A hundred years ago, the U.S. had a nationwide network of short-line railroads that connected most urban and rural communities. By the 1940s, most of it had been dismantled ... by the barons of the auto and oil industries. 😑

In case anybody started thinking that the Occupation of Minneapolis was over.

Surprising no one, I'd love to build the new #voron CNC machine.

Also surprising no one, I can't afford to.

A few days ago I watched Ed Zitron say that CEOs need to stop saying AI will destroy jobs if they don’t want people to throw Molotovs at their houses. I’m sure this is completely coincidental

Lisa simpson in front of a glass case of THE BOARD OF CANADA

This is your reminder that BSky, unlike Masto, does not have auto deletion of posts.

Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros:

Paramount+
CBS
CNN
Showtime
HBO
Warner Bros
TNT
TBS
MTV
DC Studios
Nickelodeon
Comedy Central
Cartoon Network
And more...

This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped.

State AGs must step in and block it.

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy! Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user ha...

#oopsie
Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

"Woman at the Station" by artist Ewa Tudorska. A woman waiting for a train

Morning Bluesky

kinda feel like this pope is helping set a template of an image of progressive anti-fascism that doesn't extend to trans people - an opportunity for any time you point out that basically to make you be ostracized as a whiny outsider for a niche cause and a representative of Our Side Gone Too Far

Families left reeling after hospitals in blue states drop transgender care for youth Massachusetts passed laws and joined lawsuits to protect access to gender-affirming care for minors. But faced with the Trump administration's threats, some hospitals voluntarily stopped care.

"It just felt like the floor had fallen out. Like all the support that I thought we had was gone. Maybe this is naive, but I didn't think that would happen in Massachusetts."

there is functionally a conspiracy to gaslight you into believing that, so it's understandable
www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...

"AI is a fascist project" feels more and more true these days.

They need the agentic surveillance state to enforce their dreary vision of the future; no law for them higher than "by virtue of birth".

For me, this was when I was 9 and used allowance money to buy a paper diary from a discount store.