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There are five kinds of Bluesky users

our age of silicon is collapsing

the 13" iPad Pro is the ideal device for reading scanned copies of National Lampoon

I have Wittgenstein's Syndrome

Well this is eleventy-million kinds of Fucked Up. @latimes.com (who once contracted with me as a freelance reviewer and whom I struggled to get paid by) asserts that *merely reading its website* constitutes a permanent waiver of your right to sue it under *any circumstances*.

did you guys think this would make him seem less cool somehow or what

Go Brewers

if this is a crime then lock me up www.axios.com/local/clevel...

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

online today, magazine, imagery (1987) archive.org/details/onli...

best Dead cover youtu.be/LUzobt9o_9Y?...

get it right according to what standard? it's entirely the umpires judgment. there are no criteria. there is no reality. if an umpire says it's a swing it is one

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Trademark threat letters (which these days mostly come from “brand protection” agencies, not actual lawyers) rarely acknowledge things like “fair use” and “reasonable consumers” and “reality”.

DC after just 2 years of Trump

their trademark complaints are utterly frivolous and should be sanctionable. Trademark law does not prevent people from talking about things and referring to them by name, and trademark lawyer threat letters are some of the most dishonest pieces of legal writing you'll ever see

I don't think every King Gizzard genre experiment is a total success. Their electronic music is....mostly ok for example. But at least they try things. And when it works, boom

game is smoky...did the brewers set off fireworks prematurely?

Progressive has been been slowly introducing a replacement for Flo

They repeatedly covered Trump's appealing promises that he had no way to enact as if they were real and Trump's unappealing promises that he would have the direct authority over as if they were fake - even writing stories farcically confirming Trump's attempts to distance himself from Project2025

This vindictive targeting of career civil servants by Trump fascists precisely because they had served honorably was one of the things clearly at stake in 2024 - Trump promised it - but the media instead gave more coverage to the imaginary idea that Trump had a plan to lower prices to 2019 levels

i wonder what percentage of the electorate now understands that this man and maybe 75 other people like him are actively trying to destroy our lives. that he is the biggest national security threat we have faced, even moreso than bin laden or whoever. its got to be dawning on more and more people

This is what I need denialists to understand: the AI evangelists' wildest fever dreams (sentience, the singularity, whatever-the-fuck) don't need to be real for the tech to be hugely consequential. A machine gun doesn't need to be superintelligent.

they call me the rubicon because if you cross me, you're rolling the dice

his previously stone-faced uniformed subordinates instantly having him removed by armed guards the second the vote is counted

The plan: Instead of giving Knicks employees championship rings, use them as a lure to see who needs mandatory cybersecurity training

If the states succeed in breaking up Live Nation, it could stop or reverse the decline of independent music clubs, which are essential to bands just starting out. "Independents 'are the ones who give us our first shows. They’re the ones who work with us when we can draw 100 people,' he said."

The Enterprise computer is non-sentient AGI; it's probably more "intelligent" than Data, or at least has more compute. Data is sentient however. Also he seems to be more energy efficient

if you like the sensation of being burned alive from the inside, and then being hit with a "sick stick" from minority report, I recommend doing sprint drills when you're middle aged

i loved that book when i was a lil kid. these dickheads better not fuck this up

waxing gibbous--worst moon phase

Again I say, the scam economy is consuming the political will to fight authoritarianism.

This is back which means my concerns about the methodology are back. Very hard to talk about the politics of baseball players without the Latino community and with only 40% of the eligible players included!

A rare correct use of the word "disinterested" !!

looking through Phillies yearbooks from the 1970s vs. today. Graphic design has gone totally downhill. Magazines used to be so much better designed too (with tons of commissioned artwork)

my poor robot vacuum cleaner has such a hard life, with two middle-aged long-haired people. I have to use scissors to cut hair off its roller brush after every single use

I want to go to this buy I live in a family area with lots of trick-or-treaters. It would be irresponsible www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2...

I sometime wish we had a web with no javascript. Just static hypertext. No spyware. Fast. No irritating "Snow Fall" design patterns

call her remote code execution the way a single text from her has me doing things i shouldnt

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the outfield alignment thing is stupid, but fielders should not be able to bring cheat sheets on the field (neither should catchers). either memorize what to do for each player on the other team, or read hand signals from a coach www.nytimes.com/athletic/769...

In any other admin, this would probably be the most outrageous official statement ever made by a sitting FCC director: Strongly implying that the government forbids broadcast networks from reporting on the president's falling poll numbers. (Sorry to paste from twitter but that's where he posts.)