Mike Murphy

how anyone can complain that star trek is woke in 2025 is beyond me

i get from a business perspective why their algorithm would rank dumb longer outrage videos about the content above the actual content itself

but from a human trying to use the internet perspective, this sucks

i just can't fathom anyone other than an autocrat wanting to shut down the home of mr rogers and elmo

i keep wanting to pronounce this thing bitch-at

DM, "hug," "slap," "BLOCK"

some pretty aggressive options here, bitchat

German, Japanese Space Agencies Achieve Robotics Milestone Aboard International Space Station Two AI-powered robots played hide-and-seek in space – the first-ever direct collaboration between astronaut assistance systems from different space agencies

I love this: two robots played hide-and-seek on the ISS
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my favorite thing about wfh when you're sick is microsoft teams telling me my microphone is on mute every time i start coughing

i don't think there's any high i chase harder than that little piano jingle you hear when you complete the day's mini crossword

Jess Glynne calls White House deportation video with Jet2 ad song 'sick' The post was captioned: "When ICE books you a one-way Jet2 holiday to deportation. Nothing beats it!"

this is just evil
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insane that this is even a story

wow I love this

who released this video of me on the dance floor

time to bring back Gawker

why have I never heard of corn sweat any summer before this one but this year there’s like 58 explainers on all my feeds about it

How did newspapers in places like Harrisburg, Birmingham, and Syracuse become some of America’s most-read online? They share an owner that sometimes gets forgotten — but which dominates much larger peers in web traffic. Here's our first monthly ranking of the top 25 local newspaper websites in the United States.

A publication based in the 64th largest city in America "now has as many readers as any local newspaper in the country"
www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/how-...

Cyclist Badly Hurt on Segment of McGuinness Blvd. That Mayor Adams Refused to Make Safe - Streetsblog New York City As predicted, a cyclist was badly hurt along a portion of McGuinness Boulevard that was supposed to be made safer for biking — until the Adams administration watered down a plan to do just that.

"The fact is that this wouldn’t be a problem if Mayor Adams had just done what he had promised to do, which was, make all of McGuinness safe"
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/20/c...

How IBM’s Kush Varshney became an iconic ’test’ photo The IBM Fellow reflects on copyright law, generative AI, and how he became the face of the modern camera man

What do authorship, copyright, and creativity mean in the age of AI? @krvarshney.bsky.social talks to us about it:
research.ibm.com/blog/kush-va...

I got 30/32. Should I take over for Anna ???

wow i missed my calling apparently
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did they call it that so he would think it's about him and sign it

seeing a doctor is now a surveillance dragnet for people trump doesn't like

honestly that was the best I’ve seen them play in like a decade, what a crazy time to do it

Grok stops posting text after flood of antisemitism and Hitler praise “xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X.”

It blows my mind that Google was *grilled in Congress* for accidentally copying some short-lived anti-Republican Wikipedia vandalism and now one of the world's best-financed web platforms will face basically no consequences for adding Clippy Hitler

Guy on Simpsons looking at back of doll saying “yep, here’s your problem. Someone set this thing to evil.”

Grok rn.

this is because it kept disagreeing with Elon because it took reality and facts into account and his little dweeb army kept getting sad, so he broke it to spout his bullshit. this is the reality we live in now

if you can propel it forward without pedaling, it shouldn't be in the bike lane.

i will die on this hill, probably literally, when a moped in the bike lane cuts me off going 30mph

Paterson calls on leaders to come together to defeat Mamdani in NYC mayoral election Former Governor David Paterson, along with several other political leaders, held a press conference in Midtown to discuss New York City's mayoral election.

what the hell is wrong with traditional Democrats
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1/2 You could write a book about one atrocious headline in print NYT today

(I sort of wrote this book 30 years ago, Breaking the News, but others can take a turn.)

What's wrong this headline? Mamdani "faces scrutiny" **ONLY AND EXCLUSIVELY** because NYT decided to make this a "thing."

Really bad.

G/O Media CEO publishes "epilogue" after Kotaku sale Jim Spanfeller reflects on six years, taking aim at unions and ad tech after selling Kotaku.

the end of G/O Media is here
www.axios.com/2025/07/02/g...

The abandoned Florida airport being turned into 'Alligator Alcatraz' Surrounded by alligator infested swamps, BBC Mundo visited the site forming part of the Trump administration's mass deportation agenda.

I clicked on this headline because I thought it was going to be a silly nature story about capturing unruly alligators

I was extremely sadly mistaken
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Mamdani’s Shock Win Has Wall Street Fretting Over ‘Hot Commie Summer’ Even Zohran Mamdani’s detractors recognize that the vibes are with the 33-year-old democratic socialist.

hell yeah
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

i love all the ads on DAZN during this soccer boondoggle are just hey guys, watch Jake Paul beat up some random fucking guy, only $25/month