Mark Duggan

elon installs a new feature that publicly displays the country where your app was installed and operates from

people find out the most racist pro-US accounts are based in israel, india, bangladesh, etc

US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TWITTER BASED IN ISRAEL

elon pauses location feature

screen grab from video of the incident. Dude dressed up like Max Headroom wearing sunglass is laughing.

Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...

Jealous girlfriend meme with Donald Trump smiling at Zohran Mamdani and Stephen Miller looking jealous

In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...

... listen to Steve Wozniak.

Well that was fucking incredible. He cast a charm spell on the most odious man alive.

I sincerely hope this destroys them.

Skeleton lifting weights, edited caption with inserted headlines reads: Microsoft is a corporation that turns [Microsoft CEO claims 30% of its new code is written by AI] into [Microsoft finally admids almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken]

what an exhausting fucking year

New Mexico is the only state to have a “state smell”

A bunch of grade school kids said that roasting green chile should be our state smell so their teacher had them write our state Congress and in a shocking display they all came together, wrote the bill, and passed it in a matter of weeks

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

Doug Peacock, the real ‘George Hayduke,’ Looks Back on 50 Years of The Monkey Wrench Gang • The Revelator Now a famed grizzly conservationist, Peacock served as Edward Abbey’s inspiration for the novel’s most pivotal, piercing character.

“A 50th anniversary of The Monkey Wrench Gang couldn’t be timelier,” says Doug Peacock, who inspired the character of George Hayduke in the novel. “Our American wilderness...has never been in greater peril." https://therevelator.org/doug-peacock-monkey-wrench-gang/

Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

Panel 01: A ball drawn on a whiteboard. The ball has two eyes on its "sides", the sides not facing you. A wooden teaching pointer is pointed at it, and someone is speaking from off-panel, saying "prey animals have eyes on the SIDES of their head, like this." Panel 02: The teaching point now points to another part of the whiteboard, where a ball has two eyes on its front. The off-panel speaker says "predator animals have eyes on the FRONT, like THIS." Panel 03: We zoom out and reveal the speaker to be Shen, who is holding the teaching pointer and asking the class ahead of him, "any questions?" Panel 04: It's 3 characters at tables in a classroom: A sheep with side eyes on one side, a tiger with front eyes on the other, and a shark raising his fin in the middle.

Any news distortion claim against an NPR/PBS station would require the FCC to prove that the station's management was directly involved in knowingly distorting the news. Here, if there was any distortion, it was done by the BBC, not US stations. Carrying, or quoting from, a BBC program isn't enough

"No, Flavor, I said pose with a massive *clock*."

👀

If you are able to look at this and still not see the Gestapo. You have not only failed at the Christian you say you are.
You have failed at being a human.
You are the person who turned away when children were being murdered in gas chambers.
It didn’t start in gas chambers.

Fair

Yet many NPR member stations air the Times’ loathsome program The Daily, wherein NYT hacks interview other NYT hacks.

And the station donors just eat that corporate journalism shit up.

In a world full of chaos, I think we can all at least take some solace in the fact that Dolly Parton exists.

(En español abajo) Vertical Milky Way over the Anglo-Australian Telescope. Image obtained on 30th June 2016 at 22:04 AEST (14:04 UTC) using a CANON 5D Mark III with a 14mm f2.8 wide lens. Single 30 seconds exposure at 3200 ISO. Besides the conversion from RAW to JPEG, no further image process was applied. Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (AAO/MQU) La Vía Láctea vertical sobre el Telescopio Anglo-Australiano. Imagen obtenida el 30 de junio de 2016 a las 22:04 AEST (14:04 UTC) con una cámara CANON 5D Mark III y un objetivo de 14mm a f/2.8. 30 segundos de exposición a 3200ISO. No tiene ningún procesado, salvo la conversión de RAW a JPEG dada por el programa de CANON. Crédito: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (AAO/MQU)

Vertical Milky Way over the AAT / Vía Láctea vertical sobre el AAT - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/JeKHHQ

Racial Resentment Among White Americans by Birth Year and Demographics This figure presents the same four-panel layout (education, gender, geography, religion) but for White Americans from birth years 1940 to 2000. Education panel: A pronounced divide shows non-college Whites with substantially higher resentment across all cohorts, increasing sharply for older birth years. College-educated Whites rise more modestly but remain distinctly lower, especially among younger cohorts. Gender panel: Male and female trendlines rise together, with women slightly higher in mid-century cohorts. Younger cohorts of both genders start lower and climb with age. Geography panel: Regional lines separate clearly: the South is highest in resentment, followed by the Midwest. The West and Northeast show lower levels, with the Northeast consistently at the bottom. All regions slope upward toward older cohorts. Religion panel: Protestants show the highest resentment, peaking among mid-century cohorts. Catholics sit in the middle. Non-affiliated Whites show the lowest resentment, especially among younger respondents, with a small rise among mid-century generations. The figure notes CES 2024 data with GAM-smoothed trendlines.

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

Wendy Carlos - BOTD

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Exclusive | Paramount, Comcast, Netflix Prepare Bids for Warner as Deadline Approaches Warner Bros. Discovery is holding an auction process in the hopes of having it completed by the end of the year.

Paramount, Netflix, and Comcast are putting in bids for Warner Bros. Discovery.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was, in the long run, a very bad idea with disastrous consequences.

www.wsj.com/business/med...

We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.

Trump's name appears the most: more than 1,600 times.

couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...

Word. It’s fun to throw these terms around for a laugh but I’ve legit worked with people in private business, non-profits, and government orgs that love spouting them. Unironically. 🙄

And don’t get me started on “level up!”

Milky Way to the left and red glow to the right above mountains with just a little snow on them in a very starry sky. I didn't use a star tracker and this was a 30 second exposure so some star trailing is visible.

So when the aurora borealis is faint enough, you can capture its glow with the Milky Way 😍

Berthoud Pass, CO last night

a “Space Force”, if you will

YouTube video by Willie Wright - Topic Africa

Nightcap:

Willie Wright | Africa

Rare soul in a sort of Bill Withers vein, but singularly his own. This beautiful song is from Wright’s self-released 1977 lo-fi album Telling the Truth. The awesome Numero Group label rereleased it in 2011.

Wright passed away in 2020.