Every day, I'm more and more convinced that Frank Herbert was some prescient wizard.
@ironeconomist.bsky.social · 7mo agoLearned a fun fact about helium logistics today. It needs incredibly specialised ships to transport it by sea at near absolute zero and a large fraction of them are trapped in the gulf. So even if Taiwan and Korean chip manufacturers can get US helium may have no way to transport it at scale.
Only one in five Americans supported an attack on Iran. But Trump did it anyways.
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Been watching the prices of consumer RAM and SSDs skyrocket, taking along the prices of laptops with them. Then saw this tweet and remembered the bubble.
This should be a tenet of #enshittification. If there's a screen and an internet connection, some manufacturer will try to be cute and push ads under some idiotic scheme.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 10mo agoThis Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
Don't know if i should be worried or laughing at the number of *adults* that don't know what Arabic numerals are...
It's a bit late but Andor was truly robbed of nominations and awards. Masterclass in world building, storytelling, acting, and so much more.
Happy Cloudflare down day to all those celebrating. The cherry on the cake being that downdetector was also down.
One Battle After Another had some incredible performances from Leo DiCaprio, Chase Infiniti, Benecio del Toro, and Sean Penn. But, imo, it'll struggle to go toe to toe against Sinners for something like Best Picture.
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
Absolutely no one asked for this nonsense.
The Verge@theverge.com · 12mo agoHere’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like
After a couple of years on the streamings, listened to some lossless audio today (Sade) on wired headphones, and Jesus H Christ...
Finding out they don't have all the Blu-ray remasters of Sir David Attenborough's Life Collection.
condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.
Now that Apple has proven you can put most of a phone's computing into a camera bump, hopefully we can go back to regular sized phones with 3.5mm jacks and replaceable batteries.
Basic Apple Guy@basicappleguy.com · last yr.Original iPhone v. iPhone 17 Air
Truly hilarious to watch Mamdani breaking their brains in real time.
Interesting to see "Demand for [declining commodity] has never been better" articles, by "think tanks" from said commodity's industry, on Sri Lankan papers.
Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet (It’s not ready.) www.theverge.com/analysis/715...
Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet
An age-gated internet comes with huge privacy risks.
theverge.com
You've collectively donated almost $14,000 from this post in just under a week! A huge thank you to everyone who's sharing and donating. I promise you it makes a difference!
Vajra Chandrasekera@vajra.me · last yr.The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae
Genuinely amazed at how unusable some generic software (e.g. Windows) have become. Just resource hogging bloatware for no reason.
It is *bananas* that they would give vibe coding tools (and _Replit_, of all platforms 🤣) production deploy access! With no backups! We gave better backup tools to teenagers on Glitch remixing apps a decade ago.
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · last yr.This thread is incredible.
MRW, as everything from a toaster to a fridge now requires an internet connection. We need right to repair, not AI enabled toast settings.
donoteat@donoteat.bsky.social · last yr.why is everything computer
Always a sign of great things when global corporate suddenly turns off comments on their posts.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last yr.BCG earned more than $1mn for Gaza aid barge project https://on.ft.com/45097Zd
1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok