Love having my car broken into and ticketed on the same night, beautiful

If ableton works on linux... .... .... ... .. . sorry, windows, a new age is beginning and the end of yours draws nigh. go into the west and diminish

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 6d ago

Researchers at U.C. Berkeley used lasers to stimulate retinal cone cells in a way that doesn’t occur naturally—creating a new color that only seven people in the world have seen. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

We all know those English profs are parting your essays out and selling the supporting evidence paragraphs on the essay black market That's why they all drive such nice cars

Charlotte Weatherill@ckweatherill.bsky.social · last wk.

The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.

Lotta fucked up shit in texas*, but the continuing public support for paxton through all of his proudly and profoundly corrupt behavior has been some of the grossest.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last wk.

Striking new poll of Texas Senate race: Talarico 45 Paxton 40 This is really notable: Talarico leads among non-college voters by 45-36 and among independents by 43-23 (!) Hard to imagine this is right but he's probably slightly ahead now. www.texastribune.org/2026/07/28/t...

[dramatic movie promo voice] In a world where two roads diverge in a yellow wood, one man stands in the shade. In the end, his decision would make all the difference.

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

I read a lot of documents, and you know what, yes, please.

Chappell Ellison@chappelltracker.bsky.social · last wk.

bring back the long Macintosh you cowards

My brother lives in a municipality that not too long ago (well, pre-trump1, so not too recently either) made the choice between building a college or a prison and I resent that circumstances have probably convinced those people that they made the right choice

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · last wk.

Heffer showing his ignorance about universities again. For many towns and cities, ‘let them fail’ means one of the biggest local employers disappearing.

Riverwest 24 is such a delightful event... real good vibes.

Reminds me of the Madame Tussaud's Trump that was clearly a hasty repurposing of the HRC model

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 2w ago

They also had this nearby, I did not take a picture of this because a woman was looking at me

I kinda deep down hope, and I know it's wrong, but still, I hope, that he gets the "literally torn apart and cannibalized by the peasants he tormented" treatment but I don't know if the world has that kind of energy at the moment

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago

“.. SpaceX has delivered one of the weakest post-debut performances of any major U.S. listing since the end of the 2008-2009 financial crisis.” @barrons.com $SPCX www.barrons.com/articles/spa...

Coin flip discourse is demonstrating exactly why statistical expected dollar value based on probability isn't how people make decisions about one-off windfall opportunities when they have lives where the first 50k is what actually alleviates the known stressors currently in their life

Coin flip discourse: if you've got a real *need* that can be fixed by 50k, but more doesn't really satisfy any other particular need, then the choice is really the 50k you need, or a chance of not getting the 50k you need, and the rest of the money is sort of irrelevant.

The obvious solution is to collaborate and pool risk, so everybody gets £250,000 and I collect a, uh, let's say, "small fee" for "administering the program"

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 2w ago

If you had a choice between instantly receiving £50,000 or a 50% chance to win £1m, which would you pick? £50,000: 73% 50/50 chance of winning £1m: 21% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

The lab fridge where I'm currently working does a really delightful arpeggio as the internal air cooling down pulls a vac on some vent pipe

Police just shouldn't have guns. Whatever exception you're cooking up, no, it doesn't justify ALL THE COPS having guns ALL THE TIME, EVERYWHERE. Maybe they can touch a gun as a Christmas bonus at the end of any year that they manage to completely resist their urge to execute minorities in the street

I wish I could somehow be in the business of making loads of money telling people obvious shit way too late

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago

RAPIDAN: We “no longer assume a near-term return to freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz. Instead, we expect ongoing military risks to constrain vessel transits .. well into next year ..” 👀

"Hmmm, I'm a vile sweaty little creep that everyone hates but I want to be successful. Who could could I look to as a role model?"

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2w ago

The kids are “Nixonmaxxing”: More than half-a-century after Watergate, conservative youth are discovering the aesthetic, and adopting the attitude, of the late president. 🔗 www.wsj.com/politics/ric...

Good! I hope their future holds exactly what they deserve, no more, no less.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in Miami, TMZ reports

In between 1 & 2 is "- develops kind of legit amazing food science & safety apparatus because they absolutely do not want actual turbo shit incidents validating the reputation" and still they're getting the smelt it/delt it treatment

No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸@noescapevg.com · 3w ago

The trajectory of Taco Bell: - develops reputation as the only fast food place that gives you turbo shits - discovers that the lettuce they get from their supplier is actually giving people turbo shits, tells everyone, saves the day - is made fun of for giving you turbo shits even harder

I have never seen a less appealing software pitch than what they list in the update description for android 17 on my several-generations-old pixel phone

What do you do when the depression is hitting extra hard?

20x20 MERV-11 or higher* filter strapped to a cheap 20x20 box fan, you're welcome *Returns diminish pretty rapidly, and even reverse if you go too high, because you want high enough flow to turn over the total volume of air in the room pretty quick

One continuous chain of "oh my god I don't want to listen to him cry about this on the phone" from the headline writer up through Bezos

King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Stops short of offering evidence"?? What fresh hell of a mealy-mouthed headline is this??

I broadly agree with this, but... hysteresis is a sonofab*tch, the damage inflicted along the way is gonna be a lot, and we're probably mostly going to kill each other well before the actual heat would

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 3w ago

That's not to say climate change is over and we can declare victory but the path to zero carbon is now extremely obvious and achievable and its mostly a matter of time (and how much damage we inflict along the way) rather than an existential danger we might not solve.

If you wouldn't do a full blunt rotation with 4 others in a 1987 Honda Civic with the windows up, you probably wouldn't want to be outside right now either

The whole AI business would be somewhat less creepy if it wasn't SO INCREDIBLY OBVIOUS that the monied interests involved are thinking of it in terms of "Oh boy we're gonna have slaves again, it's gonna be great!"

Set locally appropriate seasonal hours, ya dumb galoots. No actual need to ever change what the clocks display.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3w ago

The last time the U.S. had permanent daylight saving time, children used flashlights on the way to school. Commuters drove in the dark. Florida called a special session to try to change the clocks back. That attempt in the 1970s quickly became unpopular.