Tweeness is a plague.

Athena suicida #STARDOM

Look at it this way: knowing everything we know, all the stuff that is in the public domain, totally out there, does it not seem that the culture at the top is at best hopelessly dysfunctional, at worst a seething pit of corruption and criminality?

Gauze, Steve Reich, the Hanson Brothers, Crazy Spirit, Bolt Thrower, Commitment, Bill Orcutt, Chicago Underground Duo, Julian Lage, Majid Soula, Deadeye, Zoh Amba, Neu, Yamasuko, Wold, 1349, Cosmic Ear, Margaret Leng Tan, Naujawanan Baidar, Sacrilege, Ben Lamar Gay, Litania, Njiqahdda, Taqbir, Zenocide

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Jortiis

She reportedly parted ways with Bezos with a jaw-dropping $38.3 billion in Amazon stock. Their divorce settlement included a 4 % stake in the online retail giant or 19.7 million shares. Under the agreement, Bezos kept 75% of the couple's Amazon stock, along with voting control of her shares. Jan 11, 2023

MacKenzie Scott has given away over $19 billion in the last 5 years and experts say she's 'changed entire fie... MacKenzie Scott acknowledged another $2 billion in donations as 2024 comes to a close.

MacKenzie Scott, worth $41.1 billion, is on a philanthropic tear and has donated an estimated 46% of her net worth.

Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started.

Just. Tax. Them.

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

A researcher invented a disease called “bixonimania” and wrote clearly bogus articles on Medium and arXiv about it, referencing Starfleet Academy, Sideshow Bob, and the Fellowship of the Ring. Within months, major AI apps were diagnosing users with bixonimania.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

There are few greater betrayals then that experienced by a Brit raised on American 80s pop culture finally discovering what Hersheys actually tastes like.

I feel like nowadays lots of people into heavy music were not forged in the crucible of having a ska band open every hardcore show so they don't always recognise the telltale bounce of ska when it pops up.

Listened to this melodeath record someone suggested and it was mostly decent except at one point they did a ska riff and it put me off fhe whole thing.

Omg so many labour mps are about to be told to fuck off this is awesome

Off to see the big man Bill Orcutt this evening.

I'm always happy to criticise things AEW does wrong but as someone who sat through WWE PPVs in the 00s and 10s, "Every match on the card is good" would've been an insane thing to suggest about a 4 hour American PPV back then, just beyond the realms of possibility

Picture of a bald rat in front of s children's rainbow glockenspiel, captioned Neil banging out the tunes, April 13 2006

On this day in 2006, Neil banged out the tunes

It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈

Fun fact a member of this band is the mum of the rapper Kreayshawn.

Gotta sing it to the tune of Funiculi Funicula.

Underrated album for sure.

Just sent you it totally slipped my mind yesterday

Oh, I can answer this one! After 2008, private equity decided homes were investment vehicles for them and not for us, and now they’ve driven up the price of housing in every major city in the world, but our hegemonic media treats each crisis as a separate local issue related to supply.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

In a way nothing could be more on brand for TNA than being offbrand.

Four records for Friday evening

Microsoft starts removing "unnecessary" Copilot buttons from Windows 11 apps.

www.theverge.com/news/909640/...

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In the 1980s, the UK media responded to an increase in visibility/support of gay people with a relentless, well-funded, Right-Wing campaign against gay rights, and when support went down, allowing Thatcher to bring in Section 28, the media turned around and blamed gay people for demanding too much.

Isterismo, Burial, Exhumator, Garrett T Capps, Ride, Henri Texier, East of the Valley Blues, Wendy Eisenberg, White Medal, Arthur Russell, Kertasníkir Töframaður, Eyedlmode, Mystifier, Sort Vokter, Archers of Loaf, Curta'n Wall, Trystwch y Fenywod, Dave Holland Quartet, Death SS, Grant Green, Ike White, Johnny Dyani, Love, Ponte de Diavolo, Aspid

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"Google’s AI Overviews are peddling misinformation on a scale that may be unprecedented in human history."

New term for my non-binary friends just dropped