@brx0

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:

saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3

and a worker tier whose emails are like:

Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

large 20-foot tall concrete lined sewer tunnel. in the distance three people stand with head lamps on their hard hats, looking toward the camera as they stand in ankle-deep water.

if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.

It’s weird how Trump keeps helping out sexual predators of children

I learn a lot from fourth graders. The moon is a buffoon but Jupiter is stupider. 🔭

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

A nurse shark cruisin with a freewheelin remora #nurseshark #sharksofcoralcity #remora #sharksucker #cruisin #freewheelin #frenchangelfish #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity

Yutu-2 - Wikipedia

Isn't it extraordinary that the Yutu-2 rover is the only moving thing on the Moon's surface? Still going after seven years, on the far side. Would it make a psychological difference if we knew it was trundling along on the side facing us? #PlanetSci

Incredible- Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day."

The whole of the internet is now run on the things that would have not made it past your email junk filter 20 years ago.

guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

A day after reading it, this @theverge.com piece by @sarahjeong.bsky.social still echoes in my ears. I urge everyone to read it.

The endgame of the disinformation and media capture we've been enduring has arrived. Bad info needs to only influence a handful of judges to profoundly change the world.

I think my favorite thing about "every city reveals its inner character" era of ice protests is that people keep saying portland is weird or cute or nice or silly when one of the most common chants at the ice building is people looking up at feds on the roof and yelling "jump! jump! jump!" in unison

Political elites' apparent assumption that Trump winning another term meant Americans as a whole decided trans people and immigrants deserve concentration camps or worse is so fucking revealing

the funniest part of the whole race is that I actually think you have to work pretty hard, as an incumbent, to flop so badly that no one thinks about you at all for the entire day

the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit

The “Person who wants a political party to lose describes what that political party must do to win” genre of article is just incredibly insulting to everyone’s intelligence yet it will persist until the end of time

From the stories I've seen about Trump's usual odor, he could really use the bidet. If only he knew how to use it without falling in.

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

“I think they are a profoundly antisocial technology that should be rejected in every way possible,” said Gilliard. “Their very existence is toxic to the social fabric." It’s still up in the air whether Meta’s gamble on glasses will pay off. Beyond their horrifying privacy implications, wearable AI-powered devices like Bee and Friend so far have proven more obnoxious than useful, and it’s unclear whether people who buy them will even want to use them. But one thing many privacy experts agree on is that even if we can’t change the law, we can change peoples’ attitudes around consent. “One way to think about it is protecting your community and the people you care about,” said Gilliard. “When you’re wearing these glasses, when you use your video doorbell, when you record everyone’s conversations, you’re not just surveilling yourself. And there’s no consistent and foolproof way to guarantee that information won’t be used against people you care about — to hurt trans and queer people, or hurt immigrant communities. I wish people would think about it in those terms instead of ‘did my package get delivered.’”

call them whatever you like, the reality is 'smart glasses' are surveillance devices designed by tech companies to violate consent and rewrite social norms. social shaming is still a more effective a deterrent than the law. @hypervisible.blacksky.app

www.theverge.com/tech/807834/...

Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is shutting down causing major issues for libraries.

🔗 www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

what an incredible time to be alive

I love this.

If you live anywhere in the dark blue areas, you are closer to outer space (defined by the Kármán line) than you are to the nearest seashore. 🧪

Mexican WWII poster

Here is another absolutely spectacular Mexican WWII poster

Gary Larson's "Cow tools" Far Side panel, only the tools are not there and in their place is the text "ODI ET AMO. QUARE ID FACIAM FORTASSE REQUIRIS. NESCIO SED FIERI SENTIO ET EXCRUCIOR," which is Latin for "I hate and love. Why I do so, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it, and I am in torment." This is from Carmina LXXXV by Catullus.

I hate it and I love it

I hate that I've now learned a new thing our tech overlords have bestowed on incredibly dumb people to toss into the discourse but here's some funny tweets about it

My 8yo told me she had a dream that she went "taco treating," which is where you go door to door and people give you tacos

Very autumnal in Portland right now.

Wait, & you'll get a good view of the mountain, as the clouds clear.