Love this shot of Saturn near the solstice. The rings are casting those shadows on the cloud tops.

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Long article is worth a read. This guy and all of his buddies are basically cartoon supervillains.

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? | The New Yorker share.google/YB6cyTu4VO9K...

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Two lines of three dimensional sans-serif letters colored in gradients of blue and purple reading ‘Maybe it will/Happen today’. Above the ‘y’ in’ today’ and with its bottom point nestled neatly into the fork of the letter it’s a similarly dimensional golden pentagram with little flares of golden light glinting off its vertices. The entire lockup is superimposed over a glittering rainbow as it all streaks together through a black void.

It’s a telling indicator of media desensitization that the US government’s ongoing program of murder on the high seas—which according to the perpetrators has killed fourteen (14) people this week— is no longer a subject for much serious or sustained news coverage.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

“The pope should be careful before talking theology” is just extraordinary stuff. Top-shelf. You write one book that gets turned into a Ron Howard movie and suddenly you’re nailing your manifesto to the cathedral doors.

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

Seem pretty clear by now that Eric Swalwell is a sexual predator. We shouldn’t have sexual predators in Congress.

We shouldn’t have sexual predators in the White House either.

Trump’s Humiliation in Orbán Defeat Stunner Is Only Just Beginning For Viktor Orbán’s epic loss in Hungary to have real meaning in America, Democrats and liberals need to proclaim themselves part of the global anti-authoritarian movement.

The massive Orban defeat should prompt Dems to align themselves more firmly with anti-fascist and pro-democracy forces abroad. There's a powerful link to be drawn between the celebrations in Budapest and the confrontations with ICE in Minneapolis. 1/

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We need to be as internationally mobilized as the reactionaries are

There is something to this.

This is one of the most efficient pieces of comedy writing I've ever read. Not a sentence is wasted. *chef's kiss*

Kaneda Kazuo- Cat on Peach Tree

this is incredible

how many times do you think vance has tripped and fallen down the stairs? you can picture it so easily can't you? has to be at least 25 times minimum

It’s time to examine the truth about what ails American voters that would lead them to elevate a manifestly unfit, racist & corrupt man to the presidency a 2nd time. Voters knew who he was & affirmatively chose hate. Unless & until we acknowledge the truth about who/what we are we’ll be here again.

can we get jd vance to go on a national tour promoting AI?

this is the way

Melania Trump Slams Baseless Reports Linking Her To Wrong Wealthy Pedophile

Melania Trump Slams Baseless Reports Linking Her To Wrong Wealthy Pedophile theonion.com/melania-trump-slams-base...

it's cheap pork fillets, heavily breaded and layered like scalloped potatoes and baked. it's not bad. but it's not chicken.

it's pork.

probably only polish folks from detroit will understand but CITY CHICKEN.

Ben Horne with a baguette. Twin Peaks S01E03 - Zen or the Skill to Catch a Killer.

Twin Peaks: Ben Horne with a baguette.

Boston Globe mock front page from April 9, 2016. Date says April 9, 2017, with giant headline “DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN” and “Markets sink as trade war looms.”

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

the need to dissolve the agency and round them all up and send them to guantanamo is much stronger tbh

Hi! I’m the inventor of bathroom stalls. The important thing for me is that everyone walking by a stall is able to make eye contact with the person sitting on the toilet inside. This is a critical design feature.

It's a toss-up right now as to which will fail to achieve more of its goals: the war with Iran or the ceasefire with Iran.

looks like i picked the wrong day to stop entering inter-dimensional portals