John Roberts' wife is not the only Supreme Court spouse to shake down people with business before the court to give bribes. Ginni Thomas has a "consulting firm" (AKA a PO Box for checks) to funnel money to Clarence. #Corruption
A hundred years ago, the U.S. had a nationwide network of short-line railroads that connected most urban and rural communities. By the 1940s, most of it had been dismantled ... by the barons of the auto and oil industries. 😑
SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”
Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.
Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.
But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.
Trickle down hoax.
Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”
It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.
The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.
It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.
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This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
Every AI commercial is like "Hey AI, what goes good on a sandwich?" and then the AI is like "Have you considered... cheese?" And then the narrator is like: THE FUTURE IS HERE.
This is quite a different scenario, but I think about this in the context of single-use plastics, it's essentially impossible to regulate them at the consumer level, they must be regulated at the manufacturer level.
A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi
I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.
A male zebra finch on a perch, leaning towards and looking at the camera.
Beep is checking in to make sure you aren’t doom scrolling 🐥🫵
GenAI is a stand-in for capitalism, and capitalism's defenders are covered in flop sweat these days
"The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild. They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found." -Pope Leo XIV
Wow. Yeah people still think they can use LLMs (“it’s AI!”) as search engines when they aren’t, they are sentence generators. (And they don’t have feet, metaphorically or otherwise.)
AI is a rhetorical obfuscation of a good old-fashioned labor devaluation scheme (Braverman, 1974, called it “degradation). The actual tech doesn’t even matter, except to the extent that it often doesn’t even really do what is claimed or not in the way we’re told it does.
Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, the United States had spent that money helping the people of the United States
Here’s the thing—especially on April 15: cutting the IRS isn't some abstract budget trim. It's a tax cut delivered through weaker enforcement. And it mostly goes to people with the most scope to hide income.
Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.
America's money goes to Hungary. To Argentina. To fund wars in Iran and invasions of Venezuela.
It goes to kill shipwrecked survivors. To ICE, who shoot US citizens and build concentration camps
Our money seems to fund death and destruction all across the globe
But it never goes to help Americans
Sesame Street has uploaded a bunch of classic episodes to YouTube that are free to watch, including the very first episode from 1969, the one where Mister Rogers visits, and the episode where Mr. Snuffulupagus is finally revealed. [kottke.org]
In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙
Who knew that "moving fast and breaking things" isn't as efficient as "measure ten times and cut once...then measure it once more to be sure" when it comes to spaceflight?
Oh, right. NASA.
a spacecraft landing is literally like ALL THE SCIENCES AT ONCE
textile strength is important and wind and water are important and what kind of metal they used on the outside and the trajectory of re-entry and the distribution of weight and mass inside the thing and atmospheric conditions and
Never gonna shut up about how TEXTILES are what bring astronauts home safely from the moon.
This is the absurd tension of this moment. He is a deeply mentally unwell violent racist who has taken great pleasure in killing thousands so far in his term, mostly for no particular reason - he really could do it.
He's also a liar and a malignant narcissist who needs attention at all times. So.
1. This is what America looks like with a President who is both a sociopath AND losing his mind.
2. It’s a good time to remind every member of the U.S. military they swore an oath to the Constitution, not an individual, and they have a duty/they are legally obligated to disobey illegal orders.
Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
