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An icon returns. The 2002 spirit reborn.​

Introducing our livery for the 2025 United States Grand Prix. Celebrating our heritage and driving forward together 🔥🇺🇸

Email is the last revolutionary technology

Tinnitus fits well to the sound of Mayhem and what I'm saying is if it's in Mayhem, I wouldn't know what to do with myself

First they came for the communists and the liberals said "fuck yeah, finally, lemme give you a hand with that'

US liberals talk about protecting democracy a lot but they seem to revile it in practice. the idea that a politician should ever be required to do anything to win votes, rather than simply represent an amorphously 'good' or 'bad' team, is treated as some sick heresy

Listening to the Frozen soundtrack again and ughhh it's so good

Don’t know why people needed DeepSeek to see the superiority of Chinese AI when pre–US ban TikTok’s recommendation system was already far better than what Instagram or YouTube Shorts could offer

Sculpture by the name of “The Resurrection”. In front is pope Francis, a swiss guard, and some church officials

This one!!

I’ve always maintained that I don’t really see myself owning art bc I believe that art is best placed in the public domain, but one exception i have is the Jesus statue in the Vatican that conservative Americans are scared of

Censorship by some other name Free speech absolutists will celebrate Facebook’s changes to their content policy as a step towards a fictional unbiased future

noahdominic.com/blog/2025-01...

Internal memo Homeland Security employees received today instructing them to send evidence of hidden DEI programs to “DEIAtruth@opm.gov”

I've been feeling this way for years now, and I can't quite explain why. Now, I draft almost anything (blog posts, letters to editors, etc) on paper.

Really don't like that the 'Phone is for childish things like TikTok and laptop is for adult stuff like buying plane tickets' is slowly becoming irrelevant bc companies are prioritising mobile UX now. Almost every web app from every Filipino company I've used have been abysmal.

Photo of a small crab from NOAA’s social media. It’s covered in spikes

Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found

The ChatGPT UI with an empty prompt and an empty reply. In the bottom, there is a module saying 'Is this conversation helpful so far?' with buttons that symbolically indicate yes, no, and close.

Y'all ever just hang out with chatgpt and not say anything?

Homomorphic Encryption in iOS 18 A mathematical miracle enables Apple's servers to process your photos while never knowing anything about them

This is a great post that gave me the info I needed on how Apple handles my data for 'Enhanced Visual Search' in Photos app (they still should have not opted me in by default)

Looks can be this evening

What’s with the seemingly cyclical search stat for XHS?

A screenshot of a list of words from "Winnie the Pooh", with the words getting smaller as you go. The list of word are: "FATHER, WOMAN, MOTHER, SINCE, POWER, WHITE, DEATH, PASSED, LEAVE, NATURE, CHILD, WOMEN, REPLIED, EARTH, THOUSAND, SPIRIT, TRUTH, HUMAN, RETURNED, AROUND, SENSE, FOLLOWED, BEAUTIFUL, CHARACTER, COMMON, ACCOUNT, FORCE, BROTHER, EARLY, APPEARED, CONTINUED, MILES, BLOOD, BEYOND, POSITION, ENTERED, STAND, DAUGHTER, KNOWLEDGE, HUSBAND, LIVING, PEACE, EFFECT, NATURAL, HISTORY, DESIRE, MASTER, CERTAINLY, ATTENTION, GOVERNMENT, CHURCH, STRENGTH, LENGTH, GREATER, OPINION, FAITH, BEAUTY, REMAINED, LATTER, OBJECT, GENTLEMAN, SMILE, PERSONS, CHIEF, ACCORDING, ACTION, PRESENCE, HEAVY, IMMEDIATELY, THOUGHTS, SINGLE, ENEMY, EXCLAIMED, FILLED, INFLUENCE, SECRET, APPEARANCE, TEARS, HORSES, STRUCK, PERIOD, SISTER, BATTLE, RAISED, OCCASION, MARRIED, FORMER, YOUTH, LEARNED, MERELY, SYSTEM, DINNER, EXPRESSION, FIGURE, COURT, SHOWED, ANCIENT, RESPECT, WORTH, LEAVING"

You know about "word clouds", right?

they show the most common words in a text

This is the *inverse*

it shows the most common English words that *don't* appear in "Pride and Prejudice"

Martin Wattenberg analyzed 17 novels this way

Item #2 in my latest "Linkfest": buttondown.com/clivethompso...

Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed Pixelfed said it is "seeing unprecedented levels of traffic."

Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized, open source Instagram competitor that has had skyrocketing signups in recent days: www.404media.co/meta-is-bloc...

This is so nitpicky but the only reason I still haven't switched to StoryGraph is because they use the Poppins typeface and I think geometric typefaces are so ugly

imo this sounds a lot like death, what’s supposed to be a Person shows more signs of being a Thing. so why is death sad, not funny? ugh i wanna know more but i’m already reading something else lmao

my thoughts are incomplete yet but Henri Bergson proposed that things are funny due to the incongruity of the living and the mechanical, eg: a person slipping on a banana peel is reduced to a mechanical object, following not his own will (a sign of living) but the laws of physics.

In case you're curious, this is the internal Meta "fuck DEI" announcement received by Meta employees

We're three years away from the election, and there's still no tangible opposition wtf I thought we learnt our lesson? If you say Sara, you are not a serious person.

F it, here's the email addresses of senior Meta execs. If they want to greenlight pogroms against us, they should at least hear from us.

Lindsay Elin, VP Public policy lindsaye@meta.com

Roy Austin, VP Civil Rights royaustin@meta.com

Cynthia Deitle, General Counsel cmdeitle@meta.com

We'll have to use Tumblr

Seems like Bluesky is the site upon which everyone who wants out on the MAGAfication of the internet are converging. Would be a tragedy if Bluesky also MAGAfied