Every day, I'm more and more convinced that Frank Herbert was some prescient wizard.

There use to be a time when vanity projects involved building monuments and parks. They've enshittified that as well.

Perfect

Only one in five Americans supported an attack on Iran.

But Trump did it anyways.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Been watching the prices of consumer RAM and SSDs skyrocket, taking along the prices of laptops with them. Then saw this tweet and remembered the bubble.

This should be a tenet of #enshittification. If there's a screen and an internet connection, some manufacturer will try to be cute and push ads under some idiotic scheme.

What in the EA Games is this

Don't know if i should be worried or laughing at the number of *adults* that don't know what Arabic numerals are...

It's a bit late but Andor was truly robbed of nominations and awards. Masterclass in world building, storytelling, acting, and so much more.

Happy Cloudflare down day to all those celebrating. The cherry on the cake being that downdetector was also down.

One Battle After Another had some incredible performances from Leo DiCaprio, Chase Infiniti, Benecio del Toro, and Sean Penn.

But, imo, it'll struggle to go toe to toe against Sinners for something like Best Picture.

Thought Masters: Wisdom Warriors

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

Absolutely no one asked for this nonsense.

After a couple of years on the streamings, listened to some lossless audio today (Sade) on wired headphones, and Jesus H Christ...

Finding out they don't have all the Blu-ray remasters of Sir David Attenborough's Life Collection.

condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some
prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.

Now that Apple has proven you can put most of a phone's computing into a camera bump, hopefully we can go back to regular sized phones with 3.5mm jacks and replaceable batteries.

I'm not one to preach since i still visit the online dumpster fire, but i think until it gets to a point like Facebook, where AI slop has completely taken over, rendering it unusable, people will still stick around.

Bit like the Forbes X under X lists?

Zohran Kwame Mamdani • @zohrankmamdani.osky.social Thank you New York City for making the #ZcavengerHunt a reality Zohran with a bag of Herr's Sour Cream chips

Eric Adams v @ericadamsfornyc • 1h I'm sure a scavenger hunt was fun for the people with nothing better to do. Ask our working families trying to do whatever they can to survive if they participated. Ask the people worried about making rent if they thought it was worth it. Mamdani is trying to turn our city into the Squid Games. a Squid Games girl model on a model of NYC (is this AI slop?)

Andrew Cuomo @andrewcuomo • Aug 23 Defund the police but great scavenger hunts 8.. Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz • Aug 23 This should be the main job of a mayor. Coming up with fun games and challenges for their constituents x.com/ZohranKMamdani... • 176 LI 119 © 536 1h1 134K Andrew Cuomo & @andrewcuomo •... No class free pizza for all seniors 1:52 PM • Aug 23, 2025 • 1371K Views

Truly hilarious to watch Mamdani breaking their brains in real time.

Interesting to see
"Demand for [declining commodity] has never been better" articles, by "think tanks" from said commodity's industry, on Sri Lankan papers.

Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet An age-gated internet comes with huge privacy risks.

Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet
(It’s not ready.)

www.theverge.com/analysis/715...

You've collectively donated almost $14,000 from this post in just under a week! A huge thank you to everyone who's sharing and donating. I promise you it makes a difference!

Genuinely amazed at how unusable some generic software (e.g. Windows) have become. Just resource hogging bloatware for no reason.

It is *bananas* that they would give vibe coding tools (and _Replit_, of all platforms 🤣) production deploy access! With no backups! We gave better backup tools to teenagers on Glitch remixing apps a decade ago.

MRW, as everything from a toaster to a fridge now requires an internet connection. We need right to repair, not AI enabled toast settings.