I have very mixed feelings about smart home stuff in general, but I do really love my dishwasher sending me a push notification to refill the salt when it finishes, rather than its display telling me when it's already loaded and impossible to reach.

Idk, the GOP missing a reliable vote in the Senate sounds like a good thing in the run up to a CR running out

Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · 18h ago

REMINDER: Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in now 73 days. Yet he still: •Has his job •Gets paid, and •Gets free world-class healthcare The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, & against guaranteed paid leave—gets all three as he needs it most.😐

This is why the D*tch deserve the eternal respect of those of us who will never manage to break the paygo yoke

Mihnea@miyhnea.bsky.social · yesterday

i'm not even pro-pensions really but what can you do? Pay the Danegeld and move on

Continuously engaging in accountability journalism without eventually going on the hunt for Glonzo is the sort of thing that's only ever possible in theory, I guess

I feel like this is the sort of story I've seen once a year dating back to pre-Covid even in Germany, usually just a republishing of the long standing recommendations that date back decades at this point.

Prof Mike Yearworth@mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 2d ago

“Andy Burnham’s government is preparing a publicity campaign telling households to prepare for severe disruption from events such as extreme weather or cyber attacks, government officials told the FT.” www.ft.com/content/5811...

I have some grudging respect for the way they are trying to play all sides. I guess there's always an angle for telling people to stuff their mattress with bullion

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 2d ago

🔴 Gold Firm That Employs Nigel Farage Predicts Unrest and Violence Under a Reform Government EXCLUSIVE: Promo material for Direct Bullion tells savers a Farage-led government could spark riots not seen since the poll tax – while paying the Reform leader hundreds of thousands of pounds

The concept of the "Fahrerschorle" literally translating to "driver's spritzer" (500 mil, 2 parts wine with 3 parts sparkling water, instead of 3-4 parts wine) may be one of the most palatinate things I can think of.

This is false only insofar as Harambe wasn't the butt of the memes around his death

Wannabe Apparatchik@apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 3d ago

the people writing about Kirk’s death thought they were writing about, like, the RFK assassination, and they were actually writing about Harambe

The US killed hundreds of enemy combatants with a weapon released from aircraft and then left to loiter on a pre-programmed course until detecting a target, at which point it would independently home in on it. I'm of course talking about the Mark 24 mine, a WW2 acoustic torpedo.

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 3d ago

A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I. The drone was programmed by human operators to travel toward a particular gas station, but once it got close, it chose its exact target, most likely propane tanks, on its own,

The Treasury secretary, explaining an upcoming "financial offensive" against Iran: "So, D-Day was decided on at the Tehran conference, and Pascal's wager means you shouldn't anger the US by having any commerce with Iran." I wish I was joking. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Scott Bessent: an economic D-Day is coming for Iran

Countries that calculate appeasement of the regime to be a safer choice should reconsider

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I'm always surprised Big Yud and HPMOR continues to be new information for some people. But also there is so much weirdness in the space that it's sparse coverage in mainstream media now that they have escaped containment is helped by being one self-censoring fact after another.

We need an equivalent to the imbecilic Trump 1 counterterrorism reports on "antifa" but for bond market vigilantes

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 6d ago

Reporter on Bond Market: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to Bessent about another type of intervention.? Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.

Probably not my place to make any too stringent judgements on it, but ever since online discourse made me look at the crabapple book I've been may more sceptical of any Bundist revival as a serious movement.

Met a Cali couple at the local wine festival and the first question of the woman was if the tradition of wine princesses wasn't considered sexist. Really felt like a woke 1 stereotype in the funniest way.

The business model of people like Wolff, Haberman or Swan to save their greatest scoops for books published years after the fact really makes past outlets spending big bucks on catch&kill seem quaint.

The Daily Beast@thedailybeast.bsky.social · 7d ago

Michael Wolff is revealing two “red flag” letters Harp sent Trump in full.

Treating work in the spreadsheet mines as some inherently worse fate than on an early 20th century factory floor (say in the shoe industry) is standard bsky content, but it does hit a bit different coming from an ex journo who was handed a media exec job by his buddy who founded a spreadsheet mine.

Class 5 discourse warning in sky's mentions tonight

She's Harping on Trump until he Rockefellers

S4 E13 might be the most dick wolf plot of all time: - protagonist muslim agent in moral dilemma between his imam and senior fellow muslim agent spying on said imam's mosque over sketchy CT intel - main murder victim is pakistani college student, ends up a terror suspect but...

Christian Heinzel@christianh.bsky.social · 3w ago

Prime decided to serve me up FBI (2018) and the politics of it became a lot less confusing when I realised it's a Dick Wolf thing. The man really is build different (not entirely derogatory, 8 episodes in at least)

I'm generally convinced econ 101 without any further econ education ends up more harmful than not (for people's perception/understanding of economics as a field more so than "the economy"), but maybe I need to reconsider

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 2w ago

I really don’t know what to make of my wife being in the 3% of LearnedLeague users who didn’t know what supply and demand were

@gigansprogress.bsky.social not sure I've seen you post about this one yet, the Turkish subcontractor thing makes it seem even more up your alley than usual. (or is it just no real addition to what we already knew about the general fuckup here?)

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The fiasco has cost American taxpayers $533 million, according to the Army. But the Army has not held General Dynamics or a key Turkish subcontractor publicly accountable for the failures. Nor has it made General Dynamics pay a penny back." www.propublica.org/article/gene...

local supermarket is advertising christmas cookies as of next Monday, I feel like mid-August is even earlier than usual. Also I may or may not be part of the problem since I've immediately put gingerbread on my shopping list

Probably one of the more deranged thoughts I've had in recent times: JJJ's hatred of spiderman is basically like JE Hoover's disdain for the KKK (Brought to you by re-reading Beverly Gage's G-Man)

M☿th@monroetempleton.bsky.social · 2w ago

"JJJ is a progressive who marched with MLK, but the only person he hates is Spider-Man" is entirely consistent, imagine if you heard about a masked vigilante 'defending' his neighbourhood, you'd probably feel the same

TIL that Jens Plötner is a state secretary in the ministry of defence these days. Really makes you appreciate how there are real consequences for historically bad policy making by senior civil servants and appointees in Germany, promotions to higher office.

River droughts creating an opportunity for a cargo railway revival is a fun prospect if you ignore the extra strain on an already overloaded system shared by regional, HS and cargo rail

Got to say that probably the single funniest part of my annual summer caffeine detox is that the only part where I have a real dependency on coffee is for regular stomach and digestive function.

"America First, not Israel or Palestine first", noting the capitalisation here, as a message for the moderate voter has the sort of baseload of hitler particles that I really don't love

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 2w ago

You're going to be completely shocked that Matt Yglesias's advice to Abdul El-Sayed is to get way more transphobic. 🙃

Taking a break from slowly losing my mind to instead very rapidly lose my mind today.

Prime decided to serve me up FBI (2018) and the politics of it became a lot less confusing when I realised it's a Dick Wolf thing. The man really is build different (not entirely derogatory, 8 episodes in at least)

It appears to be another NEET across the street intermittently screaming at vidya game until 3-4am while refusing to close his window day, love that for me.