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Source familiar with MasterCard‘s internal workings: The company finds the censorship focus from consumers “profoundly irritating“ amid larger political issues — they want the controversy around paypros censorship to quietly disappear

An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley

At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

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Listened to a podcast on my way into work and the host said "at the time he was born he was his parents' youngest child," and it made me think "wait. That's true of all children."

This thread makes a point I find myself coming to often these days.

It's hard to make this point in a way that doesn't sound like a threat, but it's just a fact that for centuries the wealthy in America worried that the mob would come get them and did all they could to avoid that fate.

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

If you encourage me to visit an X/Twitter link from this site, you're lucky if I don't block you

I came here to get away from that app

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

Portland’s ICE protests at their doorstep: Gas masks, 100-decibel din, sleepless nights

https://www.oregonlive.com/health/2025/10/portlands-ice-protests-at-their-doorstep-gas-masks-100-decibel-din-sleepless-nights.html 

📹 Abigail Landwehr & 📝 Kristine de Leon

#portland #ICE

Using ChatGPT to write a message like that is a red flag. You dodged a bullet

So glad I left that shitty bird place

Kinda seems like at some point people are going to wonder by what authority federal taxes are being withheld from their paychecks 🤷‍♂️

It’s pretty much assured at this point. 😑

What a petty petty move

The White House Building Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from...

Scroll down to the Major Events Timeline, and nothing will prepare you for what you'll see. I cannot believe it is real. www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...

I truly do not care if my taxes go towards an illegal immigrants healthcare. If my taxes aren’t being used to better society then why am I paying them.

Money is literally something we made up, lives are real.

This is the most horrifying story I've read in a while, and that's saying something

When I dream, things don't make sense. Like I walk out the front door of my childhood home directly into my high school hallway

I expect video games to adhere to slightly stronger logic than that

Hiking is a low-key activity in my book

Thanks for waking me up! Signed up for my pre-sale code for the Atlanta date already

rushing to integrate undercooked, misrepresented, and misunderstood technology into every corner of our lives just so a handful of terrible people could make more money might have been a bad idea

You should meet her drag mother tho: Anita Knapp

She only performs slow ballads about dreams

reminder the US government has now been shut down for 23 days with no solution in sight KACHOWWWW

Drag name idea: Ivanna Knapp

What an amazing milestone! Congratulations

Two men holding hands in front of judge at a courthouse

Two men holding hands on a stage surrounded by people in suits

Two men in a car with a bull terrier popping up from the backseat

Two men stand side by side at a concert

10-years married to this guy today!

Checks out