Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

My takeaway from this article is that someone needs to slip Marc Andreesen some psychedelics (read or skip to the end to find out why)

www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

Not like people didn’t warn this would happen.

The "InfoWars" logo in rainbow colors with the Onion logo in place of the "O" with the legend "I support The Onion's hostile media takeover."

I am sat for the Onion's epic trolling of InfoWars.

Exactly the video I was thinking of

FACO?

Yeah, but what happens on uneven ground?

And professional football playing.

Ontario buys used $28.9M private jet for Doug Ford: sources A senior official confirmed that the province this week took possession of a 2016 Bombardier Challenger 650 executive jet.

Good old Dougie. Respecting the taxpayer as only a conservative demagogue knows how.

The Star article calls it Air Ford One but I think Norm Di Pasquale got it right - the Gravy Plane

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Goodnight, Hookland, and rest well.

Twitter back around 2005/2006 was so good I had to quit it because people were posting too much interesting stuff, which for me was too strong a distraction from doing actual work.

Ooh, I’d forgotten about this one. It was my go-to until I started working for Apple and had to use internal systems instead.

BREAKING: A jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster to be an illegal monopoly that overcharges fans.

After the federal government settled the case, 34 states kept pursuing the giant ticket and concert company.

Now, the states have won.

It used to be declining sex trade advertising, though I can’t remember the last time I saw any of that in the physical world.

a woman in a nun 's uniform says christ Alt: Sister Micheal, a nun from the TV series Derry Girls, rolling her eyes and saying “Christ”, a reasonable reaction to anything JD Vance says. Seriously, if you haven’t watched Derry Girls what are you even doing with your life? Go! Now! Why are you still reading this?

Or Sister Michael

Would be nice to have a society worth defending.

Invisible Ducks A short craft essay.

The writer Summer Brennan recently referred to “Invisible Ducks” as “the things you’re not writing about, but which inform your writing anyway”. Sometimes things you write into early drafts and then remove later.

www.awritersnotebook.org/p/invisible-...

“the original game Embark had hoped to create [was] a shared fight against the machines where human players physically cannot fight each other”

Perhaps some of that sentiment remained?

We put the north in North Atlantic

None that I’ve seen but I’ll be interested to read your take!

Bluebird of happiness?

Grandson of.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89Ev7Uv/

Well, that definitely backfired on them.

I blame the “Hot Young Stalin” photo that was doing the rounds a few years back.

Cancel the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Trump will be guest of honor at the “nerd prom,” with journalists serving as suck-ups

One job of journalism is to identify changing circumstances that require changes in policy. So when the first-ever convicted-felon president assaults the free press, why would reporters honor him at a dinner just because “that’s what we always do”?
Wake up. Cancel the Correspondents’ Dinner.

Party that exists only to obtain power not sure what to do now OTTAWA - Following two by-election wins that have allowed the Liberal Party of Canada to finally cement an electoral majority, Prime Minister Mark Carney has admitted that the party has absolutely no ...

Party that exists only to obtain power not sure what to do now

The New Twin Fossil Shock | Ember How the energy crises of the 2020s speed up the electric age

"In power, solar plus storage now costs below $60 per megawatt hour (MWh) at a global level. The variable cost of LNG-fired power in Asia, at $20 per million British thermal units (MMBtu), exceeds $160 per MWh – nearly three times the cost of never needing fuel again."

Any questions?

Where’s the Praetorian Guard when you need them?

Some Three Body Problem energy here