I always feel crazy pointing this out, but it's such an important point: having 85% market share isn't actually a good thing, especially when you're buying more of your own product than that 85% of the market is

The Verge@theverge.com · 11h ago

"SpaceX remains its own biggest customer. There just aren’t enough other people who want its rockets. And, I dunno, maybe if the rockets were a primary focus of the company, SpaceX wouldn’t be in danger of blasting a new crater into the Moon with its space trash." Read more: buff.ly/d9lBTQN

His obsessive hatred of wind TURBINES is hilarious, but I have thought of a way to shut him up: make them in Temu Gold colour. Maybe add some overblown curlicues on the tower (or put his ugly mug on them). Sit back & watch those babies MULTIPLY

Jay Kuo@nycjayjay.bsky.social · 9h ago

Also: Tilting at windmills is a sign of dementia. Video: buff.ly/TTBJuPw

The narrativising of this is kind of maddening. OpenAI's model didn't "break free and hack HuggingFace." Meta's model didn't "break free and hack another company." Tech companies are blatantly doing illegal acts and saying their AI did it on it's own as a promotional stunt. That's it.

Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 9h ago

It keeps happening... It'd be great if these companies could spend a little bit more time on network security and a little less time vibe coding.

SUCH a surprise! I CANNOT believe FF/G would lie to the public about such a serious matter! (Messers Collinson, you can leave the envelopes under the plinth, we'll collect them when the cameras leave)

The Journal@thejournal.ie · 8h ago

A draft version of the government’s recent data centre report included several key aspects which questioned continued investment in the sector but were later cut from the final version released to the public. jrnl.ie/7122123

Hegseth is thick (despite an Ivy League education, make of that what you will). Hegseth is an alcoholic. He literally thought they could just dump a ton of munitions on Iran & then throw themselves a triumph. Now instead it's a really good time to invade the continental US. *BUT* TRUMP APPOINTED HIM

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 7h ago

Exclusive: At a Cabinet meeting at Camp David on last week, President Trump demanded answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on why he had apparently been misled on extreme munitions shortages that now threaten to limit military options with Iran.

Reading Quora for my morning funnies, was struck by a thought: both Trump & Poutine by trying to re-establish their "empires" have so exposed the weaknesses of their nations as to ensure neither will ever again be relevant in great powers calculus, & think that's beautiful

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

The US Ambassador to France is an ex-con who hired a hooker to help him get blackmail material on his BIL becuase his BIL was co-operating with the Feds on his tax evasion & illegal campaign contribution (to the Dems!) trials. He should never have been allowed to step foot in the EU

POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 15h ago

The United States is dragging its feet on approving President Emmanuel Macron’s pick for French ambassador to Washington amid a spat over human rights at the United Nations, according to three people familiar with the dispute.

So a fella a lot of people dislike is apparently having a massive melt-down over the Vimes theory of socio-economic unfairness. He says it doesn't make sense because price=/= quality. Which is probably true to him, because he's a Yank & their products are universally both shit & over-priced 1/

It's not *our* fault! It's those evil radical Leftist lunatics with their not engaging with us! So much for the tolerant Left! & when we pursue them to Bluesky, they block us, like saying only white men deserve rights is a *bad* thing. Do they not know I'm at risk of being de-monetised?!

Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera@pantibliss.bsky.social · yesterday

I hear Twitter has become a Nazi bubble. That's not good for democracy or the public square! Do conservatives know Twitter has veered from its holy duty to be The Octagon of the market place of ideas??! Surely they will now all insist the Nazis stop driving Leftists away and make them feel welcome

Vertical farming is definitely not a climate solution. Or a food solution. And it turns out that it's not a good business solution either. Who would have guessed? (Wait, I did! Years ago...) agfundernews.com/indoor-ag-he...

Indoor ag heavyweight 80 Acres Farms to cease operations

Cofounder and CEO Mike Zelkind noted in a statement that the company has been unable to secure the necessary capital to continue the business.

agfundernews.com

The criminal Donald *J* Trump is a petty & vindictive little shit. No person is too inconsequential for him to waddle after. Luckily, like every other endeavour he's ever undertaken (with 1 notable exception) his own pathetic stupidity constantly trips him up. No consolation for those targeted tho'

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · yesterday

The White House Reflecting Pool may sound like one of the least important stories of the Trump era. But the Justice Department's failed prosecution of supposed "vandals" reveals something far more troubling: how political narratives pushed by Trump and his allies can become criminal cases.

A reminder that all of this is happening because a handful of old, white (mostly Amerikkkan, German, & British) men are too selfish to accept that they made a bad investment (despite the fact that the firms they own KNEW this was going to happen for decades before the plebs were told)

The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterday

Europe’s rivers are running dry, and the knock-on effects are disastrous | Yiannis Baboulias

You need a laugh. I need a laugh. We all need to laugh these days. Fortuitously, the extract here is a "laugh until you cry, then get snotty from the crying, but you're still *also* laughing. And crying" kind of extract. Perfect for our interesting times If you'll excuse me I need to find a tissue

Russ Jones@russincheshire.bsky.social · 2d ago

Why do dogs eat rotting pigeons, roll in disgusting heaps, and generally behave like they’ve been raised by maniacs with head injuries? "The Wolf That Chews Rocks" has answers. It also has fox shit. Read an excerpt and apply to become an early reader. #BookSky thewolfthatchewsrocks.com

The wonderfully elaborate mark of Parisian printer Berthold Rembolt, from the title page of John of Salisbury's Policraticus, printed 513 years ago.

Oh, this is a marvellous little nugget! It's so obvious once you're told the method, but it's also ingenious. Human ingenuity is limitless

Cambridge University Library@theul.bsky.social · 2d ago

Pricking & pouncing: the 16th-century photocopier! 🖨️ Piercing tiny holes along an image outline & dusting pigment through created a dotted guide for copying drawings. 🔍 #CULConservation Manager Shaun Thompson spotted this in Thomas Geminus’ 450-year-old anatomy book. 📖 Classmark: K.7.15

No, Donald. YOU'RE a loser because you're too 1950s-brained to have invested in wind TURBINES. You & your loser mates were too busy investing in coal & oil & gas, & you're all panicking 'cos no one wants them any more Take the L you addled old paedo. You look desperate

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump: "Any country with windmills is a loser"

Time after time Donnie bumps up against criminal courts & their "vicious" obsession with actual evidence. He can't whine, bully, nor bore them into submission. Then he blames his tools like the poor workman he is www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...

Trump says prosecutor ‘folded like an umbrella’, and ‘choked’, in Reflecting Pool vandalism case

President Donald Trump says US Attorney Jeanine Pirro “choked” and “folded like an umbrella” in moving to drop charges against a former Olympian accused of vandalising the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting ...

stuff.co.nz

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

Too "based"? No. Too thick? Absolutely. Too creepy? Indubitably. Unfuckably awful in every way? Undoubtedly Axel Springer has its own wannabe edgelord problem, methinks

Politico@politico.com · 3d ago

Are young Republicans too based to hire? Party veterans are concerned that the pipeline of young GOP talent is veering off course — and into terminally online extremism.

Thinking about @izzykamikaze.bsky.social way back in Ep4 of the Echo Chamber pod saying “okay, not all men. But if it’s 2 in 10 men, and they each harass 4 women, then it is almost all women” a lot the last few days. She was right then. She’s right now.

3 men have been in the news recently. All of them have exploited children/young women. The amount of fawning done by many who were very keen to "I believe her" when it wasn't someone they liked has been... entirely expected. That doesn't make it less depressing. Anyway, back to chewing my tongue

*vandalised. The man who is trying to re-write history has no respect for nor understanding of historical artefacts. Shocker. Incredibly tacky does suit the kind of nation which would elect that kind of unrepentant confederate, though

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · 3d ago

People literally just want healthcare.

Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him

Good! 'Tis not the neighbours who need the rain

Irish Independent@independent.ie · 3d ago

Met Éireann issues Status Yellow rain warning as ‘unsettled’ week lies ahead and temperature drop begins www.independent.ie/irish-news/m...

"As Mr. Trump and his allies try to whitewash the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, we should return to an older and far more accurate name for the Civil War." This is really good, by Anthony Conwright.

Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)

To face our history, we must be honest about it.

nytimes.com

My take: "The market" (i.e. money guys) dictates wages, which in turn dictates what people can afford. People have unavoidable needs like food & clothing & shelter, & are forced to accept what the market offers. Most people cannot even afford to save. See Vimes' theory of socioeconomic unfairness

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 4d ago

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.

Today is Porajmos Memorial Day. Today we remember the half a million Romani people murdered by Nazi genocide. Dikh He Na Bister

... and then like clockwork, this morning the Iranians denied everything Trump said. Are they in it together?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

just in time for the markets to open! it's a Sunday miracle!

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.