Alice Roberts

is there a cloud provider that *doesn't* support fascists at this point?

Machine: "The current estimated wait time is.. ten.."
Me: "ah not so bad"
Machine: ".. hours."
Me: ...

I love this and I also hate this.

you have my axe

A helpful list of businesses to not patronize: www.publicsquare.com/marketplace (intended as an "anti-woke" yellow pages)

The Best (and Worst) Episodes of MST3K to Fuck To MST3K is most remembered as a background noise for tender, yet carnal, love making.

thehardtimes.net/blog/best-wo... in case you need a distraction, which you probably do

you're welcome! :)

Another day, another stream of people posting about Signal sucking and being “hackable” (if you go in and change the settings in the app to allow someone else access) and that if you use any phone in Russia it has automatically been hacked by the FSB. Exhausting. I give up trying to engage with it.

Pete Hegseth: OK, so at 3:30 hours, two F-18s will depart the USS Gerald R. Ford. At approximately 4:13 hours, they will strike three key Al-Qaeda training camps in the Sudanese desert with cluster munitions, to inflict as much damage as possible. Agreed?

Speaker: Sir, this is a Wendy's.

tfw teen vogue does a better job at being the fourth estate than the NYT.

Weird New Computer Runs AI on Captive Human Brain Cells Australian startup Cortical Labs has launched what it's calling the "world’s first code deployable biological computer."

I'm reasonably sure there's a Cory Doctorow novel about this. futurism.com/new-computer...

"Covering" in the most milquetoast, defanged, half-truthy way possible.

Count me as one of the WoT haters. That said I'm watching Freiren now, and it's... really good, but maybe not what you're looking for. (Also netflix.)

Type Word by Bcraft Type the right anwser, by the given clue.

In case you need a quick break, this is a cute game which takes 10-60 minutes to complete: bcraft128.itch.io/type-word (non-fluent english speakers will have trouble.)

Sorry, just saw this. Pantheon is on Netflix.

Pantheon

BrianKrebs (@briankrebs@infosec.exchange) Attached: 1 image I've been looking at the background of Branden Spikes, the senior member of DOGE who is director of IT over at X (his OG email is b@x.com). Prior to joining up with Musk, Spikes ra...

infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/... in yesterday's antinews

As someone who is not in that community, this makes me very sad and very angry. <3 to you and yours.

something something dark and full of terrors

There's a very busy subreddit for that. www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAt...

especially since bribery is legal now

Desenchantee is an all-time fave!

The SAVE Act Could Stop Millions of Women From Voting. Here’s What You Need to Know The bill would make it harder for women, people of color, young voters, and other marginalized groups to register to vote.

You know it's bad when Glamour is ringing alarm bells. www.glamour.com/story/save-a...

Screenshot of "Join the U.S. DOGE Service (USDS)" sign-in page.

Screenshot of the HTML of the selfsame page. 8 URLs with imagedelivery.net are highlighted in the HTML.

Via @zlz.bsky.social on X:
"The DOGE website appears to be developed and hosted by Outburst Data, run by current DOGE employee Kyle Schutt.

If you view the source of any page on the DOGE website, you'll see that the images are proxied through Cloudflare's ImageDelivery service.

Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City It’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against...

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/vot...

I need every cis person that follows me to read this and genuinely think about it for a while, and I need them to understand that this is the explicit goal of this administration.

If you’re trans, you know the stories like it already; spare yourself.

I hope I don't have to say this to anyone following me, but don't use the DeepSeek app. michael.bacarella.com/2025/02/07/s...

Google on putting constraints on militarized AI: "Don't! Be evil!"

Front page of the nyt

In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server.

Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding

ever