AI-powered robot beats elite table tennis players In feat hailed as milestone in robotics, Sony AI’s Ace wins three out of five matches played under official rules

new plot twist for Marty Supreme 2

Remember, these are the guys trying to control university curriculum to eliminate wokeness...like math

AOC talking to RFK Jr. Her facial and hand gesture has the spiritual energy of that Italian hand gesture where you pinch your fingers and wave your hand (the "ma che vuo" gesture).

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

Writing is hard because it's so easy to say absolutely nothing at all

'A clear step change': European EV sales jump by over 50 per cent in March Over 224,000 battery EVs registered last month, as businesses and consumers respond to soaring oil prices

EVs won the war.

A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

An Interview with Rob Brezsny - Believer Magazine For more than forty-five years, Rob Brezsny has been the author of Free Will Astrology (formerly Real Astrology), a weekly horoscope column that has been syndicated in over 120 newspapers and is widel...

“I want it to advance their highest good, and if that means I have to change my ideas about a particular sign or my approach to life, that’s fine. My goal is to be of service.”

—astrologer @rob-brezsny.bsky.social, interviewed by Ginger Greene

www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...

“ I cannot speak too much about my cousin’s note or about the particular instructions and disclosures contained in the note. I can only insist that you please strongly consider not opening the box of Crayolas—“

Of course Trump is looting our tax contributions: the Trump family fortune is based on looting our tax $.

Trump owes his political career to mass theft of public $:

If his father hadn't stolen $413,000,000 by ripping off federal housing funds, plus tax evasion, there'd be no POTUS Trump.

A federal judge in Illinois today ruled that the Trump administration improperly coerced Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking apps in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is crazy. Just open-air larceny.

To bring to bear my favorite verse of the good book, Ezekiel 27:67: "Yeah, verily, he that wantonly mixeth his love of state violence with public and sanctimonious professions of faith shall be brought to the Temple Mount and thereby made to consume a full sackcloth of stale, unspiced foreskins.

Can confirm

Feel the excitement of Real Life with me in person this Saturday at the Music Box in Chicago!

It’s hard not to see Vance’s criticism of the Pope’s theological bona fides as just silly hubris.

But I also see it as a stress test of sorts — can they manipulate sentiment against a pontiff. Not for Trump’s interests. More likely for Thiel’s.

Devastating: Hampshire College is permanently closing following the Fall 2026 Semester. A beautiful institution & community that has done so much for so many. My child is a current Hampshire senior. Hampshire's approach to education is so unique, humane, & exciting—I've seen it first hand. Tragic

as me about the prestigious foundation who told me and my dean IN WRITING that "UIC does not meet our standards for an eligible faculty institution"

Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world?

Pretty weird to watch Orban lose and concede and say "see, democracy in the US is fine if that can happen" instead of "oh shit we're worse than Hungary"

he's ok

I legit cannot stop laughing, welcome to hell

Where is the Pope on affordable housing though?

the fuck is the literal Secretary of State and supposed national security advisor doing at a moment like this

Hungary’s prime minister is more important to Donald Trump than all of his voters put together, than all Americans, than America itself, and it’s not even close. I wrote an essay yesterday to explain why: snyder.substack.com/p/the-hungar...

“In times of crisis, preaching reasonable things is to feel like losing your mind.”
- José Ortega y Gasset

Reading Helen DeWitt on declining the Windham-Campbell and Judy Chicago on dropping her Google commission, you see the demands that institutions make on artists. It’s interesting that two women who felt these institutions went too far are revealing the process.

news.artnet.com/art-world/ju...

The Costs of Trump’s Iran-War Folly If this is “total and complete victory,” imagine what failure looks like.

President Donald Trump declared the ceasefire with Iran to be a “total and complete victory.” “If this was victory, I’d hate to see what failure looks like,” @sbg1.bsky.social writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YKqjnK

MAKE NO ONE CAN TAKE SELF PUBLISHING AWAY FROM YOU. NO ALGORITHMS OR OLIGARCHS CAN CENSOR YOU. NO GATEKEEPERS CAN TELL YOU WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY IS NOT IMPORTANT OR VALUABLE. NO GRANT FUNDING CAN BE WITHDRAWN FROM YOUR WORDS. NO INSTITUTION CAN BAR YOU FROM ENTERING. NO KNOWLEDGE IS UNAUTHORIZED. THAT IS WHY YOU MUST ZINES!

Love this public service announcement on a neighborhood bulletin board (looks like it got wet in the rain, that's why it's a bit blurry) "NO ONE CAN TAKE SELF PUBLISHING AWAY FROM YOU. NO ALGORITHMS OR OLIGARCHS CAN CENSOR YOU. NO GATEKEEPERS CAN TELL YOU WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY IS NOT IMPORTANT..."🌹🥀

Had a thug with kratom eyes from a gang called ICE check my ID so I could get on an airplane about four hours ago. I’m still mad hours later. This shouldn’t be a thing that happens. The agency needs to be dissolved the second power allows it. Even kratom eyes needs to hear the clank of a jail cell.

with chicago pope it's italian beefing