Verge headline: Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want by Elizabeth Lopatto Illustration of a brain melting in the sun

"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and LLMs. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich."

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"This is an important thing to think about."

Which one of them brought the brain cell?

In a conflict, most countries prefer to take the diplomatic route. Under Hegseth, the US will skip straight to the fecal-oral route.

Eating that particular shit sandwich is the entry fee for every Trump nominee when they go before the senate to lie about everything they’ve been nominated to do.

With Aberdeen transferring back from KY, it’s like they’re getting the band back together. Maybe Reuben will decide to stay after all.

I think “handkerchief” (🤧) is the closest emoji match.
It works, kinda.

A midwestern relative once served a “breakfast casserole” which was all the breakfast foods, incl. sausage, bacon, frozen hash browns, eggs, & maple syrup dumped into a crockpot the night before and slow cooked overnight into a greasy, spoonable, horror show.

Tim Apple will be remembered as the guy who embarrassingly sucked up to Trump by giving him a fancy glass and gold trophy, and also worked for a computer company.

“Influenza and pneumonia killed more American soldiers and sailors during the war than did enemy weapons.”

San Francisco Solved Metro Vandalism With One Neat Trick The age of the fare-gate society is here.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Between that a permafrost melt releasing methane, there's systems where the effect triggers bad things that themselves accelerate the effect

The one that first low-key freaked me out is that the oceans are a massive, massive CO2 sink, but its solubility in water decreases with temperature for a compounding effect

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.

Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.

But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.

Trickle down hoax.

Wow:

More Corruption from the felon.

Even more of a reason the MAGAts will want to invade Greenland

"The average IQ in Somalia hovers around 70, and that's the threshold for mentally handicapped ... they're a net drain on the society" -- even by MAGA standards, the unvarnished racism of this interview of Rep. Brandon Gill by Benny Johnson is breathtaking

maybe good, helium is not a renewable resource, at least not until we start rolling out fusion reactors.

To the extent that tariffs were passed along, consumers are paying corporations for the inconvenience we caused them by electing the Orange Dipshit.

WE ain’t getting no refund.

📌MEDIA: Stop calling Jared Kushner a "high-level negotiator." He's a damn thief operating in his repulsive family's best interests not ours.

Jennifer has had 11 of her 15 margaritas for the day and SHE’S THE CAPTAIN NOW

This is brilliant.

It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.

You don’t want WNV. Majorly unfun in the acute phase and the sequalae can be wild.

I had just posted snark, but that’s actually really interesting.

Bet those Sierra Leone kids weren’t getting Covid tho

They stole my mail ballot in 2024.

Is there a way to have the courts go after this by bringing suit against it? We ALL have standing.

But “Imposter syndrome” describes the unjustified feeling that you’re completely unqualified for your job?