A brindled dog standing on a cushion on top of a table

Hey @darthbluesky.bsky.social you should see how majestic Roger is

A baby raccoon

A baby raccoon

Meanwhile
A timeline cleanse:

I went to change my snow tires to summer tires this afternoon...

And discovered I've got a raccoon nursery in my shed.

Kiln's goodest boy, Slip, has been named a 10 Under 10 Small Business Barktrepreneur! His shop is stocked; he's ready for launch on 4/23.

(his real dreams are an official @weratedogs.com score and for @darthbluesky.bsky.social to shop at his store)

https://www.doublefine.com/games/kiln#buynow

Some days I'm "people, not platforms," and some days I'm "potatoes, not people"

Palantir's Manifesto Is as Subtle as a MAGA Hat Palantir's 22-point manifesto is nonsense, writes Dave Karpf. But it at least it is short enough to be clarifying, he says.

My latest, for @techpolicypress.bsky.social

When I read Alex Karp’s book last year, I thought it should’ve been a tweet. Now Palantir has turned it into a tweet-length manifesto, which could’ve just been a picture of a MAGA hat.

Karp is… not a subtle thinker.
www.techpolicy.press/palantirs-ma...

Inside the DOGE Takeover of the Federal Government In early 2025, Americans first learned about the takeover of the federal government by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE had been operating under a veil of secrecy, with l...

BIG DAY FOR @wired.com, congrats to my genius colleagues www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-priz...

omfg

trump was very impressed with himself

mister jones on cleanup detail post-tornado (yes TORNADO)

good god

Oh God…

TACO CAT MERRIAM WEBSTER

'SWIMS' upside down is still 'SWIMS.'

'Buy Tesla' Stock, Howard Lutnick Tells Fox Viewers Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick used a TV appearance to recommend the public buy shares in Elon Musk's car company, saying: "It's unbelievable that this guy's stock is this cheap. It'll never be thi...

"Buy Tesla Stock," says Trump Commerce Secretary Lutnick, who owns Tesla stock and who owns Cantor Fitzgerald (now run by his son), which also owns Tesla stock. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

DOG OF WAR:

Zhuzha often attends trainings and conferences with her owner, a Ukrainian human rights defender. It’s windy outside, so she is wearing her stylish warm sweater.

Eight headlines tracing Tucker Carlson’s journey from hating Trump to loving Trump to calling him the antichrist to being attacked by Trump to apologizing for helping elect him

A story in eight ineptly collaged headlines

do not forget his blatant racism media matters!

Fox News host Jesse Watters' lewd, misogynistic, and perverted remarks Fox News prime-time host Jesse Watters has a long history of making misogynistic and sexually suggestive comments on air, and his past year on the network has been no different. Watters has claimed th...

Jesse Watters has a long history of making misogynistic and sexually suggestive comments on air. His past year on Fox has been no different.

This is glaringly obvious to everyone except for the faces of corporate media, who desperately want to walk a red carpet

I wrote about Trump’s collapsing coalition.

are typos part of gaming the algorithm us consumer product safety commission u can tell me I can keep a secret

"Your job is so fun," yes, but did you know I have to single handedly fight no fewer than sixth algorithms every day for the privilege of telling people to not set their beds on fire.

Screenshot of tweet: “Friends of Bear Cat Rescue @feederofcats [location pin emoji] SF Bay Area We still have all these very adoptable kittens waiting for homes somehow: Goomba, Toadette, Carol & Hubert, and Soda Can They're getting close to 1 year old and are getting passed up for younger kittens. They're all extremely sweet” [four photos of of 5 adorable older kittens] 4:38 PM • 4/18/26 from Earth • 121K Views

🚨 Haley/@feederofcats’s Friends of Bear Cat Rescue needs your help! Somehow these adorable kittens STILL haven’t been adopted! As they say “These babies deserve homes and families, not to be sitting in an enclosure for a year”. Please spread the word! In CA? Adopt! www.friendsofbearcatrescue.org!

It’s also worth remembering that many Americans love their jobs for reasons beyond the financial ones. A good job gives you an identity, status, community, and a reason to leave the house. In other words, it gives you dignity, and that’s not something that a public wealth fund can substitute for. UBI may still be worth doing; should vast numbers of Americans become unemployed due to AI, some form of it may well be necessary. In the meantime, though, I suspect AI companies will find that gauzy promises of future welfare payments will help them about as much as their gauzy promises of future cancer cures — which is to say, not much. What Americans actually want, it’s not clear that AI can give them. And the sooner that AI executives understand that, the better off we’ll all be.

I wrote about tech companies' move to promote universal basic income to calm the AI backlash and why it's probably not going to work www.platformer.news/ubi-ai-publi...

@bencollins.bsky.social ben did u buy the verge

When you weren’t supposed to go into the pond but you did and you brought your ball but it drifted into deeper water and you forgot about how much you hate swimming and NO ONE WILL HELP YOU.

This was such a fun interview to do and it’s the first time anyone has asked me about how California influenced me as a scientist

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This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright Malus, which is a piece of satire but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell software without crediting the original developers.

Malus, which is a piece of satire but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell software without crediting the original developers.

CDC pauses testing for rabies and other serious infectious diseases Disease tracking is also temporarily halted for mpox and other common viruses, such as Epstein-Barr and varicella zoster.

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...