Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.

Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.

Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

Peter Diamandis tweets: "800,000 layoffs in 2025. 10,000 in September alone tied to AI. Jobs are disappearing fast. But here’s the truth no one wants to say: It’s the start of a new gold rush... for those who learn how to build with the machines, not fight them." Elon Musk replies: "Working will be optional in the future. There will be universal high income."

man who tried to slash social security spending promises communism is coming if you just ignore the enormous job losses this year due to the technology he's developing for private profit

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu." Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

When you hear about Big Tech companies lobbying the federal government to stifle AI regulation in the states, this is one reason why.

Stephen Miller just said the quiet part out loud claiming that Trump has plenary authority when it comes to deploying troops. (Plenary means full authority.) After making the statement, he froze completely, like a deer in headlights. The video is worth watching.

Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall

Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall

Susceptible to marketing, I bought an $80 tempur pedic “ergonomic” pillow and I’ll be damned if it hasn’t solved my neck pain and made me sleep in more reasonable positions

It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about which issues should receive attention, knowing that o...

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:

I know others have said it, but I can't underscore enough that this was a high profile member of a cabal of christian nationalists who make shitloads of money as stochastic terrorist influencers.

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus OREM, UT—As law enforcement officials search for a person of interest in the assassination of 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, witnesses on the scene at Utah Valley University ad...

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As a podcaster I think it’s important that the entire country ignore all of the offensive things I’ve ever said and senators tell people how important I was when I eventually get killed. Podcasting is the third most important job. It goes:
3. Podcasters
2. Our beautiful boys in blue
1. Troop

must sometimes be incredibly weird to live in the world you spent your life advocating for

Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless SACRAMENTO, CA—Promising his podcast listeners an engaging and enlightening conversation, California Gov. Gavin Newsom reportedly sat down Tuesday with a serial killer who targets the homeless populat...

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Is it antisemitic to be against this

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

You have no obligation to defend or explain the behavior of random street protesters. We have a lawless government that is flagrantly violating its legal, moral, even philosophical obligations to us. Everything else is secondary

Eastern time zone the worst by far. Strongest concentration of evil. Some people get mad and try to argue with this fact, which is called having an "eastern time zone moment"

The answer is to not treat the houseless as if they are cattle to be herded, and to instead treat them as human beings worthy of dignity and respect. Really simple. Take the money the obscenely wealthy have stolen from us and give people homes.

Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor.

He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down.

The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him.

This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies

If this person sat next to you on a bus or train and started ranting about Bruce Springsteen in this way, you would get up and move to a different seat.

In the United States, we have him the nuclear codes.

Pedro Pascal reshares video which says the U.S. has become a police state
A state where there is no higher authority

Your Trump supporting friends and family support this. Your trump supporting friends and family are literal Nazis. Treat them accordingly. Make them experience consequences for their unbridled hate.

me watching a movie: why doesnt anyone notice that the vizier is palpably evil

me watching the news: oh right

Judge Sessions is right. Neither Rumeysa Ozturk or anyone else in America should be in jail for authoring an op-ed critical of Israel, or on any subject.

Trump and colleagues should read the Constitution and, especially, the First Amendment.

Ozturk must be released immediately.