There are two wolves. One always lies. One controls the lever of trolley track. They're in a state of superposition inside a box. On the trolley are infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters going to an infinite hotel. The trolley must first travel halfway, but before that a quarterway, and so on...

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.

The turducken of Elon Musk’s struggling shit companies approaches its final form. Good luck to Tesla shareholders.

@mayor.nyc.gov started cracking down on delivery apps’ shady tipping practices in January. That policy has now delivered about $104 MILLION in additional tips to deliveristas. These workers have been fighting Big Tech’s greed for years. Kudos to them and Mayor Mamdani for putting workers first.

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

In 2020, a new plague swept across the Earth, killing millions. Before that year was even over, wizards working in an invisible world had devised a shield that everybody could use. The result wasn't a new era of scientific appreciation but of preening frauds lying more shamelessly than ever before.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

TUBERVILLE: Fauci killed 9 million people FOX BUSINESS: Yeah. We can't prove that, right? TUBERVILLE: We can

Upgrade Rails immediately, kids, this is a big one. github.com/rails/rails/...

Possible arbitrary file read and remote code execution in Active Storage variant processing

### Impact In its default configuration, a Rails application that displays image variants may allow an unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from the server, including the process envi...

github.com

“You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen.” - William Goldman, The Princess Bride

Anyone else notice that #claude code chews up CPU while its idle in #vscode? The chat is inactive, it's finished its work or it's waiting for a response to a question, but the CPU is spinning madly and fans are running to cool it.

(1/10) Emergency Medical in the Netherlands So, as am American - I thought Emergency Room visits (i.e. A&E visits) were pretty standard. You show up at the hospital. Register with the desk and wait. But in the Netherlands, it's not that way at all.

XCharge EV charging stations can be hacked via the charging port because the connector apparently runs SSH with root/root as the default creds www.saiflow.com/blog/the-hid...

The Hidden CCS2 Attack Surface on EV Chargers

The EV charging industry has well-established security standards. OCPP provides clear guidelines for securing the communication channel between EV Chargers and the Charging Station Management System. ...

saiflow.com

Not The Onion... 🙃 electrek.co/2026/05/19/t...

Tesla Cybertruck owner believed Elon Musk when he said it could cross a lake — now he's in jail

A Tesla Cybertruck owner drove into Grapevine Lake in Texas to test Wade Mode after Elon Musk claimed the truck could cross lakes. The vehicle became disabled and the driver was arrested.

electrek.co

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

No, No, no. Look, are there lessons to learn from this debacle? Sure. Drone warfare, mag depth, etc. But the solution here is not 'yet more tactical excellence or tech.' It is 'the president asked the impossible of the military and they should have said so.' www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The War Is Lost. Now Fix What It Broke.

America has to rethink how it moves resources, fights wars, and deters adversaries.

theatlantic.com

Just had an awesome chat with @mattpocock.com for the next podcast episode! We geeked out on grill-me and his many other agent skills; AI for personal software; what are specs?; do sprints still fit?; and much more! Will aim to get it published next week. unhandledexceptionpodcast.com

That shift in tone from exploration to being marketed to changed the way the internet *felt*. People call it the algorithm now, but it really is just American Marketing Culture writ large on us all. I want exploration back.

House Republicans and 13 House Democrats today voted to pass the Stop Insider Trading Act, which (1) Does not ban insider trading among members of Congress or the President (2) Imposes a stringent photo ID law and basically eviscerates mail voting

this comparison leaves out a key point: the Edsel sold roughly twice the Cybertruck's volume at a time when the overall car market was just 6m units/year instead of the current 16m units/year that makes the Cybertruck the much, much bigger flop, hands down

Anne Cronin@annecronin.bsky.social · 2w ago

FREE LINK > Tesla Cybertruck sales have been so weak that it's challenging Ford's Edsel to become the biggest automotive flop of all time. Great tale by Bethany Benjamin > www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I've seen footage of entire regiments of African soldiers in the Russian army in occupied Ukraine who were promised citizenship/scholarships/etc. and told they'd be doing military office admin or factory assembly work if they came to Russia. Instead, they're the first sent into the kill zone.

UNITED24 Media@united24media.com · 2w ago

⚡️ Russia is luring thousands of desperate foreign job seekers into fake contracts and sending them straight to the front lines in Ukraine. 🧵 1/10 ⬇️

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Let me get this straight. Hegseth is asking for $1.5 trillion to fight a war that was started for no reason to reopen a strait that was open before they started the war but we don’t have money to forgive student loans, for universal healthcare or even free f*cking school lunches?

Denzel Washington Says GTFO

ALT: Denzel Washington Says GTFO

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So the U.S. has gotten itself into a situation where the State Department is now warning Americans about traveling...anywhere. "The Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution." travel.state.gov/en/internati...

You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2w ago

Trump administration pauses $1 bln in Medicaid payments to California, Minnesota www.reuters.com/world/us-hea...

Stripe and a private equity firm teaming up to acquire PayPal was not on my bingo card. A pre-IPO startup acquiring a public company for $53B is the opposite of what we’ve come to expect. At this point I wonder if Stripe will ever IPO.

EXCLUSIVE: Stripe, Advent offer to buy PayPal for more than $53 billion, sources say

Payments company Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have made a joint offer to acquire ​PayPal Holdings Inc for $60.50 per share, in a deal that would value the ‌payments company at m...

reuters.com

The latest RunAs Radio episode with @SamiLaiho.com — runasradio.com/Shows/Show/1... — breaks down how LLMs are accelerating exploit discovery and why teams need to use these tools proactively before black hats do.

My son just told me is favourite sentence is: “I didn’t say we should kill him” because if you emphasise each different word it changes the entire meaning