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Target lets go of 2 execs who had supported DEI programs -- news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...

“When the system forces you to code with a hallucinating clown, eventually you stop resisting. You let him type. You let him be "productive." You check out. You surrender your brain to the noise and just float.” deplet.ing/the-copilot-...

I believe this means the sun will set over the entirety of the British Empire tonight for the first time in several hundred years. Chagos is the dot below India on this map. Sunset in the Pitcairns (dot in the Pacific) will happen ~40 minutes before sunrise in Akrotiri and Dhekelia (dot on Cyprus).

One of the things that goes unremarked in these stories is that they rest on relentless armies of fascist goons who will harass and torment ordinary people for years on end, with no recourse for their victims, and that everyone treat as normal. Cops support it. Gamergate is the law.

I'm going to wallow in my Missouri for awhile: open.substack.com/pub/sarahken... #stlwx

This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

BREAKING: A judge blocks President Trump's executive order to shut down the Education Department. Follow live updates.

Why look at that! A summer book guide written by an actual human being listing real books written by other actual human beings! And I'm one of them! More here: www.ocregister.com/2025/05/20/1...

turns out bill maher is, in fact, cancellable www.semafor.com/article/05/1...

In awe of the bravery of college students standing up for Palestinian lives in their graduation speeches knowing they can have their degree withheld for the apparent sin of asserting that human beings shouldn’t be murdered indiscriminately

GitHub announces an AI coding agent for GitHub Copilot that can fix bugs, add features, improve docs, and more, and open-sources GitHub Copilot in VS Code (Emma Roth/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

They routinely pretend they have no actual influence but are somehow standing behind a glass partition just quietly observing what happened, so they takes no responsibility for outcome, even as they exhibit huge biases and overt agendas, up to and including major impact on American elections....

It's not just xAI in Memphis. Power- and water-hungry data centers and supercomputers are cropping up leaving communities demanding answers on environmental impacts, jobs and more... This is excellent by @insideclimatenews.org on Project Marvel in Alabama insideclimatenews.org/news/1105202...

Analysis: since January, 36+ associates of Musk, Thiel, Andreessen, and Palmer Luckey have been tapped for federal roles that are critical to their companies (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

New Q&A is up! My thoughts on Trump, Big Tech, crypto, corruption, the economy, elections -- and lots of other stuff on my readers' minds! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/your-quest...

4 artists & 3 scientists created a series of posters to communicate some of the science issues most important to us. These posters are made to be shared! We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online. get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com

nightmares.

This has been the defining trait of my career over the last 20 years, working in tech. Everyone can see it now, because they’ve seen the corruption of the tech tycoons, but we had the first view of their venality, and watched as they ruined the lives of so many who raised the alarms about it.

Newark airport radar screens went black again. abcnews.go.com/US/radar-scr...

IPL 2025 suspended indefinitely amid escalating India-Pakistan tensions www.thehindu.com/sport/cricke...

<diligently updating the list of career paths on the university’s “Major in Mathematics!” poster>

Happy Birthday to master storyteller Sir David Attenborough! 🎉 We’ve loved working with Sir David as he delivered the narration to the upcoming immersive experience, Our Story with David Attenborough. Tickets go on sale in just two weeks. Keep an eye out for the announcement!

HUGE SALE! My book THEY KNEW is on sale for $2.99 on Kindle and other ebook vendors: Kindle: www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B09N... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... B & N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/they-knew-...

It's Teacher Appreciation Week. Here's how to appreciate teachers: pay them better.

the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done

also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think *anybody* could predict for where this ad goes

This @gamersnexus.bsky.social video is incredible. A beautifully humanized explanation of how tariffs work and their practical implications, doesn't require any knowledge about gaming/PCs or anything. Looking forward to having Steve on Better Offline soon to discuss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_m...

We 100% don’t judge the health of our nation by the correct metrics.

President Donald Trump has ended the de minimis exemption, which previously allowed Temu, Shein, and other online retailers to send packages from China to the US valued under $800 duty-free. www.wired.com/story/tariff...

WSJ: After tech to manage air traffic failed several times in recent days, 20% of the FAA controllers at Newark Airport walked out. Now, United has canceled 35 daily RT flights from Newark. FAA staffing at Newark is too low to handle the planes scheduled, United's CEO said. Gift link!

Tesla is installing new locks on the barn doors after all the horses have escaped.

Meta, Spotify, and Match launch the Coalition for a Competitive Mobile Experience, a lobbying coalition to take on Apple and Google over user age verification (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

This, from a woman in Oklahoma talking to her local news station, is better than the vast majority of political speeches you'll hear today.

Remember, to throughly cook all meat products, for safety’s sake…👇 Enjoy. 😎✨

“Your Home Without China” 🇨🇳 An incredible interactive graphic examining which household categories rely on Chinese production: @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

tech bro is short for technically broken

Today is Indie Bookstore Day! I'm grateful for all independent stores but especially Left Bank Books in St Louis. From my 2018 launch to covid to the 2022 St Louis flood to our current era, we have been through a LOT together. Support them and get a signed book! www.left-bank.com/product/sign...

Virginia Giuffre, the prominent survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse, has died by suicide. Giuffre, 41, died in Neergabby, Australia, where she had been living. Giuffre was one of the earliest and loudest voices calling for criminal charges against Epstein. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Sources: XAI Holdings, the newly combined entity housing xAI and X, is in talks to raise roughly $20B, or possibly more, valuing the company at more than $120B (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

"A test of 22 general-purpose AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, x.AI, Meta, Google and other leading players in artificial intelligence found that all scored less than 50 percent accuracy, on average, for simple tasks required of entry-level financial analysts" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...