I’m no math wiz, but even I know that claiming you have a “different” way of “calculating percentages” just makes you look like an ignorant turd.

The Disappearance of the Public Bench Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.

"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it."

NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:

I’m not anti-AI because I’m anti-tech, I’m anti really fucking stupid wasteful destructive tech. That’s a pro-tech position.

Photo of flutemaker Patrick Olwell

Photos of the 2026 NEA Heritage Awardees

Right chuffed to share the news that my dad has been awarded an NEA Heritage Fellowship!

You can read about the 2026 Heritage Fellows here: www.arts.gov/honors/herit...

Talk about not understanding jack sh*t about what you read, mate.

Also I’m still super pissed that they thought it was ok to steal the name “Palantir” and rebrand it for something Tolkien would have fucking *hated.*

Yeah, I know Barack Obama, the former and most popular President of the United States of America has spoken out in favor of it.

But have you heard my dog's opinion?

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The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles.

That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org.

(All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection.

So forgive me if I smell a rat.

Acting ICE Director Says He Plans to Resign in May Todd Lyons said he would leave to spend more time with his family. He has spoken about a surge in threats against ICE officers, saying that he knew the reality firsthand.

Breaking News: Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE, said he would resign at the end of May.

An incurable dumbass like Vance mansplaining theology to the (checks notes) actual *pope* was not something I expected out of this otherwise mundane Tuesday, but here we are.

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Today's free newsletter is about the dangers of treating AI as being more than it is - a website or app built on expensive technology, with dubious reliability and inherently unsustainable economics.

The rhetoric from AI labs has to change.

www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never-respect-a-website/

somanyjacks-writes on tumblr - I don't know who needs to hear this, but if the phrase 'self care' doesn't resonate with you, try calling it 'system maintenance' and see if that clicks [image of a physical warning sign with an orange "WARNING" banner. The sign reads: "IF YOU DON'T SCHEDULE TIME FOR MAINTENANCE, YOUR EQUIPMENT WILL SCHEDULE IT FOR YOU."]

I have such cool friends.

For decades, presidents upheld the rule of law and did not actively undermine democracy. President Trump is taking a different approach.

This headline is woefully inadequate. C’mon, PBS, do better.

Louisiana GOP races to eliminate an elected office won by an exonerated man A New Orleans man exonerated after serving nearly 30 years in prison has a new fight on his hands. Calvin Duncan has been elected as the city's new clerk of criminal court, but now Republican lawmaker...

Another example of Jim Crow 2.0 smdh
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Also: whatever strengths YouTube’s ad algorithms have, they must also be dumb as rocks because whatever this add is selling is so abhorrent to me personally that far from buying it, I am ready to wage war against it.

Screenshot of BS YouTube ad selling the latest conspiracy theory pseudo-spiritual snake oil.

Screenshot of BS YouTube ad selling the latest conspiracy theory pseudo-spiritual snake oil.

Screenshot of BS YouTube ad selling the latest conspiracy theory pseudo-spiritual snake oil.

Screenshot of BS YouTube ad selling the latest conspiracy theory pseudo-spiritual snake oil.

Surely there must be a way that we, as a society, can train enough people see this kind of thing as the abject, incurable *nonsense* it is so that we can forever banish it from the world.

I must still have a shred of a funny (ahem) bone, because this cracks me up and I don't hate it. There *is* precedent in the lore for a Maiar shacking up with an elf and having a kid, so as fan theories go, this isn't the worst.

Lawd, that's funny. Can't fault the logic of the argument. There *is* after all a precedent in the lore for a Maiar shacking up with an elf + having children, so I don't see why it wouldn't work. As fan theories go, this is funnier and more credible than a lot of the crap that people speculate. HT.

He was very weary; the day had been long, and full of dragons.

ADHD medication in childhood may reduce later psychosis risk, landmark study finds
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GSA: No federal building meets 60% occupancy target set by law | Federal News Network The Trump administration has cited low occupancy as justification for moving several agencies out of their headquarters buildings.

Remember a year ago, when DOGE had GSA selling federal buildings left and right, having OPM ordering everybody to work in offices in DC, to get the building utilization rate up? Yeah, about that:

Look, we're just going to make this case about who gets impeached. If you vote against birthright citizenship, you get impeached. It's that simple. Democratic senators should be saying this loudly.

There was mushroom and dandelion petal soup, hot flatbread spread with a paste made from almonds, a woodland salad, and a huge rhubarb crumble. The crumble was a great favorite with the little ones, who spread it thick with honey.

Carter Bank sells Justice family businesses’ loans The loans, connected to family businesses of U.S. Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., were worth more than $200 million but have not been earning interest for the bank since 2023.

Shitbag U.S. Senator Jim Justice, of West Virginia, has for years refused to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to a small Virginia bank, threatening their solvency. This week they finally managed to unload the loans to an unnamed third party.

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

Absolutely not and Meta, go fuck yourself on this one.

i will strangle a horse by BRAINMAGE A comedy twine-based choose-your-own-adventure game where it's your first day on The Farm, and you have One Job

Periodic reminder that the multi-award-nominated game "i will strangle a horse"
a) exists
b) was made ENTIRELY without AI. Obviously

Every single word was chosen to maximise impact, eg "you died of bonegone horsefright"

No fukken robot can give you gold like THAT

brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran...

justice alito talmbout it "seriously undermines" voter confidence when a "big stash" of mail ballots arrives and changes the "apparent outcome"

sir do you mean when all the votes are counted? bc it sounds like you're just describing when all the votes are counted