A festive orange teapot

This story reminds us that:
a) Not everything has been digitized
b) Not everything digitized is accessible to the public

Also: What's happening at NASA is part of a broader trend of library closures in government & industry. (Even university libraries are moving away from physical books & journals)

Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance

Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn

Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter

It's striking that progressives like Tim Walz and Zohran Mamdani evoke the middle American attitude that, "Yes, we can fix these social problems because we're Americans and it's the right thing to do!" While the "America first" right only emulates failed and failing nation-states elsewhere.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Trump’s problem is that so many Americans — including his MAGA base — believed that he’d expose a powerful global elite.

But every day it's becoming more and more clear that Trump is part of that global elite.

Expect him to lash out as the walls close in.

Almost a year into this presidency, Trump voters have gotten nothing except the Big Beautiful Bill, which was usual Republican politics of giving tax cuts to the rich and slashing social spending for the poor. Housing remains unaffordable, cost of living is rising, and manufacturing jobs fell.

We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones. What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?

This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.

Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.

Conceding the election at her watch party at Marathon Music Works in Nashville, Behn called the race "the beginning of something so powerful across Tennessee and across the South."

"The South is not silent, because the South has something to say."

Have been giddy with delight with the "May I Ask for One Final Thing" dub, esp. Reagan Murdock as the charmingly teasing Julius.

Ricco Fajardo's absolutely feral performance as Kotaro in Zombie Land Saga too. Both cases, incredible character just in the voices, even without looking at the screen.

Got immensely excited when I found out that my favorite local podcast has returned!

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zeus:

Not for any specific reason. Just in general. Great series. Love a focus on friendship. Love sarcasm. Love costumes. Love fights.

Currently being extremely normal* about Magical Girl Dandelion.

*going insane

I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

So, they're blaming immigrants for the deliberate housing crisis caused by crony capitalist private equity now? I did Nazi that coming 🙄

if he were smart he would just shut the fuck up at this point.

he is not though.

This is great news - no more confusion with the Azuki (the bad one).

I wish Omoi the very best going forward

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

This seems like a bad thing to have. I feel like the entirety of both parties should be anti-Hitler.

But a senior Republican just publicly admitted that’s not true.

That’s … really really bad.

this should be one of defining images of his second term, because its impossible to tell from looking at it whether he is too indifferent to care or too senile to notice

the entire second term is just going to be one long object lesson in why corporations used to want their customers to think of them as apolitical

Consumer Reports explainer for turning off AI

Oh so when the Kpop demon hunters sing about going up up up it’s a mega hit but when Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats sing about going up up up everyone is like what the fuck is that cat climbing onto a flying saucer what

Erin does great work on here, and this entire thread is well worth a read, not just for the information that contains, but because it'll make you feel better about what's going on in the country

tv show about a human-looking alien who crashes their ship into a mansion and gets hired as the butler, call it Uncanny Valet