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Nintendo Switch 2 will not be able to make pizza.

No… no… This isn’t Luigi. This is Walupeeny.

Hey @mozilla.org @firefox.com it's me, one of those unicorns who never left for Chrome, and I'm finally having to consider looking elsewhere with that EULA. Inputting something into Firefox doesn't give your company a right to use it.

It would be nice to see mainstream media acknowledge that every alarmist in their ranks about Trump and his henchmen has been correct, and every single "Let's all calm down" guy--a posture of blasé detachment that is consistently over-rewarded in legacy media--has called it wrong from day one.

We've blown well past "should grind Congress to a halt with every procedural tool available," and are now well into "a democracy fighting for its life would have its elected members physically occupying the floors of Congress and refusing to leave."

The view that Elon was being given a powerless, do-nothing job with DOGE just to get him out of Trump's hair does not seem to have been correct.

I very strongly encourage folks to check out this long-form conversation I had with @AdamConover.net on his Factually! podcast (recorded just two days ago) focusing on offering context and busting myths surrounding the devastating Los Angeles #wildfires. www.youtube.com/watc...

Buried, amid the more immediate casualties and clearly visible damage of modern wildfire disasters, are the far more numerous victims of the secondary harms and "chronic emergencies" that subsequently unfold for months and years thereafter.

Pay attention to the newly accelerated war on porn.

There is wisdom here.

waaaaay too many people in the middle imo

utterly enraging www.latimes.com/california/s...

What the fuck?

Realized I'd only deactivated my Facebook account, not deleted. Well, that's done now.

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

Incredible precision by the helicopter crew dropping water on the LA firea 🎯

Typical: The right wing blames the fires in LA on "DEI," as Trump and LibsOfTikTok et al have; and liberals blame nothing and no one, exemplified by Mayor Bass's literal silence. The right has picked its fight, but liberals are so tied up in contradictory interests they can't risk offending anyone.

Getting reminded how useless mainstream press is at dealing with the far-right as Elon starts attacking Norway. He shares some bizarre conspiracy theory about immigration posted by some neo-Nazi and our press reports it with the headline "Elon Musk criticizes Norwegian immigration policies"

Might be a good time to point out a billionaire couple own and use more water than every home in LA combined

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

Catgirls, pauldrons, shrinkflation has hit all aspects of anime.

it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories

God, today is just a neverending parade of News™, isn't it.

FLAG: The North Carolina Supreme Court has issued an order blocking state officials from certifying the Democratic candidate as the winner of the race for a seat on the Court. All of the Republicans on the Court ruled against certification.

I think antitrust is not enough to deal with the tech industry. We need - and I know this era isn't one where we get it - a digital EPA, with quality standards for apps/digital services with personal liability for executives and real, meaningful mechanisms to force companies to stop hurting people.

The National Weather Service has issued a Bisexuality Warning for the Louisville Metro Area. Take appropriate precautions.

....yeah, I'd try this

Hell. You are describing hell. Nobody wants an “interactive and engaging” dishwasher. They just want their dishes cleaned. www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...

We need to normalise, in media, on socials and in face to face conversations, saying 'This is a stupid conversation and I'm not going to continue it.'

everything about this new Meta AI bot is so dystopian but for me the AI-generated images of nonexistent donated coats is up there

The canaries aren't doing well anntelnaes.substack.com/p/the-canari...

Ann Telnaes is a generational talent in editorial cartooning Bezos doesn’t even have the integrity of the fictional monster Charles Foster Kane