Thinking of using a chatbot for medical advice? Read this first. wapo.st/3QCvUFL
"Five AIs, 250 questions and a total score of just over 50% correct responses."
☝️ More on our new study (w terrific @nbtiller.bsky.social et al.)
Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online
On April 19, 2026, BTS climbed from #33 to #32 on the “Best-Selling Artists of All Time” chart by surpassing Barbara Streisand.
This achievement highlights their sustained commercial success and expanding global impact in the music industry.
#BTS #방탄소년단 #BTS_ARIRANG #DS_BTS #musicsky
Cartoonist: Daniel Medina
EU ‘right to repair’ law
The EU will soon require smartphone manufacturers to let users replace their batteries.
The tough new rules - endorsed by the European Parliament this week - could save millions of phones from landfill.
www.euronews.com/2023/06/22/n...
"Low-income households will get [free] plug-in solar panels to cut their energy bills, the Government has announced."
This is how you do a just transition.
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More and more I am seeing "I would never use it for anything creative but I generative AI seems fine for coding" and I wonder if people realize that coding is also a creative field and the generated code is also coming from scraped and plagiarized human code, please don't give coding a special pass
Oh, hey, how cool is this: When the Moon Hits Your Eye is the winner of the inaugural Astra Book Award in the category of Best Science Fiction Novel! Congratulations to all the other winners as well!
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I really enjoyed these interviews. I'm actually kinda sad that there won't be any more for now
🔗 youtu.be/1H4YdNmxYSk
#Jungkook
the penne opticon
Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
Absolutely incredible.
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.
Watch with sound on.
How to train your brain to see possibility instead of doom www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
Uncertainty also fuels spread of bunk!
"In a rapidly changing world, the ability to tolerate uncertainty may be one of our most important cognitive skills. It protects against both paralysis & delusion."
I'm behind in content 😵 Gonna have to watch Jimin's interview first before I can watch Tae's
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLEB...
#Jimin
A decisive step for Europe’s digital future. The European Commission has awarded a €180 million, 6-year contract to European cloud providers, strengthening our capacity to manage sensitive data under EU rules. 1/2
I loved Layo(v)er and I also loved that we got such a wide variety of styles and genres with each of their solo projects. It'd be interesting to see if he really does go more in a pop direction for his next solo project
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0iP...
#Taehyung #V
Charlize Theron on the Night Her Mother Killed Her Father in Self-Defense
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated story. These things are prevalent in a lot of homes. Women really get a very, very unfair shake, even in this country.
Nobody takes it seriously.
Not sure how Winnipeg made it on that list. Winnipeg is a hellscape by comparison. We have a scattering of cultural or architectural gems, separated less by distance than infrastructure design fighting connectivity at all costs. Look how long so many fought to prevent re-opening Portage and Main.
"Only US Votes Against Women’s Rights Document at UN Commission" healthpolicy-watch.news/us-isolated-...
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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260419 Rolling stone Solo May 2026 Cover: BTS V version!
Taehyung's individual photos and interview!
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
#V
THIS! This is the perfect context for the bike lane haters. as a video it is more perfect. mucho perfecto mucho as it is a BMW that is inconvenienced. @obcycler.bsky.social @indypedcrisis.info @garbageindy.bsky.social @indyvisionzero.info @safestreetsindy.org
If the same issue comes up in Tech Support more than a handful of times, you have a design, not a support, issue. Often, devs don't fix the core problem, so the support people come up with a book of workarounds. That book is a design document. It's your job as a dev to make that book unnecessary.
In the UK, legislation to pardon women convicted of illegal abortions has passed its final parliamentary hurdle and is expected to receive royal assent within weeks. The legislation will also put an end to prosecutions of women who terminate their own pregnancies.
Always pack more and taught sons to do it too. They thought it was a Mom thing. Then we went to New Orleans. August humidity had them asking to return to hotel part way through day to change underwear. They call NOLA a "2-pair city" and quickly learned packing extra gotch is a travel no-brainer.
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
-- Albert Einstein, who died #OTD 1955
The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room.
The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction.
The Health guy collects raccoon dicks.
It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.
