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• Post #3340870

  Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon, a European social media platform that has been successfully operating for a decade? Oh, right https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/

• Post #3336592

  You know some serious shit went down when there is a Wikipedia entry for a guy and then a separate one for his leg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sickles%27s_leg

• Post #3331993

  RE: https://vmst.io/@vmstan/116757564108266599 Welp. Guess I’m looking for a new place to live again

• Post #3327125

  Medieval flying monk? Don't mind if I do https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/did-a-medieval-flying-monk-spot-halleys-comet-twice-its-complicated/

• Post #3317431

  Free tip: regardless of your politics, do not get your food from someone who is this cavalier about “put[ting] a couple kids in the hospital” https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/14/health/the-milkman

• Post #3302047

  "A federal judge in Virginia on Friday granted a longer block against the Department of Justice implementing a 'Anti-Weaponization Fund,' saying that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s verbal claim that the fund was not going forward was an insufficient guarantee. Judge Leonie Brinkema gave Blanche and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent a week to submit written sworn declarations that the fund was not going forward, as Blanche recently testified to Congress." https://www.cn...

• Post #3301580

  "Sources indicate that Kennedy has little interest in the details of the health department’s work and little direct interaction with career staff. Kennedy misses critical, regularly scheduled meetings with agency leaders, is sometimes 'checked out' in the meetings he attends, and has been out of the loop on key decisions. On Wednesday night, Kennedy responded to the report with an 871-word diatribe. His key argument was that much of the story could be refuted by a look at his jam-p...

• Post #3299758

  Fired the lawn company today that replaced their phone receptionist with AI. That wasn't the entire reason I fired them. But it wasn't not, either

• Post #3291616

  The thing I did not anticipate about the future was how dumb everything would be

• Post #3270337

  A filmed West End performance of the Tony Award-winning musical "Hadestown" is coming to movie theaters across America for five days on July 24, starring five principals from the original Broadway cast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Q5TWHslOE

• Post #3229948

  How much do you want to bet that this just means it has a CLAUDE.md file that says “do not hallucinate cases” https://www.404media.co/judge-learns-lawyers-on-both-sides-of-case-used-ai-cancels-trial-kicks-everyone-off-the-case/

• Post #3141708

  Any Democratic candidate who does not turn this headline into an ad is guilty of political malpractice https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/05/white-house-ballroom-donald-trump-00951892 #USPol

• Post #3034906

  Someone here asked to have their truck tailgate decorated with a big ‘Murican flag and a badass jet fighter, but didn’t know enough about jet fighters to know that the badass one that got put on their tailgate is a Russian MiG-29

• Post #2584142

  ME [ killing you and taking all your stuff ]: Ethical issues aside, this is gonna be a big win for me

• Post #2539978

  Every time I think this guy can't possibly get more embarrassing, he somehow finds a way https://www.twincities.com/2026/05/14/fbi-director-patel-vip-snorkel-uss-arizona-emails/ #USPol

• Post #2521432

  I enjoyed this 1975 interview with British fast-draw champion “Big Dave Rio,” a.k.a. “Mister Hill the unemployed truck driver” https://youtu.be/XdGWV1T1v4w

• Post #2510061

  Try to live your life so that you are not ever required to testify under oath about whether or not you are a prolific liar https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/altman-forced-to-confront-claims-at-openai-trial-that-hes-a-prolific-liar/

• Post #2464611

  “There’s one fundamental ground truth that every A.I. huckster always, eventually, reveals that they do believe. They believe that you all are probably fucked, but they’re gonna be just fine.” https://www.todayintabs.com/p/it-s-lamer-than-you-think

• Post #2461958

  “Our community has spent so many years building something of genuine human value: a shared body of knowledge, cultural meaning and careful critique all of which lend considerable discursive depth and richness to what we do. But in the brave new world of Knitting Bullshit, all of that accumulated wisdom, all of the real history of knitting as labour, as resistance, as solidarity, as design intelligence, as craft, is now there simply to provide the powerful emotional currency that AI-generated pod...

• Post #2441987

  “A painting stolen by Nazis from a Jewish art collector in the Netherlands during World War Two has been found in the home of descendants of a notorious Dutch SS collaborator, an art detective says.” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgmpj0p9k08o

• Post #2427733

  I am going to hell for laughing through this as hard as I did https://youtu.be/EX--0zqaflg

• Post #2397061

  Nothing good ever happens when a massive for-profit corporation decides to build a “city of the future” https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/05/inside-toyotas-10b-private-utopia-big-ideas-few-people-cameras-everywhere/

• Post #2370591

  Some photos make great writing prompts. This is one of them (From here: https://www.curbsideclassic.com/vintage-snapshots-and-photography/a-gallery-of-traveling-and-driving-ladies-vintage-photos-1950s-1960s/)

• Post #2341570

  I live in South Carolina. I currently have two books out from my local library on interlibrary loan. One came to me from the library of Arkansas State University. The other came to me from a public library in Greeley, Colorado. All I had to do to get them was ask. Interlibrary loan is a miracle https://beige.party/@kimlockhartga/116482460429676084

• Post #2300248

  "Parmigiano Reggiano is one of the world’s most tightly regulated foods. It can only be produced in a small, designated area using three ingredients — milk, salt and rennet — and it must age for at least 12 months before it can be sold. Many wheels mature for 24, 36, or even 40 months. That long wait creates a financial bottleneck. Farmers must be paid every 30 days. Staff, feed and energy costs accumulate daily. But revenue doesn’t arrive for a year or more. For more than a century, C...

• Post #2255576

  Lord, send me one competent person. Just one. As a treat

• Post #2240650

  It is not clear to me that America can build ships anymore. https://news.usni.org/2026/05/08/future-aircraft-carrier-doris-miller-delayed-by-2-years

• Post #2235019

  "Authorities have maintained there is no confirmed connection between the 11 scientists, but the fact that they were all involved in highly valued, strategically sensitive fields has drawn concern from federal officials. Those fields include nuclear weapons security and defense systems, NASA space missions and asteroid tracking, fusion energy, and advanced aerospace and military technologies. 'We’re very concerned about this. This is a national security concern. This would sugg...

• Post #2233429

  "Since the ceasefire, Iranians have gone further, offering to stop all enrichment for five years and to readmit international inspectors to verify compliance. This was an extraordinary concession. Trump could have accepted it and claimed that his Iran nuclear deal was better than Obama’s, which allowed Iran to enrich uranium at a level of 3.67 percent. But he rejected the offer, demanding a 20-year suspension—a term Iran was certain to reject." https://slate.com/news-and-politics/202...

• Post #2233049

  🤩 https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1956-mercedes-benz-300sl-gullwing-6/