i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 4w ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

i've run the numbers three times now and it's always the same

I completed my Secrets of Strixhaven homework! My chosen college: 🟢🔵 Quandrix! ams2026.ormos.uk

Secrets of Strixhaven - Interactive Homework Puzzles

All six MagicCon Amsterdam puzzles, playable in your browser. Solve the five college homeworks to collect 35 mana symbols, then build your magical creature.

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Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email donate@wikimedia.org to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

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Pope Leo quoting Tolkien in his encyclical on AI seems like a pointed reference for the tech oligarchs who have appropriated LOTR for their own ends.

Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · 3mo ago

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

Hot dog car driver strongly spoke out against crashed hot dog car in a speech last night.

Brian Stelter@brianstelter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger strongly spoke out against media "capitulation" in a speech last night >>> cnn.it/4tUxLns

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

I wrote about Kat.

Kat.

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this is the stupidest thing and it absolutely undid me

I know people like to joke that Magic is a children's card game but this spoiler season is the first time I've felt like that was an accurate description.

important message i want to pass along about the creamy pint addiction - please watch if you, like many, are still slugging back 4-6 creamy pints a day 👇

i have been thinking about this nonstop after i saw it for the first time last night. this is an immaculately crafted joke. maybe the best joke ive ever seen

Well this is a bummer www.thebanner.com/culture/food... @dcbeer.com

The Brewer’s Art, a Mount Vernon mainstay, abruptly closes after 30 years

Owner Volker Stewart informed employees by text message Monday that he was closing effective immediately due to financial problems, according to screenshots shared with The Banner.

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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

effective today, I have resigned from working with Ultimate Guard, as I can no longer support the company's creative or business decisions.

I love this so much and I am absolutely tearing up about it. The gentleness and plainness of this, the way he just lets her be her (and she seems so damn lovely, who wouldn’t?), the generosity. It isn’t going to solve the world’s problems, but this kind of humanity is a hell of a start.

Cats are and always have been cyberpunks

Ten writers of whom l've read five-plus books: Joe Abercrombie Pierce Brown Frank Herbert Christopher Moore Brandon Sanderson Andrzej Sapkowski John Scalzi Neal Stephenson Daniel Suarez Martha Wells

Shivam Bhatt@shivambhatt.bsky.social · last yr.

Ten writers of whom I've read five-plus books: Brandon Sanderson Robert Jordan Tad Williams Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Stephen Brust Brent Weeks Doug Niles Karen Armstrong William Dalrymple David Eddings Honestly I could have just used dragonlance authors and filled this whole thing.

#MetalSky 🤘🤘

Hope for the hopeless, a light in the darkness Hope for the hopeless, a light in the dark

About 12 years ago I was with some friends at a scotch bar in Baltimore called Birds of a Feather and someone realized Patton Oswalt was at the end of the bar. He was deep in conversation with someone so we didn't bother him. Miss that spot, it was a good one.

Bolt451 day I'll leave you a phantom To lead you in the summer@bolt451.bsky.social · last yr.

Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction

#metalsky

Unfortunately, that’s the wrong position. *Specific* AI learning models have very useful cases (MRNA vaccines being a particularly notable one), but when it comes to actual “general intelligence,” the technology is snake-oil peddled by conmen.

Leftsize@doomscroll.bsky.social · last yr.

All AI should be banned. This is the logical position. This is the moral position. This is the easy position.

so i've been honing my approach and i've landed on the optimal way to interact with cybertruck drivers: give them an enthusiastic thumbs up first, before dramatically turning it upside down and scowling. did it this morning and watched the light leave a man's eyes. very powerful

This is where your Harry Potter money goes

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈@sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 2y ago

jk rowling funded a case going before the supreme court that argues it should be legal to discriminate against and persecute trans ppl. yet still we have to listen to ‘centrists’ claiming she isn’t bigoted she just has ‘a difference of opinion’. no trans ppl have a voice in these proceedings.

Perhaps @thehermitdruid.bsky.social can critique the technique here ⚔️

Bumping this with the hope that a senator might see it

Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · 2y ago

Congress must take action to restore the rule of law.