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In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

i was very much like 'dude if you are saving internet RIGHT NOW don't respond' but he was like 'oh i read your newsletter i got time!'

Talked to General Motors product head Sterling Anderson, who had some thoughts about the best and safest way to phase in actual self-driving technology He also thinks AVs *could* cause a traffic apocalypse - but that we have time to figure it all out www.wired.com/story/gm-wan...

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Ok gotta admit the new Tesla release somehow cut through all my cynicism straight to my child core & reminded me that sometimes shit is just cool. I truly cannot wait to get my own hat (yes I think it’s stylish fuck the haters) full of infinite rabbits

"for those new to liner time" that is the perfect sentence!!

It's worth noting that the post pandemic inflation spike was more-or-less over by summer 2023. That's 3 years ago, for those new to linear time.

He's a sausage short of a barbecue.

One way that big scams go bust is that eventually you become responsible for the livelihoods of so many people who know where bodies are buried that it becomes impossible to scam enough to pay them and keep everyone onside.

I wrote about the feeble attempt by prominent tech punditry mainstays like John Gruber and Casey Newton to rationalize their continued use of Elon Musk's propaganda website.

So there currently a raging debate on X, Bluesky & other platforms where people are using a drop in Cloudflare's YandexBot traffic to claim that right-wing online engagement is falling. radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238... That conclusion doesn't follow from the data.

remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.

oh wow, protein yogurt drinks are like 10 times more pleasant than protein shakes. who could have seen this coming other than the probably like several billion people on earth who didn't just discover them

This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal

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Had this story in late May

I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

#SheHulkSunday 💪💚 Art by Kath Lobo

Batman Day isn't fun for everybody. Please check on your superstitious and cowardly loved ones today.

New look at Batman in ‘The Batman 2’ 🦇

I’ll be at UN next week, I’ll be in conversations with 6+ foreign ministers, I’ll get the info.

Host Ken Jennings confessed to asking his writers to slip a reference to a beloved viral Jeopardy! joke into Friday's episode.

It looks like @alexrossart.bsky.social doesn’t post here so I’m going to have to be the hero and post this on bsky.

NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.

I would take the thread of rogue super-intelligent AIs more seriously if OpenAI and Anthropic were able to use their current capabilities to be profitable.

www.espn.com/espn/page2/s... Sept 12th. 2001 Hunter S Thompson essay

This image was posted on Something Awful within the hour of the second tower being hit iirc

Trump thinks that if you pay somebody $10 for a burrito than you have lost the $10, like it has been stolen from you. He's not pretending; this is literally the basis of his trade policy

I’m finally watching The Prisoner and Peter Milligan and Grant Morrison have a lot of explaining to do, I’ll tell you that for free

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

Cleaned up this Dolly sketch from a few years ago, mostly to make her hair twice as big, because she deserves it.

RIP Dolly

Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...

RIP to a personal hero. Dolly Parton gave free books to children, and over thirty years she's given out over 300 million books to kids in need. What an angel.

So, it’s not a conspiracy, and you are not imagining it. The biggest and wealthiest tech leaders are genuine fascists. They are leading an active and intentional systematic attack on labor. And they have radicalized each other while sidelining or removing the remaining decent execs in the industry.

I come from a long line of spreadsheet people. I am a spreadsheet man. My father was a spreadsheet man. My grandfathers were shoe men and random farm job men respectively but I'm sure had Excel been around they wouldn't be able to resist them siren song of the cells. My daughter will toil in sheets.

Spreadsheet people New York and California Spreadsheet people I was born on Jupiter

[seinfeld voice] what is the deal with natalie harp youtu.be/XqpTkbNRAjY

oh look, dems can easily leverage messaging to hijack, create, or redirect entire newscycles by exploiting the infotainment media's obsession with scaled ad engagement, who could have possibly imagined such a thing

The President of the United States is a liar.

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

Two young crabbers are carving out careers on the Chesapeake Bay in a field dominated by older men. One is building a brand through TikTok. The other catches crabs one at a time.

this is what peak user experience looks like. you may not like it, but this is the ideal of interaction design.

Happy 4th birthday to George Jetson from ‘The Jetsons.’ He was born in 2022 and is 40 years old in the year of 2062.

Every journalist on the Reflecting Pool story knows damn well that Trump’s “vandalism” claim is complete bullshit. The way they mindlessly amplify what they know is a lie is a perfect example of how normalizing Trump misinforms readers. This is a huge journalistic failure and history will be unkind.