SantaCon NYC organizer charged with using charity money on personal 'slush fund' A Gothamist investigation found only a fraction of the organization’s proceeds were donated to registered nonprofits.

Like charging Al Capone for tax evasion gothamist.com/news/santaco...

A screenshot of a white-on-black terminal depicting a 19x19 go board in ascii graphics, with empty grid intersections as periods, and black and white as Os and #s

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

do anglosphere people understand that expedition 33 is a very right-wing game

Felt cute

US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups

US tech firms successfully lobbied the EU to keep data center emissions secret www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Ah, it's just like the good ol' days when Fat Cock Friday would annihilate the servers for hours at a stretch.

he likes swimmers that win

This shit is crazy

Yeah I went to the Knockdown Center Mamdani rally (was at Basement until closing Sunday morning)

Jacob Bruggeman has a neat new article out, "Phreaking Politics in Modern America," which covers telephone hacking, AT&T's status as an icon of American technology, and the New Left-to-libertarian pipeline in modern American political order

doi.org/10.1017/mah....

it's hard to be an actual small-d democrat these days. so many avowed liberals believe in a perfectly brainwashed public incapable of self government.

trump and bernie sanders are not the same. orban and syriza are not the same. if you use the same term to describe both, you are either an idiot or you view any kind of popular mobilization as necessarily sinister.

there's probably no term in contemporary political life that obscures and distorts quite like "populism."

“The average Brit is transphobic” factoid is just a statistical error, the average Brit does 0 transphobia per year. Transphobia Joann, who lives in a castle and posts over 10,000 times per day is an outlier adn[sic] should not have been counted”

Yeah the last one is equally unspicy

Happy Appomattox Day!!

Did you hear the story of the one man $1.8 billion business built by AI as portrayed in the @nytimes.com? Turns out basically every aspect of that story is bullshit and the story should be retracted.

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.

It's an otherwise good article but this disingenuously terse bio of Aaron Swartz (seriously it's the only mention of him in the whole piece) is heinous www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

One of Altman's batch mates in the first Y Combinator cohort was Aaron Swartz, a brilliant but troubled coder who died by suicide in 2013 and is now remembered in many tech circles as something of a sage. Not long before his death, Swartz expressed concerns about Altman to several friends. "You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted," he told one. "He is a sociopath. He would do anything." Multiple senior

"Alan Turing, a brilliant but troubled coder who died by suicide in 1954 and is now remembered in many tech circles as something of a sage"

Managed to get tickets to the Tony Leung Q&A film screening 🤩🤩

clout strife @_deadhand Tony Hawk walks up to a TSA agent before boarding his flight. He says to the agent "I've been really depressed recently and I'm not sure what to do about it." The Agent replies "I have just the thing. Tony Hawk, the famous skateboard champion is in town. You should go see him" 4:44 PM 31 Aug 19 Twitter for iPhone 3,977 Retweets 18.5K Likes

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Das Cum-Cum-Problem der Deutschen Bank www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...

the WGA negotiations concluded with a $233 million/year increase

$887 million is 3.8 years

That first quarter goes so hard

Does The New York Times Want to Eradicate Trans People? — Assigned An analysis of its coverage reveals a pattern of misrepresentations, deceptions, distortions, the exclusion of trans voices, and the endorsement of contempt.

The New York Times coverage of trans issues has repeatedly resulted in experts and others complaining that their words were twisted and misrepresented... but only those quoted from on trans supportive side have that complaint.

Coincidence or eliminationism? @billiejsweeney.bsky.social dives in.

He’ll Scan Your Ticket and Offer Commentary on the Movie You’re About to See at AMC Lincoln Square Jeffry Ramirez scans tickets while offering mini-reviews of films for customers at AMC Lincoln Square. Photos by Caitlin Kitson. By

AMC should replace Nicole Kidman with the AMC Lincoln Square ticket checker guy www.westsiderag.com/2026/03/11/h...

Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

This reporting is frustrating. It's vague on the specifics of how AI is actually used in these contexts and manages to frame human decisions as technological inevitabilities.

Microplastics and nanoplastics in urban air originate mainly from tire abrasion, research reveals Although plastic particles in the air are increasingly coming into focus, knowledge about their distribution and effects is still limited. Chemical analyses from Leipzig now provide details from Germa...

Study finds 2/3 of microplastics in urban air is caused by car tires phys.org/news/2026-03...

It is sort of funny that the disinfo maximalists are still trying to make this all about their thing. They didn't even bother to try to sell this war! This is not the case of a pathological public, but of a pathological governing class.