we all know I have no life, so:

Is it vodka? It's vodka, isn't it?

Wild to keep hearing anti-AI sentiment described as an "echo chamber" by people who pretend there's never been a coercive dogshit marketing campaign actively pissing people off about it for two years or any no-opt-out half-baked shovelware making everyone's PCs and phones worse

[looks at map] That looks like it completely cuts off one neighbourhood.

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy! Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user ha...

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Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
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I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

In all fairness the new owners *could* just be complete idiots.

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

AMOC collapse more likely than thought.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Who are you going to trust on theological issues, a man of the cloth for nearly 50 years with multiple ecclesiastical degrees, or a bad author who converted to Catholicism 6 years ago and has no moral principles beyond loyalty to power?

Not to be confused with the Amazon warehouse in Oregon where a worker died and the managers told people to keep working around the body.

Remember everyone, the warehouse where the worker died is in western Oregon, the datacentres belching pollution are in eastern Oregon. Totally different!

The day *before* the Kimberly-Clark warehouse fire. Which warehouse story will prompt more action, do you think? (this is rhetorical)

The part about Googlers designing K8S based on Borg is well-known. The part about Borg having all the monitoring, scaling, alerting, logging, and everything else built for them already isn't online, but ask any Googler or Xoogler (I'm one of them).

An LLM-generated image, posted to Trump's Truth Social account, of Trump as the messiah, laying hands on the sick as a bunch of white people look on adoringly. There are two eagles, three badly rendered jet planes, and five silhouetted figures that could be angels, fighter pilots, or in one case a butch Lady Liberty with wings.

"But it wasn't a chessboard; it was just one old man and his enablers carrying out his every wish.” - Jake Tapper, referring to Biden

Serious answer to your joking question: because the Google devs who designed Kubernetes had all of that provided for them already in Borg (which they based Kubernetes on) by other existing tools. It was background noise to them.

Don't worry, they sent two real estate developers and JD Vance, I'm sure the negotiations are going fine [holds hand up to ear] hold on I'm getting an update...oh...oh no...

I'm convinced there are a ton of politicians running for no other reason than "it's my turn", and they think it's unfair if they don't get their turn. See also Biden, Jeb!, Hillary.

Yes, and he's killing people and is a pedophile.

Welcome to Toronto?

"ha ha ha I bet they'll ban me if I post transphobic stuff, I am a serious commentator"

A screenshot from the Wikipedia page for Marilyn Gladu, describing how she supported a House of Commons petition in January 2026 to require floor-crossers to vacate their seat for a by-election, followed immediately by a description of how she crossed the floor herself in April 2026.

Lol, and indeed, lmao en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn...

Will Marilyn Gladu be speaking? Maybe talking about the benefits of hydroxychloroquine for Covid 19, or in support of using the military to break up pipeline protests?

"No one really expects President Trump to kill 93 million people"

Why not? What do you think would stop him?

Seriously, what do you think would stop him? Ethics? Reason? Compassion? He has none of those.

I'd buy "fear of consequences", maybe, but there've been no consequences so far.

"Do you want Poilievre to be PM???" is always a good standby.

Damn, you should tell your senator.

this feels like time for one of my periodic rants about how Judaism gets some stuff wrong - like all religions - but one of the things we are REALLY GOOD ON is the nature of forgiveness.

which is to say: first, unless they have come to you with sincere repentance, you don't have to forgive anyone!

I'll bet a shiny nickel that there's a first draft of Strauss' post which mentions Jews instead of Romans.

HORATIO: Look, my lord, it comes.

HAMLET’S DAD’S GHOST: (rockets past at inconceivable speed) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

He is Rizzo indeed!

Maybe the reason you get dog-piled is because you jump to conclusions without evidence like this, and because you seem to use the phrase "anti-bedtime leftists" without irony.