The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site with satirical echoes of the fringe conspiracy theories that Mr. Jones is known for. Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative director of Infowars.” He said he initially plans to parody Mr. Jones’s “whole modus operandi.” Mr. Heidecker has been working on his impression of Mr. Jones. But eventually, when that joke gets old, Mr. Heidecker said that he hoped to turn Infowars into a destination for independent and experimental comedy. “I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” Mr. Heidecker said in an interview. During a recent trip to Philadelphia, he traveled to the Liberty Bell to film a video in character as the new creative director of Infowars.

Get excited.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...

Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.

Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.

a man with curly hair and a mustache is smiling while talking about how to smile when it hurts . ALT: a man with curly hair and a mustache is smiling while talking about how to smile when it hurts .

Are you calling me unoriginal?

Attn @sphericalcowconsulting.com

Majority of Australian youth still use social media despite ban, researchers find Despite a social media ban implemented in December, new research found that most Australian children between the ages of 12 and 15 can still access their accounts on social media platforms.

I’m #ShockedEtc. Who could have foreseen this?

Notifications for deleted shouldn't remain in any OS notification database, and we've asked Apple to address this.

In the meantime, you can prevent any preview text from your Signal messages from appearing in your notifications.

Signal Settings > Notifications > Show “No Name or Content”

Jaane Jaan Dhoondta Phir Raha | Jawani Diwani (1972) | Kishore Kumar & Asha Bhosle | Randhir & Jaya YouTube video by Kishore Kumar Hit Songs

Her voice has been part of my life forever. She was peerless, and the Asha Bhosle playlists made up of decades of iconic, unforgettable songs will be getting overworked today by fans the world over.
I'm going to start with one of my absolute favorites.
#RIPAshaBhosle

Nothing is inevitable. Ultimately what matters is just showing up, ready to act, ready to fight, ready to stand side-by-side.

As someone that has lost people very dear to me to this disease, but more importantly believes in science and the power of research and collaboration,
…
I cannot begin to quantify just how much this enrages, offends, and saddens me.

When I worked in restaurants if you wanted to become the general manager you had to do shifts in every job in the place, from dishwasher to prep cook to bar back to ensure that you understood how the entire business functioned.

Zohran is like this, but for NYC!

I was really hoping to go through life without needing to know what the plural of "apocalypse" is.

🤔

My privacy screen is such a necessary evil (evil because I like sitting outside to work, and 🤷🏽‍♂️). Can’t wait for in-built privacy features in every screen that I can toggle on and off.

Many have flagged the problems of discrimination in AI for a number of yrs. A real world example in a Manchester school thanks to Index on censorship. Humans who design these systems have responsibility & should be held to account, as should those who crudely implement inane, discriminatory AI

Yes. You gotta problem with that?

Draft AI Framework to Replace State Laws Released by Senate (1) The Senate has released a draft national framework to replace state laws on artificial intelligence and promote the technology’s development while minimizing risks to Americans.

They’re trying to ram through KOSA, a full Section 230 repeal, and a slew of other anti-LGBTQ censorship and surveillance laws under the guise of “cracking down on AI” and a ton of dumb leftists are falling for it.

Feel like this is gonna put a damper on all those RTO plans that everyone is excited about.

The Falling Cost of Basic Income in the United States, 1967–2024: Estimates for a Plan Large Enough to Eliminate Poverty This article estimates the cost of Universal Basic Income (UBI) sufficient to eliminate poverty in the United States. It uses the most recent microdata available from the Census Bureau through its Cur...

$200 billion a year would enable a universal basic income of about $500/mo, all but abolishing severe poverty here in the US. Factoring in the downstream costs of poverty at about $3 trillion a year, the ROI to taxpayers would be about $800 billion a year.

see?
here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

Leading organisations join OIDF independent conformance test program The OpenID Foundation has announced the organisations that will help shape the next phase of a globally recognised independent conformance test program.

As #DigitalIdentity ecosystems scale globally, having strong, independent, and internationally recognized conformance test programs for #Standards is essential for #interoperability and #trust across jurisdictions and implementations.
@fidoalliance.bsky.social 🤝 @openid-foundation.bsky.social

The homogenizing effect of large language models on human expression and thought Cognitive diversity, reflected in variations of language, perspective, and reasoning, is essential to creativity and collective intelligence. This diversity is rich and grounded in culture, history, a...

As LLM use expands, “the models’ outputs…are reabsorbed into human discourse & shape users’ own expression & reasoning and, in turn, influence the data used to train future models, transforming homogenization from a passive bias into a structurally reinforced influence.”
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

A still from a video of a tiny white horse the size of a large dog. Its forelock is braided. It's wearing a little blue vest/cape. It has tiny black booties on it's itty bitty hooves.

I just want to make sure everyone knows Mayo Clinic has a therapy miniature horse named Blue Sky

Swiss e-vote snafu leaves 2,048 ballots unreadable : Officials suspend Basel-Stadt trial and launch probe

I do believe we will get to the point where e-voting becomes practical and reliable. That said...key management be hard!
#DigitalCredentials #E-Voting #Reliability

🫤

That was fun.

#Leadership

If you're in the NYC area, and like talking about moving from #MFA to #StrongAuthentication, the #DigitalCredentials and #DigitalWallets revolution, #passkeys, or the acronym soup in #DigitalIdentity, you might be an #IDPro.
And you need to be at todays #Identibeer.
(Last years trial run was 👍🏽)

‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’

‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’

‘Hello’ is not related to either.

Goodbye.