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If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

submitted 3 days ago • 111 comments

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

submitted 3 days ago • 139 comments

Thinking about all the great people with whom I served. Some of them are no longer with us, for a variety of reasons. I think about them all, and greatly miss many of them and all the ways they deeply, personally affected me and my life. Not just today, but all the time.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I hope everyone working on LLMs has reckoned with their role in building a technology that, so far, has offered little to no benefit to humanity — while causing real harm by degrading art, undermining labor in creative industries, and straight up automating political propaganda

submitted 25 days ago • 320 comments

Very shitty. Mine's now gone as well. I encourage others to delete the apps and their account as well. It was never a very good way to actually learn languages anyway, imo.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Canceled a larger $$ package with Amazon almost two months ago, while it was still in their own custody, because it wasn't showing up fast enough... They finally acknowledged receipt of it today. How--it never left their own hands/control. So very weird.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

You guys Elon Musk appointed the head of the IRS and President Trump didn’t even know about it.

submitted 41 days ago • 232 comments

Maaaaaaan, Chuck Schumer just suuuuuuuuuuucks.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

So there are signs that the very unethical autodubbing feature YouTube is rolling out will be opt-out instead of opt-in. Found these on their FAQ pages for it, so please keep an eye on your channels if they ever push the dubbing to be auto-enabled. Keep this shit off.

submitted 41 days ago • 45 comments

Czech magazine cover. They get it.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

You know what? Any Republican who says one single goddamn word about "the dignity of the oval office" ever again should have this tweet rubbed in their face until their nose comes off.

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

The sheer fucking arrogance here is just something else...

submitted 41 days ago • 86 comments

Here's my statement on the Wisconsin Supreme Court's decision to uphold my 400-year veto. TL;DR: Hell yes! ⬇️

submitted 41 days ago • 15 comments

donald trump and the entire rights reaction to this moment has shown they were unprepared for any of the backlash they’re receiving and that’s why it has to be kept up

submitted 41 days ago • 63 comments

A national grassroots action against the Trump administration’s policies is expected to unfold across 50 states and D.C. on Saturday. The rallies are loosely organized under the 50501 movement — which stands for “50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement.”

submitted 41 days ago • 27 comments

To all veterans from another veteran: ALL OF YOU swore to defend the country against enemies both foreign AND domestic. If you support MAGA, you're violating the oath you swore. You are not being honorable--YOU ARE ACTIVELY DISHONORING YOUR COUNTRY. Seriously. Get your shit & your honor together.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Trump's all-in on "government efficiency", yet created Space Force his last term. What good has Space Force even done? It seems ridiculous. I say this as an Army vet; I understand the need for a military on some level, but this is just AirForce NewGamePlus, maaaaaaybe. Doesn't need to exist at all.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Tax prep website today conveniently disappeared their free-filing option that was there a few days ago for one kid, and thus almost had my other kid paying for state filing despite not even making enough to need to file at all. Not gonna name the freetaxusa.com site that did this, so don't ask. Boo.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Is it possible to be both overwhelmed and underwhelmed at the same time... asking for a me

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Wife lost her key fob, then found it, in the washer, after an 80-min wash cycle. I took it apart to blow out what little water was between the buttons & the rubber gasket that keeps water from going any further, and, shockingly, all good. Still works. I don't even wanna guess cost of a replacement.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

At a _minimum_. There's just no excuse that overrides what has not only happened to him--which he will carry with him forever, I sure would--but to all kinds of other people as well as a result of what happened to him.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

The latest update for Ghost Browser is broken as hell, across all sites in varying ways. What a mess.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Victim complex

submitted 50 days ago • 91 comments

Oh, The mad old King of New York, Surrounded by lying men, He marched us all to the top of the hill, And he marched us down again. And when the yields were up, they were up, And when the stonks were down, they were down, And when they were only half-way up, They were neither up nor down

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

NEW YORK pays >$1.4 BILLION in federal tax dollars for Israel's weapons.

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

I've watched my youngest play enough The First Berserker: Khazan that I can say it's pretty darn good. More Lords of the Fallen (the do-over, not the original) than Elden Ring, but that's quite OK. I have two offspring who love these kinds of games, and both give it multiple thumbs-up.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

No. You’ve been watching stock market fraud.

submitted 50 days ago • 3044 comments

The Secretary of Health and Human Services doesn’t know about massive cuts to health programs?

submitted 50 days ago • 118 comments

Chaos doesn’t make America great. Corruption doesn’t make America great. But that’s all we get from the Trump admin.

submitted 50 days ago • 23 comments

Even better time to remember DOGE is not a legitimate federal agency in any way, shape or form, Musk himself has major conflicts of interest in EVERY instance of DOGE action, and thus DOGE et al should NOT be entitled to ANY reimbursement, or allowed to carry out ANY actions on ANY gov't ANYTHING.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

All they do is lie www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin' alive, stayin' alive Unaltered vid of a $1M check winner saying Musk told her to vote in the #Wisconsin #2025 #SupremeCourt #election, so she did. What #ElonMusk did: illegal. He needs held accountable for his felonies. Keep this video alive. His PAC wants it disappeared.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Pump the gas, pump the brakes, whatever suits the billionaires, apparently. I hate everything about all of this. Every crooked thumb is on the scale and it always affects everyday people net-negatively whether these billionaire assholes win OR lose.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

I do wonder how many people have been hitting up Amazon, etc lately for a "Switch 2" and will end up getting an OLED model... Lots of listings calling the OLED "Switch 2" out there. Some parent/grandparents may be finding out the hard way. :|

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Wait. Nintendo, waaaaaaat. No hall-effect sensors for the Switch 2 sticks? Have you learned so little? Why NOT do this? They're playing a little bit coy about how they've been "redesigned", but when they completely refused to recall them w/ current Switch, I'm now skeptical af about all of it. :\

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Call your reps. Tell them to be more like Brian Schatz. open.substack.com/pub/politicu...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Say what you want about the Minecraft movie, but, entirely separately, Jack Black just fucking sucks.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments