Tim Peter

So let’s think about this.

A private company refused - on principle - to yield to the government’s demands.

The government then cancelled its contracts with the company and has set about destroying it

the current position of the US government is that NVIDIA should be allowed to sell chips directly to China but banned from using Claude, because the latter is a larger national security risk. that is the level of absolute insanity coming out of the White House & Pentagon nowadays

As a native New Jerseyan, I grew up with a different definition of a sloppy joe. These are good too, obvi. But I’ll always go for the Jersey kind first

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Don’t skip the faq’s

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Also, some of Amazon’s investment is contingent on IPO and such. This feels like it is as much about playing the odds as investing in a potential winner

This is performative hateful cruelty for the sake of cruelty. What is wrong with people that they feel the need to attack people just for being.

No I'm not asking for an answer. It's a rhetorical question. I'm just venting at how disgusting this is.

Monstrous. Simply monstrous

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

This is bigotry, pure and simple.

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Technically, they are the core four

Buffy
Giles
Willow
Xander

Unsolicited writing advce, no. 25677:
In times of doubt, remember this:
Word count isn't everything. It's better to write 100 useful words than 10,000 useless ones.

In this 2024 interview, Jack Hughes, who just scored the game-winning goal for the US Olympic hockey team, explains why it was important for him to embrace Pride Night when many other NHL players refused to do so.

Taylor ham. This is a hill I will die on. Possibly literally

Beat me to it. The album is fire. But “Into Temptation” is an extraordinary song even by that standard

I’ve (generally) never been able to get into the wizard subseries. And I love Death as a character. So, clearly, this one’s a bad take.

Was walking by Central Park and saw that Cooper has some pretty awesome stuff up for display.

Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.

#ShareGoodNewsToo

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm going to cherish every single baseball game this season as if it'll be the last. Because it might be.

If the players are overpaid, why do you have 2 billion dollars in liquid reserve capital

This is how you live a life

Say what you want about Washington, and there is much to say. But he didn't want to be a monarch or dictator. He wanted to live under a constitution that alternated leadership and upheld the rule of law. And for that, we can honor him today.

I would kill for a plain ol’, regular, dumb-ass TV. Kill. Just let me stream video to a screen and leave me alone.

(I clearly have feelings about this)

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."

-- Mark Twain

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.

We noticed.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

A trio of Robert Tinney illustrated magazine covers: Floppy Disk, Software Piracy, Smalltalk Balloon

I wrote a tribute for BYTE Magazine's amazing cover artist, Robert Tinney, who died Feb 1st

Tinney painted 80 vivid and surreal covers illustrating various concepts in early personal computing from 1978-1990, usually airbrushed with gouache. May he RIP ❤️

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

Would you give Google your government ID information to the Results about you feature? Good question @glenngabe.bsky.social www.seroundtable.com/google-resul...

#google

YouTube video by Amazon Alexa Chris Hemsworth thinks Alexa+ is scary good | Big Game Commercial

Bizarre dystopian Superbowl commercial where AIexa+ tries to kill Chris Hemsworth many different ways, then offers him a massage. And this is to try to convince folks that AI is good? I thought it was a promo for a Black Mirror episode. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha92...