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Compare Vonnegut buying an envelope with this tech bro running from his life

Microsoft employees have discovered that any emails they send with the terms “Palestine” or “Gaza” are getting temporarily blocked from being sent. Microsoft confirmed to The Verge that it has implemented some form of email changes. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/tech/672312/...

RAMAPHOSA: I am sorry I don't have a plane to give you TRUMP: I wish you did. I'd take it. If your country offered the US Air Force a plane, I would take it RAMAPHOSA: Okay

An exceptional piece of writing taking you inside the life of a young man in Gaza, the myriad ways he’s both endured and suffered.. and continues to and the immense burdens he has had to carry.. he’s an exceptional writer who transports the reader into a world seen, by most, only through a screen

UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Miksi tämä on koko ajan näin helvetin typerää? Saastuttavan ja täysin turhan lentelyn pitää olla valtion maksamaa mutta samalla leikataan koulutuksesta, terveydestä ja hyvinvoinnista. Ministeri Ranne: Valtio maksaa lennot maakuntakentille kokonaan. yle.fi/a/74-20162950

this is such an interesting time to be alive. we concreted the internet as our second equal and primary reality but it's full of ghosts now we try to talk to them and they pass right through it's a haunted world of dead things who look real but don't really see us

People who are still shouting that Israel is not committing genocide must be clapping their hands over their ears every time an Israeli minister steps onto a podium because

"It is offensive to call us the Gestapo when in fact we are simply a Secret State Police force. A Geheime Staatspolizei, if you will."

Eurovision Song Contest with all its extravagance and general silliness is like taking a little break from this burning world and jumping into a pool of cool, refreshing water with a turd floating in it.

How appropriate that after Israel the Eurovision stage will be left with nothing but destruction and rubble. Bravo to Lithuania for daring to send this hauntingly beautiful song to ESC! youtu.be/2vLHs89Akzo?...

i feel like this is a good moment to mention that i’ve been pretty much exclusively using kagi.com for the last year or so and the difference in quality is just staggering can’t recommend it enough, even though it’s paid - it’s extremely worth it just for the sheer amount of time you save

People think backdoors look like “if [skoo] send_all_keys_to_cnc().” Every actual backdoor I’ve seen looks like someone was busy sticking crayons up their nose.

We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life

there's a local kebab place whose website claims to have a PDF of the menu, but when you open the PDF it's just a single photo of a kebab and chips

Perhaps one reason why I seem to experience much less AI FOMO than my industry peers is that I'm utterly unable to imagine what "getting left behind" would look like in practice, let alone it happening so fast I won't even notice until it's too late. They're still hiring frigging COBOL programmers!

this is how headlines used to be this is how headlines sold newspapers in the late 19th through mid-20th c it’s actually informative AND interesting, which makes you want more unlike NYT’s somnolent under-pitching of real events as if it’s some worthless socialite picking out a china pattern

When you're so desperate to be Putin you create Victory Day

This thread was prompted by something The Primeagen said about claims of 100x productivity gains. I don't remember his exact words, but it was something to the effect that if the work you do in 3 days with AI assistance would take you a whole year without it, you must be ridiculously incompetent.

A curious thing about AI productivity gains in programming: you often hear people talk about how they did a day's work in an hour, or a week's work in a day, but I haven't heard of a multi-year project finished in months.

"Ajatus, että uutisnälkäinen kansa janoaisi tuplamäärän yhtä nopeammin tuotettua sisältöä on kuin vaatisi ravintolaa tarjoilemaan kaksi kylmää pizzaa yhden lämpimän sijasta."

“You don’t like AI therapists because they’re a threat to your income” No, I don’t like AI therapists because they are harmful!

Be under no illusions. They want to bring back the manufacturing jobs that characterised the 1950s, but without the pay and conditions US workers had then (thanks to unions). Their goal is to turn the country into a sweatshop economy. (And if they *really* got their way, it would be slave labour.)

As comedy writers can tell you, “hat on a hat” means an unfunny bit that’s trying too hard. Happens to the best of us. But this cringemaster LITERALLY does it. All humor and wit dies with him!

The defining feature of our time, from Trump's tariffs to the AI hype, is narcissism -- a desperate grasping for the childish fantasy of independence and omnipotence, and a rejection of the reality of how incredibly limited and interdependent we are.

Been having a debate in my own head about which implication here is more fucking stupid: A) Every fentanyl pill that enters the U.S. kills five people, or B) If unchecked, fentanyl would kill every living person in America in less than one year It's close, but I think it's A).

Every time you accede to the wishes of transphobes, you are doing the work of fascists. They are one and the same—transphobia is just the mask fascism wears when it wants to exploit your anxieties about gender.