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A split bar chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Americans are most likely to say T. Rex is their favorite dinosaur, but many don't have a favorite." The chart has the sub-headline: "Which of the following is your favorite dinosaur? (%)." The chart has the note: "Note: "Other" includes responses of archaeopteryx, spinosaurus, plesiosaur, ankylosaurus, allosaurus, parasaurolophus, dilophosaurus, diplodocus, iguanadon, and pachycephalosaurus, as well as responses of "other." We know pterodactyls and plesiosaurs aren't dinosaurs. Opinion about dinosaurs comes from the question, "How much do you like or dislike dinosaurs?""
A shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur.
And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops).
Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your...
TurboTax and H&R Block spent $7 million lobbying the Trump administration to kill Direct File.
Both companies donated to Trump's 2024 campaign and inauguration committees.
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Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.
Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!
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Nuremberg 2.0. go nurembrrrrrrrrr
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New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more.
They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom.
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Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .
How it feels doing literally any task right now.
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NYTimes Headline: The Women Who Believe That Women Should Lose the Right to Vote Subhead: Adherents to biblical patriarchy support household voting: One household, one vote--the husband's. They say the idea is catching on.
The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.
I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.
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“.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.”
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I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED
oh wow almost like there's actually no money in running a service like this
Adobe Is The Best Example of the Worthlessness Of The Modern Public Software Company That I Can Find Adobe is a company that bathes in the scent of mediocrity, constantly doing an impression of an ever-growing business through a combination of acquisitions and price increases that are only possible in a global regulatory torpor and a market that doesn’t know when it’s being conned. It’s also emblematic of how the modern software company grows - not through an honest exchange of value built on a bedrock of innovation and customer happiness, but the eternal death march of enshittification of its products and monopolization of whatever fields it can barge its way into. In many ways, Adobe is one of the greater tragedies of the Rot Economy. Beneath the endless layers of subscriptions and weird upsells and horrible Business Idiots lay beloved products like Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign that are slowly decaying as Adobe searches to boost engagement and revenue. A great example is a story from Digital Camera World from 2025, where writer Adam Juniper talked about features he loved that were disappearing for no reason: …in this case it was the Shape tool which, I admit, isn't an essential for most photographers. I wanted to put a speech bubble onto an image which is something I've done in the past (and like I have done for this article) to illustrate stories and it was dead simple because one of the built-in shapes in Photoshop's shape tool was a speech bubble. Sure, it's not super elegant but, hey, we live in a world where an entire generation or two communicates using crudely drawn faces and representing emoji and that's apparently fine, so why can't I make a two word joke in a bubble like I used to be able to? All I wanted is for a robot with a camera to be saying "Smile, Human!" to illustrate a piece I'd commissioned for this very site about, well, how A.I. might not be the best at getting pictures of people. That makes sense, right? As an editor, it's mo…
![Adobe Is A Depressing Corporate Parasite With A Genuine Loathing For Its Customers - And AI Is The Final Insult
An unintended consequence of Adobe’s pivot to subscriptions is that it emboldened the company to disregard the wishes and opinions of their users, and its aggressive pivot to AI threatens to destroy what’s left of its good will.
You know, like when Adobe quietly changed its terms of service to allow the company to use customer data to train its AI models, but not to worry, the company later pledged not to do the precise thing that it paid a lawyer to write that it could do, and then insert into its EULA.
Or when it marketed AI technologies as being something that could replace photographers -- who, I remind you, are a major customer constituency for Adobe.
Adobe’s Chief Strategy Officer even described AI as the new digital camera (it isn’t). In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, saying:
“When artists say to me, ‘I hate generative AI, why are you even allowing it in any of your products?’ I’m like, ‘Because [otherwise] people are gonna go to illegitimate places and you’re going to end up getting paid nothing.’ ” Belsky said. “This is a revolution, this is the new digital camera, and we have to embrace it.”
Belsky didn’t clarify what he meant by “illegitimate places,” or how technology unapologetically marketed as being something that could replace creatives could somehow, at the same time, see them get paid “something.”
Nor, for that matter, did he say whether that “something” would be enough to live a dignified life.
Then there was the time when Adobe sold a bunch of AI slop images that were created “in the style of Ansel Adams” - one of the most celebrated photographers in American history - only to backtrack when the estate of Adams pointed out that it wasn’t exactly in the best taste, saying that Adobe was “on their last nerve.”
