a visa overstayer from Chad who wants to be an American is more American than anyone who puts on the ICE mask
Semafor@semafor.com · 5h ago“Based on its extraordinary success in slashing overstays from bonded countries to near zero, the State Department has made the Visa Bond Program permanent,” a State Department spokesperson told Semafor.
This is very confusing if you think people are broadly opposed to AI on principle, and makes a lot of sense if you think people are opposed to living next to a factory (that doesn't even employ people!) even if they like the product
Jo Kibble (Political Animal)@politicanimal.bsky.social · yesterdayNot entirely sure what to make of the person on a local Facebook group who has used Google AI to write a planning objection to a data centre.
not sure it’s in good taste for Siri to use this image, but they do both look like Elliot Smith
The wire mother yearns for wire child: Sharp-souled, and neither meek nor meat and mild— Conductive, bright with heat and wire-wild, Not soft, domestic, insulated, wet. She'd love, instead, a glittering young net
Wikipedia is divided on whether the Trojan Horse is a war crime or not
People on here love to relitigate the 2024 election but rarely discuss the impact of RFKjr suspending his campaign and backing Trump. Maybe I'm nuts but I feel like that was more consequential than either Elon or Gaza
His family calls him "Trey" but Donkey Kong III just goes by his name to seem less aristocratic, much like Bill Gates. Also, monkeys are baby gorillas
Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d agoSaw this picture and trying to figure out the Diddy Kong situation is leading me down a rabbit hole that can only end with me rejecting the moon landing
Experimenting with throwing into the trash on the tabletop. Much better than selecting and hitting keyboard delete.
One is fake and one is real but these are the same kind of slop
This news story is horrible, but what _really_ upsets me is the people I imagine who don't care about it
Bluesky boomer slop: peanuts from the cartoon peanuts but he's 57 and wants price controls on eggs Bluesky millennial slop: this queen (woman from thispersondoesnotexist) killed her boyfriend because he didn't appreciate her love of train facts
Funniest thing on here is when someone screenshots a racist post but what they _really_ want to show you is the 80 labels on the account that say stuff like "wishes harm on the marginalized"
phillip glass koyaanisqatsi music playing over montage of all the bronx zoo cobra type social media accounts being opened up for that square tetris piece shaped raccoon
Fun fact: It took until Thor: Love and Thunder for the MCU to have more comic book film adaptations than the newspaper comic Blondie
humans aren't naturally particularly good or bad. the great labor of each of our lives is to *make* ourselves good, and help the people around us do the same so that someday together we can build a better world. Being awful to random people online constantly just drags you & the world the other way
@gigercat.bsky.social · 6d agocontrary to what much of this site believes, your actions (in addition to, and more than your intent) matter and will modify who you are. treating people online like shit will eventually make you a worse person IRL. in order to be good you have to practice at being good.
love seeing people talking shit about tobi. remember my #1 piece of career advice for working in tech: never work for someone who Posts. you do not want a Poster for a CEO. you want the ceo to just be some business person and your job will make you 90% less insane.
Maybe next year's ethics training has "don't add fake map to the real map app" alongside "don't put an upskirt camera in the smart shoe"
obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo
If you want to get your first talk ever out, this would be an especially nice place to do that. It’s a wonderful group both organizers and audience wise every time, and they are super open to doing stuff that is not necessarily your standard run through some programming tricks or topics too.
Brooklyn Web Workers@brooklynwebworkers.com · 7d agoWe're looking for speakers for our next few events! Whether this is your first presentation or you’re an experienced veteran, we're looking for talks on topics relevant to tech workers -- whether that’s technical, historical, cultural, or political in nature.
The left needs a candidate it can unite around in the 2028 primaries and AOC is the only real choice. Nobody else checks all of the boxes. Every other option is worse. If she doesn't run, it's a missed opportunity of historic proportions. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/aoc-must-r...
AOC Must Run For President
History is calling. Sorry!
hamiltonnolan.com
My secret, Cap, is that I'm *always* angry about old books. For instance, here's a tiny slice of the millions of books 1931-1986 that have no commercial value, that are digitized, but that we're unable to use in large-scale research because they are illegal to share or display.
Given how many responses I've seen to "what job did your grandparents have 100 years ago", I must conclude that the median Bluesky poster is not 40 but 70
Item SCP-173 is to be kept in a locked container at all times. When personnel must enter SCP-173's container, no fewer than 3 may enter at any time and the door is to be relocked behind them. At all times, two persons must maintain direct eye contact with SCP-173 until all personnel have vacated and
wargen@funeralpig.bsky.social · 7d agowhen my child misbehaves i make him go stare at the old Hardee’s fry statue
Luke, are you aware of Billy Possum, the attempt to fill the void of presidential animal toys like the Teddy Bear after TR left office? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_P... (There's a lot to it)
One of the great unsung / underseen horror movies is Paperhouse (1988). It's very close to a masterpiece. A young girl, ill with a fever, finds that whatever she draws is manifested into the empty fields of her dreams, exactly as she drew it. Unfortunately, this is not all it's cracked up to be...
I feel like in NYC a lot of working families would benefit most from a subsidized food court, but the Puritan streak in US politics precludes this
