The death of the Florida Orange Groves. Down to just 5% of the output of a couple of decades ago: slate.com/business/202...

I thought this felt relatable

The UK government says 100 countries have spyware that can hack people’s phones. If you think that's bad, it gets worse. See this article techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/u... and then read my book, "Privacy in America" a.co/d/099YkBa4

#InfoSec - ASP.NET Core out of band patch: beyondmachines.net/event_detail...

JetBlue deletes tweet after they were accused of surveillance pricing ✈️ A company rep says the post was an 'error'

A federal employee asked ICE to detain and deport a widow so he could gain the inheritance of her late husband’s house, per a probate judge. At 85 years old, the widow was not likely the “worst of the worst” ICE claims it targets. @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

The refunds will be paid to importers and customs brokers, while consumers who paid higher prices won’t get much back.

As a special treat for Indie Bookstore Day, the wonderful folks at @libro.fm are running a sale, and the AUTOMATIC NOODLE audiobook is available for just $4.99 until 4/26. This sale is only on Libro.FM, Nook, and Chirp. Lots of other books are on sale too! Rejoice! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Congratulations, Hugo Nominees! file770.com/lacon-v-anno...

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

The article's existence negates its own argument. The fact that the easiest way for an academic to land an opinion piece in The Chronicle or Inside Higher Ed is by offering contrarian takes about how awful academia is suggests a strong desire to look in the mirror.

We’ll be revealing the finalists for the 2026 Hugo Awards right here in just one hour! If you want to vote on the Hugo Awards this year, information about registration is available at lacon.org/register.

No actual funding mechanism included. Just the credit card.

One more way to kill local news - steal the work. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Sounds like some great lessons for just about any business, but really cool that the bookstore is doing well! ryanholiday.net/5-years-of-l...

...it is literally his job to be an expert.

If they can't speak truths under oath at their confirmation hearings, how can they be trusted to administer them in court?

After Netanyahu's office claimed that Peter Magyar had invited him to visit Hungary, the PM-elected says that he will enforce all ICC arrest warrants once the country re-enters the Rome Statute. [Hungary will] "have a legal obligation to enforce the ICC rulings and I'm sure [Netanyahu] knows this".

Major alarm bells over this. Bessent wants US banks to require customers send in copies of their passports etc. to prove citizenship, which would be far beyond the know-your-customer checks that they're required to do already. Implies this could result in closing bank accounts over non-compliance.

Europa Missions xkcd.com/3234/

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop #ai #artificialintelligence #news #tech #claude #anthropic

Interesting look at the #videogame industry with a small commentary on the pitfalls of chasing the latest money-making schemes: www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-games-in...

😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 what the…..

We have one Designated Cheerleader today, it’s for TAKE OFF YOUR PANTS AND JACKET, and it’s from @nanette.bsky.social! Take it away, Nanette!

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” ~ Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

Damn, that's a lot of cop speak for, "He hurt my feelings so I arrested him."

One might think that @doctorow.pluralistic.net has less than a fuzzy feeling about the Palantir crowd, too. "Capitalism's Big Lie in four words: "There is no alternative." ... "There is no alternative" is really "stop trying to think of alternatives, dammit." pluralistic.net/2024/03/08/t...

From Natasha_Jay on Mastodon Seen in Hardcore Bikes (HCB), a bicycle shop in Edmonton Alberta 🚴‍♀️

New from Hasbro, the My Little Deep Ones toy-line. "Collect them all before they collect you!"

people think teachers give star athletes a free pass and i’m like dude you are getting recruited by ucla and i went to ucla and i will not lie about you. do your work. coach will ask me about your work ethic and i will never lie. and they work. easy stuff.

Tuscany is now prime super villain real estate!

"These findings suggest that despite progress, current LLMs remain limited in early diagnostic reasoning and cannot yet be relied on for unsupervised patient-facing clinical decision-making." Large Language Model Performance and Clinical Reasoning Tasks jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Unbelievable corruption right in front of our faces.

'Cause it's one, two, three, What are we fighting for? Don't ask me. I don't give a damn; Next stop is old Iran. And it's five, six, seven, Open up the Pearly Gates. Ain't got time to wonder why. Trump'll make that bad Pope die!

Shark ate the cat again.

Haven't been to a surf competition in awhile, but I used to love going, even tho I'm not much of a surfer. The past couple of years, they've had a show on the Super Girl Surf Contest/Festival in Oceanside, CA, and damn if it doesn't look fun (and great for young women/girls): supergirlsurfpro.com

Fantastic Four #1-6 cover dated November 1961-September 1962.

Reese Witherspoon? The NFT evangelist?

nonzero chance the FBI is plugging LLMs into wiretap data under the legal theory AI alone can’t implicate 4th amendment concerns (semi-known 702 issue). or the NSA has now hard coded wiretaps across all newly built US data centers due to expanded ECSP scope. or probably both.

Buried in New York State's proposed budget is an ill-conceived measure to stifle 3D printing with surveillance and censorware. We need to act now to defend creators and demand legislators to drop these provisions. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Grotesque: In a dispute over a will, two brothers including a retired Alabama state trooper now working at a federal courthouse, appear to have gotten their mother-in-law arrested by ICE. Using the state to remove disfavored family members is the sort of thing that happens in totalitarian regimes.

Denial of Service attack, it seems: techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/i...

Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen reflected on the highs and lows of their moon mission—the first of its kind in more than 50 years

NEW: Chicago Progressive Partnership super PAC, which launched ads attacking Kat Abughazaleh and then eventually in favor of Bushra Amiwala as an apparent attempt to split the vote, has filed its FEC report, which reveals it was another shell group for AIPAC and its allies

just had to go ONE BY ONE disabling ai remix on all of my videos on tiktok, there doesn’t seem to be a way to mass edit and this has been retroactively implemented on ALL videos, i’m livid

I will be giving a reading and signing books at @booksonthebosque.bsky.social in Albuquerque, NM along with @davering.bsky.social @marieparks.bsky.social and @tangentgeoff.bsky.social on Thursday, April 23 at 5:30 PM. The next day, we're off to teach at Sandia Starforgers: starforgers.com

Ok, yeah, the 60's sound like they were wild. The Whisky Vending machine (with buttons for water or soda!)

I remember biking around where the Wall used to be a couple of years after it came down. It was such a surreal experience. Here's a story about bunnies (ok, yeah, THE Berlin Wall Bunnies! - which actually sounds like a pretty cool band name too) dangerousminds.net/history/warr...

I take your point, but that Daily Beast story is dogshit that just uncritically repeats all the admin's claims about what she saved, etc. I invite you to have a better one! www.wonkette.com/p/doordash-g...