It’s worth reading the full comment from the Adams estate:
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Adobe Is A Depressing Corporate Parasite With A Genuine Loathing For Its Customers - And AI Is The Final Insult An unintended consequence of Adobe’s pivot to subscriptions is that it emboldened the company to disregard the wishes and opinions of their users, and its aggressive pivot to AI threatens to destroy what’s left of its good will. You know, like when Adobe quietly changed its terms of service to allow the company to use customer data to train its AI models, but not to worry, the company later pledged not to do the precise thing that it paid a lawyer to write that it could do, and then insert into its EULA. Or when it marketed AI technologies as being something that could replace photographers -- who, I remind you, are a major customer constituency for Adobe. Adobe’s Chief Strategy Officer even described AI as the new digital camera (it isn’t). In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, saying: “When artists say to me, ‘I hate generative AI, why are you even allowing it in any of your products?’ I’m like, ‘Because [otherwise] people are gonna go to illegitimate places and you’re going to end up getting paid nothing.’ ” Belsky said. “This is a revolution, this is the new digital camera, and we have to embrace it.” Belsky didn’t clarify what he meant by “illegitimate places,” or how technology unapologetically marketed as being something that could replace creatives could somehow, at the same time, see them get paid “something.” Nor, for that matter, did he say whether that “something” would be enough to live a dignified life. Then there was the time when Adobe sold a bunch of AI slop images that were created “in the style of Ansel Adams” - one of the most celebrated photographers in American history - only to backtrack when the estate of Adams pointed out that it wasn’t exactly in the best taste, saying that Adobe was “on their last nerve.” It’s worth reading the full comment from the Adams estate: “Assuming you want to be taken seriously re:…
As long as this company is run by scummy MBAs that don’t give a shit about their products, Adobe will continue to fester and decay, punishing its customers in the process. To close, I want to share a quote from Bloomberg that really boiled my blood: Narayen’s nearing departure—after 18 years at the helm—comes amid intensifying pressure on the Photoshop maker to adapt its business to the artificial-intelligence era before AI rivals eat its lunch. Adobe is in a class of major software giants—including Atlassian, Intuit and Salesforce—that’s struggling to figure out this transformation. It used to be that software was eating the world, but now AI appears to be eating software. Or at least making the expectations ridiculously high for those in the jaws of this technological upheaval. Adobe posted solid quarterly sales on Thursday and said its annual recurring revenue from its suite of AI-first products had more than tripled from a year earlier. Yet the stock price slid on the earnings news and has dropped almost 40% in the past year. This is an offensive, ahistorical description of what’s actually happening. There are no AI-powered incumbents challenging Adobe - in fact, few challengers really exist, because if they did, Adobe would try and buy them, much like they tried (and failed) to buy Figma for $20 billion in 2023, a company that lost $226 million in revenue in its last quarter but would’ve added a billion in annual revenue to a company that’s incapable of coming up with its own ideas. As I’ve previously said, framing Adobe’s issues as “AI-related disruption” allows you to rationalize a company built on fucking its customers and acquiring other companies is facing the limits of gravity. It’s emblematic of a software industry that constantly tests the limits of good taste and consumer happiness, and how far one can take a business through usury, deception, exploitation and rent-seeking. Adobe is no longer the company that revolutionized printing, or digital…
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remember kids, if it’s healthcare, education or social safety nets then it’s “how are we gonna pay for it?”
if it’s bombs, there’s always money.
American guy drinking a wing flavored protein espresso martini while he posts about off flavors in shou on a tea forum
SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.
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AI-created art isn't eligible for copyright protection, after the Supreme Court chose not to review a lower court ruling.
In 2022 the Copyright Office said images without “human authorship,” don't qualify for copyright protection — this was affirmed in 2023 by a district court.
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
the incentives here are so obscenely terrible that the entire thing should be illegal by default
“I am sabotaging negotiations because I stand to make piles of money on Polymarket” is absolutely in play, what a horrifying clusterfuck
WSJ ‹ Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Is Dead:.... Last Updated: Feb. 28, 2026 at 9:41pm ET • LIVE 1 hour ago U.S. Strikes in Middle East Use Anthropic, Hours After Trump Ban
WSJ PATRICK SISON/ASSOCIATED PRESS Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the help of those very same tools. Commands around the world, including U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, use Anthropic's Claude AI tool, people familiar with the matter confirmed. Centcom declined to comment about specific systems being used in its ongoing operation against Iran. The command uses the tool for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios even as tension between the company and Pentagon ratcheted up, the people said, highlighting how embedded the AI tools are in military operations. The administration and Anthropic have been feuding for months over how its AI models can be used by the Pentagon. Trump on Friday ordered agencies to stop working with the company and the Defense Department designated it a security threat and risk to its supply chain.
lol even though they banned them the government used Claude anyway. Slop strategies for the Epic Bacon War. This could not have gone worse for Altman
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It should be much more at the forefront of our minds, the extent to which the most politically activated and politically empowered segment of the authoritarian American cult calling itself "Christian" see the apocalypse as something to hasten, not prevent.
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
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