Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Dan Saffer
@odannyboy.bsky.social
Designer. Author. Professor. Neutral Good Gen Xer. San Franciscan in Pittsburgh. Keeper of the Saffervesence.
I have been listening to Glen Hansard songs all day and I'm kind of broken now
"Raise your hopeful voice. You have a choice." RIP Glen Hansard www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8mt...
Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly (Official Video)
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To get casual fans caught up, the new Avengers movie should start with all the characters doing a rap where they say who they are and what their deal is
one of the most important things you need to do when developing a new product, especially in tech, is sit down and think about how it can be misused by bad actors and nowadays it sure seems like the bad actors are less “people to be guarded against” and more “the target customer base”
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.FWIW, Meta was fully aware of how these glasses would primarily be used. The glasses were designed to erase consent, and that is why they exist. Anything that they do that suggests they want to ameliorate this use is an attempt to win the PR battle and manipulate public opinion.
Republicans: WE NOMINATE SKELETOR Democrats: We dislike Skeletor but we will vote to confirm him. Please give us between 5 and 50 dollars. <Later> Democrats: I stand before you to condemn the actions of Skeletor. He should have never been given this power. Please give me between 5 and 50 dollars.
PITCH: A prequel to The Bear about the Berzattos in the 1990s. Call it The Cubs.
Right wing culture warriors: “Putting Africans in the Odyssey is woke.” The Odyssey:
Public health experts estimate that only to this present moment, a half a million humans are now dead who would otherwise be alive because this shitpiece "got carried away, frankly" and cut aid from the world's richest nation to many of the poorest. Glad to see him take pause and be so reflective.
Suddenly, as His Empire Crumbles, Elon Musk Admits He Made a Huge Mistake With DOGE
Musk lamented that he "got a little too involved in politics" and "got carried away, frankly," after helming DOGE last year.
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I finished The Bear last night and for all its unevenness, I will miss it
The AI community failed to exit twitter. What implications can we draw about what people believe from this?
What it means that the AI community can't quit twitter
Some quickly jotted thoughts working through the implications of the AI community remaining on twitter
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Canada's Boreal Forest isn't a neighborhood park—it’s one of the largest intact ecosystems on Earth. 🌲 It covers roughly 1.3 billion acres (526 million hectares). That is an area comparable to the entire United States.
I will point out that the Odyssey has grossed more on its preview Thursday than Melania made in its entire theatrical run.
Have they tried injecting testosterone into the Air Quality Index
Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable
Terrible air quality from Winnipeg to Washington: 381,615 square miles (988,379 square kilometers). The area is larger than France and Germany combined, for comparison.
I have two competing fears. 1. Historians are never gonna believe this timeline was actually real. 2. Historians will look back at this as “the good ol’ days”.
The news is always "This absolute fool was dismantled in hearings today. He is manifestly unqualified for the position and would be an existential danger if confirmed. Disaster. He is set to be confirmed immediately." When you ask why everyone is furious and exhausted all the time, this is why.
“Hormuz” should enter usage as a verb meaning to gratuitously create a new problem while failing to fix another one.
Lindsey Graham was ashamed of what he should have been proud of and proud of what he should have been ashamed of.
Lindsey Graham was a simple, tragic man to understand. He lacked a moral core. The great empty spaces of his life were filled with an insatiable need for “relevance.” He found it as a cast member in the most malignant reality show ever made. steveschmidt.substack.com/p/lindsey-kn...
Lindsey knew better. He chose worse.
Lindsey Graham was a lonely and unprincipled man who betrayed his country for power and his decency for attention.
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I really want to to love Star City but some of the plot points are simply beyond belief. Two enormous howlers in the season finale alone.
Let me stress there are on a daily basis non-US scholars and scientists declining invitations to the US, or deciding not to attend a conference in the US, because it not to safe. It is a widespread issue, but most scholars and scientists who cannot travel don't write about it on social media.
"Son-of-a-bitch socialist c---sucker." — Paul LePage, former Republican governor of Maine about Jackson Sounds good to me!
Charles Keener@charleskeener.bsky.social · 4w agoTroy Jackson There is a powerful movement of working class people in the state of Maine, and millions more across America who are ready to send a progressive fighter to the Senate.
