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People keep saying Apple should acquire Perplexity but what is there in the company to buy? Not to mention they're culturally and ethically incompatible.

Indonesia declared war on the One Piece flag In what might be the most unintentionally self-owns in modern governance, parliamentary leaders have claimed that the Straw Hat Jolly Roger — the beloved skull-and-crossbones from One Piece — repre…

Indonesian parliamentary leaders declare the One Piece Jolly Roger flag seditious, demands criminal charges against those who fly it. Cue the public backlash.

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Megawati is pretending coalitions and oppositions don't exist, after building both to stay in power all these years. She calls it ideology, everyone else calls it denial, but when your last name is Soekarno, you don't need to make sense to stay in charge.

House Republicans have shut down floor votes and will likely adjourn for 6 weeks to avoid voting for the release of the Epstein files.

It's very obvious that the NYT has put people in editorial positions who view it as part of their job to upset the left. This is, in the bizarro, insular world of US elites, seen as a way to restore balance & regain the trust of the right.

Putting aside the merits of the larger effort ...

As we say on the internet, "some personal news."

After 39 years on the job I am retiring as an NYU professor.

In this thread I will take a few moments to reflect on my academic career.

Spoiler alert: I am not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press. 1/

ABC is too cowed to state the obvious about Stephen Miller The road to fascism is paved with "objectivity" and "civility."

"Bothsidesism is 'suicide for democracy.' In becoming stenographers rather than reporters, journalists effectively legitimize MAGA lies, hate, and fascism as just one reasonable side of a debate in which all partisans are equally credible."

“OpenAI didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on how Altman came to those figures.”

Ummmm

Far-Right Infiltrators and Agitators in George Floyd Protests: Indicators of White Supremacists Widely broadcast real-time video images challenge our beliefs about who is really protesting and for what reason.

We know from BLM protests that the violence was caused by pro-Trump agitators. Have to see if that is same is happening now in Calif. Article from 2020: www.justsecurity.org/70497/far-ri...

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

These events are sure to go smoothly

🚨 THREAD: What just happened in Los Angeles is not normal, and it differs from past deployments of the National Guard in key ways that you need to understand. This is a breakdown of the history, the playbook, and why this move reeks of bad faith.

Here’s the “Presidential Memorandum”:

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There’s no Insurrection Act invocation; Trump is federalizing 2000 CA Nat’l Guard personnel only to “protect federal functions.”

*Without* invoking the Insurrection Act, anything more would violate the Posse Comitatus Act.

San Antonio Express-News ® @ExpressNews Sen. Rafael Edward Cruz, who uses the preferred name Ted, has introduced a bill to limit the use of preferred names and pronouns.

headline construction masterclass

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk's foray into politics accomplished.

Elon Musk’s lethal assault on foreign aid has already killed 300,000 people, mostly children, and will kill many more in the coming years. An unfathomable loss of life. How many other individuals have been personally responsible for so much mass death? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

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Here's NASA astrophysics, if I read the president's proposed budget correctly. 🔭

LMAO, same, man. I take mine out of the case every now and then. I went ceaseless for a long time until I broke the lens of my iPhone 7. Been using a case ever since for any new phone I got.

Taylor Swift Buys Back Her Masters From Shamrock, Reclaiming Her First Six Albums Taylor Swift has regained control of her master recordings years after they were sold, first to Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings, then to Shamrock.

Taylor Swift got her music back from Shamrock Capital who got them from Scooter Braun. All of it. But Reputation TV doesn’t have a release date because she hasn’t even recorded a quarter of it and now she doesn’t have to.

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Komdigi Minister Meutya Hafid is Wrong About Sport The Minister’s dismissal of e-sports as “not real sport” exposes an outdated understanding, trapped by language that excludes millions of digital competitors. There’s a cont…

The controversy in Indonesia about the definition of what #sport entails is rooted in perception and linguistic roots, since olahraga literally means body exercise. But sport isn't just about physical pursuits.

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I’ve not been in this situation for years. I’m waiting with bated breath.

Oh no. Ogilvy just sent out a media release without bcc. And someone from another media replied to all.

Of course, the future is already here. Just not evenly distributed.

Sources contradict Trump narrative about Qatar offering plane as ‘gift’ | CNN Politics The Trump administration first approached Qatar to inquire about acquiring a Boeing 747 that could be used as Air Force One by President Donald Trump, four sources familiar with the discussions told C...

“The Trump administration first approached Qatar to inquire about acquiring a Boeing 747 that could be used as Air Force One…four sources familiar with the discussions told CNN. That’s contrary to the narrative from the president that Qatar reached out and offered the jet as a ‘gift’ to him.”

Ouch, that’s rough

Toy Story … 5???

A menu of assorted oden and combo bowls at FamilyMart

Ordered an Oden combo 1 for breakfast, got only the oden and charged only for the single stick of oden. Didn’t have the energy or enough fucks to give to ask for the full bowl. At least it’s warm soup 😅

It’s so interesting that an outlet that encourages its writers to speak truth to power is flourishing in a media industry where everything else seems to be in decline. I want that to be a lesson to people. Kowtowing to power—if your job is not that, nobody fucking wants that. It does nothing for you to pull a punch at this moment. You have to be able to stand up for a baseline of humanity. That’s what we do here. And I’m glad to tell you that they never blinked. They never thought twice about it. They just always were like, “All right, well, let’s keep doing what we do here.”

People keep asking why The Onion is doing well right now, and it's simply because we just refuse to kowtow. I cannot stress enough how good it is for your business and your soul be strong and even fun in the face of the ongoing horror and bullshit.

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This is good news. And no, poor families do NOT have to have Netflix to access Sesame Street. Netflix will release episodes to PBS the *same day* they drop on Netflix, which is significantly better than the prior deal with HBO, which delayed episodes for 9 MONTHS before porting them over to PBS.