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Missed the #wwdc keynote, and caught the last ten minutes of the Platform SOTU on my phone since I don’t have a computer with me in Nashville. The move to allow various LLMs into Xcode for “vibe coding” makes it sound like Apple is giving up on Apple Intelligence.

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

How now-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem felt about a president potentially federalizing the National Guard one year ago:

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

13 House Republicans beg the Senate to fix the terrible, unworkable language around energy credits ***that they voted for***. Invertebrates.

People who think a lot about the modern attention economy (cc @chrislhayes.bsky.social) should spend some time contemplating the wild success of @dieworkwear.bsky.social, who commanded an *extraordinary* amount of attention in a very short amount of time. And he did it without ...

iOS 26 compatibility: iPhone 11 and up. And iPhone SE 2nd Gen and up #WWDC

No season 2 of #Murderbot? #wwdc

Apple copies an idea Microsoft tried in ... 1995. New version numbers... #wwdc

Them: “LA is a full on insurrection” Us at the protest:

Places to see in Nashville? Already planning to walk around the Parthenon and see the Opry.

A federal program to protect US cities against extreme heat has just evaporated

Not only did the cop aim right at the reporter, but there was literally nothing going on in her immediate vicinity that he could otherwise have been aiming at even if he wanted to defend with I was just a bad shot. No question he targeted her

It’s too early to declare a constitutional crisis, and debating the label we attach to any new event can distract us from focusing on the event itself. But each day brings us fresh evidence of a deeply troubling trend: America is no longer a stable country, and it is growing less stable by the day.

The death of the Joann craft-supply chain represents “the loss of yet another outlet for building customs and community.” Andrea Valdez, a lifelong crafter, shares a personal lament.

This is the former president of Estonia, a place that knows a thing or two about resisting authoritarians and facing down bad guys who are trying to crush democracy.

Howdy from Nashville! We’re at the @homefreeguys.bsky.social 25th “birthday” celebration!

Very cool that a verified Twitter account apparently claiming to rep DHS has gotten thousands of retweets of its claim of civil war after sharing a stock photo of bricks. bsky.app/profile/roth...

All the ICE lawlessness is a diversion to appease and distract the MAGA base from the Billionaire Bailout Bill.

ICE crossed a line in LA

Over the five-week NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Forecasting Experiment, GSL's MPAS_RRFSA was the highest-rated of all of the deterministic "flagship" models, besting even the HRRR -- which led that evaluation every year since 2016 until this year. I'm excited about where we'll be next year.

NPR and the PBS series Frontline investigate the forces keeping communities from building resiliently, and the special interests that profit even when communities don't.

Lankford has learned his lesson and has transitioned from a rational conservative to an obsequious MAGA stooge in less than a year.

Exactly. Musk remains as heinous as ever — go read his X behavior if you want a giant dollop of nonsense — even if he is fighting with Trump. In this battle, you root for no one except the American people soon ridding themselves of this toxic nonsense.

“So long screwy! See you in St. Louie!” G’night everybody! #Svengoolie

“Arctic Air Breeze Jet: make sure you point it up, not down!” #Svengoolie

“Knit one, chop two.” 🧶🪓 #Svengoolie

She cut him off… literally. #Svengoolie

CLEAR THE AIRLANES for tonight’s #Svengoolie feature! Joan Crawford is a bit disturbed, but not about wire hangers, in “Strait Jacket.”

#Friday

What? Public Service Employees are critical for the functioning of government? WHODATHUNKIT?

FEMA Chief Confused By Wind theonion.com/fema-ch...

If a seven-year-old can’t walk to the store the fault lies not with the parents but with the community.

One can buy a much nicer (and much more reliable/better built) EV than a Cybertruck for less than $100,000.

In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz. The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.

I hate squall line spin-ups at 4:55 am. 🌪️ #okwx

The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Severe Thunderstorm warning just south of the arena. Pacers going to hear some real Thunder! 🌩️

Maybe Trump should deport the Afrikaner refugees and re-fund USAID to troll Elon? That would be cool.

If you had told me the bitchiest moment of Pride Month would be this...