if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

"we saved money by not doing customer service any more"...

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

> I can’t just type in a search term without the search bar *guessing at* what I meant to search for and replacing what I actually typed

this is also just as bad on desktop Chrome 😞

Just in case you are curious - and my God you should be - about the dude Wes Streeting and others are handing loads of public data contracts to. 👇

I just don't understand the point of Instagram "stories" and the interface is baffling and stupid

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

@unikraft.com I'm not seeing a separate price for "volumes" here unikraft.com/pricing

does it come under one of the other headings?

Are there going to be any payments, or it's just a way to stream your music out for free (which I understand many artists would be perfectly happy with) ?

I'm ecstatic!

AFAICT Amazon Q is completely useless

make YOUR difference!

Is specific to Apollo for Kotlin? www.apollographql.com/docs/kotlin/...

Go

the lack of niceties feels like it was made by someone who hates programmers

Google search result for “how long does it take to get a passport” with an AI overview

Searching “how fucking long does it take to get a fucking passport” on Google

Search results without AI overview

Someone on the GMTK Discord shared a great hack: Google doesn’t show AI summaries if your query contains swear words.

How is he still alive?

the pelican on a bike is much more arty than usual...!

anyone else get emoji anxiety...?

so many times all the options just seem either psychotic or flirty

when I really just want a slight wry amusement or something

this meme was better when it had a non AI slop picture as the illustration

Palantir Is Going on Defense Palantir threatened to call police on a WIRED reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm's work with the Trump administration.

So this week, Palantir told me I was banned from its booth at a tech conference (didn’t give a reason) & threatened to call the cops if I came back

In recent days, Palantir has been increasingly defensive toward multiple journalists and perceived critics:
www.wired.com/story/palant...

The Era Of The Business Idiot Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch. Last week, Bloomberg profiled ...

www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
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I don't mind if words aren't in the dictionary as long as there's either:

a) very clear rules about which words are/aren't
b) some way to preview whether a word exists before you commit to spending some power-up resource (glass tile, gold tile etc)
...it'd be nice to have an undo on the glass tile

asked ChatGPT for help writing a new promo bio for my band...

I'm getting the uncanny (and plausible) feeling that it has seen my current bio already, there's bits I didn't prompt it with that seem rather familiar

end result is not bad TBH... just have to replace all the em dashes...!

Steam is so clunky, it baffles me that it seems to be the de facto way to run games 🤔

I saw that warning too but it downloaded and played just fine (I'm on macOS 15.4.1 on an M1)

Important polling evidence. Confirms previous census-based analysis that deprivation is a clearer driver of social distrust than is diversity. In fact, diverse areas have *higher* feelings of social cohesion and that people get along locally (once controlling for deprivation)

how have policy makers and regulators allowed a systematic, large scale shift towards less safe car designs? is there an analogue in another field of day to day mass public safety?

"The decline of British Steel didn’t happen overnight."

Our @elliemclaughlin.bsky.social argues in Edie today that a National Wealth Fund with real power could prevent the collapse of more vital industries by providing public investment *with* strings attached.

www.edie.net/british...

Yeah... I've always thought the UK gets too much sun...