Meta to cut 8,000 jobs on 20 May with more layoffs planned for second half of 2026 Meta will lay off roughly 8,000 employees on 20 May, 10% of its workforce, with further cuts later in 2026 as it redirects $115-135B toward AI infrastructure.

Meta wins the gold medal for top "hire stupid, fire stupid" company, barely edging out Marc Benioff and Salesforce. thenextweb.com/news/meta-la...

On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.

Also, Sunday night games are a travesty. On Sundays, baseball should be played at 1pm, period. The never-ending chase of sports to prime time may have a short-term boost but is long-term stupid.

When was the last time the World Series aired at a kid-friendly time? How do you interest new fans?

It's not just that they're losing: this team, and baseball, have become unwatchable.

I fell in love with baseball because of the infinite possible outcomes after any pitch. These days, everything is pared down to two: a home run or a strikeout.

It's unwatchable, especially when a team goes cold.

The crucial thing to understand about Peter Thiel is that he adores "The Lord of the Rings" and no one in human history has ever so utterly completely missed all the salient points of what a book is about.

Jon Hopkins makes some REALLY AWESOME ambient music. It'll calm you. jonhopkins.co.uk

Why Yale’s term paper on what’s wrong with college gets a ‘D-’ | Will Bunch An Ivy League university's report on the loss of faith in higher ed ignores what really killed the American Dream of college.

That Yale report on what's wrong with U.S. college saw some trees (high cost, unfair admission, etc.) but missed the forest: the 60-year right-wing crusade to undermine higher ed, from slashing budgets to stifling speech

How to really fix college. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/yale...

SRT fans, runners, cyclists rejoice... it's almost ready!

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

Damn, RSS has resisted enshittification pretty well. This is disheartening.

Exactly one year ago today:

Trump's polling is terrible and getting worse His second term is already an unambiguous failure.

Literally everyone except Trump's psycho red-hatted base hates him.

Surely NYT can find a few to interview in diners?

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*many thanks to @johnfugelsang.bsky.social

Healey calls for action as AI nudes flood Mass. schools - The Boston Globe The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education sent a letter to school districts across the Commonwealth with guidance for how local administrators could confront the increasing threat.

“In the last school year across the county, 15 percent of students reported seeing sexually explicit deepfakes of someone associated with their school, according to a recent report by the Center for Democracy and Technology.”

Every time I hear about how dangerous automated vehicles may be, I remember how stupid the average American is.

Then I recall that half of them are dumber than that.

My final realization is that the dumber the American, the larger the vehicle tends to be.

Automated vehicles don’t seem so bad.

The Phillies and Mets seem to be in a competition to see who can score in the fewest innings.

Someone needs to tell them this isn’t golf!

Dave is an amazing artist, and an even more amazing human being.

Ha, no. But there have been times where it’s been tempting!

I'm a principal software engineer. I've been writing code for 45 years, and for three decades, I've been professionally coding and deploying websites.

Today, I broke production (with a friend/colleague with similar experience on the systems side)!

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented.

They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed.

That energy is all around us.

And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

The attacks on Sam Altman are a warning for the AI world A politician’s home was also attacked after voting to rezone for a data center.

Everyone knows how I feel about the terrible companies and the awful CEOs putting us all in peril with the “AI” hype bubble.

But there is no excuse for this kind of behavior. None.

We must beat them without becoming them.

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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This browser extension adds an accessibility-first reader mode with color-blind & dyslexia features & the ability to auto-activate by domain. If you prefer a distraction-free reading experience, give it a try.

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"Hokejový bůh nám to oplatil." Vladař vychytal Flyers na poslední chvíli postup do play off Brankář Daniel Vladař předvedl v pondělním zápase NHL 24 úspěšných zákroků, Philadelphia porazila hokejisty Caroliny 3:2 po nájezdech a jako poslední tým Východní konference postoupila do play off.

"Hokejový bůh nám to oplatil." Vladař vychytal Flyers na poslední chvíli postup do play off

Brankář Daniel Vladař předvedl v pondělním zápase NHL 24 úspěšných zákroků, Philadelphia porazila hokejisty Caroliny 3:2 po nájezdech a jako poslední tým Východ...

Flyers clinch playoff berth, finally ending 5-year drought The Flyers, in dramatic fashion, ended a long playoff drought with a win over the Hurricanes Monday night.

THE FLYERS HAVE CLINCHED THE PLAYOFFS

I’M NOT CRYING YOU’RE CRYING.

I’m on the Triangle, NC right now. I bring my Brindy #17 jersey here. It works.

Can’t wait to be home, but I’m going to be down here for the playoffs.

My rejection message to Elon Musk's xAI, asking me to come work for them.

Yee gads, if they're coming after me, they must be hella desperate.

You could bet (literally!!) that greedy U.S. kleptocrats couldn’t get Iran deal | Will Bunch Drunk from war profits on everything from crypto to drones, Trump’s team of kleptocrats has no idea how to end their failed Iran War.

Were Vance and his outgunned Iran-deal negotiators working for you and for peace, or for the next Polymarket trades, crypto deals, drone contracts or their stock portfolios

I went deep on the kleptocrats getting rich off the war, and now prolonging it

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

US/UK dual citizen here.

There’s no reason to insult one of the loveliest, most beautiful parts of the human body by using it to describe some if the worst human beings in the planet.

Call them what they are: pathetic, bigoted, fear driven, fascism enabling, mediocre opportunists.

I'm kind of over "tech bro" as a casual insult. Not that I think we shouldn't insult those guys. I just think we need a meaner word.

XI. Recovery is a team sport.

We learn that a joy shared is a joy doubled; a burden shared is a burden halved. Thanks for being part of my team.