage in.

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

Ossoff on his Republican opponents: "They're pro-war, they're pro-tariffs, they're pro-cutting healthcare. Let's find out where they stand on the crooked ballroom and the insurrectionist slush fund."

MeidasTouch: What do you make of this $1.776 billion fund— Gavin Newsom: It’s a criminal enterprise. It’s not just corruption, it’s not just graft, it’s a full-on criminal enterprise and it needs to be shut down.

NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

this is a masterpiece

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

The insanity continues..... www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Look at this slop job. The only reflecting that should be done here is why 77 million Americans voted for the return of this insane maniac.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

UPDATED with a statement from Tina Peters and comments from her laywer, who says upon release Peters plans to work on "getting rid of these fraudulent voting machines."

Colorado Dems should impeach Polis. Peters aided a direct attempt to overturn an election. You cannot give leniency to these people because they will turn around and seek to destroy the system again.

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oh, oh, oh! i know the solution to this one! you just pass legislation banning seniors from social media rather than legislating the actual platforms! mashable.com/article/meta...

It's hard to believe, but this really is the official position of our country's Very Serious Financial Analysts: "it would simply be too horrible if the strait stays closed, so ... [closes eyes tight, taps heels together] ... it won't!"

"According to the survey, 99% of artists “disliked” AI; for 92%, the dislike was “strong.” And that distaste translates into action, too. Per the survey, 85% of artists completely abstain from using AI at all. And 88% percent refusal use AI to generate images." Empowering

His legacy.

I think I’m traumatized by technology I don’t control and that force things I don’t want into my life. And a VCR never made me spend ten minutes on updates. A VCR never let a stranger steal my personal information.

I feel like in the past technology products had to offer something tangible as a benefit, otherwise you just wouldn't have bought them and the company wouldn't make any money. Now, often, the money comes from secret surveillance revenue streams and the product is a trojan horse occupying your life.

Zelensky issued an official presidential decree authorizing Russia to hold its Victory Day parade in Moscow tomorrow. He included the exact coordinates of Red Square. That's it. A+ trolling.

They call them "data centers" because “mass-surveillance centers” would be harder to sell.

The Founders fought a revolution so we wouldn’t be ruled by one man. Mike Johnson is surrendering that fight each day.

Optimism or delusion?

"It’s fine to have a decaying lunatic in charge of planet-destroying weapons as long as he wields them willy-nilly rather than with a disciplined agenda." buff.ly/HJseQK6

Let me be blunt: Democrats should gerrymander the ever living shit out of every state where we have unified control of government. If we need to gerrymander our way to electing a Congress that will ban gerrymandering, then we should fucking do it. open.substack.com/pub/santiago...

Alito signing the order is the biggest “Don’t start this six months before midterms, you idiots” signal imaginable

James Comey has been keeping busy waiting for his upcoming trial.

Not that anyone needs yet another reason to steer clear of Microsoft, but VSCode now adds Copilot as a co-author of all your commits, regardless if you used Copilot. This was added silently as a default. This is some next level insanity.

All of us

US spending on data centers & computers has grown so much that it's larger than basically all other physical investment categories—more than all single-family housing construction, factories, power plants, industrial equipment, apartments I'm running out of points of comparison

@hankgreen.bsky.social made us all a present! I LOVE THIS THING it makes my wee photographer heart sing :D This is an interactive page that includes the the mission photos, on the official timeline, w/ metadata & location of the craft at the time THANKS HANK! artemistimeline.com#artemis-ii-l...

King Charles: "The U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances."

More corruption. A top advisor to RFK Jr. maintained a multi-million-dollar stake in his wellness company that could directly benefit from Trump's expansion of Health Savings Accounts last summer.   He didn't divest until November.   The grift in this Admin knows no end.

It might seem ridiculous for Nvidia to spend more on AI programming than it would cost to have humans to do the same programming. But it makes sense if you consider Silicon Valley's back-scratch culture, since spending on AI flows to other tech companies, who then funnel it back to Nvidia.

"This is why we need the ballroom" Hmm no I'd say this is another reason we don't need the correspondents' dinner

Colorado's San Luis Valley is a child care desert. 80% of kids don't have access to licensed early care. The Boys & Girls Clubs of the San Luis Valley is building a huge non-profit child care center. I'll match the next fifty $5 donations here: www.coloradogives.org/story/j5wx6g

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

When you come home from work after a shitty day, and you're greeted like this . 😍

And just to be abundantly clear: NASA AND SCIENCE IN GENERAL HAVE MASSIVE RETURN ON INVESTMENT. Cutting this budget is a net financial LOSS in the medium- to long-term. It undermines our future -- intellectually, technologically, and economically.

Just took these photos of the Hammer Fire southeast of Colorado Springs. 500 acres, per Watch Duty, with evacuations near Peyton.

Last night, after an hours-long public hearing, Monterey Park became the first city in California to pass an ordinance permanently banning data centers. The city council voted unanimously to declare data centers a public nuisance, and to "prohibit all data centers within city limits." My story:

Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online

After spending last week passing a resolution congratulating themselves, House Republicans are back in DC this week to debate yet another self-congratulatory resolution.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

There's a war on for your mind. theonion.info

Any candidate that takes money from Palantir should not receive your vote. Co-founder Joe Lonsdale is pouring millions into a PAC to buy off Democrats, especially in California. techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/p...

trying to post through it rn