I’ve been on an Iain Banks kick lately and given the recent sci-fi coming out of HBO and AppleTV I think the time has come for an adaption of Use of Weapons
Jesus when he comes back to Earth:
Tell me why I'm getting facebook ads for a fuckin tactical bassoon
Actually, Americans are just like you. ~20-30% of them genuinely support fascism, as in ~every 🇪🇺 country. You are just more fortunate to have political institutions & a multiparty system that prevent that 20-30% from fully capturing the center-right party, becoming 51%, & controlling the government.
Oh god we’re like 72 hours from this landing on trumps desk and him tweeting about doing it
Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute.
Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo.
even under extremely generous assumptions, the “AI is drinking all the water” thing is empirically fake. (infographic from @andymasley.bsky.social )
mind your business
Americas mayor
IANAL but I’m pretty sure it’s bad when the judge beseeches your lawyer to consult an attorney?
It might help
Ugh another human job lost to automation
I love the “I’m just learning the cello” fingering tape
"Oh you spoiled children want a painless war" no what we wanted was NO WAR. You fucks have no right to be conducting this war! It's illegal and unconstitutional and no one wanted it! Our government is fully broken! How dare you lecture us as though you have any legitimacy whatsoever!
i read this and it's interesting
but the horrifying overhang of this story is "mrna vaccines make it relatively easy to cure cancer actually, and the main obstacle is that the FDA just banned trials of them"
How does a hard drive overheat? That’s not a thing
Hey if you have an SSD and are lazy that can go pretty fast, nested for loop go brrrr
The working group move is 100% something people use in politics to kill off projects they don’t like. It’s particularly effective at the state and local level
I posted a 1912 photo of a man with smallpox and someone asked if it was AI. That says something about the moment we’re living in: because of vaccination, we’re now so far removed from this virus that real images of it look fake. #medicalhistory #vaccines #vaccineswork #skystorians
Bollywood remake of Smokey and the Bandit that's about running a truck full of Coors from Dubai to Qatar.
so we rescued a set of cinema film scanners
does anyone need a set of cinema film scanners?
if you have a need for a cinema film scanner (or can give it a good home!), and can arrange to have it transported from the Seattle area, message me on fedi or e-mail me at hello@alyx.sh
In a study in 2001 (Pickrell and Loftus, University of Washington), about one third of subjects shown a faked print advert for Disneyland featuring a child shaking hands with an actor dressed as Bugs Bunny (a Warner Bros. character) subsequently remembered meeting the character at the park.
just going to say again that one reason the senate gop has been veeery reluctant to move on the SAVE act is that I think those of them with brains (not Mike Lee or Tommy Tuberville) have figured out that it's more likely to hurt them (perhaps badly) than it is to help them. 1
it's a bad bill and Ds should not vote for it, but there's a lot of evidence that shrinking the pool of voters helps Democrats a good deal in the current environment.
open-ended composability is the norm in advanced professional tooling and in children’s toys, but it’s rare in between
the White House's memes lately look like a millennial nostalgia fest. Which probably gives a flavor for who the person making them is
His whole life, Trump has always had someone else around to bail him out of the messes he creates: his father, Allen Weisselberg, the "adults in the room" in his first term. Now all those protectors are gone and he is openly begging for someone to save him from his own folly.
There are a lot of assumptions re: Biden on Netanyahu.
That
1) If Biden told Netanyahu to cut it out, he would have
2) If we cut military funding, Netanyahu would have been forced to stop in order to grovel to get his money back
And neither of these seem like very supported assumptions
This makes more sense, wapo article in replies
My most obnoxious foodie take is that 2 Michelin stars is probably the sweet spot
