Fun Trivia: the original 70s STEPFORD WIVES film is unavailable in any current format because in the 70s a lot of companies with too much money diversified by buying film companies. Most soon realized what a bad idea that was, but Bristol Myers held onto the rights for some reason.
you know what's a super reliable and uncomplicated way of publishing your content across multiple channels simultaneously, a really simple form of syndication one might say
I always enjoy when Backerkit says it's found a better address for me than the one I picked, and it's just my regular address but in all caps. It's like buying stuff from the Beastie Boys
"A network of inauthentic YouTube accounts is targeting Albertan audiences, exploiting genuinely-held grievances and repurposing them to advance narratives that normalize the prospect of secession and U.S. annexation." #abpoli #cdnpoli
Canadian doctors obeying a U.S. executive order that doesn’t even apply to Canada is deeply offensive to both trans people and to Canadian legal sovereignty.
The pasta-sauce company has partnered with the nonprofit StoryCorps on a device designed to record family conversations around the table and save them for all time. www.wired.com/story/prego-...
Just horrifying to watch once excellent universities voluntarily destroying themselves.
That just raises further questions!
"Infinite patience" is not a quality ingredient for a good education, nor is it something we should continue to extend to the education "revolutions" of Sal Khan. biblioracle.substack.com/publish/post...
This is kind of huge actually.
Hartzog said lawmakers need to create more specific rules tailored to the unique threat posed by the combination of facial recognition and nearly undetectable surveillance technology before it becomes ubiquitous. Those laws need to target not only people using the technology, but also the companies behind it, he said. “A lot of these conversations tend to focus on, ‘is it OK to use these glasses or this tool to surveil other people?’” he said. “What often gets lost in this conversation is, ‘is it OK for companies to design these really socially hostile tools in ways that will foreseeably lead to massive violations of privacy?’”
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Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history
Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)
I never want to be a killjoy so I won't get in the way of people dancing in the streets when he drops dead but I think one reason everyone is so thirsty for it is we tacitly understand that to be the only consequence he'll ever face. Which sucks! There should be way more consequences
We're watching the open web as it existed die in real time.
Exactly one year ago today:
@disabilitystor1.bsky.social
oh goody this one is gendered female
and named after the history of science’s Patron Saint of Having Your Work Ripped Off and Unrecognized By Dudes
whenever people assume I am excited about a movie or show based on something I loved when I was 8 I just think about how weird it would’ve been if my dad got all pumped up about a Howdy Doody movie in 1986
"Why is everyone mad? Moderate price increases, or the mass death event that popular culture has largely tried to sweep under the rug and no one wants to talk about?"
NEW: On Wednesday shareholders in Thomson Reuters demanded the company’s board launch an investigation into whether its products have contributed to human rights violations, specifically with regards to Thomson Reuters’ ongoing sale of peoples’ personal data to ICE.
www.404media.co/thomson-reut...
One of the nice things about the PWHL live chat on YouTube is how many fans immediately boo gambling ads and logos when they show up on the feed.
And here's our Feb story, which draws on 10+ individual cases we identified in which ChatGPT or another bot reinforced a user's delusional fixations on another person, leading to domestic abuse, harassment, and stalking:
futurism.com/artificial-i...
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.
"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
NYT cooking page has basically no meat on it
"Dumplings With Peas"
"Broccoli Cheddar Beans"
Good thread from a human on the linguistics behind "it's not X, it's Y"
the amount of repair cafe and community clothing swap events near you
Action Item: Become soil and/or ash
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