Studios laying off hundreds and thousands of employees with the excuse that they can move production to the UK and not have to pay for healthcare because the UK has socialized medicine should be humiliating to the US government.
Fascinating read from Dijkstra from 1978 (while ignoring some other annoying stuff in there): www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcr... "when judging the relative merits of programming languages, some still seem to equate "the ease of programming" with the ease of making undetected mistakes."
Same spot, different finish 🔥
Cristian scored two goals off identical corner kicks just 15 minutes apart 🤯
🚨 ICE Glasses are coming - specialized smart glasses designed by and for the Department of Homeland Security, documents reveal:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
To be clear, the United States military is not just "war crime" evil, and "genocide support" evil - it is also lawless pirates.
“We should establish judicial review by sortition. A Supreme Court empaneled with a random draw from the entire federal judiciary. A jury of judges.” www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...
Yesterday @reified-systems.itch.io pointed out that Basil's face from this Fawlty Towers VHS collection is nearly exactly The Expression from Disco Elysium, and my mind is blown.
I genuinely think this may be the original inspiration! So many details match up
Keaton Siebenaler of Joplin killed a 2-year-old girl
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
my doctor told me i have the "spray tan gene" and im not even sure what that means
"We have seen the white men betray the flag and fight to kill the Union; but in all that long, dreary war we never saw a traitor in a black skin. ... In all that period of suffering and danger, no Union soldier was ever betrayed by a black man or woman."
Just watching the Sounders game. Osaze's goal was nasty. God damn.
“I am choosing to return home as planned to continue my career as a woman scholar without losing more time to the state-imposed violence and hostility I have experienced in the United States – all for nothing more than co-signing an op-ed advocating for Palestinian rights."
Me: [idly looking up info on popes]
Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it.
Me: wut?
Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]
WA Democrats ended a tax break for data centers but they're still woefully behind this curve, they killed a bill designed to regulate data centers last month thanks to big tech lobbyists from MSFT & AMZ
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When? Where?
A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.
These are the 4 things AI can do well:
•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday
You can see why we need to base our economy around it
It’s a telling indicator of media desensitization that the US government’s ongoing program of murder on the high seas—which according to the perpetrators has killed fourteen (14) people this week— is no longer a subject for much serious or sustained news coverage.
They gotta figure that out. They lose their minds any time they face a little shithousing and a mediocre ref.
After big dams on the upper Klamath River in far northern CA were removed in 2024, Chinook (king) salmon migrated upstream for the first time in 100+ years--and now they have hatched.
It’s been overshadowed by Venezuela and especially Iran, but the deadly boat bombing campaign is still going, even though:
-There’s no war
-The US wasn’t attacked or under threat
-Drug traffickers aren’t terrorists
-These may not be traffickers
-It’s blatantly illegal
-With no clear strategy either
i’m not a cousin. i have cousins, but i’m not a COUSIN. there’s specific types of people who exude *cousin* and it isn’t me. i have cousins who aren’t the *cousin* type
One of the biggest labor battles in the US is happening right now in Los Angeles, at USC, where our faculty-union campaign with majority support is being met by nasty, corporate-grade administrative resistance, and national press won't cover it.
King County Assessor Won't Have to Wear Ankle Monitor in Stalking Case
"I will have absolutely no contact with Miss Keller for as long as I live," the assessor, John Arthur Wilson, said. Wilson was arrested and charged for violating an earlier no-contact order.
publicola.com/2026/04/15/k...
Bad day for anyone who ever used Etsy to print shipping labels.
So, even if you closed your Etsy years ago, make sure they didn't just bill you several hundred dollars for fun and make sure you get your money back.
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
So the big studios are abandoning the US and turning the staff workers into contractors to get out paying for healthcare.
The United States is losing one of its defining industries because of not having universal healthcare and the people are going to be even more vulnerable to the industry.
