I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"

pete hegseth is so bad at his job that we're like one tick away from the gray zone being like "actually, pete hegseth is good, because he effectively stands against american imperialism"

Tweet by “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth: “The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.” Below there is a video of the announcement for his many, many illiterate fans

Behind Hegseth’s big stupid face, a painting can be seen.

The painting is of George Washington crossing the Delaware. It is by Emanuel Leutze.

An article from the National Parks Service: Smallpox, Inoculation, and the Revolutionary War Boston National Historical Park During the 1700s, smallpox raged through the American colonies and the Continental Army. Smallpox impacted the Continental Army severely during the Revolutionary War, so much so that George Washington mandated inoculation for all Continental soldiers in 1777. Just fifty-six years earlier, in 1721, Bostonian doctors and clergy introduced the procedure to the American colonies. Without the vision and determination of these early Bostonians in normalizing inoculation, Washington may not have made the decision to mandate inoculation for the Continental Army. Though it was a controversial action, many historians credit the medical mandate with the colonists' victory in the Revolutionary War and the creation of the United States of America.

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Happy 4/20 everyone

I am sorry to inform you that this appears to be real

Certainly the only way we ever got a decent videogame made...

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This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
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As @spyhistorian.bsky.social notes - the spread of the 'Spanish' Influenza Pandemic can absolutely be attributed to the movement of soldiers during the First World War.

It's also worth remembering that one of the first forms of mandatory innoculation was within George Washington's army for smallpox

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Some people have misunderstood this.

We literally saw how Claude itself, coded by Claude, turns one API call into a DOS of thousands upon thousands of API calls done in the sloppiest fucking way possible.

This postmortem shows Bluesky vibecoded a function to DOS itself, in a similarly stupid way.

The premise is flawed — streaming isn’t convenient anymore. When it came out, it was. But the act of putting a DVD or CD in a player is way more convenient than wading through multiple services to find what you’re looking for, finding out it’s not included in your tier, and dealing with commercials.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Did you know: The chainsaw in DOOM was modelled off of Tom Hall’s Eager Beaver chainsaw. It leaked oil, and so was kept in a bowl in the id offices. Tom still has it!💛

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Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. (Orange Catholic Bible)

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US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups

I dunno about y'all but I'm fairly sure we were sold out. Everybody involved needs to be held accountable for this, and the data centers need to be held not just to the same, but to higher environmental standards.

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Seems like the Bluesky vibe coders have screwed up their back end today? Or is it just me?

Can you imagine, with the genocides, apartheid, illegal wars, the global economy collapsing, illegal concentration camps, masked terrorists working for governments in Israel and the US - and the scariest thing you've ever seen is 5% conditional taxes on multi-million dollars real estate hoarding.

Nike’s CFO explaining to their CEO how they need to stop selling shoes and pivot to AI.

I do think it's really funny how the word "stack" wormed its way from meaning "shitty pile of javascript" to meaning "shitty pile of drugs you use to write javascript marginally faster"

Fairhope protester acquitted of charges after inflatable costume arrest during anti-Trump rally Renea Gamble, 62, was cleared of all charges Wednesday after her arrest at a "No Kings" protest drew national attention and raised First Amendment questions.

Wearing a penis costume to a No Kings rally is a 1st Amendment right. Alabama’s efforts to prosecute were firmly rejected today. www.al.com/news/2026/04...

So this is definitely a write/call in to reps to tell them to vote no on this bill and any other censorship/"age verification" bills.

Techies capable of explaining stuff in layman's terms? This is our time to shine with putting it in super plain terms why all of this is a bad idea.

The fact that a shoe company pivoting to an AI play shot its stock *UP* is about as ridiculous as it gets. If my cobbler told me they were suddenly taking on advanced maths without first going to school for a decade, I'd be pretty skeptical, not jubilant.

I'd also need new a new fucking cobbler.

AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)

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