Aaron Swartz deserves more justice and reconsideration than almost anybody in this century
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 6h ago"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."
Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return
whoops i dropped my monster grenade that i use for my magnum tannenberg
Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋@poppyhaze.bsky.social · 6h agoA Russian Model 1912 "Lantern Grenade" is a stick grenade of WWI. Shaped like a boxy lantern, it uses a pull type fuze, and is very heavy, with 600g of explosive filler and weighing 1.3kg. It's unusual in that it had a grip safety, the fuze wouldn't go off until release.
british people legally can't talk about their culture of elite pedophilia because they don't have freedom of speech. that's not a right they have. and what speech her undying majesty does permit is subject to prior approval by jo terf.
Jose@jum.bsky.social · yesterdayAmericans really don’t get to be talking like this anymore
El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."
if you're reading all these articles as they come out and assuming the story is "these models are escaping containment and causing danger" and not "this is a PR campaign by companies desperate to build hype" I think you are very silly.
Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 10h agoIt 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.
just to make sure we’re all on the same page for general election season, let’s brush up on our white boy arabic: -inshallah-“if god allows,” or “lord willing” used BEFORE something good happens -mashallah-“what god has willed,” or “good things come from god” used AFTER something good happens
starting my compilation/collage of right wing white dipshits losing their shit over the word “inshallah”
bleak as hell with ian miles cheong is the only voice of reason there & it’s nowhere near a full moon
A really funny complaint about the Zohran discount grocery store idea is that non-poor people could use it when there’s a grocery store half a mile from my grocery store that has everything cost 20% more that rich people go to because they don’t want to shop with normal people.
Trump: "And as illegal aliens go home, the cost of rent, groceries, and other staples is coming down very fast ... it was a word they devised -- 'affordability'"
Trump on gas prices: "We may have to send it up again. You know what happens when we send it up, but we hope we don't have to"
Trump: "We will pass the Great Healthcare Plan. It's called the Great Healthcare Plan."
Lombardo on Trump: "When the press and media runs him down, they think about 'he's taking care of his billionaire friends.' But those billionaire friends provide jobs. And unless you take care of them, those jobs are absent."
"Cool dude, see you in discovery!" is the obvious UNO Reverse card to Trump's attempts to bully organizations by suing them for a trillion dollars. It's a massive indictment of the US system that one after another institutions and major organizations settled and paid bribes rather than play it.
Graham Lanktree@glanktree.bsky.social · 11h agoPresident Donald Trump is seeking to stave off a court order that requires him to begin giving the BBC financial details on his business empire by Thursday in connection with a defamation lawsuit he is pressing against the network. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Meanwhile, Asmongold sits in his room of filth and cries that gamers are the most oppressed demographic
Trump: "I think any community that turns down AI is making a big mistake ... data centers, if you look at the state, everything is good around them"
Trump: "The thing they should look at is blue states and blue cities. Cities run by Democrats. Because that's really the threat to the country. Because they're a disaster."
TVs. I don't know if any single consumer product has improved as rapidly (while going down in cost) as the TV.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · yesterdayFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
"Upon careful consideration, we have decided NOT to shoot ourselves in the collective balls"
Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · yesterday🚨BREAKING: Missouri voters defeated a GOP bid to limit their ability to amend the state constitution. The measure was the GOP's attempt to diminish the power of voters who’ve used citizen initiatives to expand Medicaid and protect abortion access.
