One House Republican pushes back on Trump's Iran threat today — Rep. Rep. Nathaniel Moran of Texas: "I do not support the destruction of a 'whole civilization.' That is not who we are, and it is not consistent with the principles that have long guided America."

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Richelle Sepulveda@richellesepulveda.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Reminds me of a post I saw some years ago from a tourist in a Welsh pub. A drunk patron there kept going on about "Ed" being the source of all of his problems. Tourist asked the bartender if there was any danger for Ed, given how upset he was. Reply was, "He's talking about Edward 1 of England."

love you crazy kids @aftermath.site

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Learning HTML is going well so far

You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...

Microsoft keeps reinstalling Copilot, so I found a way to rip it out of Windows for good

You can get rid of all those stubborn AI components for better privacy and performance.

howtogeek.com

Harriet - Pumpkin Spite@akaharriet.bsky.social · 11mo ago

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

It's Listen to Welcome Interstate Managers Wednesday www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a90...

Mexican Wine

YouTube video by Fountains of Wayne - Topic

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it's that time of year again

Most people experienced the fall of the Roman Empire as: “One day a bridge collapsed, and no one came to fix it.”

🃏 Clip 🃏@clipthejester.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Apparently the zombocom domain expired yesterday and was presumably bought out by some other jackass who launched this vibe-coded IMPOSTOR

A reminder that while this is primarily a comic book account, comic books are absolutely political because they ALWAYS have been.

Michael Strauss@mstrauss.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A reminder that while this is a comic book account, comic books are absolutely political because they ALWAYS have been.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

The internet was never a perfect place, but at least a lot of these media companies gave a darn about kids and gave them safe, fun spaces to be fully entertained online. Alas, this generation will never have that experience. Maybe those that had these places will bring them back for the next one.

Internet Archive@archive.org · last yr.

Before streaming or YouTube—there was cartoonnetwork․com, 📺 home to Flash games, clips of Ed, Edd n Eddy & Powerpuff Girls, + Cartoon Orbit battles. The site’s gone, but the Wayback Machine lets you time-travel back ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19981001... #Wayback1T

Finished up! I feel like I learned a lot about metal shading with this one. Are there any art skills you struggle with? #Samus #MetroidPrime4 #fanart #metroid #MetroidPrime4Beyond

COMING SOON.

As a reminder: LLMs are not intelligent beings. You are providing an input to an algorithm that calculates, in a very complicated way, the probability in which words will follow each other in response to your input based on whatever data was used to train the algorithm. The algorithm doesn't think.

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

Advocates for AI say it's just another tool, and you can't blame tools for how they're used. Listen, I don't blame hammers just because they might be used to hurt people. But if I found out that the factory making hammers relied on hurting people as its business model, yeah, I'd stop using hammers.

Get in the Venga Bus, Shinji

"Am I the problem? No it's everyone else who's woke" Hobby confessions #530 #anonhobbyconfessions

"Our economy is run by people that don't participate in it and our tech companies are directed by people that don't experience the problems they allege to solve for their customers"

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · last yr.

Newsletter: We are in the era of the Business Idiot, where middle management has seized power, breeding out true meritocracy and value-creation in favor of symbolic growth and superficial intelligence. This piece ties together everything I've ever written. www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...

For those curious, you can run the Powershell command Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName "Recall" -Remove to remove this. Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName "Recall" lets you check the status of the feature on your computer.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2y ago

Microsoft is rolling out its controversial Recall feature to high-end Windows PCs, betting a record of what users do on their computers will be seen as more of a benefit than a privacy risk

"Well, there went my shoe business" permanently ingrained in my mind

giving myself a gold star for this

“I loved and supported Aaron as my son, and now I love and support Airyn as my daughter. I don’t know what the big deal is,” Robert De Niro told CNN in a statement. “I love all my children.” www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/e...

Robert De Niro shows support for daughter Airyn after she shares she’s trans: ‘I don’t know what the big deal is’ | CNN

Robert De Niro is expressing his love and support for his daughter Airyn De Niro, after she recently shared publicly for the first time that she is transgender.

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love reading a 12 year old girl in 1911 write a mech pilot tweet in her diary abt the experience of driving an automobile

been thinking about this for years, now articulated:

So the courts can do this but can’t stop Meta from illegally using my books to train their AI?

Josh Taylor@joshtaylor.bsky.social · 2y ago

Remember Grumpy Cat? A Sydney woman who sold a cat tee on Redbubble found herself and over 200 others having a default judgment against them in the US for $100k, brought by Grumpy Cat's trademark holder. They then took nearly $600 from her PayPal account. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...