How a Janet Jackson song crashed laptops for 9 years In 2001, Microsoft support employees made a shocking discovery: Janet Jackson's hit, "Rhythm Nation," could cause laptops to crash. New details have now come to light showing what was done about it.

God I love stories like this.

'Rhythm Nation' used to crash hard drives.

The message of the Right reacting to Virginia is the same as the message of "2020 was rigged": no victory by anyone but us is ever legitimate. We are the only ones allowed to win.

These people are cartoon villains entitled to no respect and no trust. Rabid dogs.

So I'm not sure how many people even remember this, but the first proto-Charity Bowl we did on EDSBS, all the way back in 2008, wasn't for refugee resettlement.

It was after a bunch of tornadoes tore through Georgia and Oklahoma (there was also a massive cyclone in Myanmar)

a man in a captain america costume is wearing a helmet and goggles . Alt: a man in a captain america costume is wearing is saluting

Virginia is for Lovers… of Democracy!!
Thank you!! 💙🇺🇸🗳️🎉

The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act.

Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.

You Can’t Vote Out Amazon Web Services: Fighting Internet Contracts One Library At A Time For nearly twenty years, I’ve used Google Docs for most of my writing: class notes, personal notes, a novel in progress, research, activism, and my day job. It’s become an essential piece of infras…

Wrote about why we need a strong consumer protection movement to fight digital contract abuses over @techdirt.com. Thanks for the opportunity @masnick.com !

www.techdirt.com/2026/04/21/y...

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

Former Capitol Police officer Shauni Kerkhoff doesn't say how much she wants from the Blaze for accusing her of being the J5 pipe bomber, but it's going to be a big number.

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He expects to die in... 2025.

Critics of new bill say Ohio women would be banned from sports bras, bikinis in public 'The peak of fear mongering.'

Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill.

HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.

ahahaha watch to the end

A+ work all around

At least Iran gets this part right, from one of their LEGO propaganda movies….

Perfect that they scheduled it during Happy Hour.

Annual flu vaccine no longer required for U.S. military, Hegseth says The move alarmed some public health experts, who warned that it would weaken troop readiness.

NOT SO FUN FACT—half of all U.S. war casualties during WWI were due to influenza. Today—Trump’s War Secretary remove the flu vaccine requirement for all U.S. military. Plus, bragging about this to all enemies is just absolute idiocy. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Last week in Massachusetts a woman killed a 10-year-old girl days after police found her under the influence, asleep behind the wheel with her car in a crosswalk. Her license was not even suspended.

In the before times, up to 2016, Berkeley Fire Department published an annual report called the NFPA Survey Report that categorized the dept's activities.

Hard to say what the current workload trend is with no data for 10 years

@igortregub.bsky.social

Here's a screen shot of an old report.

Just noticing that, in Abrego's civil case, on 4/17 govt appealed Judge Xinis's "constructive denial" of its motion to lift her order blocking his removal to Liberia. Govt told Xinis to rule by 4/17; she said it had no power to give her a deadline & set a hrg for 4/28. Govt blew her off & appealed.

Catholics welcome everyone, but can they handle some of these new converts? “I love converts, but you move into somebody's house, you don't start rearranging the furniture."

“I love converts, but you move into somebody’s house, you don’t start rearranging the furniture.”

JD Vance, a recent Catholic convert, has had a lot to say in recent weeks about his newfound religion – and it’s rubbing some cradle Catholics the wrong way.

Spent Saturday with President Obama and New York's Cutest — turns out my first name is Mayor and I need to be doing more squats. 

Here’s to building a City where families can thrive and every classroom is full of this much joy.

EXTRA! EXTRA! The Second Continental Congress declared independence, but then had no plan to spread its Declaration.

@emilysneff.bsky.social traces how the Declaration of Independence spread through printers, pulpits, and treaty councils in 1776.

#America250 #Revolution250

I for one would enjoy it if journalists stopped pretending this dinner is anything besides a chance to source up their contacts list and flatter government officials. One of the ickiest rituals in Washington, imo, and that's not a Trump-era thing.

A small exhibition dedicated to Shuichi Seki opens tomorrow in Tokyo.
He was character designer for many anime series from the 80s.
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Cocaine Bear-verse expands

Virginia's redistricting vote is tomorrow.

Yes has led narrowly in the polls, but the early vote is looking a little redder than it did in 2025.

And if independents swing from pro-Spanberger to anti-redistricting, that could be enough for No to win.

decisiondeskhq.substack.com/p/virginia-r...

Restoring this important funding would help preserve the original sites of the Heart Mountain, Manzanar, Minidoka, and Tule Lake concentration camps for future generations. The history and significance of the incarceration should be remembered so that its lessons guide the future.

Karp made the Artie Ziff argument: we need to be nicer to the broligarchy not for their sake, but to protect the country

Undecided still leads the pack at 24%. First big debate is Wednesday.

It was a lot of fun to talk cosmology and Star Trek with @miquai.bsky.social for this podcast episode!

I would not say “the cool thing is you dont need to be an expert” if my job was, essentially, to be an expert