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Decide what to be, and go be it. Columbus
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Status pages are an absolute fucking joke these days. BigQuery has been down for like 40 minutes.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Vietnam war veteran tries to win his wife back while freelancing as a private detective.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Get ready for every right wing talking point to get its own series of articles, all filled with analysis from Chris Rufo and reaction quotes from “ordinary New Yorkers” who just coincidentally happen to be officials in the local Republican Party.

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

Nailed it

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

submitted 7 days ago • 102 comments

I’m late to this interview with Tony Gilroy but I think his answer, about why most art is progressive, hits the nail on the head. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride. So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels. They opened the drawbridge to block them. So they marched to a different bridge. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 12 days ago • 246 comments

Doctors at the CDC say children should receive Covid vaccines. A disgraced ex-environmental lawyer who spent 20 years abusing heroin says they shouldn't. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

submitted 15 days ago • 41 comments

It’s not “superhuman intelligence”. It’s great at summarization and NLP, and those make it an amazing new tool. But it’s not “superhuman” and it’s not “intelligent”.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Business insider was on massive discount so I guess I’ll wake up and be angry about stupid shit in business insider every morning now

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Argggg what is this nonsense

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I spent ten years attacking universities as illiberal and overly woke. Now that the Trump administration is using my rhetoric to destroy American science and higher education, I am horrified but not horrified enough to apologize.

submitted 19 days ago • 40 comments

After seeing how people use Grok on X, it’s actually worse out there than I thought.

submitted 20 days ago • 10 comments

Replace “Alexa” with “pocket calculator” in this paragraph to get the full effect of how bizarre this author’s view is.

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

This hellscape piece envisions that the only two options for modern infra are cloudfoundry and kubernetes and I beg people to understand what’s possible today with managed services and functions.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

motherfucker i will take every vaccine i can get if you dipshits open smallpox or polio up again I'll get it that. i love getting rabies shots. gimme all of it.

submitted 23 days ago • 190 comments

Burn it all down "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth led a Christian prayer service in the Pentagon’s auditorium on Wednesday morning, during working hours, in which President Trump was praised as a divinely appointed leader."

submitted 25 days ago • 430 comments

Why yes I would rather hire theoretical cheap robots than people but unfortunately they are only theoretical

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

How could anyone think that UATX is anything other than a high-concept reboot for conservative culture warriors? How has it leaders done anything that would support an alternative conclusion?

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Wanna see something incredibly ... bad? Here's Alito quoting a source to suggest that you can't do habeas class actions: 1/

submitted 29 days ago • 71 comments

Then maybe they can do THE RUNNING MAN and then THE HUNGER GAMES.

submitted 30 days ago • 14 comments

It’s almost as if effective advocacy and leadership, whether for good or evil, can shape public opinion, and it’s possible to work to frame issues instead of passively responding to the way the opposition frames them and accepting their characterization of what is “moderate.”

submitted 32 days ago • 58 comments