we could have simply chosen to not do any of this

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a whole lot of businesspeople learning in real time that a predictable and stable regulatory state - even if you don’t like some of the regulations - is vastly preferable to “boss man doesn’t like you so you’re fucked now”

So what do you do if you can’t make it to the polls on that one day? As the question indicates, France has no mail-in voting. The U.K. does, though: Voters there can cast postal ballots. Plus, both France and the U.K. have a system of proxy voting: People can deputize their right to vote to someone else by filing an application, which in both countries can be done online. On Election Day, this person then has the ability to go to your polling place and cast a ballot in your name—in addition to the ballot they’ll cast in their own name. There’s no way to control what the person you deputized does: You’ll have to find someone you trust will respect your wishes.

I keep seeing lists of countries with mail voting tonight that include France. Those are incorrect, there’s no mail voting in France. How it works there: boltsmag.org/how-voting-w...

Really fucked up that there are just... AI porn/sexting ads on YouTube

I have to say, pentesters do a great job. Every pen I've ever bought has worked

yep it's a Malort advent calendar alright

"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny

which also kinda only makes any sense since nearly ~everyone is backed up and thus revivable anyway

It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.

Charles de Gaulle opposed everything that Putin, Orban, and Vance stand for. He was willing to "betray" his nation to oppose them.

Klobuchar got it into her head years ago that it's okay to censor information she doesn't like, and now that we have an authoritarian MAGA team in charge, trying to suppress speech in every way possible, her jumping up and screaming "pick me, pick me" is horrifying.

that intersection sucks so bad. Freeway offramp directly into a transit transfer crossing is one of the city’s least hinged designs

Text screenshot: "You don't have permission to see the color for this account"

"Alexa, show me the most bullshit AWS IAM permission in the world."

Star Wars is full of references to the fall of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire; it's missing out on the richer and more complex story of the fall of the French First Republic and the rise of Napoleon's Empire. In this essay I will

so if anyone does not recognize the name, this is probably the most famous living mathematician on earth. you basically fund his group to pay salaries and random shit like MRI machines becomes several times more efficient, like magic.

no one on the planet is less free thinking than people with “free thinker” in their bio

rip to a real one

also k-pop demon hunters

reporting from vacation with partner’s family: The Kids are absolutely *feral* for youtube videos that are just Tiktok scrolling simulacra

in fairness Caligula didn't actually make the horse a consul, the sources say he *considered* it but never did it

Drones spelling out "Climate Best By Government Test"

Drones making a statue of liberty in the sky

Drones writing out Happy 4th of July

A bunch of drones making an abstract shape with a rainbow of colors.

Went to Redwood City's 4th of July... drone show (in lieu of fireworks—though lots of unofficial fireworks were set off as well). They sure love their RWC motto (it's on overhead signs as you enter downtown).

If you take what Healy is saying at face value, the message is that a public figure is best off refusing to talk to the Times. The explicit argument is that because Mamdani was willing to answer questions about his stolen personal information, that turned the theft into a voluntary disclosure.

say what you will about the British or French press, they at least tend to be very open about what their ideologies are; I like that model quite a lot better than the nonsense we've got going on over here

genuinely very difficult for me to understand which hills leadership at some of this country's journalistic institutions are willing to die on

they made jamelle delete an accurate criticism but allowed a news-side guy to spend all day openly sneering and spitting in the faces of people who accurately noted that his story allowed a guy who spread CSAM without rebuttal to spout lies

seems bad

part of the reason people don't want the history of this period taught or understood is to make this illegible to people. it's easy to swallow thought ending cliches about which venerated figure was a "man of their times" if you remain studiously unaware of what their times actually were

evangelist guy on SF Market St preaching about Jesus being the “king of kings” in front of the No Kings protest and immediately realizing that was not the phrase to use: priceless

“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco