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There's so much going on here. Not sure what to admire more. Microsoft's unending commitment to backwards compatibility? Or a consumer complaint held as a generation-long grudge? Obv the latter

Just installed my 26-year-old copy of Word on a new desktop. I will never pay subscription fees for software I already paid for. I will go live in a shack in the woods first.

Huge event. Failed Jared Kushner/Trump luxury hotel project planned for Belgrade played a role in starting expanded protests against Vucic.

On bluesky, you write with text, not with flamethrowers or hand grenades On the other hand:

One silver lining to these folks who aren’t guided by objective reality is they waste their own resources on hopes that will be crushed by objective reality

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

This is what it’s like to be guarded by Veronica Burton

now she has time to study for the bar

When Harry Met Sally For Tax Purposes

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I worked with—and deeply admired—Helen for almost 30 years. She was hands down *the best source* about emerging infectious diseases that I've ever known. My first warning of COVID was when on Dec 28, 2019 she reposted a ProMED mail report of an atypical pneumonia cluster: "This doesn't look good."

She done lost her damn mind.

Such a loss. Her coverage was such a help to many during the pandemic and after.

Haiku 4.5 has gone to live on a farm. It's making new friends and getting to play all day, that's why you don't see it in the options now that Haiku 5.5 is there...

the more Musk spends on the midterm elections, the more ubiquitous this image needs to be

The competition for passkeys increasingly is not username + password (where a password manager makes that UX about as seamless as a passkey login) but username + password + inconveniently-delivered two-factor authentication code (where the passkey UX is soooo much better). (gift link)

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

How many pieces of evidence include the message "do this to avoid leaving evidence"?

dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry

wild that this is exactly what using a computer is like now

This strikes me as really fuckin bad

fun fact: The Treaty of Tripoli, 1796, Signed by Prez John Adams, includes: "As the government of the United States of America is *not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion*, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of [Muslims].." Just saying.

Proof he was in Atlanta to meet Fani Smith!

Jack Smith at last night’s Power to the People concert, wearing a Springsteen/No Kings shirt.

Trump Warns Iran To Accept His Ultimatum Or Face Wrath Of Next Ultimatum https://theonion.com/trump-warns-iran-to-accept-his-ultimatum-or-face-wrath-of-next-ultimatum/

Trump last week touted "one of the Biggest and Most Beautiful Events to take place in many years, the arrival at the White House of the Highly Respected President of China, Xi Jinping, and his beautiful wife, Madam Peng." The U.S. switched sides.

would have bet so much against this being true

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

If the bill prevents officers from taking second jobs as security officers from *anyone* he shouldn’t. Many neighborhood associations in SF (when Newsom was mayor) hired them to ramp down crime flare ups. It was effective.

Progress in Play: Board Games and the Meaning of History”, Alex Andriesse on the world of 18/19th-century board games in which players progress chronologically through history itself: publicdomainreview.org/essay/progre... publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/8286679...

wikipedia's new editor count is down a bit and perhaps it's your time to try it editing!!! it's a small and concrete way to help and here are a few ways to start!!!

can we PLEASE bring back the word "poser" and stop using "larp" or "cosplay" - being a "poser" or "faking" being into something is lazy and disingenuous whereas cosplayers and actual larpers are passionate about their hobbies and out a lot of time and effort into them

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Finally getting around to reading Bill Bryson’s At Home (only 16 years after it was published) and learned that after the British started using chimneys everywhere and people no longer sat around a fire, there were people complaining about missing the good old days of inhaling smoke constantly.

NEW: In one of the most horrifying stories I've ever reported, I found that Facebook is hosting huge quantities of AI-generated videos of violent child abuse -- kids being beaten, burned, and far more But the genuinely shocking thing was how little Meta seems to care futurism.com/artificial-i...

There are so many stories lately about people who died by suicide after falling into emotionally manipulative patterns with chatbots. We rarely get to hear how the people who loved them are coping after an unimaginable, senseless loss. This is one of their stories: www.404media.co/austin-gordo...

oh my dude, do not give those guys ideas

In a HomeGoods town, a dead end world The Pier 1 boys and West Elm girls

get cat out of warp core

The Wright Brothers flew for exactly 120 feet over 12 seconds on December 17, 1903. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon on July 20, 1969. Only 65 years, 7 months, 3 days later. #Apollo11 contactlight.de

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong