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Telephones. No more Bell monopoly in the US stifling pretty much everything. Consider having to change your phone number whenever you moved.
Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 3d agoSocial media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
The case that every Wills and Trusts law school class deserves.
Origin of CEO’s ‘will’ at center of family’s ownership squabble over Harold’s Chicken brand
More than 10 months after the CEO of Harold’s Chicken Shack died, the effort to settle her estate and determine ownership of the legendary local restaurant brand has, for now, honed in on a notary pub...
chicagotribune.com
I can actually see AI being useful for things like this.
Claude Building A Mac’s Monitoring Temperature App For A Vibecoder Uncovered A Cryptominer Using All 12 CPU Cores And Hitting 112°C
While building a Mac temperature monitoring app for a vibecoder, Claude uncovered a hidden cryptominer using all 12 CPU cores and pushing temperatures to 112°C
wccftech.com
This is the kind of bonkers news I like - about things long past.
O.J. Simpson, a Secret Informant and a Decades-Old Mystery (Gift Article)
An “extremely reliable” informant told authorities about the missing murder weapon, according to newly unsealed records. The informant’s brother told The Times his sibling was at the crime scene.
nytimes.com
I'd like to join a political party that's not quite so annoying and pathetic.
The fun thing about S01 of Murderbot is that it is a fair cross-section of Bluesky plus a killer robot.
Andy Richter tweeted about the La-Z-Boy Hastert set up in the locker room to watch boys shower
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 3w agopedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
Retiree day: sleep until a reasonable hour, putter around, go to doctor, go to pharmacy, putter around, volunteer for a bit of pro bono and look into that, and make some enchiladas for dinner. Why are all the olds so angry? This is pretty awesome.
For the record I would just like to say that, notwithstanding the US Senate's most prominent example, there are St. Louis University School of Law grads who can manage a competent cross-examination.
If representatives in Congress worked like local alderman, and decided that actually responding to things that impacted their constituents was the way to keep their jobs, there'd already be a massive ICE-level effort against this.
Single Female Lawyer@singlefemalelawyer.bsky.social · 4w agoThe way the elderly are targeted by scammers should be a national scandal
OK, so dropping Nathan Fillion's Guy Gardner into Lanterns was not as ridiculous as I would have feared.
I interviewed dozens and dozens of people in the last six years, and not one of them has brought a cup of coffee. Or a plate of cookies for the interview team, for that matter.
Star Trek can, and should be, fun. This ep was fun. www.slashfilm.com/2267439/star...
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 Finale Features Cameos From '70s Characters Fans Never Expected To See Again - SlashFilm
Characters from Star Trek: The Animated Series make their live-action debut in the Season 4 finale of Strange New Worlds.
slashfilm.com
I prefer perennially hungover Hal Jordan to the goody goody dope of my youth.
All those Bluesky train advocates should really point out that, unlike on those fancy-pants aeroplanes, passengers can have full-on picnics. Like break out the loaf of bread, the mustard, and the lunch meat and start making sandwiches.
Stop being all "no judgements" about calling these people freaks. They are. America needs Team Normie.
👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 2mo agothe fuck is this kink supposed to be?
"Was he wearing his wife's shawl? We had one of those." - Abe Lincoln
𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝@sundaedivine.lol · 2mo agoPast wartime presidents watching him climb into a catering truck.
Just finished a very interesting book on the theology of Taiping Christianity, founded by Hong Xiuquan after he repeatedly failed the exams for joining the Imperial Chinese bureaucracy. These exams were on the Confucian classics, so Hong gets a little payback in one of his visions:
Is it wrong to think that the locals who want the rubes to keep coming in and spending are much more comprehensible than the Potterheads?
Ari Cohn@aricohn.com · 3mo agoWhat is wrong with people www.cnn.com/2026/08/10/t...
