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At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

CRASHOUT FOR THE AGES

Glide A breezy tiling window manager for macOS.

Announcing Glide, a tiling window manager I've been working on for macOS.

glidewm.org

Can You Draw a Cool S ? 🆒⚡️ Only the coolest people can doodle it fast.

I drew a Cool S in 1.83 seconds, rating 🥶 Absolute Zero!
vole.wtf/cool-s/

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

I do love that the people who built bluesky learned nothing about running a social network beforehand and are thus committed to making all the same social network mistakes as everyone who came before them, from first principles

Emily Witt · Do you feel like a failure? In the Manosphere The winners in an autocracy have little in common with the losers, but putting on aviator sunglasses or a leather jacket...

@hebelkins.bsky.social @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social replies are disabled in that thread, but the piece is by Emily Witt (London Review of Books): www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

I’m Not a Robot, a game about solving CAPTCHAs, is out now!

good luck :)

> neal.fun/not-a-robot/

Le chanteur de Clair Obscur est un anti-avortement fan du neo-nazi Charlie Kirk.

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Child dies of horrifying measles complication in Los Angeles SSPE is a rare but always fatal disease that destroys a child’s brain.

Already, the US measles case count for the year is at a 33-year high.

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

The whole point of computers was to not be unpredictable unreliable black boxes. I'm going crazy every day. Everything that originally interested me in computers is being starved. I'm stuck in an industry where no one wants what I care about. My life is a mistake.

I used to love computers. Computers reify math/logic into reality. Silicon Valley exists to chase money but at least it offered a living working on math/logic. Now not even that. Hard logic is old-fashioned. Silicon Valley is for vibe coding with $$$s in your eyes and little else.

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

new Date("wtf") How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

I made a quiz about the JS Date parser is. It's very easy and you will score very high.

jsdate.wtf

The pseudonymous account Rev. Howard Arson accused Saeed Ismail of being a fake, AI-generated person. After I wrote about how Saeed is real, Arson is now creating AI videos of Saeed and his blanket. I don’t know Arson’s goal with all of this, but it strikes me as incredibly cruel.

are there any blocklists/labelers you’d recommend checking out by any chance? intentional false positives in a non-automated blocklist due to the list’s creator being petty is definitely concerning

everyone should do this, the guy running it currently is a full on fraud, ppl you like and haven't seen in a bit are probably missing from your feed because he put them on his lists to settle a personal score

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

Andrew Cuomo gets publicly humiliated. Bill Clinton learns his endorsement is worth less than dogshit. What a great time to be a hater. A golden age.

vance has the absolute worst case of "i am the smartest person in every room" syndrome i have ever seen.

the amount of contempt vance has for everyone he's talking to — such that he'll say obvious nonsense as if he's fooling you — is genuinely remarkable

Toward A Theory Of Kevin Roose | Defector “You can’t be a serious critic,” New York Times technology reporter Kevin Roose wrote on Tuesday, on Bluesky, about artificial intelligence, “if you’re in denial about how useful it is.” Narrowly, in ...

If you missed it yesterday, I wrote about a terrible idea I had that makes terrible sense of a certain terrible type of guy: defector.com/toward-a-the...

I don't need to hear another word from anyone defending the NYT ever again and I have to assume the talented reporters and writers employed there will understand.

This is Jenny McCarthy shit. Shameful and pathetic. Both sidesing scientists vs the stupidest people on earth. National Enquirer shit.