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Waze reports your driving to your insurance? How do they know who your insurance is? Source?

Lead and Circuses A RECENT CONSUMER REPORTS STUDY FOUND HIGH LEVELS OF LEAD IN SEVERAL PROTEIN DRINK MIXES. HOW MIGHT THIS PLAY OUT? INITIAL ALARM Guy drinking Alpha Boar Plus Protein Blast drink: GLUG GLUG GLUG! THEY FOUND WHAT? PODCAST TOPIC The BIFF and BRAD SHOW Podcaster 1: LEAD IS STRONG METAL, MAKE MAN MORE STRONG. Podcaster 2: ROMAN GLADIATORS, LIKE, CHUGGED LEAD. GOVERNMENT ENDORSEMENT FDA official: WE ENCOURAGE AMERICANS TO CONSUME AS MUCH LEAD AS POSSIBLE, AND OTHER HEAVY METALS TOO. In front of him are product containers: PRE- 1978 PAINT CHIPS Smoothie-Ready! ARSENIC GEL Cadmium Chews LEAD-FREE FOOD BANNED Corporate guy: FINALLY OUR CHILDREN WILL GET THIS DELICIOUS, NUTRITIOUS METAL IN EVERY BITE! ©2025 Jen Sorensen

This week's comic: Lead and Circuses

Just say yuppies, it's cleaner

How would we ensure the EU then doesn't turn around and start surveilling everyone on their public network? I'm not too trusting of a social media from the same government trying to push Chat Control

The government should provide the raw servers. The people decide how to run them

YouTube video by サカナクション sakanaction サカナクション / 忘れられないの　-Music Video-

The rizz of this bass solo is dripping off the charts. Sakan Action youtu.be/BxqYUbNR-c0?

This is why capitalists and their politicians are against solar. It's literally free everyday raining down from the sky and they can't charge for it

Introducing Lyria RealTime API Lyria RealTime APILyria teamFor the last few years, we have continued to explore how different ways of interacting with generative AI technologies for music ...

Google Magenta just dropped a new model that can generate a stream of music in real time, combining prompts and styles. I wonder what it would be like to jam with live? magenta.withgoogle.com/lyria-realtime

not my son finding the mic switch and using it to threaten the google home "hey google, what are hurricanes made of? tell me right now or i'll turn the mic off!"

at least three of my previous managers have called me brilliant (derogatory)

I tried to put him to bed an hour earlier (so, the same time he's used to), but somehow he knows. He can detect the change even though he can't read clocks, and insists on jumping around the house an hour longer

me. it's my kid.

logging on to twitter just to watch all the bigots seething mad about zohran mandami winning

Chart titled "AI-NATIVE ART" presented as a Marshall McLuhan Tetrad (four-part framework). The center label, "AI-NATIVE ART," connects to four quadrants, each representing an effect of the new medium, labeled on the outer corners: ENHANCES (Top-Left): Infinite variation and Collaborative creation. REVERSES (Top-Right): Stylistic filter bubbles and Aesthetic homogenization. RETRIEVES (Bottom-Left): Platonic Forms and Oral Culture. OBSOLESCES (Bottom-Right): Fixed art objects and Linear creation. A title above the chart reads: "We're still in the skeuomorphic phase of AI art". The source citation below the chart reads: "marshall mcluhan - tetrad, adapted by @octopusyarn".

The incredible potential of AI art is being obscured by unimaginative cretins posting static images and videos to social media apps that weren't designed to handle the new paradigm

I mean AI is going to take all our jobs anyway, so caring for elders and children will be one of the last, most coveted professions

Oh wow I listen to most of these bands. Have you heard Calva Louise? You might dig them

When half the names on the list are in your regular rotation, you better check out the other half of the list!

Vader when he took his mask off vibes

We gave society a robot that can read at a higher reading level than they can (3rd grade), and now we're surprised they don't know how to use it correctly

LLMs are good at language. Asking it to count things is like asking an English lit major to do your calculus homework bsky.app/profile/odbo...

I'll have the Gyno Gyro with a side keboob

The Vulgar Image by Dean Kissick AI is co-spawning a visual culture beyond any imagination. Will an overthrow of good taste re-vest pictures with their mysterious power? Or are we chasing our machines into pastiche hell?

When the whole world around us is saturated in perfectly designed, flawless, beautiful content, The Vulgar Image is the counterpoint: tasteless, ugly, devoid of information. spikeartmagazine.com/articles/vul...

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear." - from Andor

What did I just read

50% reduction is worth it. Also, the vaccine is against four different variants, but your body will only integrate one of the four. So if you catch that variant, you're much more protected than if you catch one of the other three. Although, I hear they finally fixed that; not sure if it's out yet

me double-checking my settings to turn the video down from 2x speed

This is the best they can do?

So unironically does this mean Trump's cuts are possibly a good strategy? Force those companies to start paying better? I don't think they'll be able to retain many employees if they're starving. That's how strikes and riots start

A tweet from Jenny Wright (@JenEWright). The tweet text reads: "My annual reminder that food banks are not part of our social safety net, they are a sign that our social safety net is not working." A profile picture of a woman with blonde and gray hair is on the left.

ICYMI

It’s not food insecurity, it’s intermittent fasting.