now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

tbh unless AI is loading and unloading the dishwasher it can eat a bag of dicks

Meta is a surveillance tooling company.

Trump 1.0 introduced alternative facts. Trump 2.0 introduces alternative math.

Here's the tracklist (total length about 1h 13m):

An Election-Denier Epstein-Classer running the Fed is pure Trumpism

The biggest mastodon instance is getting hit with DDoS this morning, but as a fedi user, you would hardly notice. There are still plenty of posts from this instance federating around during the downtime and the feed is running fairly normal. Yes, it’s insufferable but also resilient AF.

The elevator pitch was “it’s like fuckedcompany dot com but for slop”

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

The same reason why Bluesky is vulnerable to outages is the same reason why Bluesky provides *reach* whereas Mastodon is vulnerable to valid criticism because its architecture does not provide the same *reach* but it is invincible to network outages for that reason. It’s a paradox.

Every time Bluesky goes down Mastodon stays up. Just saying.

Pivot to pasta Pivot to porcini Pivot to penne Pivot to penne porcini

This is one reason why I suspect that slopulism of all types structurally tends toward being at least antisemitism-adjacent, even when the individual political elites who are pushing it are not themselves antisemitic. (Some of them might even be Jews.)

Deadheads know that the Cornell show was a CIA psyop

B-b-b-ut I was told students aren't protesting

I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

The 2020s in a nutshell.

—Pride, or vainglory —Greed, or covetousness —Lust, or inordinate or illicit sexual desire —Envy —Gluttony, which is usually understood to include drunkenness (or too much McDonalds) —Wrath, or anger —Sloth, or acedia (apathy) Anyone come to mind after reading this list?

MAGA is pure Idolatry and a shameless practice of the Cardinal Sins.

Hungarians, Put in your Subject Access Requests and do the Cambridge Analytica technique to assert the GDPR. Data Rights only work when you flex your muscle.

Please Enjoy Today’s Religious Slopaganda and God Bless the United States of Scamerica

Deorbànization

So like CAINAIDAINs I’ll see myself out.

BP would like to be off the hook for oil spills too.

The obvious answer here is that the student protest movement was broadly smeared as anti-semitic and aligned with terrorists, and a variety of institutions from government, media and the universities acted as if that smear was true, threatening, suspending, expelling and even deporting students.

This is some of the most important reporting to come out of the war on Iran so far. And it's nice to see CBS doing it, i.e good reminder that bad leadership doesn't mean that every journalist there instantly stops doing their job.

I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.

Finally the artemis crew didn’t have to check their outlook email for just a blink around the moon

The 12 year old reports that all the new age verification systems are sometimes classifying him as 13+ and sometimes not. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Typically, international students subsidize undergraduate domestic students who receive need-based tuition aid but at the graduate level, domestic and international students compete for the same merit based tuition awards. Just clarifying this nuance since this topic is making the rounds.

Reflections on the Claude Code source code leak from @techtrenches.dev “The leak isn’t the story. The code is the story.”

if there was a betting market where you could get paid for saying zuck is full shit and his stupid ideas are stupid i would have more money www.platformer.news/meta-oversig...

I just don’t think you need to love war crimes to be a real man.

if you still have to check email when you travel in space then what’s the point?

didn’t hear about OnlyFarms.gov when NPR did its treatment of the golden tractor story but then the information found me on a less wholesome information channel and well yeah

Some may have seen that Trump and Narendra Modi had a call the other day about the war in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz. What they weren't told was that Elon Musk, the richest man in the world who holds no official government position, was on the call with them. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

the new mta app update ditched the widget :(

Agentic Adfraud is going to be hilarious.

Kegseth as the first video game sec def www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/m...

Selling America off piece by piece for spare parts. Exactly what was forewarned.

i'll just point out for those who say the verdict is low (multiplied by thousands of plaintiffs) - the jury found negligence. if they maintain the behavior, it won't be negligence; it'll be intent

Slop isn’t sexy.

Yesterday, Altman euthanized his slop video. Today, Altman euthanized his slop porn. Enjoy the day with that much less slop in the world.

Under Maryland criminal code, calling ICE in order to obtain something of value (e.g., labor) is extortion. Maryland Criminal Law § 3-701, the Prevent Extortion from Immigrants Act, makes this a felony punishable by 10-20 years in prison depending on the value she allegedly obtained.

Nothing is about living a good life anymore. It’s all about provisioning the Trump family’s corrupt accumulation of uncontested and absolute power to monetize the office as they see fit.

Mike Flynn took the Fifth in relation to his role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal as investigated by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and now taxpayers will be fleeced to enrich him for having been necessarily investigated.

Zuck hasn’t had this kind of a week since the spring of 2018.

Data Centers are important because they make fruit slopera shows for brainrot possible

The fields and practices of UX/UI/Product Design/etc. need to have a professional reckoning if the work of devising infinitely AB tested engagement funnels is resulting in adverse court verdicts that position the profession as the present day’s Joe Camel, at best.