Sid Acker

A credit from CONVOY reading “and Ernest Borgnine as Dirty Lyle”

The six words every woman wants to hear

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

Gather ‘round, kids, let me tell you a story. There was a time when there would be a saxophone solo before the guitar solo, and it made everybody very, very happy. People are gonna tell you not to do drugs but I don’t know, man. I don’t know

Thank goodness! Think about how many kids have been fatally shot in school by Judy Blume books!

As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.

You don’t have stories like this in countries with national healthcare systems

British Airways flight attendant found naked and dancing on San Francisco flight to London A British Airways crew member was found naked and dancing in a business class toilet on a flight from San Francisco to London. He was arrested at Heathrow.

i want to party with this guy

Today is the most dangerous time to be a journalist in CPJ’s history. At least 124 journalists and media workers were killed last year, nearly two-thirds of them Palestinians killed by Israel.

Read more in CPJ’s #2024KilledReport: cpj.org?p=451429

Lmao the future sucks

Unplug it.

Independent Editor, whom do I pitch to write the column. I solved your problem.

A Starter Guide to Protecting Your Data From Hackers and Corporations Hackers. AI data scrapes. Government surveillance. Yeah, thinking about where to start when it comes to protecting your online privacy can be overwhelming. Here’s a simple guide for you—and anyone who...

"I have nothing to hide! I don't need digital privacy!" Well...

- AI companies are scraping your data
- Scammers are using AI to get better at their schemes
- And yeah, a new era of government surveillance...

A starter guide to protecting you online life:

Getting account holders’ permission to steal their money would kill the bank robber industry.

this is the funniest way to describe brian fucking eno

Ruha Benjamin: We can call bullshit on their eugenic futures Dr. Ruha Benjamin’s must-see talk on tech's ‘artificial intelligentsia’

“Billionaires building bunkers to survive an AI apocalypse, attempting to disrupt death through cryopreservation, scouting the planet for pop-up cities and network states — are not reliable stewards of the collective good.”
— Dr. Ruha Benjamin

This is major. As a reminder, DOGE stormed the USIP building in March with the help of DC Metro Police who were originally called there by building employees. Even tho, USIP owned the building, DOGE just…took it. Background: www.thehandbasket.co/p/us-institu...

"Now more than ever the world needs a credible, trusted, independent voice" and "I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America."

This is in the UK but it’s a really good example for everyone in the US of why many folks have been warning not to use period tracking apps.

From the creators of "I don't like Rage against the Machine anymore, they've gone woke", we bring you a new, thrilling journey of self discovery:

The propaganda derived from the intersection of alternative medicine and the anti-vaccine movement is a bottomless pit of science illiteracy.

Just catching up on the news

The biomass antenna was deployed two weeks ago. In Jan 2026 the first open data is expected. The mission data will enhance the new Biomass V6 dataset, which was released as part of the ESA's Climate Change Initiative to support forest monitoring climate.esa.int/en/news-even...

if you only believe in something when it applies to someone you like then you don't actually believe in it.

RFK Jr. Took His Grandkids for a Dip in a Sewage-Contaminated Creek For Mother’s Day The National Park Service bans swimming in Rock Creek due to “high levels of bacteria.”

RFK Jr. celebrated on Sunday by taking shirtless selfies and swimming in an E. coli-ridden, sewage-infested creek where swimming, notably, has been banned by the National Park Service, thanks to the whole...poop water issue.

Newark Airport Had 3 Controllers on Duty When the Goal Is 14

It’s very strange that this article on the staffing issues at Newark Airport doesn’t mention the fact that DOGE fired 400 FAA employees a few months ago, and union officials warned about exactly these kinds of shortages.

A dark field of space surrounds a thin but colorful band horizontally across the center. The band is nearly straight but curves at its outer edges. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

🔭 Gaia Reconstructs a Side View of our Galaxy

Illustration Credit: ESA, Gaia, DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25051...

RFK Jr talking about the need for doctors to know how to treat measles for those who are unvaccinated.

“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”

No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.

Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!

ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the Large Hadron Collider In a paper published in Physical Review C, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of lead into gold in CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Lab director: Hey so, you guys haven't been doing anything to piss off the gods, right?

Me: no

LD: nothing Forbidden.

Me: no!

LD: because I don't know how often you read the news lately,

Me: *nervous* haha yeah the Chicago Pope

LD: No? I mean the-

*13 solid gold pebbles fall out of my pocket*

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.