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cloudflare down? in this economy?

A LinkedIn ad showing Jensen Huang shaking hands with some vague fashion executive: L'OREAL 6,204,444 followers Promoted We're thrilled to announce a collaboration with NVIDIA to supercharge beauty with next-gen Al. WELCOME TO NVIDIA L'ORÉAL GROUPE

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.

"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.

How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.

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A lifted smart fortwo in dark camo paint, with big black wheels and knobby tires and a roof rack

nothing but respect to the urban assault smart car

"WEBSITE FOR 38 YEAR OLDS" in the style of Zohran Mamdani's campaign logo

bluesky branding refresh unveiled

my ideal response to AI and crypto is a lot closer to an air strike than a bailout

a bright and colourful map of Wales

A mythical map of Wales in Tales from the Mabinogion by Margaret Jones, 1980

Hello kids. Great costumes. You can have boring regular candy or, in exchange for a small fee, you can invest in something I'm calling Candy Premium, an AI-enabled solution that

Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets. —Dr. Benway, in Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

Do not groan and moan when I describe the cat as "sumptious". It was not I who made it like that.

The most misused word in the English language is "me". Everyone uses it to refer to themselves, but actually, it refers to me.

Snickers bar and a metal whistle

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

Aldi unveils jacket potato jacket complete with silver foil poncho Supermarket chain Aldi has teamed up with London fashion brand Agro Studio to create a puffer coat that resembles a giant baked potato.

The Jacket Potato Jacket. “Supermarket chain Aldi has teamed up with London fashion brand Agro Studio to create a puffer coat that resembles a giant baked potato.” [dezeen.com]

As a fan of burning all the money in the world, I think its really funny the US just set $20 billion on fire

dont understand all the hype around The Brothers Karamazov. there's no progression system at all. who am i supposed to identify with if none of the characters is improving their stats and acquiring better equipment

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’ Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

imagine you and all your buddies die in a storm and everyone is like wow The Perfect Storm

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

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JK Rowling says "ha ha.. h-heh. I won! I won!" She sits alone in the dark, bathed in the late of her computer screen. We pull back to see her in a large dark empty room. She continues "I won." Seeing the full scope of her cavernous workplace, she appears small and alone. She says, once again, "I won..."

This is how I imagine JK Rowling when she posts.

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure. "In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation." Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at

i have joked that neoreactionaries just watched too much anime, but goodness fucking me

“One cannot account for [fascism]…without accounting for fascism’s intrinsic ridiculousness. This is what any serious analysis of its contemporary forms should consider….there is no reason not to laugh while analyzing fascist tendencies in our contemporary societies”
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It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

How delightful

lets all stay dignified and remember that jordan was doing (canadian) politics the right way

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Jane Goodall is survived by one son. Paternity testing has revealed he shares 98% of his DNA with a chimpanzee.