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Fuck.

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PSA: Sony is now the only major TV brand that lets you avoid this. Never give it wi-fi, skip the “google TV” setup step, and it’ll live peacefully offline. Insane that “don’t sell my viewing data” is now effectively a premium niche feature hidden behind layers of dark patterns.

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Come for strands of trenchant analysis uncommon in AI journalism, stay for davidjroth.bsky.social 's truly great writing. defector.com/the-future-i...

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

riddle yourself this- if i wanted to think, would I even be here?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

A wonderful example of one of the rarest and most satisfying of academic micro-genres: the bathetic takedown. Rare because it requires an analysis that snaps into place with the force of a punchline. Satisfying because, well, duh.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Holy shit pt 2 “Beginning on January 8, 2025, a surge of U.S. government infrastructure began appearing on what’s known as “the search engine of Internet-connected devices,” Shodan.io. “ cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-expos...

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

Oops 😬

submitted 32 days ago • 1034 comments

We’re gonna look back on black box social media like we look back now on lead pipes.

submitted 38 days ago • 13 comments

Somebody turns a phrase like this, they should get whatever they want.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

It’s amazing how much desperation there is to find any definition of gender that’ll hold up as a sharp binary, even at the cost of abandoning any relevance to our reasons for caring about the concept. That’s not how scientific classification works, and never has been.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

A really good question that’s been hidden in plain sight. Surprised I’ve never seen anyone make this point before.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

what’s your favorite instance of haptic nostalgia—the poignant memory of the physicality of an obsolete thing—like dialing a rotary phone, shifting gears in a manual transmission, opening a soda can with a pull ring?

submitted 59 days ago • 1289 comments

ancient warlord resurrected into the 21st century: "is my name still a byword even in these strange times? do men still tremble at the very mention?" me: well I have good news and bad news, lord nimrod

submitted 68 days ago • 15 comments

Amazing to see absolute 10/10 Cool and 10/10 Manic vying for control of a single body. (It's a slow build, but clearest from about 4:10 on.) Also: though it starts with a bit of misdirection, the routine around 7:00 is just a merciless stab at Thriller ... right?

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

A front page for the ages.

submitted 77 days ago • 1016 comments

With today's report outlining risks on mirror life www.science.org/doi/full/10.... many have asked: Could mirror life survive in the wild? Yes. While mirror life in the wild could have some significant disadvantages (like finding food it can digest), they do not appear to be insurmountable: 🧵

submitted 89 days ago • 9 comments

Must have been a real mindfuck living in the B.C. times and not knowing what the years were counting down to.

submitted 92 days ago • 9 comments

Getting on flight and just watched the life leave a guy’s eyes as he dropped his passport while boarding and it fell through the little crack between the boarding platform and the plane onto the tarmac.

submitted 105 days ago • 29 comments

Oh, this is excellent.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Oh no Slate, no ... here I thought we were growing old gracefully together, but now when you finish talking there's an awkward silence and our friends just smile at me sympathetically ... 😬 (cc @faineg.bsky.social )

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

This thread caused me considerable pain. (Now counting the hours until my kid wakes up so I can share it with him.)

submitted 118 days ago • 1 comment

Maybe we were too hard on JJ Abrams for "Somehow Palpatine returned."

submitted 125 days ago • 13 comments

sometimes you stumble across a piece of useless (at least to you) information that you know will be forever lodged in your brain, crowding out something important like "where did i store my birth certificate" or "what did i do with my keys"

submitted 126 days ago • 1 comment

I love this time of year when the leaves change color and flowers die and skies darken and the birds fall silent and the ancestors start to stir in their graves, restless with the consciousness of wrongs they suffered, mindless from decay and implacable and hungry for living blood.

submitted 130 days ago • 3 comments

I've been a @washingtonpost.com subscriber for more than 20 years, and just canceled. The decision to withhold an endorsement is inexcusable cowardice; the rationale given was laughably pretextual; and this blatant accommodationism is a violation of fundamental journalistic values.

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

A point that I make to anyone who will listen is that currently we do not have a system in the United States to uncover undocumented people the government does not already know about. It doesn’t exist. So, to carry out mass deportations, we would have to create one — and it would transform us.

submitted 141 days ago • 5 comments

Why is it so easy to imagine exactly what it would feel like to use this?

submitted 143 days ago • 0 comments

Once a year, Google Japan releases a mock promo video for a completely insane re-imagining of the keyboard. No matter the form, it's always called "Gboard". This one's pretty good. If it seems like the video starts to repeat ... keep watching.

submitted 158 days ago • 0 comments

Days growing shorter, motherfuckers use AI to explain haiku. allpoetry.com/a-cuckoo-cries (Basho)

submitted 162 days ago • 7 comments

I just took a survey that would have benefited from the modified 2-D Likert scale I just invented

submitted 169 days ago • 36 comments

I’ve long dreamt of doing this with an octopus. Some kind of shoulder-mounted tank arrangement, so we could walk around town. Madness, of course; but all life would be downhill from such a moment.

submitted 172 days ago • 0 comments

On an evening bus out of Worcester. A stoned passenger is sitting on the back seat, playing a flute. The driver just audibly muttered "When the fuck is Tom Bombadil getting off my bus". We journey on, into the darkness. With musical accompaniment.

submitted 175 days ago • 65 comments