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Living with constant low-level worry of discovering some family member is talking to ChatGPT every day, or has decided they’re a sovereign citizen, or just lost their savings in a phishing scam.

"Perfected."

This is just fucking embarrassing. In just 2 years they have destroyed our once impeccable reputation & made us the official dickhead nation of the world. 🌍🤦‍♀️ #nzpol #OneTermGovernment

Opinion | Elon Musk Can’t Possibly Deserve His $1 Trillion Payday In the face of shareholders, corporate boards and even judges, Tesla’s chief executive shows what he can get away with.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

The excesses of America’s most powerful people “would end sooner if more Americans saw what Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk are doing: ushering in a new era of brazenness that will persist as long as people buy the hype and cheer the flexes,” William Cohan writes.

"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"

bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?

The book is honestly amazing. Now, I’m a massive fan of The Martian (both the book and the film) so the book was kinda set up for me. But even given that, I loved it. Possibly even more than The Martian.

To those thinking they give it all away in the trailer … no, no they do not :)

A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me

Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing The de facto Saudi ruler was branded a pariah in 2018 after the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Now, U.S.-Saudi relations are approaching a high point.

Just so we're clear: President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the killing of Washington Post opinion columnist Jamal Khashoggi, saying "things happen.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

List of stories set in a future now in the past - Wikipedia

Wikipedia's "List of stories set in a future now in the past" is quite possibly my favourite Wikipedia list. It's a list of science fiction where the setting was futuristic when they were created but now is not, and gives their predictions en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Back on track baby!

Another bill comes back from committee 3 months early, because national says "fuck democracy"

Can we have more pink grasshoppers and fewer yellow hornets please.

Rare pink grasshopper discovered during annual Mackenzie Basin survey The unusual colouring makes the species particularly stand out to predators.

Pink grasshopper alert www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Incredible serendipity today. We had a 2 hour meeting about piharau/lamprey. Half the group had never seen one in the flesh. One of the attendees had to leave early to do some recovery fishing on a local fish passage project. He joked he would let us know if he found piharau. One minute before...1/2

If this picture was of Obama, you know @FoxNews would do three weeks solid on why the flag was on the ground.

At least three weeks

Like all men but more so, he was a hunter. In a literal sense, he used not a bullet but a bird. It was not about a chase but about a puzzle of logic and skill that amounted to a test of his self-mastery. He was the mouse and the architect of his maze. The giver of his own pleasure and torment. He desired. He desired desiring. He desired being desired. He desired desire itself. I understood this just as I came to understand the range of his kinks and complexes and how they fit within what I thought I understood of his soul.

It needs to be emphasized that this paragraph is about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

I would take a bullet for you," the Politician said. He always said that. "Please don't say that," I said. I always said that. From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible. I did not like to think about it. About the armed man at his speech. Or the armed man who broke into his home. Or the armed men he paid to guard him from armed men who sought to harm him while the federal government denied his pleas for protection from the security agency whose modern protocols were carved by the same bullets that cut boughs from his family tree and cut the track of the American experiment.

they're calling it "some of the worst writing of the century"

Things like this will become increasingly common as billionaires increasingly treat low earth orbit like their personal playground and garbage dump

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I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides

Cannot stop thinking about how much this phenomenal piece says without saying it

This is some horrifying predatory shit.

Chris’s whole post is amazing, including this, from E.B. White:

They're 'killing machines', wiping out native species. So why is it so hard to fight back against feral cats? Feral: How millions of feral cats are creating a 'bloodbath' across our native heartland.

Incredible story by @kiwifarah.bsky.social on a man’s mission to control feral cats in Fiordland

“He knows his idea won’t eradicate feral cats completely but each cat removed is another hungry predator gone.”

www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/i...

They're 'killing machines', wiping out native species. So why is it so hard to fight back against feral cats? Feral: How millions of feral cats are creating a 'bloodbath' across our native heartland.

Feral: How millions of wild cats are creating a 'bloodbath' across our native heartland

Iran begins cloud seeding to induce rain during worst drought in decades Iran’s largest lake has largely dried out and people are resorting to praying for rain in some areas

Iran begins cloud seeding to induce rain during worst drought in decades

I find it fascinating that almost every person's home I visit now has an area set up to be camera-ready, whether through Zoom, a YouTube camera, or something else, to make your living space aesthetically pleasing for people who will never actually physically enter it.

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.

The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

normalize name changes for anyone tbh. even if you're not trans, you should be able to just choose a name you feel good about and not have it be a big deal