the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

Collection of paints, brushes and pots on an old table. In the corner a large very fluffy cat sprawls in decadence

this cat looks like one of the Old Master painters who's just slept with three servants, argued viciously with his annoying patron about the inferior ham he receives, and then painted his masterpiece out of spite

For thousands of years, horses were a central part of practically all armies and their campaigns, culminating in WW2, which was the last war in which they saw widespread use. After the horse fell out of use, we've had 80 years of relative peace

They were the problem all along

Ideally, a robust democracy should have roughly three insanely right wing parties.

PDF of kebab and chips

there's a local kebab place whose website claims to have a PDF of the menu, but when you open the PDF it's just a single photo of a kebab and chips

regardless of today’s outcome, it is morally indefensible to have a court ruling on something that affects a population, using evidence and findings that did not consult a single member of that population.

oh you mean like every other time they've tried this? everywhere else in the world?

As the article (in thread) says, outsize SUVs cost the public purse more in terms of strain on the infrastructure & pollution, and are far more dangerous for pedestrians & cyclists. Yes, we should tax them and their usage heavily. Why on Earth should the rest of us subsidise this obnoxious trend?

I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time

they really need to invent a second type of money these guys can play around with separate from the money I need to buy food. Business Money. Money 2

Screenshot of a single question and answer from interview in the Times Literary Supplement with Ursula K. Le Guin. Here is the quote: If you could make a change to anything you’ve written over the years, what would it be? In The Dispossessed, I would mention the communal pickle barrels at street corners in the big towns, restocked by whoever in the community has made or kept more pickles than they need. I knew about the free pickles all along, but never could fit them into the book.

Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer

oh my goddd im so sorry, just seeing this now 😰 do u guys still need artillery support

Dark Science Volume 1: The City of Giants Dark Science is a queer cyberpunk comic that's sort of "Metropolis + Ghost in the Shell + Discworld."

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PANEL 1: A GUY behind the wheel of a car. He squints. A speech bubble comes from an earbud in his ear. GUY: Huh that's weird. VO: What's up? PANEL 2: The GUY looks baffled. GUY: Oh, everyone outside is flipping me off and booing? GUY: I'm just a normal guy, going to work! PANEL 3: A shot of the car from the outside at a stop sign. It's got a big middle finger on the top, and a huge sign on top of it that says FUCK EVERYONE WHO IS NOT ME! A GUY ON THE SIDEWALKis giving it a thumbs down. PANEL 4: The GUY, crying. GUY: Why are they being so mean to me?!

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My child just asked if the x in SpaceX stands for explode. 😭

Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic ac...

This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...

A Calvin & Hobbes 4-panel strip: 1. Calvin running at high speed, jubilant 2. Calvin skidding to a stop; off-panel bubble reads "Calvin, stop running through the house!" 3. Calvin spiking the reader, cheerful. His bubble reads "the law is on the books, but it would take all their resources to enforce it." 4. Calvin running off-panel. Off-panel bubble reads "CALVIN!"

Evergreen reminder

So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

REPORTER: Blobby blobby HEGSETH: Look, values are great, but you can't exactly fight off the left with values. REPORTER: Blobby blobby blobby! Blobby. Blobby! <sound of chair falling over> HEGSETH: I'm just saying, when it comes down to it, strength wins, not ideals. REPORTER: Blobby! Blobbly! Bthhhhhhh BLOBBY! <sound of lectern smashing> Blobby! BLOBBY BLOBBY BLOBBY! HEGSETH: Well, military power still matters more than words. REPORTER: Blobby! Blobby! Blobby Blobby <indecipherable chaos> Blobby! HEGSETH: So you're saying values win wars? REPORTER: Blobby! Blobby blobby BLOBBY! <muted screaming. Sound of running> NATO Press Conference Exchange, Feb 13, 2025.

An astonishing exchange today between Pete Hegseth and a European reporter who has no time whatsoever for his bullshit. How I wish American media had an ounce of this steel. #hamburger

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

The drugs are kicking in just in time for Ursula von der Leyen to drop the bass at the celebration for connecting Lithuania to the Polish energy grid

microsoft: 🌭 we're all trying to find the guy who did this

It's...not countering if....it's....the same stuff.

it is darkly funny to me that twitter ended up being real life after all

some hope here

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

Beaker as Renee Zellweger on the cover of Harper’s bazaar.

i’m just photoshopping muppets onto the cover of harper’s bazaar: thread