The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Think about the fact that the **Journal of the American Medical Association** has to write this article.

Let that sink in.

Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.

bookshop.org/ebooks

Witness said a bus driver told an ICE agent to "gargle [his] balls" when the latter requested to enter the bus.

God bless

Has OpenAI considered cutting down on lattes and avocado toast?

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“there is an entire literature* that disagrees”

* the dogshit work of my hack friends

just not sure what to think about Musk's hand gesture until the New York Times interviews three independent voters at a Casey's outside Iowa City about it

Step 1: Create a text-prediction tool

Step 2: Make it so good at predicting text that it can fake writing in ways that are often convincing, and sometimes better than an average person

Step 3: Tell people that this will become artificial general intelligence

And it works! Somehow, step 3 works.

this is how football is meant to be played

What's happened to X proves the need for Bluesky. The future company is a possible adversary. We make decisions knowing that we won't always be here or won't always be able to control the company's decisions. It's why we've given you the freedom of exit to go elsewhere w your followers and data.

You don't have to defend every book on the list.

You have to object to the government telling you which ones you're allowed to see.

And in Iowa, you have to object to the ban being expanded from school libraries to public libraries and bookshops.
www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/...

"Why would anyone leave X?"

I shouldn’t be surprised but god damn this is fantastic journalism

you might be out of luck on that one brother

have a copy of 4 quartets?

put this window out of it’s misery

not banking on bluesky being a healthy social network but hey, I’m here to enjoy the vibes while they last.