I move that the entire retail sector give these people % discounts calculated this way (ie, a percentage of the discounted price instead of the original one)

In my own way of calculating percentages, this is 100% bullshit

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

You got so many wonderful things to see and so many people to love ahead of you.

Go read this whole thread. But remember, Brutus is an honorable man

"You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."

No more quinoa! New Minnesota State Fair rules set the crop art community abuzz Minnesota State Fair crop artists react to new rules, including a future quinoa ban. With limits on entries and seed changes, expect a surge of quinoa-heavy art this year.

After, what, 17 years?, I think it's fair to call Minnesota my adopted home. I love some of this goofy stuff, like how this story got over 3 minutes on the radio this morning.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

You awake from the coma. They tell you it's been 30 years, but you don't believe them. After all, everyone watches a show on Thursday nights where Noah Wyle plays an emergency room doctor. So it can't have been that long.

a paper clip with a face on it is sitting on top of a piece of paper . Alt: a paper clip with a face on it is sitting on top of a piece of paper, wagging its eyebrows up and down

Why is this classic GIF of Clippy so flirty?

It's the two levels of stripes on the socks for me

The Next Innovation in Higher Education: Vibe-Teaching™ As the associate vice provost for the Office of Asynchronous Online Courses for Student-Centered High-Impact Learning (OAOCSCHIL, an office we crea...

"In lieu of learning outcomes, we now ask whether students have a warm sense of what learning might feel like and whether they can recall, with confidence, that they took 'chemistry.' If so, we mark that as 'exceeds expectations.'"

Although the lyric says that Tommy *whispers* "baby it's ok," Bon Jovi's choices of key and melody cause the line to be absolutely belted out at full volume. In this essay I will

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Sure, I guess that makes sense

Doesn't this inflatable collar and "front porch" contraption seem a bit overcomplicated? If folks can hop from the boat into the spacecraft, why can't folks hop from the spacecraft into a boat?

Screenshot of a correction from the Financial Times: "Researcher Brené Brown was misquoted in an interview published on April 6. She described herself as 'solidly in my fuck it era' rather than 'solidly in my fucking era'."

Dare to lead

The worst thing about AI is that we might not solve alignment problems in time, and it might destroy the world. The second-worst thing is that it made a bunch of people use "compute" as a noun.

"Marxmaxxing" was a good joke dammit

Our moon has watched us throughout our history. She must have been so excited last century, when we finally reached out to touch her. I wonder what she thinks of the short break we've taken since then? I wonder if she understands the caution now, before we nuzzle up to her again?

As I believe @bcdreyer.social said, a house style you can see from space

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

This story has a TNYWTF score of 9. (That's how many paragraphs it takes until The New Yorker's glaring house style briefly takes me out of what I'm reading. In this case it's "coördinating.") www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Thom Yorke | Live at Sydney Opera House YouTube video by Sydney Opera House

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKI-...

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:

- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal

Found out that some people I thought were friends prefer Dunkin's donuts over Krispy Kreme's

Donald Trump just posted a video of Somali people enjoying the Mall of America to the soundtrack of “Mad World” because he is a bigoted POS

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

An absolutely unhinged Truth Social post from Donald Trump: "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP"

Invoke the 25th Amendment, you bastards

Hot take: The hotel TV should boot up to the menu, instead of booting up to a screen that says, "Press MENU"

Shoutout to all the folks who waved their membership cards at me

This morning on 1A (on NPR) a panelist who should know some basic facts said that Kharg Island "blocks the strait of Hormuz." Maybe it does, in a strategic, negotiation sense... but I think the panelist just hasn't looked at a map.