Once I hit 40 most of my injuries came from sleeping or sitting

The robot didn't win, and it didn't break the record, because the marathon is a race for people. This was a publicity stunt, and an effective one, as it turns out. But it's like saying a guy on a motorbike won the Tour De France. No he didn't, because that is a bicycle race.

In the era of "we must exclude trans people from playing sport, for Fairness" it's actually quite sickening for various media outlets to be all "check out out, a ROBOT won a marathon!"

Headline which says: Allbirds shares soar 580% after pivot from shoes to AΙ.

*Taps microphone* "Well, I imagine if you have experience of working with a load of cobblers..."

Incredible sequel. Edge of my seat!

The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.

in "tech news that is both incredibly dumb and painfully on the nose," a major tech CEO wants to demonstrate that *he* is wholly replaceable

a female superb fairywren standing on top of a leaf

did I show you this wren

so tiny she can just hang out on a leaf

i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

You know what film actually got the future of technology right? Gremlins 2 with the hi tech building with unnecessary tech added to everything with obnoxious self satisfied voices that dont work and just cause issues

⚒️🧪 Got an @earthscope.org email saying that the #ArtemisII re-entry shockwave may be audible in coastal southern California between 17:00 and 17:15 PDT or so today!
If you're in this area, fill out a USGS felt report with details of what you do (or don't) hear! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

but above all...what's the point?

someone on a pre-settled status who has probably gone and forgotten about it all years ago costs nothing

figuring out every single person who did so costs a shitton of money

on a purely utilitarian basis this move is, to use a technical term, a load of balls

You missed out the word 'kerching' it should be;
OIL PRICE GOES LOWER, KERCHING
OIL PRICE GOES HIGHER, KERCHING.

i don’t think “relax, the most powerful person in the world is just a reckless liar” is in any way reassuring if i’m being quite honest

*guy cheering on nuclear war voice* why aren’t people having babies?

The road to hell is paved with think tank papers claiming that everyone involved is too sensible to do that obviously stupid thing

Sultana, Polanksi and co think Starmer is Blair

Badenoch and Farage think he is Corbyn

The country meanwhile are largely smarter than any of them so realise Starmer is capable of being a bit shit all by himself

Isn’t it weird how “AI literacy” being pushed on students isn’t about learning how it works, the cost of how it works, learning to spot disinformation, media and tech literacy. But instead is just “employers will like it if you get it to write your emails :)”

[Trump posts a fully nude selfie showing him smoking crack minutes before launching nuclear missiles at Iran]

NYT: In a bold statement aimed at the Iranian regime hardliners and at Democrats ahead of the midterms, the President this morning sent a clear message.....

maybe the time has come to just greenlight some new IPs ffs, it's a great story, people have also written other stories since 1954

The 80s were the dawn of time but the late 90s were basically yesterday

I am a citizen of Iceland and let me assure you that we are not terrified of the future because of “authoritarian gender ideology”.

What scares us is transphobes, ultra right wing ideologies, the manosphere, fascism, MAGA, oligarchs, techno fascists, ecological collapse and climate change.

Again, the allegation here has to be left unsaid because the moment you spell it out it makes no sense – to affect the result here the claim needs to be that Gorton and Denton was full of Muslim women who wanted to vote Reform, but were coerced by their husbands into voting Green instead.

Top stuff.

Really does seem like a huge story that people are struggling to tell well, or are simply disinclined to tell, since it would make things awkward at dinner parties and/or cause a kind of psychic shock as to what really goes on out there. Idk

If you buy a Harry Potter book, 20% of that money goes in royalties. any marginal money she makes seems to go on funding lawsuits. if you spent £10 on a book for your kid, you are making a £2 donation to hate groups who are winning. up to you, but I'd rather you didn't!

it's more direct than most of these debates. roald dahl was quite racist, but if you buy his books the money doesn't go towards promoting racism. a proportion of any money spent on Harry Potter stuff goes towards funding legal action to remove trans people from the UK.

Quite remarkable how the final dismantling of Lebanon in its current form is barely eliciting a shrug from American policymakers whether pro-Trump or anti

I've wondered about this too, and according to the News on the Web Corpus, it really is surging! I'd have to dig into the data a little more to see where the increase is coming from, but something is definitely going on here. www.english-corpora.org/now/?c=now&q...