I don't know how Tesla would effectively market itself in D.C. these days, but having its M Street NW showroom feature an implausible-to-park-in-Georgetown Cybertruck and a probably-inert Optimus robot does not seem like the way to do it.

"…because the token was sent from Copilot using Microsoft's IP addresses, the connection to the attacker will not show in the user's web traffic." It's a mystery to me why so many companies trust Microsoft when they provide so much evidence of why they're literally making things less secure.

okay grandpa, let's get you to bed

*I used to argue with @johnshirley2024.bsky.social and tell him that a future revival of fascism seemed rather farfetched *Why, how little I knew, and how much John knew, and after 50 years I'm not too proud to admit that, here on my cyberpunk cracker-barrel, adjusting my dentures

"Crucially, [Bruce Sterling] articulated the genre’s defining cultural synthesis: the “overlapping of worlds that were formerly separate: the realm of high tech and the modern pop underground” Good read but always weird to see a genre I followed from early on be looked at from a historic lens.

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

As you can see, the National Guard is highlighted in green, which means they are a grass type. This means they are weak to flying, bug, poison, ice, and fire

It looks like enemy bombs blasted the East Wing out of existence during war.

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

Watching the Fallout Day live broadcast from Bethesda and man, these folks just don't get it. Doesn't look like any remasters, just 10th anniversary edition of Fallout 4 and a 15th anniversary bundle of Fallout NV. Plus Creation Club crap in Fallout 4. *sigh*

Tom Homan's replies yesterday to Axios reporter Brittany Gibson's ?s on recruitment seem more interesting now. He cited "a high fail rate" of fitness criteria, said ICE has cut people judged to be bad actors, and added that "they're trying to push the vetting up before they even offer them the job."

"O'Neill's ball rolled straight for the cup. In the meantime, Thornton's ball rolled upon the green and came to rest six inches from the cup, stopping In the path of O'Neill's putt. O'Neill's putt hit Thornton's drive and knocked it in the cup for a hole in one." That's one way to do it…

i don't get it. omen sushi in nyc is cheaper than nobu in malibu, where you dined last year without your wife

Or you can be like me and get the Firefox extension that blocks all Shorts and never have to see them again 😉

Management at ACECO forgot a basic lesson from Clerks before deciding to take on the job of demolishing part of the East Wing of the White House: A contractor has to listen to their heart, not their wallet.

"The servers are back up, but it was discovered that an interesting report had been published right before the outage, alleging that the company had laid off 40% of its DevOps team to replace them with AI." Hoisted on their own petard 😆

Sharing because 1) I love @tastinghistory.bsky.social and his recreations of historic recipes and 2) Just imagining someone in 2,000 years doing a presentation like this about Trump. "Here we have gold-leafed 'Hamberders' and burnt steak with ketchup"

“U.S. citizens contribute about 17 cents per day to USAID, around $64 per year. I think most people would support continued USAID funding if they knew just how effective such a small contribution can be to saving millions of lives" But here we are in a non-rational world 😕

Videos like this are one of the reasons I love watching Tim Cain's YouTube channel - great 15-min explanation of why video game development (and development costs) are so much different than they used to be.

If you're tech support for family and friends who have to use/upgrade Windows, something else to worry about: Windows 11 possibly turning on Bitlocker if they sign in with a Microsoft account, etc., even on the home version, without warning or permission www.tomshardware.com/software/win...

It's fun* to read this Meta announcement of an AI data center to see what it doesn't mention: • Meta paying for any new power generation facilities, much less renewable ones; • what that'll do to electric rates; • the small share of solar and wind power at El Paso Electric. * well, not that fun

"That is schoolhouse rock. And that is how things should be."

So evidently the only thing work on YouTube right now for a bunch of people is the ads. Literally an ad will play just fine and then the video just goes "Oops, an error was reported". Bug or YouTube's master plan come to fruition?

"I don’t see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now,” the Amazon and Blue Origin founder said" I went into this article expecting the space thing to be the most unhinged thing Bezos said. But nope, it was the above quote. #InsaneWealthIsAHelluvaDrug

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Bari Weiss launched her own path to stardom with the argument "it is oppression to dislike me for being bad" and now we will get to see what an entire media ecosystem built with that philosophy looks like

"The results were consistent and shocking. Across this diverse sample, the average level of fake traffic was 73%. This was a systemic issue, a phantom epidemic haunting the digital storefronts of countless entrepreneurs." If we're not at Dead Internet yet, we're at least in Zombieland.

Oh, snap, sick burn 🤦‍♂️😂 https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115377850900768941

I've been using Windows since Windows 2.0, and I can authoritatively say it's because Windows is three OSes in a trench coat. It's less an operating system and more a collection of quirks that's not entirely unlike an OS. The fact any of it ever works as expected is a bit of a miracle.

I think the idea of "cancel culture" persists mainly because it conveniently is some outside force acting on someone rather than them torching their reputation all on their own

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

After 40 years of broadcasting MTV is shutting down most of it's channels. Thanks for 20 years of music MTV.

"The 2,900 pages of chats, shared among a dozen millennial and Gen Z Republicans between early January and mid-August, chronicle their campaign to seize control of the national Young Republican organization on a hardline pro-Donald Trump platform" Surprising no one…

Rest in peace, Drew Struzan. His movie posters are much more than marketing. They're some of the finest pop art you'll ever see. Look at this masterpiece:

What a disgrace.

[An MIT Media Lab report calls this 'workslop': “AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.”]

"This piece has been updated because, following publication, many fired employees began receiving emails communicating that despite the earlier notice, they would no longer be terminated." Would they be more or less scary if they showed any sign of competency or intelligence? Honestly don't know.

Really happy with this shot #sqrlpix Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

The rapid progress of Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind must enrage the fossil-fuel fetishists in the White House. Have they considered trying to self-soothe by snorting some coal dust? #CVOW

No words 😑

Ah, I see Ancestry finally updated their "DNA Origins" info again. Having a well-built out tree over decades, it's always interesting to see what they get right and what they get wrong. Also, that's a lot of colors to basically say "Yes, you're a very, very white boy" #genealogy #dna

Yall! Virginia is about to get a black cat license plate!

"We'll negotiate on healthcare after we reopen the government" is the most obvious wallet inspector line ever even if you weren't dealing with someone whose entire career was telling people he was the wallet inspector and taking their wallets

I saw the thumbnail and knew without even watching the video that it would be Sysco. And I was right. I long for the days of an actual functioning government that either stopped these companies from creating monopolies, or that broke them up once they were monopolies.

Genuinely cannot wait for this, it is going to redefine the ways a game can suck ass

icymi - “Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including… a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.” www.afr.com/companies/pr...

Twice as much power as New Orleans. The insanity must stop.

With all the news stories about an AI "actress", I just realized how glad I am that George Lucas doesn't still own Star Wars. With his views and frustrations with real actors, he'd almost certainly be embracing the chance to play with digital dolls to turn out soulless Star Wars AI slop movies.