"So we've got to make it look like she's in a simulation" "OK, got it. We'll make her shirt bright orange" "Fab! Float everyday objects in the background?" "I've got a chair, tennis ball and bat?" "What about an upside-down dog!" "Genius....and we're done" 😉🗞️: www.newscientist.com/article/2588...

New Scientist@newscientist.com · 20h ago

Philosophers have pondered whether we live in a simulation for centuries. Now, Astronomer Royal for Scotland Catherine Heymans suggests a compelling rationale for why our reality might actually be synthetic

The first time I heard 'English' defined in the way Suella Braverman has adopted was back in the 1970s from the National Front. Every time since, it's come from some variant of fascist.

I've got the giggles at this video of Prince Harry's teleprompter failing and him not even trying to save his speech, just full on "nope F this" It's actually quite a good demonstration of what happens when we outsource out brains, but also, lol www.reddit.com/r/WatchPeopl...

Not a criticism of this, just an aside: even if you get the best, most up to date medical advice, even if you're believed, it's impossible to implement the advice given because we're in a society that punishes ill health & disability. There's no wider support to facilitate potential recovery

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5h ago

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Christ on a cracker, even the PROFESSIONAL book reviewers don't understand that fictional characters doing things in books isn't equal to real world morality.

It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.

i would like you all to know that tumblr is reacting to coyote vs acme exactly the way you'd expect and i still have the highest of hopes for yuletide

It's weird, the one bit of my personal data that databrokers never seem to sell advertisers, is that I do not have any money to buy their crap.

The pusillanimous knaves moost eager to calle academia a "sinkinge shippe" are usuallye those who have alreadye sailed arounde the worlde yn it. Those moost readye to calle the ivorye tower "broken" have growne jaded sittinge at its heighte. Meanwhile, everybodye else ys actuallye doinge the worke.

“The goal of this meeting is to have even more meetings” sounds like my fuckin office job.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h ago

BAIER: For this meeting with President Xi, would could the president potentially walk away tangibly with? BESSENT: There's a chance there may have a historic four meetings this year

Brilliant. (But real talk here... if you so much as leave one of these in a game data- not even visible in the game and it gets datamined, it can effect your games ratings, cause your product to be pulled from shopfronts and so forth- so avoid doing this stuff professionally).

TiredAndOnFire HD remasters + Game Dev@tirednonfire.bsky.social · 2d ago

When I need to test for textures in games, some people recommend turning them pink. I draw big dicks on them instead. #Gamedev #gameart

Grassley is just trying to beat the record for oldest senator but he’s gambling with his constituents power and that should be unconscionable.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 15h ago

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley has refused to rule out another run for the Senate in 2028. He’d be 101 at the end of that term.

[googling stuff in 2011] this is fine, I guess, but I wish I had to scroll past bad information regurgitated by a robot to find anything useful

every day it seems a brand new sentence is written to describe the state of the world

Gabriel Kahn@gabekahn.bsky.social · 13h ago

U.S. military sends top-secret F-35 parts by UPS from Australia. China intercepts package in Hong Kong, won't give it back.

Thread. This was a journey. Literally.

sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · 2d ago

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

Mandami got shit done in NYC without blaming Adams at every single turn. In less than a year. With hope and happiness. GOP Misery is a choice.

“THE ARISTOCRATS”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h ago

NEWSNATION: Gas is $4.47. Diesel is $6.50. Mortgage rates are above 7%. Inflation is at 3.4% while earnings are lower. How are you making the case that that is the golden age? RNC CHAIR JOE GRUTERS: Biden left us an absolute disaster. We just gotta give him more time NN: Is that really the pitch?

💯

Chris Mihos@chrismihos.bsky.social · 12h ago

I get really annoyed seeing so many people say "Since everyone uses AI to write papers..." or "Referee reports now are just written by AI..." Look: Everything I have written has, for better or worse, been my own writing. Don't project your cynical expectations on my work. Seriously, screw gen-AI.

really makes you wonder if rats fleeing a sinking ship ever consider another rat in particular especially contemptible, craven, worm-like, etc

Status@status.news · 14h ago

The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, we have learned. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/white-hous...

It’s been almost exactly a year since the day ICE hit us with a car, for which the government chose to prosecute *us*. Now we’re fighting for accountability. See you at the courthouse next week.

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 15h ago

A federal judge on Wednesday said she’ll hear high-stakes oral arguments next week in the controversial “Broadview Six” case against a group of immigration protesters.

You’re going to think this is a hyperbolic clickbait headline. I’m sad to report it is not. www.nhpr.org/politics/202...

NH Libertarian Party endorses ‘assassination’ of elected Democrats

The state Libertarian Party has issued repeated calls for political violence in social media posts.

nhpr.org

(Glances nervously at the closet where I keep my extra brains)

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 17h ago

one of the most savage bits my college’s newspaper humor section ever did was a fake version of the admissions brochure where the same Black student had photoshopped himself into every single promotional photo with captions about the diverse student population (it was a very white school)

Yvonne Lam@yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 18h ago

I worked with a Black woman software dev whose photo got used *so much* on the company website and social media, in an effort to make the company look more diverse. She was the only Black woman in the place.

i don’t know how to make it any plainer that the vast majority of dem voters believe holding people accountable IS part of “getting back to work”

Meredith Shiner@meredithshiner.com · 18h ago

I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.

Aw man, and I was just thinking so highly of them because of the two-brains thing. Can one U.S. institution just stop being a myopic disaster for ONE second? Pretty please?

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23h ago

"Stanford University...is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner." feels like a South Park episode. what are we doing here yall www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

you ever think about how the people who responded the worst to a generational black swan public health crisis have decided the best thing to do is make sure we have more of them

ProPublica@propublica.org · yesterday

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. (Published March)

Thread du jour-

Youngy@mancversusfood.bsky.social · yesterday

All this Danny Thommo stuff makes me think of a family tradition we do every Boxing Day, and no its not all going stabbing lifeboats and intimidating lifeguards! Sorry longish thread as its a great story of actual heroes that should make us all feel patriotic.

And why not. 😄 https://www.space.com/astronomy/asteroids/astronomers-just-named-an-asteroid-after-weird-al-yankovic

Astronomers just named an asteroid after 'Weird Al' Yankovic

Asteroid Alyankovic was discovered in 1981 and resides in the main belt of asteroids found between Mars and Jupiter.

space.com

overton window has shifted so far Mogg is based now

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19h ago

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the most stereotypically Tory conservative man of the 21st Century, responded to Suella Braverman with a long-form video criticizing her position and rejecting a race-based theory of Englishness, and in response has been ratioed by the increasingly feral British online far-right.

🎶 'Alas, what hast thou done? Thou art a pynke pony girl Yn the daunse at the clubbe!' 'Nay, modir! Ich am but seekinge mirthe On the stage yn myne heeles It ys wher Ich belonge: Downe at the Pynke Ponye Clubbe! Ich shal keep on daunsinge, Down yn West Hollywoode' [WICKED LUTE SOLO] 🎶