Carl Lucas

It’s been a year and I use them but I have absolutely no idea what a passkey is. Half the time login fails with them and I have to do something else that works (like a password). I refuse to understand more. I’m tired of computers and don’t care. This is what it’s like for every non-nerd, isn’t it?

Just say hi to me next time

It’s like photos of corn on plastic in an inflatable corn maze on grass. The inflatable parts are yellow and blue. It looks like an AI hall of mirrors but it’s IRL.

New uncanny valley unlocked: inflatable corn maze for urban fall fests.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

TERFs love to tell a story where they made a completely normal conversation weird and then be like "Can you believe how weird and brainwashed everyone else is?"

It’s pronounced cyclist.

From the NYT newsletter: • "Alien: Earth," now in its first season, continues the half-century-old "Alien" franchise. But the true horrors aren't ravenous xenomorphs anymore; they're tech companies.

When you’re the paper of record and have definitely understood the franchise up until this point

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as i've long suspected, blue states are also full of people who hate trans people and hate trans kids ...

The Serenade, 1914 by Brynolf Wennerberg

Screencap of Britta in an episode of Community with the caption modified to read "I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at canceling a TV show"

Media people rn calling Colbert's cancellation--and not the concentration camps--the canary in the fascist coal mine

I've never understood the idea that you have to be a certain body shape to be stylish because I've admired so many big men with tremendous style.

It all goes back to some tangled ancient history: When Cuomo was running for governor in 2010, he pledged to end “hyper-partisan” redistricting. Two years later he used the census-mandated redrawing of district lines as a chit in state budget negotiations. Cuomo got a new pension tier that lowered payments for some unionized state employees; in exchange, incumbent state legislators got the ability to create districts that would favor their reelection. The drawing of new congressional districts was punted 10 years down the road and placed in the hands of an unwieldy, supposedly “independent” commission. This year, when New York Republicans stalled the commission’s work, they essentially pushed redistricting into the state’s courts.

Cuomo made strenuous efforts to steer the state down the ideological middle, which he claimed was a necessity early on—when Republicans controlled a majority of the state senate—but which also enhanced his own power. One byproduct was Cuomo’s nominating of the four relatively conservative judges, including one Republican, who in April voted to tear up the proposed congressional redistricting maps. “What Democrats did to our majority on the highest court would never happen in a Republican-controlled state,” Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney says, which is as close as he will get to blaming Cuomo. “That court made a mess of this, and it put the project in the hands of a Republican in Steuben County. And we got a crappy result.”

A big reason Dems don't control the House right now—and this murderous spending bill is possible—is Andrew Cuomo, who fucked New York's congressional redistricting as governor and helped lose us seats in Congress.

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Picture of dozens of the least flavorful cheeses ranked by depression stage

Wirecutter staff going through some shit 😞

Lenacapavir is already sold as a treatment for H.I.V. infections that are resistant to other medications, at roughly $42,000 per patient per year. (Few individuals pay the full cost.) Lenacapavir taken to prevent H.I.V. infection, a regimen called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, will be sold at a list price of $28,218, according to Gilead.

Aids and HIV ‘HIV-ending’ drug could be made for just $25 per patient a year, say researchers As regulator prepares to approve lenacapavir in the US, campaigners are urging the manufacturer, Gilead, to make it ‘available and affordable for all who need it’

Gilead has announced that lenacapavir, the game-changing HIV prevention drug just approved by the FDA will cost $28,218 USD per person per year.

Researchers say a generic version could be made for just $25 per person a year.

Capitalism kills.

how the fuck is it possible to be this bad at drinking coffee

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

In final stretch of New York mayoral race, Cuomo targets Mamdani's inexperience The 67-year-old former governor has taken to criticizing his top opponent, a 33-year-old state legislator.

I’m hooting and hollering: “Zohran is proud not to have the experience of defunding the MTA, cutting Medicaid, empowering Republicans and resigning in disgrace after being credibly accused of serial sexual harassment,” Mamdani campaign spokesperson Andrew Epstein said about Cuomo’s comments.

of course if you combine that with all the Medicaid/SNAP/etc cuts then the net result is a huge decrease in income for the poor and a large increase for the rich paulkrugman.substack.com/p/attack-of-...

How public health has been upended in Trump’s first 100 days More than 20,000 jobs were eliminated, billions of dollars in scientific research has been threatened or paused, and a budget draft proposes a major restructuring of Health and Human Services.

Here’s a look at areas of public health and science that been affected by cuts and proposed changes to HHS in the past 100 days.

Trump Is Sending People To The Camps “More than a prison, El Salvador’s CECOT has many if not all...

TPM’s @hunterw.bsky.social makes a convincing case - citing experts - that we should be referring to CECOT as a “concentration camp,” “penal colony,” or “permanent prison camp.”

Based on its features (no due process, indefinite detention) he says: “President Trump is sending people to the camps.”

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

WHAT

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r/Millennials 1S-1996 u/amberazanu • 1d We Didn't Know We Were Saying Goodbye... Nostalgia Join There was a time when life was real. When we lived with our whole hearts, not through screens. A time when laughter wasn't typed out. It echoed in the streets, in living rooms, in the warmth of voices that weren't pixelated or sent through satellites. We didn't check if someone was online. We just went to them. Knocked on their doors. Called their house phones, nervously clearing our throats before asking, "Is X home?" And if they weren't, we didn't leave a message. We just tried again later. We didn't stay inside, hiding behind usernames and filters. The world was our playground. We ran, we climbed, we scraped our knees, and we didn't care. We had curfews, but we pushed them, begging for five more minutes before the streetlights came on. Those weren't just five extra minutes outside. They were five more minutes of belonging. Five more minutes of feeling alive. We sat together, not side by side with phones in hand, but really together. Legs tangled on the floor, controllers in hand, screaming at the TV during Mario Kart, swearing we'd never forgive the friend who threw the last red shell. But we always did. Because back then, losing didn't mean logging off. It meant one more round, one more chance to win, one more memory made. Music wasn't something we skipped through. It was sacred. We sat by the radio for hours, fingers hovering over the record button, trying to catch our favorite song without t

millennials please. please stop this. we were supposed to be better than this

i think this is right. the prevailing attitude is simpering cowardice

“I can’t believe this, but I really think Mel Gibson is going to be my downfall.”

what the right is offering young men is the subjugation of women in lieu of any material gains for men. that, like many components of fascism, feels very immediately rewarding to some people. it’s not something you can easily replicate on the left.