Wade

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USA curling team captain with mustache and mullet and trucker hat

I need this poster on my bedroom wall

@Nick_Davidov Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops" Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything. It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure. She didn't have Time Machine. Disc recovery tools can't see anything. I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days). I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack.

Nick Davidov • @Nick_Davidov VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova

VC, founder, dumbass

Data center developers drawn to Arkansas by competitive prices, favorable laws, officials say | Arkansas Democrat Gazette Data center developers have targeted Arkansas in the past year, drawn by abundant land, a central U.S. location, a reliable electric grid with competitive power costs and a manageable regulatory…

Arkansas politicians seem to be spending an awful lot of energy trying to convince us data centers are good for us. Is it the higher power bills, depletion of water resources, obscene tax breaks handed out to Big Tech, or the relative paucity of jobs they'll provide?
#arpx #arleg

How ‘Dark Patterns’ in Sports Betting Apps Keep Users Gambling Mobile sports betting apps’ frictionless designs, personalized notifications and 24/7 availability have many gambling addiction experts worried

Mobile sports betting apps’ frictionless designs, personalized notifications and 24/7 availability have many gambling addiction experts worried

If you're a business owner who fires someone you have assigned to an overseas job and you don't buy them a plane ticket home you should actually go to prison

Ken McElroy - Wikipedia

I wonder if it based on this dude

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McE...

Weren’t these the same people who wanted everyone fired who said anything disparaging about Charlie Kirk?

Hot Springs Tower at sunset

Protest Central: Little Rock students denounce ICE - Arkansas Times Little Rock Central High students flexed their protest muscles Wednesday to oppose violent and inhumane federal anti-immigration efforts.

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT: Inventive Little Rock Central High students use scheduled fire drill as opportunity to protest against ICE violence, subverting Gov. Sanders' new law designed to squash student walkouts.
#Arkansas #arpx

AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion

AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-that-only-responds-huh-valued-at-200-billion/

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

We peaked here

columbo but mole

Molumbo

cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

Fund Libraries: Tell Congress to invest in libraries.

New: Thanks to advocates from across the country, library funding was not only included in the FY26 federal budget, it was increased. Your advocacy made a difference for libraries!

Share your appreciation for the library funding measures: app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-pag... #FundLibraries

For those keeping score at home:

Seu Jorge’s Lovely Tribute to David Bowie For his 2004 film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Wes Anderson enlisted Brazilian musical artist Seu Jorge to perform several of David Bowie’s songs in Portuguese. Jorge released an album of the songs about a y

An hour-long set of Seu Jorge singing David Bowie covers in Portuguese (from Wes Anderson's Life Aquatic) to mark the 10th anniversary of Bowie's death. "Just an acoustic guitar, a microphone, and the beautiful coastline of São Paulo." [kottke.org]

In the not-too-distant future, RiffTrax is making four new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000! Support us on Kickstarter: rifftraxmakesmst3k.com #RiffTraxMakesMST3K @mst3kofficial.bsky.social

The Disastrous Rollout of the Trump-Approved TikTok Serves as a Stark Warning for Us All Big Tech platforms wield far too much power over our information landscape to continue operating without transparency.

Our government has effectively deputized Big Tech to censor our new media landscape, all while the legacy media amplifies moral panics about misinformation and online harm in order to manufacture consent for mass surveillance. zeteo.com/p/trump-tikt...

The cast of SCTV

SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods.

S1: archive.org/details/sctv...
S2: archive.org/details/sctv...
S3: archive.org/details/19-m...
S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s...
S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky

Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site 'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'

New from 404 Media: an exposed Moltbook database let anyone take control of any AI agent on the site

www.404media.co/exposed-molt...

Good a day as any to announce the plan to fleece University of Arkansas students for sports $.

A Mooninite from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Bomb Scare: “1-31-07 Never Forget”

Nineteen years!

The director of Melania movie

UTAH auto body shop owner: “You guys broke the fucking window to get in here! Where is your warrant??”

Trump’s ICE goons: “Yes we did… We don’t need one.” 🤔

Rights are gone under this regime.

(From Somali Snaps: www.instagram.com/reel/DUKpzuS...)

Trustee calls University of Arkansas’ resolution on athletics funding a ‘radical shift’ | Arkansas Democrat Gazette FAYETTEVILLE -- The University of Arkansas athletic department's long-standing badge of honor for being one of fewer than 20 schools in the country to be self-sustaining could be at an end.

One of the more outrageous things some universities do is charge students an "athletics fee" each semester to subsidize athletics programs, increasing cost of attendance for every student with no educational benefit. U of Arkansas now appears headed in that direction.
#arpx

Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.